Adventure

This comic is inspired by the traveling aspect of Tin Tin’s comic. Tin Tin and his captain often travel to a new place to solve problems or certain mystery. Although Tin Tin has a stronger moral code, the Captain’s antics are what drives the story forward. They contrast each other very well and the aspect of turning a character with sidekick/passive characteristics into the main character is quite interesting.

In my take, I put myself into TinTin’s position and made my party aunt the captain. I did not see a lot of women in the comic, so why not insert myself when I am the author. While creating this piece, I had to be very aware of the line quality because Herge’s style is extremely neat. All his lines rarely have white spaces in between and he rarely add texture. All the closeup shots shows the the character above the waistline or it has to be entirely full body. He rarely uses dynamic perspective and tend to keep them flat. The panels can vary in size, but they are always arranged to fit a four by four row format. Personally, the flat, neat stylistic choices reflects Tin Tin’s straight forward personally. It helps make the setting clearer. The characters are not drawn too expressive, but this gives it a more storybook/ West Anderson feeling.

After finishing this page, I come to realization that I am too impatient to draw like Hergé.