Co-creator Yesenia Carrero and I created Gemini Journey, a comic about a bubbly young woman who stumbles through life and early adulthood against a backdrop of daily magical mayhem in the contemporary other-world which she lives.
Early on, we finished a series of comics to find our footing with sequential art and engage readers while we wrapped up concept and scripts. We took what we learned from this project and created the first long-form story arc thereafter.
We released Here There Be Dragons to our social media in multiple parts every Friday for four weeks. The comic features Gemini and her elf friend Veil dealing with a dragon in their apartment. Each panel is an individual, click-able image on most of our websites and are viewed together in vertical format. These design choices are for ease-of-reading on different web and mobile devices.
Each panel is lovingly drawn in a collaborative effort between the both of us. I (Tracy MacLauchlan) thumbnail and rough the panel, plan the shading in Photoshop, as well as provide some color direction. Yesenia Carrero then renders the work and creates the lettering in Illustrator for our crisp, vector style.
Rough panel by Tracy MacLauchlan
Final rendering by Yesenia Carrero
The comic was done in panels such that it can translate easily to any media, including print, as shown in the book version above.
Our earlier test strips show growth as we figured out our process and in what ways we wanted to collaborate. We try to strike a balance between efficiency and our artistic vision.
