Tag: Oyster War

Craft: ‘Notecard’ Story Structure Plotting

None of this is original to me–you can find instructions on how to do basic three act story structuring with note-cards in any number of writing and screenwriting books, or on writer Alexandra Sokoloff’s extremely helpful website–but I thought it might be useful to post a picture of the thing in operation, since that’s something …

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Sketchbook 10/13

I’m still tinkering around trying to come up with some crewmen/women both for the pirates and for the oyster navy vessel from Oyster War: I’m thinking that these folks might work well in a possible Count of Monte Cristo GN as well.

Sketchbook 9/10

After looking over some of my character sketches that I posted yesterday, I selected a few that I thought were promising and refined them a bit:

Sketchbook 9/9

For the second part of the first act of Oyster War, I’ll be doing a a pretty textbook-style “gathering allies” sequence and so I’m needing to generate a crew (literally) of beat-down has-beens à la Terry Gilliam’s Baron Von Munchausen.   As with most sketchbook endeavors, I think there’s maybe one or two usable concepts …

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Oyster War Splash Page – Colored

So here’s the final iteration of the splash page from Oyster War I’ve been posting periodically.  Despite having a fairly subdued, moody color palette (as mentioned last post) I found the urge to use bright pastel colors just irresistible.  I think it’s something about the beach environment depicted that seemed to call for the sun-drenched, …

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