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Published: Sun, 02/12/23

Hey , hope your weekend is going well. I wanted to share with some of the new character designs that we have been working on for issue 2 of Battle Panda.

Adopting a new art style

So, I guess first, why are we adopting a new art style?

Doing a project retrospective at the end of any project is a good thing to do.

Essentially, we ask what went well and where could we improve, what could we do more of, do less of and what new things could we try.

Carlos and I had an honest dialogue (another of the key benefits when working in collaboration with good people) about issue 1 of the book and where we could improve upon it.

We have decided to go for a new art look moving away from the hatched look we went for in issue 1 as it looked too mature.

We were very conscious to try and stay away from a Disney look, given the title 'Battle Panda' may have been associated with 'Kung Fu Panda', hence the need to clearly move away from the look and feel of that project.

We feel in retrospect by trying to steer clear of any comparisons to that IP, we ended up with overly hatched art work and colours that were over rendered and textures that were overworked.

Issue 2 is moving more towards a Saturday morning cartoon feel

We're now moving towards a move fun and energetic look with these new character designs.

Here are the pencils for Kai.

and here are the resulting inks

You can see we've gone for a more cartoony look for the characters. Carlos went back and studies the great masters such as Chuck Jones, Walt Kelly and Milt Kahl to find ways to improve the characters.

I personally like the new look of the characters, it fits in more with the fun and dynamic storyline that we are writing.

Next time out, I'll share some of the designs for the other characters.

The script is now in draft 5

Simultaneously the script is in a great spot. We're now editing draft 5 of the book, which is really getting into the details of which gag sounds better and descriptions of the environment to level up some of the action sequences.

I anticipate the next time I write to you, it will be with good news that the script for Battle Panda issue 2 is complete.

Thanks again for your support and look forward to sharing more great progress with you.

Farhan

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