Vixen: Character Sketches

Welp, this week I've finalized the designs for all of the characters that will be appearing in my senior comic, "Vixen." There are two main characters--Lorna and Miss May--and then several minor characters that are infinitely less interesting than the first two.

So here we go. This is Lorna Forester, the protagonist. She has extreme self-consciousness issues and becomes rather susceptible to the lure of the Vixen clan.

And this would be Miss May. Leader of the Vixen clan and general hottie. I have a hard time calling her the antagonist because the story is more complex than simple good vs. evil, but she's the closest to a physical antagonist. She's also the love interest of Lorna. c:

On to the minor characters, who all quite frankly bore me. They have their purposes in the story, but giving them any depth would require taking this to a fat ass graphic novel and that's not what I'm going for. Here we have Lorna's father, William, sister Elizabeth, Clarice, and Henrietta.

Onto concept sketches for the monster hallucinations! This story is very based around reality and fantasy blurring, and at several points, full-blown hallucinations take over in the form of some rather terrifying banshee/werewolf hybrids.

That's it for character sketches! I have the whole thing fully scripted at this point, a schedule all set up for the next three months, and now I'm just struggling with thumbnailing 40 pages at once. Which is what I'm finding the most difficult. I've set my schedule to complete four pages a week, from pencils to finish. I knew trying to get all the pencils done before I started inking wouldn't work, so I'm pacing it out, letting myself do both parts each week rather than doing six weeks of penciling and then six weeks of inking.

Only problem is...I need thumbnails. And I have the same problem with thumbnails as I do pencils. I can't do more than a few thumbnails at once before they start to suck. I'm spoiled by my webcomic schedule where I only have to thumbnail a page before I start it, giving me plenty of time to recharge my page design powers. I might have to see if I can stretch this out as well, seeing as I only have...four pages laid out. Haha oh god and the real work begins.