Norm, Cate and I met up a few weeks ago to discuss the scene where Josh meets the bullies. We needed a new approach to the scene, as the old way wasn’t working.
We sat in a cafe and threw some ideas around; in the end, we’d come up with this.
Doesn’t look like much, I’m sure- let me zoom in a bit…
The idea was to have a number of tall panels with a continuous background, and different scenes playing out at different times.
Here’s my rough sketch, where I’m working out the body language and facial expressions of the characters.
I scanned it in and cleaned it up- here’s the panel on the far left after a bit of editing:
…then I used the rough as the basis for a cleaner pencil sketch.
I’ve just started colouring this scene- the sky will be overcast, which could make the lighting tricky. I’ve found some good reference photos though, so I’ll use those as a guide and get onto it.
James Foley 
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