Finally! My rough storyboard is finished and you can check it out in the video below! Feel free to pause and read through the story and enjoy the imovie background music. This has taken me a good 3 weeks, but I’m glad I took my time with it in order to start the good copies with a strong foundation. There is still room for improvement though, so give me any feedback or suggestions you have, to make the illustrations and writing better (especially the writing)!
The next step to this picture book journey comes with… some more storyboarding. But but but, this time it’s for the real deal. The new offical storyboards are going to be my actual guide layers for the final illustrations on procreate. The current drafts I’ve made are more so rough guidelines. Also, the writing placements will be made more official (no more random lines). In order to start the more offical processes, I need to set a few important pieces of information straight.
1. Dimensions: I’ve already set rough dimensions for my spreads with the rough drafts, but I need to decide on specific dimensions for the final book so that I know what size paper I should print on and what paper size I should set on procreate. The dimensions I have solidifed are 15″W x 9″H for each spread and 7.5″W x 9″H for each page.
2. Pixels: Pixels are a digital image’s displayable units. My intention is to print the spreads on 11″ x 17″ paper for the final book so with some research on DocuCopies and Bardot Brush I found that the pixels needed for good results are 3300px x 5100px and for the best image resolution, I should choose 4400px x 6800px on procreate.
3. DPI: The DPI is also key for the printing process. It stands for dots per inch and determines dot density. I really don’t have much knowledge on DPI so I went to ProcreateFolio, where there is Porcreate’s official forum for discussion amongst Procreate users. There, I found that the majority suggested 300 DPI for printing on 11″ x 17″ paper. Apparently 500 DPI is ideal, but is too much for the app itself to handle and not all printers are capable of printing 500 DPI.
melanievaliquette
Yireh!
I love everything about this! Your are so incredibly talented, like wow!
I really enjoyed watching the video you posted. Your choice of background music was perfect; upbeat and super cute, it definitely reminded me of a children’s book. I can’t wait to see more!
yirehpark
Thank you so much Melanie! I’m glad you enjoyed the imovie background music and I’m hoping to make a lot more progress over reading break when I have the time to relax with procreate. Hopefully I’ll be able to complete the book before the end of term one! Thanks for the comment!
ct
Hi Yireh,
This is looking so so great so far! Your drawing, art and creativity skills are just amazing, you continue to surprise me every time.
I am looking forward to seeing the final product, maybe we can even read it to our link2practice students!