Fun comics exercise with friends

I've recently been meeting up with my comic artist friends again. I do think it's good to do some socialising, rather than keeping to my family life and my work desk everyday. I hear it's good for mental health! So far this is what we do- Meet up, have coffee, chat, do a short comic art jam, finish up whatever comics project we are working on individually, then have dinner.

In our last comics jam, my friends and I decided to do this comics exercise by https://www.fionnmccabe.com/. 

1. We drew this random line through the boxes, varying the energy. 

2. We pasted post-its over and used the random line (which we could see through the post-its) as a springboard to draw out pictures. 

3. We drew all the pictures first. Then went back to the top and filled in the words, trying to put to together a cohesive story.

4. Then I coloured it with watercolours.

And the comic above (cleaned up version) is what came out of it. Rather fun! My story turned out a little dark. Perhaps it was the anxiety I was feeling at the time talking. The subconscious stories tend to flow out during these random stories. I do note that this isn't a complete story. If I were to put this against a simple 3-act structure like I did in my last post, this would fall into the first act- The want and problem. This story could continue further into the "try and fail" and "solution" part. I probably won't continue this, but it was a fun exercise!