First story: The cable car ride - part 7

Here is the old page 2 divided into two separate pages:

page 4

page 5

First story: The cable car ride - part 6

As you can see, the first two pages and the last one are in comic-style. That means that there are several panels on each page. The rest are one-pager. While basically I like the comic style more, I had doubts that my daughter will understand this, as she might be a bit to young. So I decided to split these multi panel pages into one pager. This is more picture book like.


Page 1 is now separated into three single pages, the new pages 1-3. Here they are:

page 1

page 2

page 3

First story: The cable car ride - part 5

and here are finally the last three pages of my cable car story, pages 9, 10 and 11.

page 9

page 10

page 11

So this is the cable car story so far. All pre drawings are finished. Now it's time for a lot of refinements.

More about this later.

First story: The cable car ride - part 4

and here are page 7 and page 8:

page 7

page 8

First story: The cable car ride - part 3

Here are the pre drawings of page 5 and page 6 of the cable car story:

page 5

 

page 6

 

First story: The cable car ride - part 2

Hello again,

here are the next two pre drawings for the cable car story: page 2 und page 3

page 3

page 4

more drawings in the next post

First story: The cable car ride - part 1

Today I will post my first attempt in doing something like a short story in pictures for my daughter.

My daughter is a huge fan of cable cars. Here in Cologne there is a quite old cable car from the 50's that is still in use. It connects both sides of the river Rhine and it takes about 7-8 minutes to get from one side to the other. It's a funny ride just about 20-30 meters above the surface of the Rhine and a bridge that crosses the Rhine. The cable car itself is a relict from a large outdoor exhipition that took place in the 50's here in Cologne and because of its age it has a kind of steampunk atmosphere.

Anyway, Since the first time when my wife and me took our daughter to the cable car, she's hooked on it. At least every second day she asks us to take a ride with the cable car.

So I came to the idea of drawing a little story about my daughter taking an unusual ride with a cable car. Half based on my experience of trying to get her to sleep, half stolen from Little Nemo in Slumberland the story starts in her bed while she's having trouble in falling asleep. Then suddenly an empty cable car appears in her room and offers her a ride that is -well- not like the trip over the Rhine.