Some rough sketches on characters, trying to see how detailed I would go.  Because the story is dark, I didn’t want to make things too cartoony but also there are many characters to sketch out.  I’ve decided to make the side characters less detailed, maybe no faces and only detail the grandma and misfit at the end scene/close up when they have their realizations.  I’ll look at some comic character examples, pick from there and then start drafting up the panels better.

  • Mood – dark, sinister, quirky (grandma), disjointed
  • Main character – in third person, focus is on Grandma and her character’s ideals in everyone and a good man and ideal lady.  She passes judgement and acts morally superior to what she perceives as a lack of good judgement in world.  Racist, judgmental, shallow, materialistic.
  • Other characters – kids are “awful”, disrespectful, manipulative, self-centered.  Parents seem “non existent”, especially the mother.  Bailey tries to take charge but follows his mother.  Misfit takes pleasure in meanness but realizes there is no pleasure in it.
  • Message: Everybody’s guilty of something, we all have sinned.  Her moral superiority shows in her interactions but her crisis and “tricks” in her actions leading family to danger.  The main Misfit’s moral code is consistent but hers is not.  When she pleads for her life, she uses lady card but when a gun is pointed to her head, she sees is flawed like everyone else.