POST-PRODUCTION

For the post-production, I wanted to make a book cover, so I added thin ribbons to decorate the artwork. I also made patterns along both sides of the skeleton's jaw based off of Greek patterns.

Originally, I was going to put the logo at the bottom where the third ribbons are, over Ares' legs in the middle. However, I realised that this will just distract from the artwork (thanks mum for the suggestion to put it at the top), so I scrapped the bottom ribbons and decided to put the logo above the skeleton's head, so I could contrast the logo's palette with the sun's brightness.

I also touched up his belt and added the feathers on his cape and added a star-like shape beneath him.

I struggled with the title of the comic cover for quite a while, before asking my friends for assistance when we were all in college. We looked up words that pertained to Ares' nature and the narrative to translate them into Greek, such as 'rage', 'flame', and 'anger'. We came up with 'Kholos Menis', with kholos generally meaning 'anger', 'bile', or 'rage' whilst directly translating into 'heart-paining anger' and menis meaning 'divine rage', and can be associated with Ares' wish to usurp his corrupt father, as it's also linked to the concept of rebelling against those in violation of moral and cosmic rules.

I initially wanted to put a sword behind the title and make it slice through the K, but I noticed that the K looked like the head of an axe, and thought it was fitting for Ares. I used the same symbols from the cover to use in the back, and Sam (thank you!) suggested I use the Greek characters Omega and Sigma for the E and Os of the title.

For the colours, I colour picked from the comic cover to make it match with the rest of the artwork. I made the Greek characters stand out in colour as they're a small hint as to the mythology and history used for this narrative.

I then applied the title onto the comic cover with a black outline to make it pop and an off-white blurred border. I then researched comic covers, such as Marvel, to see what they added to the front. I added the volume number, age rating, my name, and price tag.

(Speed paint of me applying the comic attributes.)

(Examples of comic covers I took inspiration from for the labelling.)

I added my work onto the portfolio I made earlier in the year, with the final product taking up most of the space and the character designs circulated in an image carousel to easily look through.

To be developed further, I believe I could turn it into a fully-fledged short comic series as a profession and as a demonstration for university portfolios to present my ability to compose, plan, and draw for long-term projects.

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