I’m sure it looked better than that!
As I was working on issue #4 I’d find myself, weather I liked it or not, thinking ahead with how the book was going to go and I had this idea there’d be a big reveal of Fenton’s brother hiding in a caravan parked outside Trafalgar Square.
Like, what? No really, it would work! The big drive for this was that during lockdown I had taken a load of photos around London (a lot of which have been used in the Fenton Hud books) and I knew I had some photos of Trafalgar Square from really cool angles and showing Nelson’s Column and the place was empty and it would look soooo awesome.
Except it wasn’t and the photos I’d taken were these.
Not quite the super awesome shots I thought I had (although there is a photo of a guy with a falcon – or some kind of hunting bird- so that’s kinda cool!) but yeah, not what I wanted.
So I went back through my photos and found this great photo from Chinatown (although to be clear, a really depressing photo when you think how busy that area is at like any time of the day outside of lockdown!)
And what with this being the year of the horse and this issue being very horse-centric it made sense! Well, to me at least..? And here’s how the final page came out!
Like, you don’t really get from this page that the street was entirely empty in the original photo but then I did want to have the caravan being the main point of focus (and I guess that’s the important thing rather than dwelling on lockdown, right?)
But yeah, bit of a shift from the original plan but I figure it still worked. Also, as a sidenote every photo I’ve used for Fenton Hud I’ve removed any store names and the like and placed my own titles but I had no idea where to even start on this one plus I wanted to be clear that we were in London Chinatown so I left it as it is.
More soon including the completed revamp of a sketch I posted on socials last week!
Bear hugs!
