About a month ago, the heavily-anticipated song Subterfuge with Lyrics had come out. It was present as one of the hidden easter egg for the egg-hunt game Garn47, which was apart of a Friday Night Funkin’ mod named Hit Single, and I wanted to draw a comic using a portion of the lyrics in that song to visualize what I was imagining in the song!

This was the comic of the section of lyrics I used from the song.

The lyrics I chose took place between the buildup and the drop of the song, as I wanted to encapsulate both the slow section in the beginning and the fast metal section that comes for the rest of the song within only a comic page or two.

I first outlined the panels of the comic as well as the lyrics I wanted to use in the comic pages. I then lined those panel sketches with a gritty pen to encapsulate the gritty feeling I wanted the comic to have.

I then lined those panel sketches with a gritty pen to encapsulate the gritty feeling I wanted the comic to have.

After I got the panels and the words down, I started sketching the characters and scenes and everything else I needed to put in for the final part. I also wanted to try using dynamics and conposition to the bigger panels, seeing how the comics are basically a visualization of the lyrics —which do go hard— I needed that same feeling I was imagining in my head put on paper (or on the digital screen, I used an iPad to draw the scenes).

With the first and last panels, I wanted wideshots of the character first being small compared the ruins of the city but surrounded in darkness to express how he seems to be small and not much of a threat at first, but there is that ominous feeling of what he plans to do, much like how the buildup is in the song.

Here was how the page looked after I finished outlining the sketches of the characters:

From there, I added the effects to the canvas. I added some grunge around where I wanted darkness to be and I added highlights to the text to make it somewhat more readable.

Since the last panel was the largest one and wasn’t even really a panel (I wanted the character to be more up front and taking up more space to position him as a larger, more sudden threat like how he is portrayed in the song), I added fire to the last scene by simply taking an image of fire I got from Google and blended it with the canvas for it to fit in, as I lacked the ability to draw fire; at least in the way I imagined for the scene.

Some parts of the fire image leaked into the panels above, but I left it there as a foreshadow to what the character was about to brew up.

Much of the process was the same for the second page of the comic.

In the end, I can say that while the making of this comic took a lot of time and planning in advance, the way it turned out in the end was absolutely stunning, and got me riled up to making more comics, which I was hesitant to do before. It’s always nice to experiment and try adding something new because you might not know if you end up getting something really special in the end.