First of all, I want you to know that it's very hard for me to show this storyboard because I'm so ashamed of the way I go about my work (but it's what I'm most comfortable with, and since I work alone on the pages, no draughtsman, inker or colourist gets hurt in the process ^^;) So, I've been working on a webcomic for a couple of years at the insistence of a writer friend who was desperate to adapt one of her novels. I took a year to study and prepare myself for the task (in comics I had experience ONLY as a japanese graphic adapter, layout artist and letterer), I'm literally learning one page at a time. In the beginning I used to ask a friend of mine, a professional comic artist, to help me correct the storyboards, I did it for the first 40 pages, but I didn't want to bother him any more and from then on I did it myself, following his advice. The problem is that now, after more than a hundred pages with a quiet atmosphere, we're starting with the action pages and there will be a total change of mood, which I'm afraid I won't be able to handle without help. Since there's this forum, therefore, I thought I'd take the opportunity to ask for some advice. What I'm posting here is a draft of the page I'm working on: it starts with a vertical vignette that ends a short flashback. The character is the Captain of the Royal Guards (we are talking about a fantasy/fairytale setting) and he is standing on the spot where in the past he defeated the Cuckoo (the villain of the story, a kind of anti-Christ) with some of his men in order to help a stableman recover a precious foal that had fallen into the same cliff where the Cuckoo was thrown. He tries to banish the anxiety caused by the coincidence but the situation is about to get worse and on the next page he discovers that the men who descended into the cliff have been killed and something is coming up for him. How can I best express the atmosphere? The scene takes place as the sun goes down and I have tried to show the light fading fast as the sun goes down, but I would like to make it more effective through the shots. Any advice?