After looking at how others have created wordless narratives successfully like the animation Paperman and the comic by Jason, I found that a characters gesture, body language and expression is really important as this how to feed the narrative without using words. The best way to do this is to use bold gesture and exaggerated expression that the reader will be able to easily read and relate to. As in Paperman to make the expressions obvious they have enhanced the size of the eyes this makes the facial expressions more obvious and means the viewer tends to watch the eyes. Unlike Paperman Jason's comics doesn't rely on facial expression it tells its narrative through dynamic actions and body language. As his panels are small and his character design is simple he uses gesture to show what's going on.
I have made my characters eyes larger in these sketch's to see if affects the expression. I feel this works well as long as you keep the eye simple, if you made them complicated it would take from the expression and wouldn't work as well. I also looked at strong movements and obvious ways to show a rowing motion.
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