I've been in discussion with a local writer about re-working one of his unpublished novels into a comic, so I thought I'd try and track some of the progress that goes into building a new project. I've been working on some sketches of the main characters, and at this point I think I have enough that I can bring them back to the author for discussion. If we can settle on a look for the book and the characters, he's going to re-work it as a script.
In the meantime, my other comic project is nearing completion of the first issue, and among the laundry list of edits, I've got to re-draw three pages. Which makes this a great opportunity to refine the process.
I work up thumbnails on paper and then develop them into these roughs for critique.
It takes maybe half an hour of thought and sketching on scratch paper, then another hour of drawing on the tablet.
Then I can quickly email them to my writers to make sure that the dialog is flowing, and that the action is clear. For a larger book, I can print out all of the roughs, lay them out, and make changes easily, before moving on to refining the drawings and inking the finished pieces.
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