With yesterday’s rough sketches and various notes in hand, today’s
job is to organize them into a coherent narrative. While working with the
drawings, I’m also writing more dialogue to make sense of the pictures. Now
it’s time to pencil the page.
Why blue pencil, you ask? It’s an old trick from way back in
the day when I would shoot my inked drawings on a stat camera that would make
the non-photographic blue-green lines disappear. Now that’s not necessary, but
old habits are hard to break.
I traced the roughs onto a pre-printed grid set-up just for
this strip. The panels are sized so that they can be cut apart later and
restacked into three rows for a standard comic book page. I’m thinking ahead
here to the Zombie Marge comic I plan to put out at the end of the year. But
for the blog, I like the two rows of panels that resemble Sunday comic strips.
I may pencil the page a couple of times to refine the
placement of elements, or I may just make notes to move things when I ink the
strip. The above version is the one I’m happy with, so now it’s time to get out
the pens.
Will I mess it all up tomorrow? Come back and see.
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