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Once I get an idea to a place I feel it is strong enough to actually get a strip out of, I move on to penciling the strip.The art board that I use are actually the invention of Michael Jantze the artist behind The Norm (see my links page)and can be purchased at his ONLINE STORE for a reasonable price. I like to work real light, and the pencils that I use are of the Staedtler 6H persuasion. I don't know why I like the 6H but every time I try to switch I come back to it. Sometimes in a sketch you will have 2 pannels that are exactly the same and you need them to be exact in the final. When that happens, pull out your trusty pad of tracing paper and trace the previous perfect panel, then on the back rub your pencil led over the area you traced, then flip the tracing paper back to the "original" side and retrace the panel transferring it onto the paper (don't worry it's not cheating). As you can see from the previous page, the script has changed a bit for the final pencil, that will happen as the comic is a living breathing entity, that is until we hit it with inks! |
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