Once again, for my own amusement, I present a breakdown of my drawing process. Here is a pictorial testimony to why it takes me so long to produce a single page of artwork.
Above is the initial penciled version, including its many mistakes and confused areas.
Here is the initial inking. Note that I modified the pillars to make them more suggestive.
I am an obsessive "line-builder" No brushes for me; just hours of nit-picking embellishment.
Blobs of white-out and tiny chicken-scratch texturing and the drawing is virtually complete. (Lately, I've been using Photoshop to fine-tune may problem areas. For instance, I felt it necessary to shrink Cochlea's right arm to scale. You can see the final version
HERE.)
Inevitably, this page will suffer further tweaking when I get around to adding color for the inevitable printed version (which should be available this time next year, courtesy of Fantagraphics Books) Thank you for your attention!
Published on May 28, 2013 16:30