#102: Pages 10-12 of the hand-drawn version.The process of...

#102: Pages 10-12 of the hand-drawn version.

The process of making a comic is labor-intensive and iterative. First you do sketches and thumbnails, figuring out layout. Then you do pencil sketches until you are satisfied. These pencil sketches must then be traced onto your final boards, and only then can you ink on top of them (and then erase any remaining pencil marks).

Lettering is also done by hand, paying attention to spacing and using a lettering tool to draw lines to work with.

Next time, I will use a much finer line for the speech balloons — bad decision there — and also go smaller on the text size.

I have a lot to learn about proportion, among other things. Many other things! Yet I am happy with this first attempt. 

With the next post, it’s back to Pixton, but know that I’m continuing to work on this. I figure it will take me a year to transition. Even that seems quick. We’ll see. Pixton remains useful for conceiving the episodes in this memoir, and getting those done regularly. 

(P.S. Apologies for bad photos. This is just to give you an idea.)