012: Wrassler's Progress

I have another strip due at the Wrestling Theatre
jam. The odd size requirements of the strips has led me to develop a system of drawing that I rarely employ for my other comix work. I start off by creating a 720 x 300 pixel image in Photoshop, then enlarge it to 300 ppi. If it's a complicated layout (as I've chosen with this comic. hooray!), I'll work out text placement and draw a rough sketch of the characters and panels directly on the computer (img. 1). Once I'm satisfied, I print this out and do refined pencils over my layout (img. 2).

That's as far as I got tonight. The next step will be to put a transparent sheet of marker paper over the pencils and do my inks on that. Then I'll scan the inks and plop them on top of the layout I've already created. I'll finalize any word balloons and panel borders, and if I want to,
add some grayscale coloring. But all that will be for tomorrow. So stay tuned for more comix hijinx.