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So here we go. The plot
for the comic comes from no other place than the sacred scriptures of ancient
India. For those of you too impatient to wait I will give one tip: Srimad
Bhagavatam canto 5. Did I just confuse you more?
I usually start with a really rough thumbnail sketch in which I seek to
picture the characters' propositions as well as the movement of the page.
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Having done this I work on the characters' expressions and their dynamics.
This usually takes a while, as I'm no master at drawing combined with the
fact that I'm an incurable perfectionist. |
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Then it's time to put everything together: the texts, characters and environment.
As you can clearly see it takes some time to make everything fit together
nicely in such a limited space. |
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So where were we? Space. Oh yes, square-shaped. One panel a page, simply
due to the similarly square format of the page, which in its turn has a
very distinct reason too, but I'm not telling you about the reasons for
it just yet.
On the technical side, here you see a version which I've drawn clean to
say, removing most of the excessive lines.
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And the last stage, putting ink on the paper. So far I've only used a hard
pencil and some technical German paper, but the black has been missing out.
When this stage is done, I run down to the printshop and make magnamous
amounts of copies of it for your reading pleasure. Voilá! |
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