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Comics are an art unto themselves. You don’t have to draw every finger nail, every fold of cloth.

It’s a language you are giving an idea, it’s symbols.

I’m completely ignoring that for this project and ploughing as much details as I can into each panel.

It slows down the flow a bit but it seems to satisfy a part of me that want to describe a world completely. I also draw one panel at a time on separate pieces of paper. Which can also really break up the flow of the page and I often have to redraw when I put all the panels together and it looks wrong. But drawing one panel at a time seems more honest. Anytime I do sketch out thumb nails of how future pages might look – it only seems to describe what I don’t end up drawing. Weird and annoying. Thumbnailing is still a vital part of the process. I’ll think/draw out the whole scene and then try and pick just the key frames to actually draw.

feb 2012 andy p.