THUMBNAILS R US!!

Lucky I have made easy-peeasy thumbnail sheets (such an expert at illustrator & photoshop). Which do make life easier.As I've said this is an animation reject so most of the idea was worked out all ready. But if I'm thumbnailing for cartooning I'm usually considering that I'm using an A3 page.But with this thumbnail I was just looking a beats & story writing.Considering that Ive laid this out as an equal nine panel per page, Ive really just had to edit the story so it didn't become too long.The one thing I find frustrating is that Ill do a really good looking thumbnail but can never transfer that on to the finished page (cry for me,pity me).

Making notes

Making notes

There's nothing better than being asked " Where do your ideas come from?"
Well other than doing this stuff for a extremely long time, so I know what works or not...
I write ideas in a sketchbook,I draw in a sketchbook. So it's my SKETCHBOOK!!!
These days I probably look at a drawing for ideas rather than write a lot of stuff. It also helps to have a reason to draw a strip.So in this case its for a pantomime strip for a competition in Italy.



The actual idea comes from an animation I'm slowly doing. This was a 'reject' idea from that project. I'd already had done a bunch of pre-production, so I had a lot of this idea worked out and I thought it would make a good idea for a no word comic.
The only worry is that I was unwittingly ripping off Chris Ware. I'd realized he'd done that bee comic in Acme Library. I know of 'it', but haven't read it.

Anyway, after thinking up something 'COOL', I sit with a piece of foolscap and either write a short treatment or (what I usually do) write the panels in a bullet point form.This is to figure out how to tell the story and pace the panels and pages. At this point I don't really need to know the page layout or how the characters will look.Its really to work out the narrative,and get it to work properly.

I heart Mudhoney's 1st album

casper again