Behind the Scenes: Building A Page

The process of building a comic page is different for every artist. Yes, the fundamentals are usually the same but the process is as varied as an artists drawing style. I am going to show you how I build a page for Hominids that seems the easiest and most fun for me. Click on the page for notes below the picture.

Behind the Scenes: Book Layout

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Outlining a story is one of the most difficult things to do. For a long time I attempted to write it down before writing the script. As an artist this was really hard. I found that drawing rough thumbnails while writing the script was much easier. This way I could visualize the whole story on one sheet of paper. Moving scenes around was much easier and I could visualize pacing.