Hi guys. I had a blackout yesterday which halted work for a little while, so I pulled out the old sketchbook and began to doodle the ideas that had been mulling around in my head on how to proceed. This is just a very VERY rough outline of the first pages of the up-and-coming Character Development webcomic. It always begins with thumbnails for me. I also have a strange habit in which I begin at the top right-hand corner of a page, draw down, then move left for a new collumn. I also write like this. Could be because I’m left-handed and I hate ledgers, then consequently I hate wasted space… dunno. It’s a quirk. We all have them. This is my thing, I guess.

Anyhow: below is the thumbnails of the first few pages! Stay tuned for updates in the coming weeks/months.

Drawing is becoming such a relaxing and inspiring thing for me… I’m wondering if I’m going to draw the whole thing instead of leave it up to 3D entirely. When doing a quick reference model for a colleague last year, I discovered that I could make 3D sets and models as line-work backgrounds fairly quickly. I am hoping to utilize this skill as something to base the sketches on. It is all to get a better looking product.

On style, I’ve decided that every page is going to have a sepia-tone base and that colors are going to be applied over this in a multiply transfer. This gave some concept art I did recently a look and feel that seemed… right somehow. I applied a sepia tone to the above to see if the sketches would keep that same tone. I like it.