For each panel, I usually start working up a drawing in my sketchbook or on another sheet of paper. Again, I work in colored pencils–starting with a light color and moving to the darker ones to build up an image I’m happy with…to be able to make corrections and move things around without having to start a new drawing every time.
When I’ve got something I’m reasonably happy with, I can scan it, resize it to fit on the bristolboard page that the final artwork will be on, and use a lightbox to trace a rough outline of it onto the board. In this case, though, I wasn’t entirely happy with the colored pencil rough, so I just winged it a bit and copied it onto the board by sight and then refined the image a bit in the pencilling process.
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…and thats the final penciled panel to the right.
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