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Art is hard! But I'm inking this gas station.

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Comic is progressing. These are pages 8 and 9 minus some black ink. It reads in rows, top to bottom rather than across, for the sake of scrolling. Stuff will be reformatted, but this is how I'm drawing it.

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Ink over the previous pencils. Did some more work on it. Bob is a big dude so the drawing needed another anatomy pass on his back/arms.

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Issue One/chapter one/part one is almost done. Like...90 percent? 40 pages. Then I gotta do all that fun lettering/toning/etc.

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Not panels, but a floorplan (drawn on my panel template) so I can figure out this gas station scene. I'm bad at camera logic without using some sort of map to ground myself, otherwise it turns into a mess. And if the comic comes back here I'll have a map to make drawing it again easier.

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Tiny drawings. This book so far contains some of my tiniest drawings of all time.

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Bob has this ponytail because I wanted to reflect that nerds have infuriatingly good hair sometimes. He uses horse shampoo. Erin, meanwhile, struggles with hair thickness because she lives a life of the mind.

(life of the mindliffeofthemind)

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I could stay in the construction phase forever. Moving around blocks and putting them into perspective is my favorite part of drawing. Everything else is hard.

I'm getting a backlog, at least. I want a decent amount of the book done before I start posting it.

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The first chapter is inked so I'm doing pencils for chapter 2. My pencils are madness and I'm never sure how they're meant to become a finished drawing. They usually do, though.

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Style test. Font pending but this is the look, more or less. One color so it'll print well.

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You'd think this would be an easy page but this is the second time I've inked it. (The crack lacked depth the first time.)

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Working on this thing.

The little whiskey bottle took a minute. I considered the bigger whiskey bottles but the little plastic one she has seemed funnier to me. Cough syrup sized apple whiskey is pretty much what a convenience store clearance section gets you.