One of the dangers of working digitally is the ability to infinitely zoom in and work hyper-detailed on the small stuff. I try to work as zoomed out as possible to keep a balance, but this days episode called for quite a lot of detail in the backgrounds and I went a little overboard. I had actually drawn the far side of the street (with houses, and trees, and clouds in the sky) on the final panel before I realized what I was doing.

Sanity prevailed during the inking stage, but I was close to poking my eyes out before I was done this one.

Too much detail or not, I’m pretty pleased with the end result of this one.

I’m moving a little slower on the inks this week than normal. I think I’m being a little too precious with the art, seeing as it is mine from the ground up this time around.

Anyhoo, here is the ‘inked’ version of yesterdays ‘pencilled’ page.

It turns out I’m pencilling week 22 from scratch this week. So, here is my “pencils” for week 22 day 1.

I can’t quite pencil as cleanly digitally as I can on paper, but for me the whole advantage of going digital is that I can skip the clean pencil stage and do a lot of my drawing in “ink”.

I’ll post the inks for comparison when they are done.

As some of you might already know, I have been inking the Mighty Motor Sapiens for Rowdy dotCom for several months now. It started out being pencilled by Daniel Krall and then switched to Matt Plog with week 9.

Matt’s been sick, and with the holiday crunch I was asked to do the pencils as well from Matt’s layouts to help get us caught up. I’ve been inking the strip digitally since week 9, so I did the ‘pencils’ that way as well.

Here’s examples of two days of pencils with their accompanying inks.

Running a little late, I posted the pencils to this week’s Wahoo Morris before replacing it with the finished inks.

I know there are those interested in the process of creating a page of comic art. It’s rare that I scan my pencils, so for posterity here is the pencils for Wahoo Morris page 114.