The heavy pencils stage, or finished pencils, is where I start making the big decisions. Some cartoonists will switch to a different hardness of pencil here to differentiate it from their light pencils (in fact some folks I know use colored pencils), but I prefer to use the same mechanical pencil as in the previous stage.
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Above you can see me fleshing out the characters and location. I’m working out facial expressions and placing props and markers that allow the reader to understand where they characters are in relation to one another. This is especially important as i tend to move my “camera” around a lot. For those of you who tend to draw panels from the same angle, this will be less of an issue.
Stay tuned tomorrow for the inked page!
