Becky Hawkins
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Book 1, Page 179
🕑 Added 2023-02-09 07:21:58 +0000 UTCDrawing a multi-panel physical gag felt new to me.
Does it count as slapstick when everyone narrowly avoids bumping into anything? The poses were really fun, but drawing the exact same background four times was a combination of boring and stressful. I copy-pasted the digital pencils, and it still felt hard to draw the panels consistently. I ended up inking the background in 15-minute increments because I'd get restless.
I needed the body language to be really clear, so I asked my housemate to take a bunch of reference photos:
I was planning to get back into a rhythm of working on several pages at a time, all in different phases of production (rough drawing, digital pencils, ink. I got this far on page 180...
...when Barry reminded me that we'd talked about turning pages 180-181 into a double-page spread and he was going to rewrite the script so I shouldn't do any work on it yet. D'oh!
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