Now that I am drawing past events, my process starts by reading the Word document where I took notes every day about what happened, who said what, etc. Each event is already broken into panels, so I read a day's worth, cut out panels if I have to, and then think about how I will arrange what I'm keeping on a comic page.
I thumbnail in a little sketchbook, about 3"x5" per page, to decide how the panels will look and what general angle to draw people from, where to put word balloons, etc. Then, I draw the final page on 11"x 16" Bristol board using non-photo blue lead to pencil (no erasing! yay!), a Pilot VBall pen to letter, and a Pentel pocket brush pen to ink.
Lastly, I scan the page into Photoshop, where I adjust the levels to get what I want white white and what I want black black, and then I convert the file to a bitmap. I edit the line art in Photoshop, convert back to grayscale, and then tone the page (generally with flat areas of gray on separate layers from the line art).


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