I hate ‘getting’ back into drawing. The reason is very simple as it takes me a good couple of tries before I remember how to hold the fucking pencil up straight. Yesterday was a very important day as it marked the FIRST day that I started drawing Sublime. I have eluded to this book for a good long while now. A version of the script has been lying on my floor for a good 4 months and to be honest I’ve been pretty chicken to pick it up and run with it.

I kept saying that I’d get around to it at one point or another once I’d finished the script completely. Needless to say that wasn’t the case. No I need to make a start now. If, or rather when I come back to modify pages, at least I’ll have made a step forward in the book itself. Sure it’s not going to be a masterpiece, then again, my first website wasn’t a masterpiece and neither has any other one after that been what I’d call perfect. Not even close. What I can say however and what makes it easier for me is the fact that there is an improvement every single time I get into the creator’s seat, and I suppose that’s what I’m hoping for with my comic book work.

A gradual progression of skill that will evolve hopefully from page to page. It’ll help me cut my teeth before I jump into the story that I’ve been putting off for the past 3 years.

The problem is that I’m the photoshop generation. Traditionally comic books are greated in the following way:

1. The writer produces the script from which
2. The artist draws, which then gets given to
3. The inker, who comes along and does his thing.
4. Then the colourist comes into the fold and tries their best to enhance the artwork.
5. The letterer comes in and does his magic

When I start drawing a page I start imagining various things, I can see the page clearly in my head while the page is blank. Usually speaking the final page is reasonably close to my intended vision. When it’s not I blame it on my lack of skill. It does happen that your imagination is a few steps infront of your skill. The thing I’ve been noticing more and more is that now I won’t draw absolutely everything because I know it would take me very long to do manually, and wouldn’t be as perfect of clever as if I did it in photoshop.