Andi Pasti's Animal Art

Last year I drew a Centrosaurus with ink and grey markers on brown-toned paper. I’ve bought that paper two years ago and never used it properly, but I figured out that it’s quite handy. With a mid-toned paper you only need to care about shadows and highlights because the mid-tone is already provided by the paper itself. On white background you have to establish this mid-tone yourself. I decide to use this paper block to fill it with dinosaurs drawn in that style. Centrosaurus Over the past year I tried to fill the pages with some species that I like, not the usual ones that get much media attention. Dilophosaurus - without the frill and spitting poison  Therizinosaurus Technically I discovered some challenges which tampered with my joy: * I use some black fine liners from Faber-Castell, 0.1-0.3 mm for the outlines or black shadows. These are fine! * for whites I use a gel pen, probably low quality, as the ink gets stuck from moment to moment and is not flowing constantly and reliab...

The big question when writing a comic is: how long should it be? How many pages in total? The truth is, I don’t know exactly. I don’t know how long the story will be and how many pages I need to draw. Based on the high expectations we all have about us and our creative stories I maybe don’t want to know. This said, I don’t want to fall into this trap creating an overblown project that I start eagerly with motivation, but lose interest along the way and nobody gets to see. So I am trying to follow the Minimal Viable Story approach here, kind of. I actually want to finish stuff. So I decided to divide the story in approachable chunks, more precise several issues that I produce and publish after another. This way I run the circle of writing the script, making layouts, pencilling, inking, colouring, filling in word boxes in smaller timelines and repeating it multiple times. Which means I even could learn from my past mistakes when preparing the next issue. Some of these thoughts came throu...