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Process of drawing a comic page in Woolly Wonderful

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People who are not familiar with the artistic process might perceive the creation of art I as some sort of magical act. That we artists just make some confident marks from our imagination and *bam* the masterpiece is done. And even for me, now that I have finished issue 1 of my comic Woolly Wonderful , it seems unbelievably far away and odd when I laid down my first sketches. That notion might even be strengthened when watching artists like Kim Jung Gi who created huge masterworks in ink straight from their mind onto paper. Of course they are not magicians, even if it seems so. They just trained long enough. They have drawn many subjects over and over again until they don’t need references or guiding lines any more. So to reduce the fear of starting a comic page, I will reflect on my process for creating a comic page for Woolly Wonderful. Creating the Layout and Thumbnailing Initial layout and thumbnails Before getting to any pencil work on a comic page it is important to have a rough...