Process of a comic page in Woolly Wonderful
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, 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. Rough pencils. Woolly sitting in the Dad room reading. Before getting to any pencil work on a comic page it is important to have a rough layout of each page. That way you can envision the panel flow and how your story turns out visually. Think of it as storyboarding a movie. You don’t need ...