Andi Pasti's Animal Art

To bridge the gap between the published first issue of Woolly Wonderful and creating an engaging story, I used the time to draw some sort of concept that I imagined for a second issue. I tried a slightly different process this time, to find out if I could save some time in the comic page creation. Finished piece Usually after the pencil stage, the inking will be done, either over very detailed pencils or rougher pencils, depending on the artist’s confidence. But ink will not give you any variance in tone like pencils can give you. Thus, some artists only have a pencil stage and darken the pencils afterwards to make them more stand-out. Any thin or weaker lines will still be visible with a still lighter tone and might give it a bit of a rougher finish to it. This indeed can help to make the art appear less digital.  Main character pencils Pencils complete Pencils with shadow layer The picture in general has more of a children’s book feeling about it, especially through the lighter b...

I haven’t posted about my latest progress on working on my comic yet. The good news is: I finally settled on a title! Yeah! It will be called Woolly Wonderful . Woolly will also be the name of the main character, that is one that a child would give its toys, not too complicated and overloaded and quite obvious based on its appearance. Here is Woolly and one of the comic pages: Sample comic page. Copyright: Andreas Adam I have pencilled, inked and coloured 11 out of 16 pages. Although I am sure I have to tweak some of these pages a bit still. I also rearranged the layouts of the last 3 pages last summer and did more pencilling. I condensed the story and brought elements meant for issue 2 into the current issue, which created a more interesting ending and brings the story forward. Some of the last pages need still to be inked as well. Which leads me to think again about my workflow for the next issue. Using pencils and ink pens helped me to refine the final outlines, but is quite time in...

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...