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Some thumbnail sheets from Volume 2.  I was originally going to post these as a sort of kitten update because Maya has chewed holes in every single one of these pieces of paper, but the scanner did a remarkably good job of lighting the sheets such that the holes are barely discernible.  Oh well.  You can probably see some of the paw smudges, though.

 

Anyway, I thought these still might be of minor curiosity to some of you as a part of the process of making a comic.  Each of these began as lines of dialogue typed out in a Google doc, along with some brief location descriptions.  From there, I take it and start scribbling these thumbnails to match up the words and imagery.  Frequently, what I had originally written down doesn't translate in any interesting way to visuals or I find I've put emphasis in the wrong places and need to restructure the scene pictorially, so these tend to go through multiple revisions, and I'll often end up doing sweeping rewrites of dialogue right on the paper side by side with the sketches.  Typing out scripts is pretty dry work for me, but working with words and pictures in tandem like this really helps the story coagulate in my mind.

Also, I'm sorry there hasn't been much in the way of new art yet this month.  I just finished all of the comic page layouts for the Volume 2 book.  What a project that was.  It's 139 pages in total (as compared to the 66 pages of the Volume 1 book that the comic occupies).  I still have some small art revisions to do, mini-comics and extras to format for the back of Volume 2, but I'll also have some new stuff to share soon!