BEHIND THE SCENES: "(This Isn't) Normal" comic (Patreon)

My approach for the (This Isn't) Normal comic was more experimental and I think the underlying roughs are kind of interesting in and of themselves, so here! For you. I share.

I recorded myself doing my hair totally normally, the same I would if I weren't being taped, and then took screen captures of the key poses that caught my eye the most.

After I had sketched in the general story (walking to the mirror, drying my hair), I plonked the photos into my comic grid template and then played around with size and position from there.

Here's the roughs next to the finished pieces:

Haha, now looking at them side-by-side, I see some spots where I mistook when a line was meant to be a hair band and I made it out as a finger, or didn't realize the hair band should be showing-- ahg! Oh well, stuff no one else will notice.

Oh! And for the textures!

These are some watercolor splatches I made to add texture to some digital illustration project in 2011 and I've kept them in a folder on my computer since then. Once every few years I find an excuse to use them again! The yellow sample was used for the backgrounds and the purple was used on my hair. I didn't tweak the colors at all, just layered them on top of my flat digital colors and on their own they created those nice hues that show up in the final product.

Hope this was interesting!