Auto-Tailor - page 14 - Process (Patreon)

Since the colors and shading were done by my partner, Jade, I'm going to talk more about other aspects of my process in more detail.

1. I start with a rough thumbnail to plan out the page.  In the first panel, I'm trying to keep it more dynamic by putting the characters at varied distances. Just two panels again here because I wanted a full body shot to show just how helpless he is in that impossibly tight slip and petticoats.

2. Now I go in and work out the final poses and proportions. I blocked in the word balloons early to help me position the characters. The varied distances in the first panel worked well with the proportions of the word balloons. For the massive skirt, I'm just roughing in the general squash and bend of the skirt as a guide for later.

3. Now I go back and work out all the fine details.  In the second panel, I sketched the torso of our dolly using a symmetry ruler, then went back over it as added asymmetry to enhance the sense of motion, placing the feet at different heights, angling the arms differently, adding secondary motion to the boobies and hair. For the skirt, I reused the detailed skirt from the previous page, used mesh distortion to change it into something from a more even angle, then mesh distorted it to match the bend of the skirt in this frame.

4. Then I ink everything, using a couple of different pens (one with a blunt tip, for outer edges, and one with a fine tip, for fine detail). Thicker lines in closer objects contrast with thinner lines in distant objects.