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Mal and Chad Thumbnails
Mar 28, 2009 9:54 am
Hey everybody!



Lately I've been drawing tiny sketches, called thumbnails, of every page in the Mal and Chad book. I'm on page 54 of the thumbnails right now. I suppose it's going rather well, but I find myself impatient to get on to the next stage. At this rate when I'm thumbnailing I'll want to be penciling, and when I'm penciling I'll want to be inking, and when I'm inking I'll want the book to be done and published. I think I need to slow down and enjoy each stage as it comes. A graphic novel of this caliber is not made in a day.

By the way, if you guys have any advice for me on how I should approach this whole process, you can send it to me through the comments part of this blog entry, or I set up an advice thread at the Flight Forums that you can contribute to if you have an ID there.

Hope you all are doing well!
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SoopahKait said...
Slow down and love it. Think about the pace that I eat at... and then love your cartooning like that.
Mar 28, 2009 5:08 pm

 

Kim Herbst said...
I get like that too! I\'m just wrapping up interior pages for a mini-anthology. I always think the next step is more fun than the last. So inking is more fun than penciling and coloring is more fun than inking etc etc. Keep up the great work and pause to take deep breaths once in awhile! Sometimes after thumbnails and pencils, I\'ll ink and color a whole page, instead of doing ALL of the inking for all the pages at once. Maybe you can try that and find your happy-method along the way :) Good luck!!
Mar 30, 2009 9:11 pm

 

Aunt Renee said...
You can do it, Stevie, yes you can! I believe in you. Hogs and smooches, Aunt Ren
Mar 30, 2009 9:22 pm