Here's a very early strip that was originally published in black and white. It was featured in the ICECUBES book 'Noise Is News' and was then colored. I remember struggling with the pencil and the inking on this strip, as it required a lot of detail and I was still pretty green at the time. I thought you might enjoy seeing the process animated! :)
‘Blocking’ just means blocking out how the action gets laid out on the page. In this case I was trying to work out the way Peckinpaw tripped and fell by making the gesture and movement read well in the limited amount of space of the 13″ x 4″ strip. Some artists call this the storyboarding stage. It’s real important to do this before you start drawing the real strip or else you will be erasing and restarting a lot. I always try to avoid a lot of erasing because it can introduce smudges that are hard to get rid of. It can also mess up the surface of the paper making it harder to ink.
You can see click on the final published strip here.
2 thoughts on “Classic Animated Strip! #0013”
J.P. Keslensky
This is really fun.
Leroy Brown
Thanks JP! That strip gave me some problems trying to fit everything in such a small space. Now I know why the old timers used to draw so big! 🙂
Comic strip blocking.
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