This comic was drawn completely in pencil. Yep. I drew out the pages first with a full layout where I arranged all of the panels on to the page. Then I put down the lettering and the panel boarders in a page mock up in the computer. Then for my final pencils, instead of doing the whole page I did each panel separate so as not to cause smears. Which means I have an impressive stack of single panels for this comic somewhere in my room.

The panels were then scanned into the computer and dropped into the pre-designed panel borders and word balloons. I do all of my lettering, word balloons, and panel borders in the computer so I don't have to worry about keeping my lines straight or pasting down words... I use to do it by hand and wow did that suck.

Then with everything in place I leveled the art out until it was as dark as you see here... oh and for the web I added the sepia color to the lines. It looked better that way. =D

You can see that I love hatching and crosshatching although I like the Japanese style of that more then the typical American comic version which has a more perpendicular stroke order (up and down, like a 90 degree angle, think of the lines joining like a cross +).

Hmm, I think I've rambled enough maybe... I'll talk a bit more about the comic page next time now that I've gotten the production talk out of the way. =D