I thought it might be a neat idea to post a picture of the drawing board where I make this silly little comic. How voyeuristic! Now stop peeking through my curtains.

I draw on a really, really old wooden drawing board that I nabbed from high school and have been repairing and using ever since.

I use regular A4 paper to draw on, any pencil I can grab to lay out the roughs and a combination of fine tipped black ink pens and various sized sharpies to lay down the inks. I don’t usually do a lot of erasing of the pencils since the scanner takes care of 95% of that for me.

Above the drawing board is a little lamp to keep the board lit up instead of the room lighting. Since the room lights are behind me my head ends up casting a big shadow over the art, you see.

Over to the left is the scanner, and on top of that are the last 30 or so pages I’ve done that I’ve just recently scanned. I waited until I got my copy of How To Make Webcomics before scanning them – and the quality increase was amazing! I don’t scan pages until the whole storyline is done, just in case I abandon ship halfway through.

On the drawing board is the current story I’m working on. It’s being done in a really different style than the regular comic, but I’m having an awesome time drawing it. Lots of fine line work and detail, and it’s being drawn in a regular ‘comic strip’ style – sort of. They won’t be online until the middle of February 2009, so we’ll see how it goes down then

The different format means I can leave notes for myself in the right side of the page for when I scan and clean up the art – rewording suggestions, notes to fix up some parts of the art, etc.

Not pictured: Tall glass of chocolate milk waiting to be drunk…drunken? Drank?

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