Since I started this site up and began bringing Plant-Man and Flowerin’ to the web I’ve been drawing new comics and to be honest I am absolutely loving every minute of it. I can’t wait for you all to see the new stuff when it comes online next year.

But I was writing and drawing it a lot differently this time around. Instead of planning out stories and jokes ahead of time, I would be writing it as I drew it – there would be a lot of pages where I didn’t know what would happen at the end while I started inking the start!

Thankfully I’ve managed to worm my way out of several corners and finished the stories in fine style. However for the new comic I just started I’m going back to basics – writing everything ahead of time in a well-used notepad.

I start with plotting out the entire story, with one brief line to indicate the basic “idea” of that page. This is to make sure the storyline “works” or at least doesn’t have too many glaring continuity holes. Then I scribble  down dialogue and basic panel layouts for each page – this is where most of my time is then spent staring into space trying to think of the perfect joke about ice cream or whatever. And then after all that’s done, it’s time to draw the darn thing.

It’s slightly more time consuming, but it’s the best way to do this – and even better, once all the boring writing stuff is out of the way I can get stuck into the drawing side of things!

PS – The Plant-Man and Flowerin’ Forum is up and running again, come in and say hi! All the characters from the show are posting on there and I’m sure they’d love to hear from you!

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