Posts tagged “process”
A finished panel
Here’s a panel for a comic I’m working on. The story is currently titled Heaven All Day, but who knows how I’ll feel when it’s done..
Austin Kleon shares this advice from Dan Roam’s The Back of the Napkin, which sums up my afternoon of story-hacking perfectly.
The third step was crucial; it wasn’t until the pieces were arranged on more than a single, linear axis that I saw what needed fixing, what was missing, and what needed to go.
Conquering writer’s block
I sat down this afternoon to fill in the missing holes of a story for a comic that has been occupying my thoughts for the last six months. It has otherwise been in a perpetual state of nearly-there-but-not-quite. Every time I sat down to piece it into completion, I found myself blocked, often avoiding the thing entirely.
Today I unplugged the Internet. I broke the story down onto post-its, and laid it out visually on my drawing table, rather than continue to stare at the same words on my computer. I could instantly see which holes needed to be filled, which elements were misplaced, and got a birds-eye view at the beats and rhythm of the pages. Two hours later, I had whittled sixty pages of story down to twenty-three, and have every panel accounted for.
Reposting this from the old blog for posterity.
