ADVENTURE TIME ANNUAL pencil to ink 2

There's a nice color preview for the Adventure Time Annual over on Newsarama (including all the covers and the first three pages of my story lettered and colored):
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But I thought I'd show a side-by-side comparison of my pencils and inks to these pages here.

I started by printing out the script rather than just read it on the computer screen. It's something I'd always hear Dustin talk about doing on Batman: Li'l Gotham. Just to have a copy to thumbnail layouts onto while looking at each page as a whole. It's easier to see all the panel descriptions while trying to figure out the page this way.

From there, I just dove right into lightly penciling the pages. My go-to pencil has always been col-erase blue, going back to my animation art school days. The pencil scan is darker than what the pencils really are, as I do it just light enough to see it on the page and then do all the real "drawing" (tightening) in ink. Since Adventure Time started as an animated show, it has a very dead animation line weight to it, which is something I don't easily achieve with a nib or brush. So I went tech pen for these pages, either medium or thin PITT pens. And filled in any large black areas by normal brush and india ink.

So there ya have it…warts and all. Sequentials are both nerve wracking and exciting for someone like me that doesn't do them very much at all. It's all a learning process, especially trying to keep in mind space for all the word balloons and trying to figure out the sizing of each panel. But I had a lot of fun on this even though I was stressing all the way up to sitting down and doing the work.

- D