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Art tips and techniques, reviews and interviews from my studio. Archived here and at World Famous Comics. Comics 101 for 09/13/2001 Blood and Rose: Time Lords by Joe Corroney Week Two - Thumbs These series of drawings are my initial concept designs for these three pages of story. They are small palm-sized sketches called thumbnails that I draw in my sketchbook. I like to design my pages this small at first as it keeps me loose and I can visualize the entire look and flow of the page as one design. I find doing my layouts full size right away often is more tedious and not as efficient as I can get caught up in just one panel and lose the pacing and flow for a page. I draw these small sketches proportionally as possible to the final 11x17 inches size as it will help me visualize and more correctly translate the positioning of the panels and the illustrations inside them when I redraw them larger. Sometimes, I enlarge my actual thumbnail drawings via xerox to the final board size, placing them on my lightbox and using these as my templates. In this case, as in the next step, I use these smaller drawings just as guides, and not actual templates for my pages. Next week I'll share the techniques of working my small thumbnail illustrations into larger full size rough drawings. -Joe Recent Columns:
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