Sketches in blue chapter 4

Here are the first two half pages in blue pencil.

I've done the whole chapter, but will give it one more pass to work out some small quirks.

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Thumbnails

Last week I finished the thumbnails, here is the first two half pages.

I've begun to transfer the pages to original size drawings in blue pencil.

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Turning something bad into something positive

Lately I've had this pile of papers that I didn't know what to do with.

So what is this? Well, it's a pile of broken dreams, broken hopes, broken expectations, and basically everything that's wrong with the world to day. To speak bluntly it's a pile of shit!

So what to do...? First I thought that I should set it all on fire and jump naked through the flames, but on second thought I'm not so sure my landlord would appreciate that... and I wanted to do something creative with it, like, turning shit into something positive.

And then it dawned on me, why don't I make sketchbooks of it all!

Here is the pile in a more organized fashion, and with more dramatic setting...

Here I've parted them into sketchbook-sizes.

And voila, four new sketchbooks! First I wanted to augment them, with covers and so on, but after giving that some more thought, I came up with this: a pile of shit is still shit even if you cover it in gold. So the only augmentation I made was to add cardboard at the bottom to make them sturdy. So for the time being I'm all set when it comes to sketchbooks/logbooks!

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P.s I have a fascination for English dialects, many years ago I saw an episode of the british tv-series "Cold feet" where one of the characters pronounces the word shit as shait. I think it's a norhern England dialect, but I'm not sure. So that is how I've seen this pile, as a pile of shait!

Half way through!

I'm half way through the project, well almost! So far it's been fun and educational, and I learn stuff all along the way. It will be fun and exciting to see the end result.

I've always enjoyed the sketching part of a project, when you're searching for the right expression or pose. When it comes to clean up, I find that to be of a more up hill climb with more resistance. During chapter 3, I tried to work around this by doing more detailed sketches in blue. And to my amazement it worked, maybe this is a fluke, but the clean up process of this chapter went really smooth and was not that difficult as it can be.

One funny thing I've noticed is that I can sometimes feel a bit worried about some panels that contain a lot of information, or are complicated for some reason. When I've drawn them they almost always turn out to be the best panels!

I've come to terms with the fact that the process of it all will be quite visible through this project, just like the fact that I've in chapter 3 centered the text in the word balloons, which I haven't done earlier.

For you that are not fluent in the Swedish language I can comfort you that with about 94% certainty there will be a translation in English! When I'm done with the final chapter I will make a translation.

Very soon I'm going to begin the work on chapter 4... And as always I can't tell you when chapter 4 will be done. For a progress report you will have to come back here!

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Chapter 3 done!

There you have it, it's done!

Read and enjoy!

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The coloring this time around took less to do than I originally thought, which suits me just fine! Isn't it great when things go smother than you thought?

Well, I won't keep you from reading the all new pages...

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Inking done!

Just recently I finished inking chapter 3!
Very soon coloring will begin...

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