I realized while typing the title for this post that it’s been exactly a month since I posted with the first time I drew Varré, haha.
I did the sketch for this last week while working on the comic pages, and I’d like to finish it sometime after the second chapter is a little more finalized.
The initial sketch from last week. The colors you see in this post were added quickly this morning, as a little break from the current comic for today.
This is an earlier work-in-progress i think is less interesting. But I happened to save it, so here it is!
I forgot I also saved the thumbnail sketches in the file – starts from left-to-right. The left idea was the initial idea, which is different from how the drawing ended up going. The middle thumbnail is trying out a variation of the first, as the first thumbnail wasn’t matching the idea I was imagining. (I might try that one again another time, as it’s a more difficult idea for me because it has more foreshortening).
The third thumbnail is the second one duplicated and then worked on further – lately, I’ve noticed I tend to concept my initial ideas this way. With a very messy thumbnail/sketch/silhouette, then duplicating it and dragging it to another part of the canvas. I might repeat this process a few times until I decide whether I like the idea or not. Then I’ll take the most recent version, hide the rest, and resize the “concept sketch” larger, and work on it that way.
It feels convoluted to me, but something about those extra steps seems to help me a lot with concepting.
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