After the Fire Chapters 4-5
Category: After the Fire
After the Fire Chapter 3
After the Fire Chapters 1-2
Teaser Fragments 9
The final installment of unpolished panels from my work in progress; I’ve now completed all the principal drawings and have started assembling finished pages. I’m going to complete multiple chapters before I start posting them, though.
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A Little Bit of Process: Sower
For a panel in my work-in-progress, I first sketched out the image I had in my head (3 Jl 2021):
Afterwards I wrote a brief description in the word-processing document that includes the text for the entire story:
<ZAJ: walking along barren, bare yellow-brown land, casting handful of five tiny dark-brown seeds to ground, has NO bag with more seeds; wears simple jeans loose and baggy, thin button-up long-sleeved shirt open at top with undershirt beneath, sleeves rolled at elbows, boots under pants legs; show land going on and on around her, all bare>
A year and a half later (7 Fb 2023) I finally got around to doing a regular drawing, which I did without more than a glance at the original sketch. I ended up with this:
Two months later I happened to look at the sketch version again and couldn’t help thinking it was much superior in feeling to the “finished” drawing (which I had examined recently when posting it in “Teaser Fragments 8”).
So I made a new drawing (12 Ap 2023):
And I’ll be using this one for the final work.