Hey, pencil and paper. I don’t remember why this one wasn’t finished (or why it was started) – maybe I gave up when I got to the part that included any actual drawing – but it’s a view into how things were (not) done circa 2014.

Probably there were actual pages to do, and I never got back to this one. The pages back then also used the same blue line + pencil system; then once more for ink. I just never got to lightboxing things. “Why not make everything a fifteen-step procedure instead, using several different machines?” But all these steps do at least create a lot of visible proof of Work Being Done. Nowadays I usually don’t even export the “pencils”, or inks, so I often have zero sense of anything moving forward until it’s done-done. It’s all just “unfinished” for an interminable amount of time (it does wonders for the morale).

Anyhow, I ran into some other examples of this sort of thing, so I’ll put up a few more as I sort and archive them.

The original rough was eventually used as the title page of the sketchbook section in one of the trade paperbacks. The colors in retrospect look like they spilled straight over from the Jake Ellis books, but I guess I didn’t really have an adequate outlet for these moods from Mars back then.

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