#i do tend to favor my scripts over the art. if youve already finished the art then i just. (breathes in). abandon it

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when writing the script of your comic, did you ever draw some of the panels ahead of time? im making a comic of my own and find it difficult to choose between drafting sketches of the comic and finishing the scripts because i get to overambitious and finalize the pages drawings enitrely, and later find the mood/style of the comic doesnt fit the later halfs of the script. did this ever happen with you? and how did you overcome it? thank you for your time :)

oh yeah dude! personally i've found that i can NEVER be too precious about either side of the process....it's an exercise in futility because inherently you are only working with one half of the vision that MUST change once it meets its other half. it's only where drawing and writing meet that you even actually truly understand what you're making at all!

i think everyone's got a different approach to how they merge the two processes; unfortunately what works for me may not work for you, but personally....the scripting and the drawing have to be done simultaneously in a balanced way or it just won't harmonize.

the script gives you the structure and the meaning, but it doesn't show you how the scene moves and lives and feels. invest too heavily in that and you could miss where drawing the life into the script takes you organically. but just as the drawing gives you the movement and energy and emotion, overworking that without the structure of the script makes the art unguided and incoherent. in my experience (which again, is just how i do it, lol) they gotta be developed together or else risk feeling like completely disjointed pieces.

the best advice i can give is to do both simultaneously but loosely. start with the script, write until you know it's solid but not perfect- basically, write with room for change. then make loose sketches, solid enough to work with, but again, with room to change. by the time you've finished sketching, you'll understand what needs to change in your script, and then by the time you edit your script, you're ready to finish the art. the rest falls into place as you put them together.

hope that helps!!!

#tips and tricks #tbh going through it right now in the chapter im developing #i overwrote it. and THEN i overdrew it. listening & learning #as for overcoming it once it's already happened... #i do tend to favor my scripts over the art. if youve already finished the art then i just. (breathes in). abandon it #and try to salvage what i can for parts to use later lol #i have a little dead page file cabinet that i sift through as if it's a bag of loose screws and tacks #very morbid and sad #but thats comics baby!