Here’s an entirely spoiler free panel (with a spoiler free/vastly redacted thumbnail) to help explain my process as detailed in a previous post.
Stage 0 – draw the thumbnail, I honestly have no idea what physical size it is, but it’s six thumbs per page, so that’s drawn on one of those areas.
Stage 1 – expand the thumb for the page to take up the whole page, in the old days I’d be redrawing the thumbnail on the page, that cuts out that unnecessary step.
Stage 2 – roughly pencil, it’s pretty simple here cus it’s not too complicated – close up of one dude. Looking for the gesture/emotion of it.
Stage 3 – tighten those pencils, adding shadows where I think they should be, emotional expressiveness and tightening any element that I’ll need tightened.
Stage 4 – comes after I’ve pencilled an entire chapter, here I’d realised I’d given the guy a different coat on an earlier chapter and had to change it and I wanted heavier more dramatic shadows.
And that’s it. Pretty simple, and for me, relatively fast.