I’m an idiot.
And I’m pretty sure I’ve used that opening title before but hey, it’s true!
So I’ve been getting myself bogged down with a couple of pages of issue #18 of Lloyd and the Bear. I say bogged down because although I enjoy putting the pages together I was really struggling to get all I needed to say on to the page within the available space.
And then, once I was happy with that I made a serious mistake and rather than plan out a page (or pages) at a time I just picked random panels and drew them and it wasn’t until I patched it all together did I find it was a mess. Either panels didn’t flow or in some cases looked too similar. I wasn’t happy.
Anyways, here’s how three pages were originally planned to be spaced out and how it ended up;
Quite a change! I’m happy with how the pages ended up (although crikey, for a LatB book that sure is a lot of word balloons!)
More importantly though, I realised that I got in to bad habits by not planning out a page. You see, I’m switching back and forward with my work on issue #3 of Fenton Hud and with that I’m only working on an isolated 3rd of a page as I tell individual stories (check the Fenton Hud posts for more on that!). That kind of planning (or lack of it?) doesn’t work here which is why I’ve fully sketched out the latest page I’m working on and really happy with it.
Planning is good. Geez, if you know me then you know I like to plan so how did I forget that?!?
Anyways, back to work! More soon!
Bear hugs!
