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Silvio Spotti
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Post by Silvio Spotti »

Mr Davis

Do you aways work your pages in a small size first, then transfer the art to the proper size as we see in the gallery?
Can you please tell us about your process of work?
Things like, how you deal with reference and how you do when you have do draw faster.
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Post by Alan Davis »

Silvio, I vary the way I work to suit my mood or the material I'm working on.

Thumbnails are good for planning covers or splash pages but I don't think they are a worthwhile expenditure of time on any page with more than three or four panels-- especially on a group book.
I sometimes plan a page on a comic page sized rough or a full sized art rough-- purely to suit my mood. If I have a definite idea of the image or panel flow required I will draw directly onto a finished art board.

Reference is sometimes essential but you shouldn't be enslaved by it. That is, you shouldn't let the limitation of the refs' dictate the image you draw or the flow of your storytelling.

The only shortcut to learning to draw faster is by drawing every day for twenty or thirty years.
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Post by Silvio Spotti »

Thank you Mr Davis for the aswers.

And I think that I´ll follow all your advice.
In special the one about drawing for 20/30 years,every day.
I´m doing it for 10/15 years.
Well, at least when I´m not drawing I´m inking something.
That´s why I´m aways looking for Mr Farmer and Mr Paul Neary samples too.

Thanks again
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