Page 383 Swift WIPs & Thumbnails (Patreon)

For anyone interested, here's my initial thumbnails for the last four pages. This is the first step on the art side of things.

I think thumbnails should always be loose and messy because this where you (ideally) would/should be making large structural changes to page layout, playing around, trying out weird ideas, etc. It's not worth investing a lot of time and energy to make them beautiful when they are an ephemeral (but necessary) step to the final product. I consider them like holding tanks for the final idea-- not a permanent home, they just need to 'make sense' to me for as long as it takes to get them plugged into a full-sized layout.

Honestly, it's kind of striking to me how they become retrospectively more legible when you have the final page to reference. (I say this after going back through some old, old thumbnails from scrapped stuff in Volume One, and having zero recollection of what I was trying to convey, and no final page to compare them to.)

Also, here's a flight of Swift WIPs from page 383!