Still Life Page 2 Timelapse (Patreon)

Here‘s a timelapse video of the pencilling process for page 2 of Still Life. I drew the story, as most of my work these days, in Procreate on an iPad Pro. I have worked digitally for many years as I really like the flexibility of it - I often draw quite improvisationally, without doing a lot of pre-planning with thumbnails, and so it is good for me to be able to adjust and redraw easily. You can see that I drew the large first panel of the artist’s studio without having established the lower half of the page. I knew in my head what was going to be in panels 2-4 but I work on instinct much of the time and didn’t find it necessary to pre-plan this page. I invented the details of the studio mostly from imagination, you can see where I roughly sketched out my impression of the shot and then refined it with extra layers.

For this story I wanted to draw quickly and loosely, with a much rougher line than in most of my previous comics work - I have come to really like the 6B pencil in Procreate rather than the clean ink line that I used previously. more and more I am finding texture in my linework appealing rather than the sterile “perfection” of clean ink.