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No page today, full comic tier! I'll be back tomorrow with a new page.

[I'm referring to the upcoming scene in the full comic tier, but I thought this post could be available for all patrons, since it's not really spoilery at all!]

I recently drew an outfit template for Nick and Charlie so I can easily sketch out some outfit ideas. For the big sequences I need to think carefully about what they're wearing, because it has such a big impact on the visual aesthetic of the scene, which is especially important in long sequences! Here are the sketches I drew for the current scene.

Happy Monday!

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Merel

I love getting to see your process, thank you for sharing! Their outfits look so good, I'm obsessed with Charlie's antler headband 🥹

Diana

Puffy coat Charlie!!!

K

Adorable ❤️

emily

charlie looks this 🤏🏻 big in the puffer jacket

M R

They loook so good! I love Charlie with the puffy jacket <3 (Im terrified of what's coming)

Caitlin

Love posts like these!!

Aubrielle Peacock

i love nick having either cuffed jeans or cuffed sleeves very bisexual of him (saying this as a bisexual who tends to do either of these things when i’m not feeling lazy lol)

Merel

Tiny Charlie in his big coat 🥰

lia

I LOVE CHARLIE’S OUTFITS really want that reindeer headband!!!

Nikki

Oooh, love seeing this part of the process. Thank you! (Still in love with Nick’s outfit this scene).

Helen Povey

I love your sketches and the thought and detail you go into Alice ❤️❤️❤️wow

Chloe ♡

i love this! they both look so grown and tiny at the same time ❤️ also love charlie having a marshmallow jacket moment

Desi23

In love with these outfits!😍

Barb

love love this🫰🏻🫰🏻

Jomaries Amezaga

I love Nick’s rolled sleeves and the long of Charlie’s shirt! It make them casually cool and the perfect kind of sexy for their ages.

witchspring

aaaaaaa I loved this so much 🥹🫶🏼

Jo S

Love Charlie in his T!💯🥰

Ania W.

Posts like this make us realize how much work and preparation is required to draw one scene. Every detail is important, many things need to be thought through so that everything is perfect in the final drawing. Thank you for sharing this with us. Happy Monday 😊

Justin S.

The puffer coat on Charlie 🥹

Merel

I see Charlie has gone from stealing Nick's jumpers to stealing his coat as well 🤭

RCM

This is so interesting! I kept looking at the way Charlie was drawn on yesterday’s page, and how his clothes fit in the just the right way in the standing position to make him come across at ease, so confident, so “hot.” Take that and add Tara, Aled, Tao, Elle, AND Nick…all their “little” details really add up to make the scene what it is, and help to convey what you want to convey. Thank you for showing this! Very cool, and as always, your diligent work and effort and tender care for these characters all these years is what makes them so special and loved. Thank you-xx

Brittney

This is absolutely amazing, I love this. I swear, seeing little details throughout each volume and just noticing the little things truly matter, I can't wait for the next part tomorrow, but thank you again for this little insider, Alice. I'm just blown away but how always the little things matter even if that means Charlie stealing one of Nick's things again but that's what lovers do always stealing some of their clothes but I know why Charlie does it because it reminds him of home. I literally said this other day, like home isn't always a place, it can also be a person and the way that is a continuous thing between Nick and Charlie being each other's home really does showcase how much they have changed since volume one to now with volume six, like how they were so nervous with each other and how more confidence and comfortable they are with each other, it really shows off a lot. And I'll wrap this up by saying this, I totally agreed with what you said on your instagram post for the 10 year anniversary, I mean it was kind of hard to see how you were going to start Heartstopper off because from the little parts of Nick and Charlie in Solitaire to then doing This Winter and then Nick and Charlie novella, it was more insider but now because the world has changed with Heartstopper, it's kind of tricky to balance the little parts of the novella into volume six sure it was easy for This Winter for in volume four but now oh boy, but I cannot wait to see. But also thank you for making this volume the last volume more focusing on Nick's storyline like we did with Charlie's through all the volumes up to number four

BEL

Love these - and I just love the way Charlie now steals all of his bf’s wardrobe! Shame it can be the other way around - would love to see Nick in some ripped jeans and cardigans!! Thank you Alice - it is such a privilege to get these real insights into your creative process. As always, in total awe!

Elena

Such handsome boys! 🥰🥰 I really like the shirt combi on Nick and Charlies new jacket is great too (or maybe it's Nicks jacket actually?)! 🥰 It's so nice to see some insights of Alices drawing process! 😊 Can't wait to see what happens next in this scene! 😊

Ellen🌈✨

love this insight, seeing these sketches really points out their style evolution to me - Charlie to rock star and Nick to bisexual 😂

ella

charlie in nick’s jacket😫 (I think)

Jay

Charlie wearing Nick’s jacket. 👀

Ania W.

I just wonder what Sarah thinks about disappearing clothes 🤭

Elfi

Thank you for sharing this with us! It's always so amazing how much work you put in every little detail! Also the looks on their faces on the first page (I guess that's the outfit template) are really adorable! ❤️

Samantha

I love this reminder that even though the drawing looks so effortless and perfect to a reader it actually takes a lot of preparation and work to make what we see possible! Thanks, Alice!

Harriet Echo

Absolutely adore these insights into your process Alice. The boys look gorgeous and so true to their characters, perfect 👌🏻

Agosława

Oh, outfits! 💜 I noticed Charlie is wearing non-skinny jeans which is very unusual and refreshing ✨️ it feels like Charlie is gaining more and more confidence and is experiencing the fashion experiment era 🎉

ACxo

Omg I adore these

Jasmine M

Love this! Does anyone know if Alice has addressed whether the events from the novel will all be featuring in the comics or if there will be a time jump?

ucfnurse

Adorable sketches!!!☺️😊👏❣️💞🌺👕👖🧤🧣🎨🖼️🧑‍🎨☕️🧁✌️🕊️☮️

aliceoseman

The novella? Honestly, I'm still figuring it out. The events of the novella definitely won't be covered in great detail because I don't want to waste precious space in this volume telling a story in detail that I've already told before. But I imagine they will be at the very least referenced, or incorporated in some way.

Jay

I do also see the Novella as something different to the comics, its own thing perhaps. (which I also dearly love) but I also love that Alice has the creative freedom to do something else with the comics and have the focus be on something we haven’t see or read yet. I’m excited to see this last chapter of Nick and Charlie journey but also feeling so emotional about it ending 🥺

Robby C

Love it when you share the details behind your work!

Overlord

Monday’s are unfortunately never happy 😔

Beam Bugge

charlie being angy in that last panel makes me scared :(

reece

Ugh they’re so cool 😩

Evergreen

Puffy coat! Glad to see Charlie finally acknowledging that he doesn’t always HAVE to be cold. Maybe some of Nick’s hoodies will finally be safe! 😉 ETA: I just saw someone speculate that this is actually Nick’s jacket. That sounds much more accurate. 🤔😆

Elspeth Fougere

Love seeing these, its so nice to see some behind the scenes sketching alice, thank you for sharing some more about how you prepare and draft the characters, its really interesting! Ive never used digital sketching tools, its interesting to think about editing/rubbing out, and layers, colour etc.. i guess when you rub out on white its goes back to a clean page, whereas on paper you have an indentation and often residual colour. All food for thought

Lilly Mae

I’m obsessed😍 I’d totally wear both outfits IRL.

Katrina

I love these so much! It really gives us insight into the whole process. I love how Charlie has gone from stealing jumpers to coats 🤣 I’m so excited for this big sequence!

Paul D

I wonder if Alice can just do a short conversation - less "why are we like this", more "what were we thinking"?

Auna 🍉

We are so lucky to have insight to some of your artistic process, Alice! Love this, thank you ❤️

Theaterboi27

So interesting. I tried drawing and I'm absolutely Crap...LOL . Alice are you a natural artist or did you have to hone this incredible skill? I mean, you create these pages so quickly. And when you create your characters are they purely imagination or inspired by people in your life? (no need to answer if this is too prying). It's all so awe inspiring to someone who has no artistic ability. ❤️

BEL

I’m still wondering how you would draw the pillow-fort!! 🤣

Charlotte L

charlie in a snoopy coat 😭

Reem

It’s interesting learning about your process. Thanks for sharing!

Jenny Delcher

Really nice work! I find it fun to see Nick in baggy jeans, still looks relaxed but more trendy than his usual look. He looks like he has evolved too. ❤️

E

Small Charlie in the big puffy coat is very cute 😊

Merel

Let's not reduce the beauty and depth of the novella to one mention of sex. It's not even a scene, and I'm kind of weirded out by people being this obsessed with it. Is that one line really the most important thing you took away from the story?

Ania W.

You're 100% right, Merel. The beauty of the novella certainly does not lie in the pillow fort.

Mitch Corbett

It would be really cool to see Charlie grunge it up a bit for a concert or party. Eye liner, leather jacket. Alice, the world needs this ;)

Lainey

LOVE seeing more of the behind the scenes process to creating the comic pages!!!💗

Ariel

Love these so much! Charlie and Nick look so confident ❤️🥰

Claire

Love these details. Love Nick's face in the drawing where he is looking downwards. Thanks for sharing these with us.

Cole Morin

Love these!!!! You’re so talented and I love the insight for your thought process Alice!

Teri Lyn

Love the confident Charlie in his short sleeves! 👏🏻🫶🏻

✨Gabrielle Alexa✨

So cool!! Thanks for sharing with the lower tiers too I love seeing Heartstopper concept art! If you ever have more outfits designs or other concepts to share I think I can safely speak for everyone when I say we would love to see it!!🫶🫶🫶

Eileen

Love this sharing!!

Neenie

Poofy boy

Nika

Now that we know what Joe can look like in Agatha with his eyeliner, earrings, black nailpolish and eyebrow slit, we definitely need a bit of this aesthetic in the HS world!

Katy Boelter-Dimock

Really amazing to get to see your creative process in such detail!

Murgy

Now the question is, how swamped is Charlie in that coat?

Daya

✨🩷Love this!🩷✨

Kristyn

Thank you for this little treat today!

Andrew Gillies

I gotta say, I didn't see the twist where Charlie becomes a roadman coming...

Krystyn

Thank you so much Alice for sharing this, your sketches are so beautiful and it’s great to see how you plan the scenes 🥰 and I love their outfits, so many little details !💜

DioVosje

Charlie is like ‘what’ on the second page below 😂

Reem

I reckon people are naturally creative but get better with practice. I think I recall Alice mentioning that their way of drawing has really evolved.

Jasmine M

That makes sense, kinda what I thought! Thanks so much for your reply x

hayley

honestly charlie looks concerned in the last one to me.... idk where y'all see he's angry like my eye sight is great