Arlecchinade Begins (Patreon)

Today I completed the first page of my one shot manga.  I don't plan on posting all the pages one at a time like this, but I did want to document a bit about the process behind this.

For those of you who have followed me for a while now, you know that I made almost all of my comics by hand.  The last couple of Checkmate chapters were done digitally, as well as Zoe Wants to XXXX! and I can't say I was super fond of my attempts there.  With Checkmate,, I scanned in my rough draft and used it as my "sketch" jumping straight to line art.  It was a very cheap method but considering how burnt out I was, I just wanted to be done.  Knowing that that resulted in sub par pages however, I took a different approach with Zoe.  That time, I made 100% finished and polished hand drawn sketches, scanned them in, and lined them digitally.  And I still didn't like the result.  I was honestly ready to write off doing digital comics as impossible for me.  But, since I didn't have the materials on hand to actually do Arlecchinade traditionally my only choice was to do it digitally.  And I decided that this time I would commit fully.  I scanned in my rough draft, and completely resketched it digitally.  And then lined my digital sketch.  And the result is as you see above.  Now there's a bit more to it than that, like the brush I used for line art and all that.  But at the end of the day all that really matters, is that I think I finally made a page that rivals the ones I can do by hand.  And I'm really happy to finally achieve that.  But anyways that's enough rambling.  Look forward to seeing more pages!  The plan is to have this whole one shot ready to submit to Viz before the end of the year.  So I'll be hard at work every day!  Wish me luck!