The type of pen is a personal choice, so use what feels comfortable to you. I like to use an old fashioned dip pen with a fine point Speedball pen nib, with Speedball black india ink. This stage really brings some permanence to the strip. For pencil, I just use whatever pencil I have handy, as long as it is a soft graphite that can erase easily in case I mess up.Īfter my drawings are penciled in, I proceed with putting pen to paper to trace my dialogue and drawings and commit them to a nice black ink outline. I like to use a bristol board paper for my finished strips, using Strathmore brand smooth surface bristol board, because I can often find it on sale at a very popular art and craft supply store for a reasonable sale price.
Using a straight edge and to draw square borders, I follow up with penciling in my dialogue, then following up drawing my characters in the space left over. This storyboard step does not become my final strip, but serves rather as a working version where I can work out dialogue and rough ideas of character placement for reference when prepping the final strip.īased upon the dialogue and layout I developed in my storyboard step, I take a fresh piece of drawing paper and carefully pencil in what will become the finished strip. I draw a rough layout of four panels and work out some rough dialogue between my characters within that rough storyboard. Something as simple as a dollar store coil bound notebook and a pen or pencil can work.
I maintain a notebook where I date and write down my ideas. As I have found, ideas can be very fleeting, and some really funny ideas I thought I would remember even five minutes later get lost. I strongly recommend writing them down as soon as you can. My first step is to write down ideas for strips as I think of them.
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