I continue to be very, very happy that I have 3D rotation tools available in Illustrator. And, for that matter, that I can use Photoshop to place reference models. Drawing this comic is a pain sometimes, but it’d be even more of one if I had to do all these complicated 3D transformations myself. Or else it’d be a LOT LESS COMPLICATED.
(Realistically, if I didn’t have Illustrator, I might not be drawing this comic in the first place. I can’t even begin to imagine what it’d look like in pre-digital processes, for instance. I’m not sure it’d even exist if that’s all I had.)