Hmm. Not sure if I’m gonna have a page today; I got distracted yesterday drawing an obscene Adventure Time fan-comic. And today my brain seems to want to work on writing out story – I’ve got two successive infodumps of backstory coming up now, with Elf-Barrett narrating his version of what just happened in parallel.

I thought I’d share a bit of the process here with a quick grab of the current page, sprawling way way out into the next 2-3 pages. Sometimes I do this with little thumbnails of the page and particular panels, as seen in the bottom photo of a sketchbook; other times it’s the dialogue that leads, like on the right. I’ve actually got like three pages of dense writing in my sketchbook that that the blue conversation is being distilled down from, including timelines of two variant versions of the story R1 ends up telling!

I’m fairly confident I’ll find a way to make this interesting and exciting to look at. Probably Dragon Rita’s story will drift out of focus while some wild physical thing happens to Skylands Rita… or maybe Normal Rita will perform the dance number she’s been mentioning wanting to do! Maybe both.