I really enjoy seeing process, so I thought I'd show a little. This is a progression from thumbnail to final for a page from my latest Rex Steele story for
Afterworks 2![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNpetXIE3p2K-_sL9_nL5W7IcYj0tGRw96_8X4O9igu5TZA3F_rJXQoe_e3ZXqnq2lIScLhXciJI-E0oaMelyRbagaszki818KmhW7vlClQ4iukPCgOhpO8hcib8rHPdTfFhDvK8GdIQM/s320/progression1.jpg)
Once I have a thumbnail I like, I'll enlarge it to letter size on a copy machine (or printer). Then I'll put it on a light box, pop another letter size sheet on top and tie down the drawings. I do this to maintain the proportions I worked out on the thumbnail.
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Once I have a rough I'll enlarge that slightly (maybe 10%), put it back on the light box to ink. I usually ink on a large sketchbook paper (I need something thin enough to see through it), and with a brush, brush pen, and a Micron or something similar for the fine lines. Then the finished inks are scanned as bitmap line art.
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Once all that is done, I'll spend too much time fretting over what colors to use, try alot of pallets that don't work, and eventually get to something I can live with.