One scene in Sun Sprain follows Beat over a few years of being alone, and to help give some exposition I decided to share a few journal entries they would've made over the months of vagabonding around the pacific northwest. I've always been all for doing my comics 100% on my own, but I thought I'd branch out and take on the assistance of my soulful & skilled friend Frances Tsounis (@Vemrill on most socials). Frances is an astounding force of nature when it comes to looser, sketchier, energized pieces that I just can't do. I thought their wild and free art style would be a perfect fit for Beat's penmanship.
Frances and I worked together over a little under 2 weeks to make 13 or so pages of journals, doodles, etc. I wrote the entries and Frances transcribed & scanned them. I provided a loose reference for how Beat would draw himself (top picture). For most of the entries I described margin doodles that I thinked Beat would make, sometimes including basic sketches to get the point across (pictured above). I'm so thrilled with the outcome and I can't wait to use these remarkable scans for the next batch of pages!!!
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