The Greywater Lodge, Part 1 - Original Version
Added 2024-07-25 08:57:01 +0000 UTCOne of my longstanding practices (problems?) with my comics work is that I very often look at what I’ve already “finished” and want to redraw it. This dates back to my earliest projects and is a thing that I still do. I am torn between whether I should just keep moving forward like a shark or if I should refine the work to a standard that I’m happy with. It definitely slows me down, but I do find that I am a lot more happy with the revisions.
I originally drew these pages a couple of years ago but I never finished the story, I think in part because I wasn’t satisfied with the drawings. I know how the story ends, in fact there’s only a few more pages after the point at which I stopped (the entire story should be about 22-25 pages). I was trying to draw in a very loose scribbly style after some art friends and colleagues gave me a very positive response to my previous short, Still Life. But I think they were too loose, I was drawing without any real planning or construction. These pages represent more of a direct unfiltered imagination-to-page process. Looking back on them I was happy with the conpositions and storytelling but I felt that the rendering was a bit too sloppy and let the story down. I decided to treat them as more of a foundation for a newer version that feels a little more up to standard, while (hopefully) not sacrificing the loose energy of the original.
Kubrick and Fincher do a hundred takes of a scene, right?
