Solstice Shine

Santa's Workshop

I've been wanting to do kind of a behind the scenes, bonus features, workshop type thingy, so here is a step-by-step progression of my latest comic, based on a recent experience.  You can read the entire story it came from on my Golden Thread Road blog in a post called "Yes Virginia."

Step 1:  I draw my Thumbnail Sketch where I figure out the dialogue and narration on the right hand side of the page. Then on the left I figure out the images that tell the story, and how the words and pictures fit together --

In this case the bottom half of the thumbnail comic felt a bit confined to sketch things out so I spilled onto a second sheet of paper...

Step 2:  I Pencil in rough drawings, based on the thumbnail sketches, onto a good sheet of paper --

  

 

Step 3:  I do initial Inking over the pencils --

Step 4:  Erase the pencil --

Step 5:  Then I Finish by thickening some lines, filling in appropriate spaces with black, and making necessary touch ups (including, in this case, the white lettering that begins this page) -- 

And...

~VOILA!!!

Greenwood Harbinger

Resistance Is Futile

A Reindeer Wades Through It

Must Be Faerieworlds

Let the Sunshine In

Six months ago at Winter Solstice --- THE Winter Solstice -- I was the Sun King for a ritual put on by Gaia's Temple, celebrating the much prophesied end of the Mayan Calendar and the dawn of a new era (insert song 'The Age of Aquarius' here).  It was also the night I met my dear friend Raea Sunshine. 

It hadn't occurred to me til I had dinner with her the other night that I hadn't actually posted this yet because, at the time I'd wanted to give her a copy first before making it public, and then never got around to publishing it here once she had her copy. 

So here it is, and I hope well worth the wait... :)