I admit I'm pretty slow when I'm drawing comic interiors. Here's the process I do....

First process- Sketch little thumbs of the story. They're tiny little squares with little sketches in them side by side. Sketchy, and rough. 2-3 hours.

Second process- Sketch on a regular printing paper. Mind you, I had to draw little bit of details here and there.  One and a half hour to 2 hours.

Third process- Draw on bristol with light pencil for correct sizing and composition. About 1 and a half hour.

Fourth process- Draw over light pencil on Bristol with a darker pencil, and it usually takes me 4-6 hours, sometimes even 8 hours.

Fifth process- Draw on Cintiq 12wx. I had to digitally ink each detail of my work, to make it clean from the top to the bottom. About 4-6 hours. Nope, I can't even cheat. It's IMPOSSIBLE!!! I had to draw each lines simply with black paint. Not even a filter can make my penciled page look sharp. So, digitally, I'm still inking like I do on paper.


Finished..... So, to draw only ONE page, it usually take me about a good 18 hours!!!

I've done 8 pages PLUS a cover so far.... Imagine how long that took me.




~Brandon Nielsen~