(4) and did everything on paper with pencil. I adopted the use of a non-photo blue pencil very early in my “career”, it just made clean up and inking so much easier..

(3) Also I’ve had a lot of people ask me why I still rough things in, in blue even though I’m working digitally these days, simplest answer.. that’s really just a hold over from when I was first starting out.

(2)I find it helps prevent me from going off “model” over the course of illustrating the character across several pages (or 100+ panels depending on the story and book length).