original idea sketch
As I have said before I carry around a sketch book which I use to put most of my ideas. this is the barn cartoon for over exposure, I got the idea when my family and I were traveling around upstate NY and I have always loved the look of old barns. anywho, this is the scanned idea that I use to draw the next step which I will call the first draft. where I use this as a template for my sketchie version of the strip into the strip box, for placement and sizing.
over exposure
in this version I have fixed the position of Betty the cow and the barn. I also use this version to look at the dialog and rewrite if needed. and started to think about what colors I am going to use and what I will use as the deep background. which here I started to think about using one of my actual pictures for the skies, because as a real photo geek I have a vast archive of photos with this in mind.