Sequential sketching

Filling a sketchbook part 1

Dear Reader,

Filling a sketchbook is a wonderful tool to grow as an artist, but it can be a very daunting and hard thing to do, since one needs ideas to fill it with. I often talk about finding ideas since it is an essential part of the way I work and important to find things I find worth wile to sketch. Drawing just for the sake of drawing often doesn’t work well and is tedious if you can’t find joy in the motif.

I have always loved comics and animation but I have decided that producing either in my spare time is not quite my thing. Well with comics I still have the hope that I’ll find a quick style of my own suitable for comics that I like and then I can try making own comics… but till then I deem comics as TOO MUCH WORK! ← My attempts at comics have always turned out too detailed for me to manage as a side project.

But that brings me to sequential sketching. I don’t know if you have ever considered it. This is a form of comic that doesn’t need a huge story, where maybe you draw a scene you like and then you think “ What happens next from here?”

I recently started this page not knowing what to draw I just opened Pinterest and saw a hollow tree… that produced the first panel. From there I wanted to show the attitude of the character coming out of the tree and then I thought “hmm it probably is cold”… The last sketch where a different character wonders where all the mist is coming from needs to be completed.

With this comic at the bottom I also started not knowing where this would go. I wanted just draw some random landscape panels and then I added a bird in the tree and made the panel longer and added the character hiding… And so this little story unfurled…

On the next page I had fun adding the twist of the character and the crow actually being friends.

Here I had an idea of the sequence of my witch blowing the small person on the leaf along in bed and had to quickly sketch it the next morning.

I personally get over whelmed when projects get too long but I really enjoy these sequences since they don’t have to BE anything just me having fun with a little light aesthetic storytelling.

Is this something you do or consider doing? I really invite you to keep this question in mind ”What happens next?”

What I’m currently working on:

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