Do you do Concept art or any other preparations before doing your chapters?

[llobucervallince]

I do some sketches for different scenarios, objects and characters, here are some of them.

I'm just curious if anyone else does this

[nathanKmcwilliams]

I do some very basic conceptual prep before I start a page.
Generally that consists of me looking at a lot of 3D models, stock photos, and other artists doing a similar idea to what I want do. So gathering plenty of reference is highly important to my workflow.

I'll also do some sketches as well as needed to figure out my ideas, how to implement the reference while making it my own.

[BoomerZ]

The only prep I do is a rough storyboard on the page. I don't do separate thumbs/storyboards as with modern art programs there is no reason to. As far as if I need a "car" for a scene. I just bring up a car on my second screen and draw from looking at it. I don't use any 3d assets. Note that my comics is completely scripted with dialogue, so I'm not winging anything. Everything is planned out.

[abigaillmartin]

I do rough pen sketches of the pages and usually I draw the concept as a doodle also with pen. Between my pages I usually do concept sketches before I move on.

[GothickangelStudios]

Yes I do. I do concept sketches in a book and use references from my own real book library in my studio or online. Then start making mock up storyboards in Clip Studio Paint and concept art of characters there too.
I love doing armor and weapon designs. Including clothing. Takes me a longer while to pull off a technical environment drawing to add to it. Perspective and angles and I love detail.

Please ignore the link in the old logo. I changed my studio domain name this past spring. These images are old from 2015 and 2017.

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[moontokkym]

I do concept art of characters just because it speeds up the process a whole lot when I'm not inventing stuff of the cuff, so even minor recurring characters have some rough concept art sheets. Most of them look something like this:

With a couple vague place concepts that I built in blender once I had the vibe;

Then there's the writing process which gets at least 3 passes (scene overview, theatre-style scene writing and finally written storyboard where the script is cut into pages and panels) and then my drawn storyboard. I sort of need that amount of prep work so that I can go fast once I'm actually doing the pages.