You know those incredible whole-page panels, with tons of characters and buildings and props, layers upon layers of colour and shading, clearly worth days of work?
Well, I'm not talking about those ones.
I'm talking about those crappy little ones that are just one bust shot and should be, by all reasonable principles, dead simple. Easy-peasy. Take no longer than half an hour. You've drawn hundreds of busts by now, the same character over and over. So WHY are you suffering??!??
Sometimes there are just those random panels that become painful/ly slow for no reason. I want to see which panels/pages of your comic you really struggled with - how long did it take? What was the main issue? Are you happy with it now, or did you just decide to take whatever you could in order to move on?
For me, I've had quite a few unexpected struggles with deadpan. One of these was the final panel here.
Note that there was a huge lengthy environment panel at the top (which I expected to cry over, but didn't) and lots of motion in the middle (again, expected it to hurt) but the one that tripped me out was a simple stationary waist-up...
I'll never understand the phenomenon! Wanna share?