Your Original Sketch vs Your Released Versions

[AnnaLandin]

Oooh, this is a fun topic!

My Grassblades-pages usually go through 2 stages of sketching before I start colouring, and they look like this:

1.) Digital roughs for layout.

2.) The clean sketch, which I ink on.

3.) Finished product

[TristanJensen]

Original sketch

Released version

Because of the insane lack of detail my 'sketches" often become the finished work.
Its a real time saver

[Doubtcent]

I usually start with a thumbnail for an idea (usually in a notebook or a scrap of paper) for layout. Then I fix the layout with the digital sketch. From there I look up references and stuff, ink it, then color it:

[Tanisha]

I usually sketch the chapter on one go and some pages have more detail than others ;b

The sketch

Then I ink and add minor effects before I forget to. I also start decorate the panels where necessary.

Then I place all the tones and balloons until it's done while only exporting the print guide area of it~^^b

[mariusthered]

this is where talesfromswipecity. stands out from the crowd.
I don't sketch because i have a 3d version of every "Actor" in my cast.

once I have a script I work all the frames out just like on a movie set using Poser ten, then lay out the page. after that it's ink and color and shade where needed before balloons.

[shazzbaa]

I don't have any of my thumbnails for recent pages on my computer at the moment, but my roughs are still pretty rough!

[joannekwan]

The very first layer I draw...

To the last layer I draw.
XDD

[DoodleDamage]

For Llucid

Thumbnails vs final product (✌ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞

[VeloursRose]

Oh, I just did something like this on twitter with my most recent page to track my progress on getting it done haha.
Here's the initial thumbed page:

Inked:

FINAL FORM:

It's always fun to see everyone's process when it comes to drawing comics!!! Good work everyone.=u=9

[phen]

Ah, such variety in here! And everyone polishes up so tight, this is awesome! Here's a little rough process of a few of my pages from pencil to ink to digital paint.

I'm very, very messy and tend to use photoshop as a crutch for clean-up.

[mappypaint]

For U-Speed the original is a pencil sketch. After traditional inking and then digital coloring we end up with the release page.

[TheSignPainter]

my initial sketches are always really sloppy looking.
Here's the final piece of my comic, "Let's Go on an Adventure!"

[Dorian_Grey]

I must admit seeing these are fascinating~ I love it.

Mine are a sloppy, horrid mess of sketchy sketch line initially. (Not including my thumbnails sketched on paper first.)

But then Ta-DAH!! Latest page of Unravel!

[sbattale]

My stuff is so sketchy.

[agentfink]

Some changes in between roughs to final layout, but I try to get my roughs as tight as possible.

Most of the time, I pencil before I ink... roughs, pencils inks below.

[jacintawibowo]

Ooh cool topic! Here's Tales from the Well!

I've kind of changed by thumbnail-drawing style since then, but posting those would be spoilery XD I use this part to plan out speechbubble placement and color too =)

Tah-daaah XD

[Maffi]

This is from my comic Descending from space
keep in mind to view this you migth need to click on the image because its a gif file.

In my actual page i changed the point of view for the first part but i liked the concept for the second part so i kept it and enhanced it ^^

[greyshire]

Yeah I def fall in the really-rough-sketches-figure-it-out-later camp. This one from my last page is way more detail than I usually put into a sketch, and I've abandoned the red pencil method since then:

[greyshire]

Hehe I love the little expressions in your rough sketches

[Zpreader]

Depends on how detailed the sketch is. When working physically I may go as far as inking before scanning, coloring, and lettering. When using my computer, on the other hand, I just go with a simple sketch before moving in deeper.

The edit ended up being a smaller file, even though it was a bigger size.