Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

billiethkid asked: HEY THERE! Just curious, what brush did you use to create that pencilly effect on the Clock and Notebook story you did?

Well you see it’s a secret technique passed down through my family for generations; I used… a pencil.

Actually, fun fact for you new chaps, I draw practically everything in pencil first, even my storyboards! I just draw faster and better that way, and the studio I work for has no preference on the techniques we use to make the boards, so long as we make it funny and make it fast! Heck, I do most of my work lying on the floor like gigantic five year old. I line the TPoH comic and other select pieces in photoshop, but 99.9% of the time it’s based off a scanned image from my sketchbook!

Guess it makes the drawings of Notepad a little more authentic, huh?

whenever I open a program to start working on the boards for the day I always give my laptop this little double-pat like

okay buddy time to hit this shit in the funny zone

we got this pal

Whoa there friend did I hear you say your shouldn’t try? More to the point, that you shouldn’t try because you aren’t so good at digital? Did I?

Well now I’m not saying you shouldn’t try to practice and improve at digital drawing because yes, that comes into it and it’s a jolly good thing to learn about in the long run anyway, but have a whip round look at my ‘professional’ work environment right here up in the spare bedroom-

Observe the high quality very expensive recycled print paper and pencil I use for the base sketches, very high end and completely one hundred percent electronic free. Tailor made leaning construct formed out of my own sketchbook and a cushion, classy as hell…

That doohickey over there (I believe it’s called a cintiq and the program I use for boarding is called SketchbookPro) well that sure is electronic as heck but gosh digity it’s ever so like drawing on a piece of paper too and my job helped me pay for it because it means I sit up properly and it doesn’t hurt my hand as much as a regular tablet and you know that really is very nice and professional of the people who hire me to consider my health and such like most of these places do because that means you can draw better and for longer so they get more out of you for their money’s worth I mean because they love you.

-and those over there are my canvases because heck like I’ve given up splattering things with paint after learning to do things on a bleepity blooper doodad magee.

So yes, clearly because storyboarding these days does include a lot of digital work it is absolutely nothing like traditional work and certainly doesn’t feed off it directly and you should definitely give up your dreams and not climb that mountain to punch that rainbow in the face and make the world laugh and cry because it is your dream to do that until you die and nothing in this known universe is more wonderful and brave and kind as trying to do that despite how impossible it can appear to be on the surface oh whoops pardon me was that my scarcasm gland kicking into gear it’s a condition I’m British.

DRAW, DRAW AND KEEP DRAWING. THAT IS HOW I ENDED UP IN THE SORT OF JOB I DID, I LITERALLY DO NOT KNOW WHAT ELSE TO TELL YOU. Okay now go make magic xxx love you

Supervisor pls

This isn’t

how am I supposed to

what are you

no

The most valuable and repeated bit instruction my supervisor has given me:

“Make it look good.”