Thumbnails: pages 168-185 (minus a few)

This is how I was thumbnailing for most of Volume 2. It looks nice, but it's kind of a waste of time for me, so I gave up on it.

These were drawn straight to pen. The dark grey marker indicates black fills, and the light grey marker supposedly indicates screentone. I mean, it works, I guess, but it's kind of like you could spend more time on these than the actual pages. They're more show-offy than practical, I think. (So I'm showing them off! Go me!)

Note how I skipped pages I wasn't sure about, figuring I'd come back to them later. I know 179-183 (mostly blank on this page) were the very last things I drew for this book.

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Thumbnails: pages 84-87

Thumbnails to one of my favourite scenes.

When I penciled the scene, I ended up drawing Ramona on the recliner in a few panels, moving back and forth fluidly, depending on how deep in the doghouse Scott is at the moment. I think that little change made the scene way better. It's just a thing that happened on the fly, without a lot of thought. The characters' personalities come out at different stages sometimes.

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Breakup scene, In-depth (pages 48-51)

In the script, they broke up and then it went right to the next scene. On the script I seem to have drawn a line below the scene and scribbled "INSERT 2 PAGES of SCOTT on the bus alone".

The first run-through of thumbnails is pretty shakey as to what I wanted to get out of the scene. I left it alone for a while -- my files say page 47 was finished January 7th 2005, and page 48 was finished February 9th -- and I guess I came up with a visual idea that I think works pretty well.

Unfortunately, I don't have much more insight than that! They... Scott's on black and Knives is on white and they get smaller and smaller? And then there's this weird pseudo-symmetrical scene of him riding the bus (two of my favourite pages in the book, I think).

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Vol. 2 Trivia

• I finished 35 pages in my last 5 days of work. >:O
  
• The last pages I did were the skateboarding spread and aftermath (pages 122-127) and the burrito restaurant flashback leading up to (and including) the Lee's Palace spread (pages 178-183). The spreads got left til last because I was dreading them, and yet they both turned out really well. The restaurant thing got left because I wasn't quite sure what I was doing with it.
  
• I jumped ahead and did the ending (the last 20 pages or so) about halfway through the book. I think my reasoning was that I wanted to draw that stuff while still feeling fresh, and not have to rush through it (probably because the ending of Volume 1 was incredibly rushed).