Pencils down
06-OC-04
Done! Well, not done done but done drawing. Yesterday I put down the pencil on Minushi for the last time. There’s still a few months of animation left to do but the last of the 8 1/2 X 11 paper drawings has been completed. The pile of 1,700 sheets stands at 4 and a half inches tall, usually with two “shots” to a page.
It’s pretty exciting to be hitting this kind of milestone.
This image here is a scan of a very special blank 8 1/2 X 11 sheet of paper. See I work on a drawing table which has a smooth but hard surface and I like to have just a little bit of cushioning beneath my pencil to get the line weight I’m looking for. To achieve this I drew Minushi with a single sheet of paper as a backing beneath each page. This image is a scan of that piece of paper. Three years old, and the impressions of every image drawn for Minushi imbedded in it, not mention a fair bit of my blood, sweat and tears. I think I’ll buy a frame for it.