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It was originally my intention to have these sketchbook strips be completely pure. That is, I wanted the finished strips to be done completely by hand and look exactly as they did on paper in the book. Well, the clip art in the last panel here made me throw all those good intentions right out the window. But you know what, I don’t care. I’m the one who makes the rules around here, and I’m gonna do whatever I feel like doing. So there!
This is probably the most freewheeling strip I’ve done so far in my sketchbook. Yay, I’m actually getting better at it!
When it comes to these sketchbook strips, I feel like I’ve found a nice groove with our pal Jerry. One thing that’s always been advantageous about Jerry is that his diminutive stature makes him easy to squeeze into virtually any situation within any strip, and this particularly holds true for the sketchbook. Therefore, from here on out, I think I’m gonna just go with it and deem these Jerry-centric sketchbook strips “Jerry’s Journal.”
These sketchbook pages were supposed to be all free and breezy, but I’ll be darned if this strip didn’t take a heck of a lot of planning. Oh well. I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out, and I’m sure they’ll become more off-the-cuff as I go.
In what feels like forever ago, I bought a sketchbook. I’ve never been a “sketchbook guy.” I tend to doodle and plan out “the Jam” mostly in whatever random line-ruled notebook that is within reach. The plan with the sketchbook was to try to get in the habit of creating comics on the fly, without having to rely on the same rigid setup and parameters I’ve been mired in since I initially learned how to do it way back when. As opposed to sitting at my table crafting out each strip steady-handedly on a sheet of bristol board, the sketchbook offers the opportunity to draw any type of comic, anywhere and at any time. I want to be more versatile, y’all.
I don’t intend to quit doing the traditional strips on bristol board. I’ve only just completed the first page in my sketchbook, so there is no telling how often I’ll be getting back to it or what kind of groove I’ll ultimately find myself in. The point I’m trying to make with all this is that if you see a new strip that doesn’t look like all the others you’ve seen so far, now you’ll know why.
