A Shopper's Delight

1. A Shopper's Delight                  

  

   

2. Preliminary sketch for A Shopper's Delight #1

3. Preliminary sketch for A Shopper's Delight #2

4. Preliminary sketch for A Shopper's Delight #3

5. Preliminary sketch for A Shopper's Delight #4

6. Preliminary sketch for A Shopper's Delight #5

7. Oak Roots From Above                  

1. At this point, I had learned to accept that I needed to practice more patience and discipline, to achieve the satisfaction of creating and completing my comic strip ideas. I was making peace with the decision, but I was not happy about it. I endured a depressive episode, during the creation of  "A Shopper's Delight". It was a bittersweet process. But, I was motivated, by the amount of experience, being discovered and developed. I realized how much detail, and technique, had to be utilized, to create the type of comics, I wanted to see. It requires, not only everything that I seem to know as a draftsman, but even more! I already had some Hot Wheels cars for references, but I began to buy more, whenever I shopped for groceries. I used them as models, for the parking lot scene, in this comic strip. It took a lot of time, to put this particular strip together, before  I decided it was enough, for me to consider it an accomplishment, that was complete. I was more prepared and confident, with what had to be done, for me to achieve work at this level, on the next comic strip attempt. But, I constantly complained to myself, during this period, because I was so unhappy about the amount of time and work, that this piece demanded. It is one of my favorite comic strips, so far, that I have created.