Last up are iterations. From the time I started developing the comic to the time I was ready to put it out into the world, character designs changed as well as my overall drawing style. In the examples below you can see how the same idea was drawn multiple times as my process evolved.

When I started the strip, the boxes were inked with a brush, which was chunkier and not as crisp as I was looking for.

When I started the strip, the boxes were inked with a brush, which was chunkier and not as crisp as I was looking for.

While the writing and staging of the panels didn’t change, the drawing style had evolved enough that I felt like the strip would benefit from being redone.

While the writing and staging of the panels didn’t change, the drawing style had evolved enough that I felt like the strip would benefit from being redone.

Like the earlier example, this strip was chunkier in the line quality than I wanted.

Like the earlier example, this strip was chunkier in the line quality than I wanted.

Here I began to crisp up the line work, but also chose to change the inking and staging of the third panel for emphasis.

Here I began to crisp up the line work, but also chose to change the inking and staging of the third panel for emphasis.

For this iteration, the biggest change was to how I was depicting the action in the last two panels. I decided I wanted to show the impact of the son yelling with the mom character losing the laundry in the same panel, and then redraw the results in…

For this iteration, the biggest change was to how I was depicting the action in the last two panels. I decided I wanted to show the impact of the son yelling with the mom character losing the laundry in the same panel, and then redraw the results in the final panel.