“I Never Forgot!” Issue 1, Page 7-8
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Much like the first spread, this was meant to be just a single picture laying in a sea of black with the words “I used to have friends” in the middle of the opposing page. After I had the first Issue’s linework done, it was back to the drawing board because those spreads weren’t working well enough. Changing up those pages were the biggest improvement and helped to keep the first issue from dragging and getting into building this world I was trying to create! 
You can see the spikes he was sharpening in the second spread because the hammock scene was meant to be on the other side from that page. Sometimes you just need to take a moment and relax…even if it IS the zombie apocalypse! I also know that with the last spread I was going to describe how this story evolved but I think I’ll save those for one of the next few spreads because it has to deal with the design of the characters and how they evolved from the very first sketch. I was starting to work with better panel layouts and getting things to line up just enough to help the eyes flow from one panel to the next. I was also trying to show that the picture was way in the past considering how short his mohawk is too.
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