Since I started drawing Paradigm Shift back in 1998, the process I go through to create each new page has evolved considerably. Where I started out using a loose script, 10"x15" bristol, improvised pencils, Micron pen inks, and an old Mac clone, I'm now using panel-by-panel scripts, 11"x17" vellum, thumbnailed layouts, nibbed dip pens, and a suped-up G4.

Not that what I use particularly matters, because all of that is likely to change again in the future. The point is that over the past few years I've learned a tremendous amount about how to go about creating the best comics pages I possibly I can. It simply goes to show you what a little time and effort can do for you.

Okay, then. Here's the process I go through to create each page of PS, as of the last few pages of Part One.

Read on to find out how!