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Stunning. Great composition. Do you put a lot of thought into the organizing/structuring of components within a composition like this, or after so many years of doing it does it just flesh itself out naturally without much forethought? I would think for a piece as complex as this, it would take as just as long for myself to lay it out as it would to render it. Maybe confidence come into play there too. Confidence that comes from experience, no?

Hello Brian

Glad you like it.

I’d say that 95% of my compositions are done right on the spot during the layout process. No thumbnails. Particularly with something that needs to feel organic. I find it best to just let the drawing dictate to me what it needs as I go along. The layout for this took me about 3 hours of roughing it out in non photo blue pencil on the original art board and then I went straight inks.

In this instance, did you have a very succinct image in your head when you started, or is it sort of a stream-of-consciousness process? Was there much art direction?

stunning work, JH, thank you very much. I already started selling the crack for september.

Hello again Brian
For most part, all I really knew is that I wanted to use that border design at the start. The rest just sort of filled itself in. It was best to do it this way because I knew certain characters needed to be present without fail. When working on it I thought about having the 5 Swell Guys in there somewhere but there just wasn’t enough room for them, all of the various Promethea incarnations, and the Weeping Gorilla joke. So I opted for the joke as a priority just because it adds some levity and thought to it all.

Hello there cmeyriat
Thank you and you can blame it all on me if you get busted

Jim, I posted some love for you and Absolute Promethea over on my blog: http://ichliebecomis.blogspot.com today!

The above link should be: http://ichliebecomics.blogspot.com

thanks Ralph
You are too kind.

you are a great artist…

I find it best to just let the drawing dictate to me what it needs as I go along. The layout for this took me about 3 hours of roughing it out in non photo blue pencil on the original art board and then I went straight inks.

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Thanks, I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks a lot for the informative and interesting publication first of all.

You’re welcome. I’m glad you liked it.