Each episode of "The Satan Complex" (TSC) is first drafted using the video medium whereby the script is then improvised and transferred into pictorial panels gauging the videos dramatics and intensity into the drawing.Tools I use to get started in making a comic strip: Bristol board paper (purchased as a pad and also comes in large single sheets at any art store; although bristol board paper can be substituted for 11" x 17" card stock or even bond paper [and save you several dollars] - try to keep a couple of sheets of bristol board in your storage just to note the difference. Both alternate paper-types will glide through any standard home printer). The pencil I sketch with is any within the range of 2H and 2B lead - 2B being the No. 2 pencil that you can pick up at any stationary provider. The harder leads leave lighter lines and are considered appropriate for later inking. I sometimes will use a non-repro blue pencil for sketching but sometimes the lines are difficult to see when you get down to doing the ink work.
India Ink by Speedball is a nice velvety black ink with excellent reproducing
qualities on paper. A bit of amonia allows to thin the ink for those elicit occasions. My ink brush is a Windsor Newton Series 7 Sable #2 (thin) and #3 (thicker). I sometimes will use an airbrush if I have time for the clutter.
Telling a story with pictures takes little to no effort for anyone. Your resulting final product ends up with a definitive atmosphere, somewhat abstract, and resemblingly a deliberation of the creators features. Building a comic strip combining drawings with a script is very much the same way. TSC takes this a step further by introducing video into the "recipe" of creating comics where even
video stills may be translated into a pictorial panel for TSC comic strip.
