Of course, what is shown here are my "raw" board pages. There are often changes , done later at Warners, before the board is finalized and put into production. So what you see here probably doesn't quite match what you'll see in the finished episode...

I like to do very clean boards, and to put in the backgrounds clearly. The theory is that this will make the latter stages of production go more quickly. Sometimes board artists make the backgrounds very ambiguous/vague. It causes headaches, later, for the layout artists, because they find it hard to figure out exactly where the figures are
supposed to be in any given "set" or "stage".

Looking back on these, I think I should've made them less "clean", but I always had trouble forcing myself to do that. Personal quirk-I want to have it look "finished". Also I love comics and that probably shows too.

My method for most of these was to lightly draw "structures" and "masses" only for the figures and backgrounds, to determine staging, pose, etc., using light blue pencil. After that I drew the final cleanup directly and spontaneously in marker (Fountain Pentels and Pilot DR). Then I'd go back in with a chunky black marker and spot the blacks. I don't like to nail down the drawing too much in the pencil stage---it reduces the fun and effectiveness of the inking stage, which then becomes more like tracing. I like the surprise of being more adventurous, going directly in with only a light preliminary, and trying to have the drawing survive..."