Page 7 of episode 4 of The Word Smith has made its way online. In this episode, stuff happens! More specifically, we see the reappearance of the cat back on
page 2 (included specifically to set up this joke) as well as hints of things to come for the remainder of the episode. I'm sure that sense of impending doom is just some grand paranoid delusion. ... Or is it...?
I thought, today, it might be interesting to show some thumbnails, which I've not done in some time.
These are the thumbnails for pages 4-7 and were drawn on the back of some paper I printed out a while ago (recycle!) As you can see, my thumbnails are pretty rough. I mostly use them for roughing out the basic composition though, as can be seen, the middle row on page five (where Nyrissi is introduced) was left blank as I didn't decide on how I wanted to handle her until I got to that part of the page. I also sometimes leave notes for myself on things that I want to modify for the final page (because I'm too lazy to actually redraw the thumbnails... or something.)
In the context of todays page, it might also be interesting to note that neither the script nor the thumbnails for page 2 mentioned or showed a cat anywhere. In the script, the first mention of the cat is on page 7 when The Pen mentions that she let it play for her. I only decided to put the cat into page 2 as I was drawing that page, partly because I wanted to put a little something extra in some of the panels, and partly because I decided that I didn't want the cat to just come out of nowhere on page 7.
And that's all for this week. Tune in next week when stuff happens! Or stuff.
Freak Out,
-TFitC
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