ABSTRACT
MS: Let’s talk about your process when you’re drawing boards. Do you start with regular pencil? Do you blue-line or lightbox?
LG: I guess when I first started working down here when I got out of college, back in 1989, I started using pencils, and I would draw it or trace it and lightbox it on Letraset paper with markers. But when I moved out here a few years ago, there was a big break when I wasn’t actually doing storyboarding. I was working as an advertising art director. So when I moved here it was kind of like a fresh start and back to storyboard illustrating. All the people here blueline, and for me to sort of seamlessly slip into the process, I just did whatever they were doing. It seemed like everyone I was working with blue-lined for their rough work and then traced over on tracing paper in black with black Prismacolor. And then they would photocopy it and add color with markers, but that’s totally old-world technology now. Now almost everybody I work with exclusively works digitally for the color portion.
