I worked on plotting another take on a science fiction tale called Planet Z! today (between mangling installing a wireless access point, driving to the closed recycling center – duh oh! — and… hey where did the day go?!?).  I’m attaching the first (I think) drawing I did for this idea earlier in the decade.  I still like the general look of this although I realize I have a lot of improvements to make on EVERYTHING.

After plotting today, I spent time sketching the little guys today (they are one of several “native species” to Planet Z) and trying to fill in some more details on how they work visually.  I plan on sketching all of the characters in Chapter one of my plot MANY MANY times before moving on to sketching out thumbnails for it.

What can I say?  One thing writing and reading a LOT of comics over the last eight years has done is up my humility quotient.  I know I am going to need to work hard to get better at this.