Working through water damage, a set on Flickr.
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On Thursday, June 30 of 2013, I finally spilled water on a page of comics that I was working on. Actually, by virtue of the project I was working on, I spilled the water onto two pages of comic, one drawn on each side of the piece of paper! This, needless to say, was a bit of a disaster.
You see, I’m trying to create a bound book of all the original artwork for the comic. So, to make it read like a book, I have to draw the pages consecutively on both side of each leaf of paper. Later, I will punch holes down the side of the body of work and bind them all together in a hand bound hard back book. And then I’ll try to keep it safe from fire, water, book worms, and a variety of other damaging things, until I can give it to a worthy individual who’ll appreciate it, such as my nephew, or niece, or maybe even my own child if I have one. Or the Blaine book museum.
Problem is, I’ve already screwed up on keeping two of the pages safe, now! One was finished, and the other barely started. Do I redraw both pages entirely, or try to save the paper and the artwork? Which do you think is less work?
Working through water damage originally appeared on Drawing Contraption on 2013/07/02.