The Tara Togs Graphic Novel will be coming to Kickstarter in March. Over the next few weeks we will be showing you the process of creating the character and the book by the creator Stref.
Feb 2021
Three stages are shown here: rough pencils (sometimes with rough inks), finished pencils (figures only), and finished inks.
Feb 2021
The sun is beaming into the Tara Togs studio; a good day to lay down some blue pencils. These will be tightened up, before being inked.
Mar 2021
Inks (and tipex!) are applied. Characters first, then backgrounds.
March 2021
Here’s the first look at a couple of finished panels featuring our heroine! Taken from her first adventure: The Silence Of Unicorns. Included is a colour test also.
Mar 2021
Research is important! An altered panel, that originally had a stone wall, not found in the area the action is set, now replaced by an appropriate wooden fence. The same panel, with colours added by Jeemutbahan Roy.
March 2021
Deconstructing Tara. A few finished panels, and a reverse chronology of the stages of making them. Chronologically we have: rough sketches, blue pencil drawings, background tracings (as the tree is based on a real tree I photographed), inked figures, and finally inked backgrounds. A change to the layout of the first panel can be seen, from pencils to inks.
You can read a 9 page Tara Togs in ‘Hot Dog’ story now in the ComicScene Yearbook 2024 which you can get at the Kickstarter until 18th January here or on the Shift Store here
ComicScene magazine 
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