One of the first things I tried when drawing Garanos the first time was doing quick sketches of the general page layout, then redrawing the page on a fresh sheet and taking more time to define the page elements. Thus, there are black areas blocked in with marker, like the tree roots behind Garanos on page 2. On page 3, however, I abandoned both the pencil-shading and the redrawing tactics, and decided I should just draw the damn thing before I started overanalyzing every pencil stroke.

Once again, there's another in-Photoshop edit of Garanos looking at the wall surrounding Kaigan.

I started with the intention that Garanos would be like a traditional manga. To me, this meant lineart and black and white shading. The lineart was all done digitally with a mouse, which has both benefits and disadvantages to doing it on paper with actual ink, or in Photoshop with my tablet. Coloring with black and white was certainly an interesting experiment, and it was easy to pump through the few pages I did get done, but when I later did three color spreads of these pages, I realized I was really copping out with the artwork. Color has loads advantages, and my characters themselves are usually very powerfully aligned or associated with a certain color, which is completely lost with black and white.