Progress Report: the Impact Panel
This took longer than I wanted it to.
It’s for just one panel in the Book 19 bonus story, but it’s an important panel, and it needs to look good. In the amount of time I spent noodling on this? 2018’s version of me could have written and illustrated two weeks of comics.
I do, however, take comfort knowing that 2018’s version of me, while quite good at his job, could not have done this panel without focused practice and enough time to become 2019’s version of me.
Much of the time I spent working on this piece went into research. I had questions: What was the angle of the impactor? How large was it? What are the physics of the impact? I looked at lots of art from science communications (sci-comm) folks, and tried to reconcile their many different approaches with the theories about the event, and (of course) with the picture *I* wanted to draw.
Yes, it was time-consuming, but I learned some new things, and I learned how to DO some new things, and right now I’m pretty pleased with the results.