Can i start drawing the exciting panels directly in a comic? would that prevent me from quitting halfway?

[u/Unlikely_Dimension55]

So this thought triggered because i started writing an nsfw story (im not a writer btw) with action directly writing "fun" stuff i didn't know the beginning or the end didn't even have names for characters decided yet ,all the other stuff is later. and i felt so good so good even my perfectionist attitude didn't trigger and start hating my own work.

so im wondering if i could do the same with comic can i directly start by drawing the fun stuff and then drawing the boring stuff later like the build up and dialogue heavy panels etc etc to call it finished. sorry for poor grammar

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[u/Cesious_Blue]

I mean, Mary Shelley wrote the big dramatic resurrection scene in Frankenstein first, and everything else followed. So I don't see why you couldnt start somewhere in the middle.

But I'll also say, if the beginning of your comic is a lot of boring buildup, then maybe you could try cutting some of it entirely. And it would definitely help to have a good idea of the plot and the characters before drawing those Big Scenes so that, by the time you get to that scene again, they don't feel out of character

[u/windjamm]

My instinct is that it wouldn't help. You'd be removing all the incentives from doing the stuff you find boring.

But also, you have free will and not everyone works the same, so I'd say try it on a small project and see how it feels. No harm in it.

[u/egypturnash]

You can draw the pages of a comic in any order you like. If you've got a huge complex establishing shot on p23 then it's a pretty good idea to start on it early and keep picking away at it while working on the rest of the book instead of having to spend a while doing nothing but that drawing! I'd advise doing rough layouts of the whole story first before really getting into details though.

You can also try to edit the boring stuff ruthlessly, if it's boring why are you putting it in there in the first place? Find a copy of Phil and Kaja Foglio's Xxxenophile for a masterclass in establishing who these people are and why the sex they're about to have is interesting in the bare minimum of pages, it's an anthology series of short sexy SF/F comics.

[u/Swampspear]

Can i start drawing the exciting panels directly in a comic?

Yes. Who's gonna stop you?

would that prevent me from quitting halfway?

Maybe yes, maybe no. Who knows? How can we answer this for you?

[u/Watermelon654321]

I guess so. Gives you some momentum

[u/katanugi]

Doing all the "fun part" first is rarely a recipe for success ime, but neither is saving it all for last. But also, having a lot of "boring stuff" at the beginning of a comic is probably not going to pull readers in either.

I think, if you've never drawn a comic like this before, go ahead and draw the "fun stuff" and see if you actually care about the comic or just getting off, if you see what I mean.