Szaza’s own moly for that group had been lost in transit somewhere between Australia and Mexico. It was a real shame because she had made a really beautiful first entry in what was intended to become a “narrative corpse” comic. So, I decided to recreate her book as best as I could. Here's a step by step guide.
#1: I bought a new Japanese accordion-fold moleskine and printed out copies of Z’s original artwork (it took a few tries to get it to the proper scale) on 2 sheets of regular printer paper.
#2: Cropping the paper down to the dimensions of the book I used a 6B pencil to cover the backside of the first few images (I only did a couple images at a time in order to minimize smudging).
#3: Taping the artwork in place I proceeded to trace the image. This transferred the graphite from the back of the page to the book.
#4: Removing the artwork we can see the faint image that has been transferred. I then darkened this up with a 2H pencil.
#5: Here I repeated the procedure for #3 and #4 until the entire image was transferred.
Now to see if I can talk Szaza into restarting this languishing group! I think I’ll do an entry and send it back to her to let her re-paint her entry.
You can check out the original over on Samantha’s flickrstream.
