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Behind the Scenes of You Will Be My Friend! (Click on Images to Enlarge) I used my computer to make sketches, play with text, and add borders to each page during the early development of You Will Be My Friend. Then I printed out all the pages and put them up on my wall, so I could see how they worked together as a group. I marked up the printouts with all kinds of notes to myself, and would later go back to my computer to make those changes. After developing the story and pictures, I eventually settled on final sketches and words for every page. Using a light box, I traced the final sketches onto paper with a mechanical pencil. I used a standard paper towel as a chamois, and rubbed the graphite to get texture and various shades of gray. Using that paper towel chamois, mechanical pencils and erasers, I eventually ended up with final drawings. In many cases, I would draw the different elements of an illustration separately, and combine them later with my compu