Georges Jeanty gave an interview at popcultureaddict.com where he talks about penciling the Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 8 comic series, which requires drawing recognizable people.

This is how I like to approach my drawing. I’ll draw a face our first with whatever their supposed to be doing, like Buffy is shocked or surprised and then I’ll go through my little catalogue of photographs and look for a picture of Buffy in a similar pose. It’s never an actual pose but I want to find something where she is similarly surprised, and from there I’ll try to render on the page more to what it looks like to that character.

He says the pages with Buffy take him about 30% longer because he had to draw and redraw.

I’m not a big fan of just tracing over the faces because, in all honesty that would take a lot longer because then we’d have to find exactly that expression and exactly that size and that perspective and how that character is looking that it would just take too long. So from there I feel that I’ve developed enough of a short hand for the character.

On a related note, comics based on TV shows are getting more and more attention. If they’re done well, with top notch writers and artists, they could turn the comics industry around, maybe even another boom. The type of TV that’s popular right now lends itself to comics.