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[dc]I[/dc] don’t always draw at home. Sure, drawing at home is ideal, because it means pants are optional—but, there are times I want to work on a comic elsewhere (and during wedding planning, there were nights I was not allowed to be around). I enjoy drawing at a drawing desk though, or on any slanted surface, which makes working on comics remotely a challenge (plus there is the having to wear pants).

Unintended Use

Then I got a Fellowes Laptop GoRiser. While actually a portable laptop ‘desk’ or cooler, the GoRiser works great as a portable drawing table.

Working on the Guilt Trip Ghost Goes to Court comic. Photo by me.

I used a different laptop desk as a drawing table in the past, but it was metal, bulky, and wasn’t very portable (kinda like the first Iron Man armor). The perk of the GoRiser is, it folds up—it is thinner than my sketchbook and very light. The trick behind this is the flexible plastic loop the GoRiser uses for support, which allows the GoRiser to fold up to a more compact size.

Sketchbook is My Co-Pilot

Speaking of sketchbooks, you’ll need one if you want to use the GoRiser. Like most laptop ‘coolers,’ the GoRiser has holes for airflow.

Once I set my sketchbook down on the GoRiser though, the holes aren’t an issue. If I’m working on a comic, I clip a piece of Bristol to the back of my sketchbook. This might seem like a lot of work to some, but it this process paid immediate dividends for me.

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