Thumbnails for issue one done, Marc cheers.
Posted in Work » Card Cheat on November 28, 2008 at 10:00 PM
I finished the thumbnails for issue one tonight, full of turkey and tea at Mom and Dad's.
I had a minor freak out yesterday when I realized how long I've been working on the book and the fact that I haven't even started pages yet.
It took me from the first week in May till now to get 2/3rds of the character design work done and the first issues thumbnails. I've got five more characters to design (Gid's Mom, Mary, Gabe, the Preacher, and Leach) and then it's time to start pages for the first issue.
Finally.
"If it's taken me seven months just to get this far, then golly gee however will I do a monthly? Ack! Especially cause I have a day job!" says my brain (who apparently sounds like Howdy Doody).
Actually, I realized today when the thumbs were finished, it won't be that tough.
- Taking on new Web freelance gigs is going the way of the do-do for me as of the New Year, so that's more time for drawing.
- Any Web projects I do have (outside of work of course) will be confined to weekends in the New Year so I can draw when I get home from work. Maintenance stuff for the Web carries on as normal though (don't wanna leave people hanging).
- Sam Koi is going to be my warm up (the big open spaces really loosen me up for detail work) so that'll keep going in time for the collection at SPX next year.
- The one big sacrifice will be poor Parking Spaces. It sucks to say, but I've gotta be realistic. The stories and art just sit there... staring at me... but I only have so much time in the day. I figure once the first episodes of Sam are collected, it'll be my next web endeavor, which gives me a time line for that even. Sorry Bruce, but we'll get it done up and out there one day. I promise.
- Design work will be done on the characters, so that's a big load off my brain. And I burn through thumbnails when I have less then 50 things going on at once, so that'll take all the heavy lifting off the page creation stage. So bam, I'm back to my 3 pages a week schedule. Pitch the book in Feb... keep working to have issues in the can when it's solicited, have at more done when it is in stores... it's finished before the 5th issue comes out.
Man... making a monthly indy book come out on time? Piece of cake.
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