Page!

The past few weeks have been incredibly busy (at the office, mostly), but I have been able to squeeze out the first couple of pages! Inked, lettered, scanned and all! I'm so glad this project is finally up and running. 

Also, I'm slowly building up my (work)flow. Two-hour sessions seem to work best, with some crocheting afterwards to unwind my brain. That way, I'll have a comic AND a nice blanket in a couple months time!

Again, I'll chart my progress in the column on the right. And I'm considering to publish the story as it unfolds, in episodes of about 12 pages.

Pre-pencilling jitters & new tools

Hey, the page layouts are complete! They have been for over a week! Shouldn't I have some pages up by now? Yeah, I should... But I'm down with a small bout of 'pre-pencilling jitters'... I've got everything lined up to start drawing, and now I'm worried I'll mess things up as soon as I put my pencil to the paper. Or worse, that my inking will ruin any reasonably pencilled page...

But the only way to get better at drawing is to just do it, right? Lots and lots of it. Even if it means doing a page over and over again.

It's probably not the pencilling I should be worried about, it's the inking. My inking is hardly as tight as I would like it to be, and it doesn't 'read' very well. It's funny: I love inking, it's my favourite part of the process, but I've never given it any thought until now. I just race my brush around without planning line width, direction or anything. Perhaps it would be even better to just switch back to inking with (dip) pens and let the brush rest for a while...

So this past week I've been reading and watching inking tutorials. And I've bought a bunch of new pens and markers to experiment with. All I've got to do now is just start drawing. Right...