November 2021 - Day Flerbpteenty

I had the next dozen pages written... then I thought I'd pencil them all in one batch... and I did that, mostly... and then I thought I'd ink and colour a few pages a day and post those... and started doing that... but then started jumping around a lot... and then got sick of it all... and then decided to take a day or two off.... and then got distracted by other things and fell out of the groove.... that day or two turned into a week or two... and then the rest of the month... and now here we are... It's been a struggle to finish these. I'm not sure where I'm going from here. 

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Like I said... I'm not sure where I'm going from here... I have a script for the next dozen pages or so... and a general (but somewhat vague) idea of where it's going after that... but I am SO SICK of drawing it on these tiny 8x8 squares... I may continue... but the format may change. Which causes me some deep pain... the whole point was to pick something and STICK WITH IT!? 

On the other hand, the other point of this was just to do a thing and learn from the experience and grow... and if I hate what I'm doing so much that it makes me NOT want to do the thing... maybe it's time ot change it up to something I DO want to continue with... 

We shall see... 

November 2021 - Day Five

I had five pages penciled for today, but only managed to get three finished while there was still good light... 

(I've just been taking pictures of these... I do have a scanner they'd fit on, but it's about 20 years old and now any time I scan something there's a white line down one side....) 

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November 2021 - Day Three/Four

 I kind of started these yesterday... but didn't finish them up until today... 

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I swear that's the end of the "Introduction"... 

Sort of... 

November 2021 - Behind the Scenes

 I really did just come up with this daft idea on Sunday... 

Initially I thought I'd do this just one page at a time... 

Right in my sketchbook, starting when I left off at the end of October... 

I still really like the idea of having done it in my sketchbook, but I VERY QUICKLY realized there would be certain logistical problems with doing so and had to make adjustments... 

Also, after doing this first page, I decided it would probably be a better idea if I actually plotted out - at the very least - the day's pages... 

And so I did that in my BIG sketchbook. 

And then started doing them on individual pages... which went MUCH quicker... 

Starting with Day Two, I began typing the dialogue into the computer, because I had all sorts of ideas, but wasn't initially sure where to put them in the overall dialogue... and once they were in order, I printed it off and tried to figure out page and panel breakdowns from there... 

thought the second batch of eight pages were worked out for Day Two, I only got four of them finished. 

All of the pages so far. 

November 2021 - Day Two

 Day Two, y'all. 

(not quite 8 pages) 

When you suddenly realize, halfway through inking the first day's pages, that your main characters are subjects of Andy Warhol paintings... 

Oh no! What's happened to the Banana and the Can!? Find out tomorrow... or..  maybe later today!? 

November 2021 - Day One

 As hinted at in the previous post... I started a new thing... 

I should probably just let the comics tell the story (since so much of these first days is... well.. explaining the whole thing...) 

A NEW Challenge...?

 

I started a thing... 

Stay tuned...