Not selfies. God bless Photo Booth for photo reference. I think these are hilarious, if someone were to open my photo booth they'd probably think I was rehearsing my mime routine.
Wowee. I've watched some of Chris Hadfield's videos on youtube (because SPACE) but I just listened to an interview of his and watched his Space Odyssey video and wow. Wow wow wow. Watching a non-computer generated image of our earth is still blowing my mind. My brother just applied to be an astronaut (I don't know the details, but apparently if you are a marine you can do that sort of thing) and now my fingers are triple crossed for him to get in.
Here's the link to the vid if you're interested:http://youtu.be/KaOC9danxNo Also. Pages pages pages. I'm on a good schedule, just have to keep it up. Here's what happened over the week:
Talked to people about my storyline. I got some really good feedback that I'm thinking about while I work on the comic. I don't want to set a designated chunk of time to think about it because then I will just dink around instead of working on stuff. Worked on pages. I'm making good headway. I've got thirteen done. I think I'm going to come in tomorrow and pull an abbreviated version of this marathon to try and get even more done. Worked on the script. It's funny how much easier some of these things are just as you go. The written pages above are my working script. I think I'm going to do the speech bubbles and font on a separate piece of paper, it's going to make watercoloring the panels easier. But I'm wary of the space that it will take up, so panels have allotted room for it all. My list of things to do is shrinking marginally, while more and more things seem to be getting added to it all the time. More work. Hooray.... Edit: This apparently didn't post when it was supposed to. Oops... Okay, here's the skinny.
Including today, I have 15 days until Thanksgiving starts. Currently, I have 60 pages worth of comics to sketch. If I sketch two pages EVERY day until Thanksgiving, I'll have 30 pages to take with me and ink. And if I can ink them all (and I've pulled inking all nighters before, they are sort of fun, sorta painful, but entirely doable) then I will have half of my pages half finished for the IP critique. I say half finished because I still have to color them. So I'd have about 25% of my work to show at the IP critique. Which I'm hoping to bump up more percentage wise by finalizing the best way to publish it and have specs and cost estimates to show as well. And hopefully a cover. This isn't ideal, but I think this is the most feasible thing that is going to happen. HOWEVER, if I AM lucky enough to meet that deadline, the IP critique date can't dissuade me from work. I have to keep going at that pace if I want to have things inked and colored with enough time to publish. It will be a very busy Christmas and Thanksgiving break. So. Two pages finished yesterday, so I'm two pages ahead of schedule, but hopefully I'll be able to keep it up and pick up some slack on the weekends. And away we go. This comic accurately describes my day.
My thumbnails are up, and I got some feedback on them. Mostly about why I'm choosing to go sans dialogue. I'd rework it and what not, but I have less than two weeks to submit things for IP in progress inspection, so I'm just going to sketch my pages and see what happens. Ir's down to 60 pages. I don't think I can cut anymore. I got a lot of work ahead of me. I finished sketching two pages tonight, and I don't have class tomorrow in the morning, so I'll probably work then too. I could spend more time hemming and hawing a bit, and the thumbnails probably deserve that time. But right now I think I just have to put my head down and generate some pages. However, right now I'm taking a break from all other homework to color a satirical comic about A&D. So sue me. |