Wednesday, July 23, 2014
The Goal for End Times is the
nonstop fun of drawing new material all the time, for a minimum of 5-16 years.
My goals are changing and evolving. No longer am I obsessed with adaptation. I
am upsessed with finishing next month's comics, and the desire to keep moving
forward. My goal for the END TIMES series of the future is to continue doing
exactly what I've been doing now.
My goal is to continue working on
my comics project for as long as I can, and getting better and evolving along
the way. Always striving to get better at what I do.
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
The Three Main Pillars of My Comics Panel Storytelling
My panel storytelling can be divided up into 3 main Genres of Panel Storytelling:
- Panels of Mood
- Panels of Dialogue
- Panels of Action
This is the little system of comics storytelling and Visual Narration I built up and designed in my notebooks.
Wednesday, July 16th, 2014, NEW SCHEDULE BEGINS TODAY
Going to be working on a page or two, starting this week and all throughout the rest of the Month and other 5 months of this year.
Aiming for 20 pages a year, or 2 pages each month, or 1 page each half-month.
Not counting on completing more than that....as far as I'm saying....
Aiming for 20 pages a year, or 2 pages each month, or 1 page each half-month.
Not counting on completing more than that....as far as I'm saying....
Thursday, July 10, 2014
New Schedule for END TIMES Comic Book Page Production (i.e. I DON'T LIVE IN JAPAN!!!)
Okay,
I think things are going to get back on track for me, if my new extended
schedule works.
The
schedule will be:
- 1 polished comic page every half a month
- 2 Polished Pages once a month
- Which over the course of 12 months amounts to around a little over 1 issue, or 24 pages a year.
That
might not sound like much, but knowing how fast my planning notebooks fill up,
there will certainly be a lot of small work, constructing and generating visual
and formatting, thumbs, and compositions for each page
during every 13 pages in
between each major polished page.
This
might sound like everything has slowed down production wise, but it hasn't.
It's just a continuation and a more
identifiable organization of my previous unconscious work rate. I was putting
out one comic book issue in a series a year for the last 2-3 years anyway, if
the publication date of my comics issues is any indicator.
Post-It Note Amendment:
Okay, upon the publication of the first webcomic blog post on my new schedule, I have realized this announcement has created some discussion online, which has resulted in some confusion about my work rate. Let me clarify.
When I say I'm "Drawing only 2 polished pages a month" please do not assume I'm only drawing 2 pages a month in a literal sense. I'll still be working at my normal rate. Saying I'm doing two polished comics pages a month just means I'm placing greater emphasis on the quality of the final product's story and art. In reality, just this month and last (June) ALONE, I drew at least 15-29 rough sketch, layout, and thumb pages. Saying I'm cutting back to 2 pages a month doesn't mean I'll literally only be drawing 2 comic book pages a month in general. It just means I won't be showcasing as many of my thumbnail pages and panel sketches, and instead focusing all of my work into building up a more polished, presentable, image for END TIMES. 2 pages is the MINIMUM. There's a high likelihood that if I get good at 2 polished pages a month, it could lead to a higher consistency and quality rate, and hence many more pages a month than just 2. 2 is the MINIMUM work amount. Not the maximum result. I just don't want to jinx my schedule by promising more than I can manage, meaning a more Japanese-esque page rate. (dozens of pages each week or month, or a lot more, as is the case for artist who have their shit together at a higher consistency rate than I do.)
Post-It Note Amendment:
Okay, upon the publication of the first webcomic blog post on my new schedule, I have realized this announcement has created some discussion online, which has resulted in some confusion about my work rate. Let me clarify.
When I say I'm "Drawing only 2 polished pages a month" please do not assume I'm only drawing 2 pages a month in a literal sense. I'll still be working at my normal rate. Saying I'm doing two polished comics pages a month just means I'm placing greater emphasis on the quality of the final product's story and art. In reality, just this month and last (June) ALONE, I drew at least 15-29 rough sketch, layout, and thumb pages. Saying I'm cutting back to 2 pages a month doesn't mean I'll literally only be drawing 2 comic book pages a month in general. It just means I won't be showcasing as many of my thumbnail pages and panel sketches, and instead focusing all of my work into building up a more polished, presentable, image for END TIMES. 2 pages is the MINIMUM. There's a high likelihood that if I get good at 2 polished pages a month, it could lead to a higher consistency and quality rate, and hence many more pages a month than just 2. 2 is the MINIMUM work amount. Not the maximum result. I just don't want to jinx my schedule by promising more than I can manage, meaning a more Japanese-esque page rate. (dozens of pages each week or month, or a lot more, as is the case for artist who have their shit together at a higher consistency rate than I do.)
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