It’s a sleepy Monday. Days like this make me want to be at home in my PJs.
I’ve been working on Hearts & Holes (previously named “Untitled”) but I’ve only got a skeleton sketch for you today. Spoiler-free so no worries.
More soon… and they will be respectable scans instead of awkwardly angled photos from my camera.
Also, I downloaded a cool wordpress app from my phone so I’ll be able to update from the road soon! I forgot my phone today so I won’t be able to test it out today though… bye for now…
Yep, it’s time to snap out of it! Snap out of not updating, that is. Skeletons is almost done… in terms of pencils and layout in thumbnail form. A preview that I hope is spoiler-less. I hate spoilers.
This “beauty” was made with a mechanical person. Fancy, I know.
Another project is also going down. A few friends and I are making dystopian comics. It seems fun so far. My comics are so long that I hope this one can be less than 20 pages… will our character’s universes collide? I hope so!
Another little preview for you that is hopefully minimal in its spoiler-ness. It’s a work in progress.
Ok, just to keep things clear, here’s the progress of my various ongoing projects.
- Skeletons in the Closet (Part 1 of 7):
- Script: Complete
- Pencils: Complete (I’ve shown some already)
- Inks: Did not start
- Book making: Did not start
- Slum:
- Script: First 4 pages complete
- Pencils: 1st page complete
- Inks: 1st page complete
- Book making: n/a
- Untitled-Heart (Part 1):
- Script: Complete
- Pencils: 8/11 pages
- Inks: 0/11 pages
- Book Making: 0/11
So I’ve finally finished the thumbnails for the first issue of Skeletons in the Closet. That’s right. Thumbnails. I want to cry a little only because it’s taken months for this small feat to be accomplished. I’ll start revealing pieces day by day of some samples, but I really don’t want to reveal too much– I hate spoilers.
As expected, there is a skeleton in the story.
I have a secret to tell you. I don’t plan my drawings out on thumbnails. If i want to draw something, I don’t draw 8 different ways it could look. I jump right in… but I’ve discovered this is a big problem in comics.
My stories often lose their pacing because I go off on too many tangents or I extend an unimportant scene for too many panels. Comics need serious real estate planning so I’m starting now with this Google Doc(above). I’m glad you can’t read it because it’s a mess, but for me, it’s the best start I’ve had!
So this one is going to be a 5 part series. The first chapter is titled Denial. I know, it’s sunny and rainbows as usual. The super tentative title for the series is Skeletons in the Closet.