Last weekend was the comikraze 24 hour comics challenge. It's a annual event always held on the Queens Birthday weekend hosted on the Pulpfaction forums, and this year I did the event again but this time it was with a few other comiker friends. Essentially we started around 5pm, although I rocked up around 7:15pm and started around 7:30pm.
I have to say that I really enjoyed it. I think it was a bit of a pain working all night and all the way until 11:00am the next morning, but I think all in all I had fun and so did everyone else who did too.
I did not finish my entry. I decided to change my approach this year. I put a lot of emphasis on experimenting as usual, but I concentrated on making it more polished. Ink nibs were indeed out and on show. Previous years I did 16 pages, then 12 pages, then last year it was an 8 page story. This year, in much the same trend, I increased the quality by boosting it to my finished polished work standard; however what was different is that I increased the story page count to a full 24 pager. I managed 8 finalised pages only.
I did not end up posting it online at Pulpfaction. I've decided to finish this comic and then print it. I based the story on one of my nightmares I've incurred from this upcoming Corporate Law exam (shudder). I thought I realised this quite well as a story, and I think it would be a waste to leave it as an unfinished 24 hour comic, particularly as I changed my approach this year precisely because of how I felt the story translates to a comic. I intend to print and sell this comic, as well as post it online for free on my deviantart.
Aside from last weekend's 24 hour comiking shenanigans I have also been doing commission work based on a to-be-released Sci-Fi novel. I have some art which is near finished that I'll share. Essentially, it is a promo comic to be posted online, and I suspect might be gracing print as well. I won't be posting a lot of this online, but I thought I'd share the first page. It's in greyscale, so it sort of is a departure from my pure black and white inks, but those familiar with my CG style should be able to recognise some similarities between the two.
Henry
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