In other news:
Comic a week is chugging along. I’ve been doing it, but I haven’t been posting nearly as much as I should. I’ll change that as soon as I get some obligations out of the way; which should be cleared up after 8 September.
I’ve worked on Incunabula a bit more. I’m redoing it again from the start. I’m working bigger so that my inked line work will be tighter. I found that working at A4 was too restricting, and that my inks look like some amateur did them. When I did the cover on larger manuscript paper, my inks were satisfactory. So far I’ve done the first two pages. Admittedly, they are splash pages, but the amount of detail I’ll put into them will be quiet a feat.
Since I am taking my time with these pages, I’m somewhat enjoying it. I like working on something, taking time off, and looking at it with fresh eyes. You tend to admire the results more too, as the work you put in pays off. If you rush shit, then you get shit.
Commission work is now my priority for this week (amongst all my other non-comic related priorities). I went out of the house today, and went to my Uni’s library and got some work done. These days, I cannot work at home. There are too many distractions. Internet, for one, is very, very bad for getting things done. It’s also refreshing to move about and just bask in outdoors. The library is quiet, and there’s enough space to put a laptop on the table as well as spread your page. The best thing is that it’s open until
The List isn’t getting a lot of love as of late. It has a tentative January release date (same like the last volume). I best get cracking on that so I can give it Tom in increments. I don’t want to do the same thing I did last year and lump it all on him in one shot to ink. As I’m sure I’ve said before (if I haven’t, I’m saying it now), I want to put more work into my pages. I felt that with each volume, my work is improving, but there’s always something that feels like a step back. I’m going to put more attention into my backgrounds, and I have to learn to adapt to Tom’s inking style. When I pencilled the last volume, I was pencilling like I would ink it myself, but Tom has a grittier bolder inking style than I do. He also takes liberties with my details. So I have to make the most of his inking style as its pretty damn good.
Henry
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