So, this week went a bit weird.
Wednesday I spent it all day doing storyboards, can’t really say for what, but it was fun to do. I find storyboarding weird. Firstly the drawing part is absolutely no challenge whatsoever, storyboarding (certainly what I’ve done of it) is a matter of sitting with the people who are gonna film it and just going through the script and sketching out what they’re after. I sort of consider the drawings to be an aide memoire to the work they’ve done working all of that out.
That kind of wiped out Wednesday – and it wasn’t helped by my having a mild IBS attack on tuesday night. I haven’t really caught up with pencilling yet.
I find if I don’t get back to the drawing board before 7-8 at night then I’m lost to it. I’ll end up putting roots down on the sofa and just staring blankly in to the void.
Still that allowed me the chance to start working on another story for Terran Omega.
After I’m done with the Ghosts of War, there’ll be a two part story called The Seed. And then, a much more ambitious (for me) three parter called “The Seven” which takes the root of seven samurai and spins a different story from it. Sometimes I just need to know where I can start with a story and then I can figure out what it would look like from there. Sometimes you do that and you end up so far from the original that really it’s hard to tell what the original seed for it was.
This year, I decided I’d put away the acting and improv for a bit, putting the old toys back in to their boxes, to focus on writing and drawing comics, but I accidentally signed up for an audition (a self tape) and so I did that today too. Forty recordings later I finally did one that I didn’t cock up and sent it. I suspect it’ll not go beyond that, but it was good fun to do. And I do still enjoy acting, so who knows. It does scractch a different part of your brain and actually it’s really nice to hang out with people doing something. Comics can be so isolating, and I’m occasionally a bit jealous of my wife who’s working with people (and even doing storyboards yesterday reminded me that I do like chatting to people when I work).
I wish I’d had a shared studio space in belfast at some point, but it never happened and it’s unlikely that it ever will.
