You know, back when I began blogging you didn’t need titles, you’d just blog. Then everything suddenly needed titles and I think it added some sort of mental barrier, because now, instead of just typing up your thoughts you were titling an essay.
Anyway, don’t expect titles anymore, I’m removing that cognitive burden from myself.
So, as stated before I’ve started interstitial journaling (the process whereby in gaps you just write a little note about what you’re up to, through the day). I do think it would be helpful to review those notes at the end of the week and see what was good/bad about the week. So will try blogging those at the weekends.
One thing that I’ve also been doing is keeping a close eye on how long I’ve worked on pages.
Right now I’m inking page 16, which puts me pretty decently far ahead of the two page per day I had scheduled for myself on Monday. Plan is to get 16 and 17 done today.
I’m finding it’ll take about 3-5 hours to ink a page, BUT – I’ll do that over 4-6 hours (the time to ink is the literal pushing digital ink around the page, and I’m only human so I’ll get up and move around sometimes).
That sort of lines up reasonably with the time chunks I have to work with through day:
10 – 12 1-4:30 7-11
Where it gets derailed is a 10 minute interruptions might as well be an hour long interruption, and an hour long interruption might as well write off getting a page done.
Plus two pages of inks, is working all day and finishing at 5ish, and it’s exhausting enough that it’s hard to pick up and go and do a third, but I usually do IF I’ve been able to get to draw in the day time, if I haven’t, and 7-8, 9,-10 comes around I just have no will power to work.
One job you’ve got to do is predict how long something will take to do, so this is good information to have. It puts me in a comfortable page a day category (and by page here I mean pencils and inks), but actually if push came to shove I think I’m two pages per day. I can certainly pencil 3-4 pages per day. (rough pencils, I’m not a madman)
Anyway, important to know your limits.
