Right, gonna try THIS – a regular weekly check in to tell you what’s going on behind the scenes… This is all hush hush though, but you’ll find out what I’m up to as I do it…
This week … I’ve already lost track but so far, I’ve pencilled six pages (of shhh! Skulduggery Pleasant graphic novel) and pencilled and inked two pages of a new Leopard from Lime street (also shush!) and done my taxes. Which was grim. Tax year 21/22 was the best year I’ve ever had (and expect to have) a large part is from the misfortune of my pal John McCrea which meant I ended up shouldering a chunk of his workload (at one point I was drawing three different projects in one month, crazy)
I’ll be checking in every friday, though this first week basically only covers Tuesday to Friday since that’s all I’ve taken notes of.
Leopard from Lime Street – I thought had a deadline of the 7th of Feb – but it turns out that’s the print deadline, so my deadline was actually the 10th – so there’s a rush on now! (irritatingly after I’d spent a day pencilling four pages and thinking I’d finally gotten ahead of stuff)
I really wanted to find a good voice for Leopard, but in the end I didn’t have time, so page one suffers from a weak first panel and a strong last panel. Which I hated, so I decided to redraw it and (unusually for me) added a panel. Script (by Simon Furman) called for an establishing shot AND a close up all in one panel, but I couldn’t do it (tried but failed) so repencilled a new version adding a decent establishing shot and a good closeup. Hoping to get to that today. After I pencil and ink page 3 of the story!)
It’s only six pages, so I’m hoping I’ll get it completed over the weekend then can pour myself back in to skullduggery.
(At some point I’ve got to work up a cover for the collected Folklore tales by me and John Reppion too)
-pj
