Where is the time going? a flurry of pages and other stuff. Here’s how my week squared off:
Monday – Yay! Completed chapter 4 of Bad Magic, only two more to go. And completed it in record time. 5 pages of inks.
Tuesday – usually I’ll try and celebrate the completion of a job by taking a day off. I hate it. So I wrote a short (3-4 min) film and touched up and submitted a terror tale to 2000ad. (It was turned down, but Matt invited a rewrite for the end, so once I get that done…) – no art drawn.
Wednesday – had a guy round putting shelves up and doing general odd job stuff, kept me out of the studio. No real excuse for only putting away two pages, but they were the first two pages and I did need to do layouts before that, and that is exhausting!
Thursday. Just a drawing day. Good day. Five pages pencilled.
Friday – forgot I was meeting a guy about a thing (that may not happen – this sort of thing that leads nowhere happens a lot in comics) but four pages pencilled.
Saturday – minor miracle of five pages pencilled, but wife and youngestson went to the cinema so that left me free for a bit. Five pages pencilled.
Sunday – went off for a walk about 45 minutes drive away (bonkers, I know) and then started removing stuff from the garden (such as it is) and got two pages pencilled, but hoping for another tonight.
So, in total, 18 pages pencilled (with another possible tonight) and five pages inked.
Which is ok… (that’s worth approx … 11.5/12 full finished pages this week)
Will try and make some time this week for some behind the scenes posting on this here patreon, if there’s anything in particular you’d like to see, let me know (caveat, I’m pretty limited in what I can show from Bad Magic – the Skulduggery Pleasant book) scripts, layouts, pencils? what else…?
EDIT TO ADD: I did two more pages of pencils since posting this.