Let’s try and convene some sort of weekly update.
Week 1!
Where am I, well, on the drawing table I’m finishing (at last!) the Lion and the Eagle. 9 pages of inks to go and done! It’s been a slog, I’m pretty happy with a lot of it (some bits more than others) the entire thing is digital – I find it works out better with war stuff where I can just gather up reference on screen and cheat with 3d models.
Once I’m finally done with that, I’m doing a short war story for a thing – tbh I’d rather not be, but I’d promised this over a year ago.
I’ve also another short thing, I don’t wanna talk about – but – while it’s short – it represents a promising break in my career, much like getting the first multiparter for 2000ad did (which was 3 years in to working for 2000AD). Approached by an editor to do a thing. It’s only 15 pages, but … look I promise you’ll see some of it when I get started. I’m very tempted to go back to pencil and paper for this one.
And thirdly/fourthly, I have more chimpsky to do, and a second part to a kickstarter project I was involved in last year.
I am running very late on a lot of these prior commitments, blame covid (and a big chunk was me drawing Soul Plumber which started as a drop in commitment to do a few pages and ended with me drawing maybe 60-80 pages? All between Lion and the Eagle issues 3 & 4) and family commitments, I’m still acting as a part time carer for my brother – who lives 50 minutes away, and who I end up staying with a couple of nights per week. More as a psychological carer than any actual grafting so it’s not hard work, but it is difficult to get in to a drawing flow when you’re in somebody else’s house.
Anyway, more next week!