Well, I did it. I finished page 24 of Terran Omega. Scripted as a single 48 page story, I spotted early that there’s a good halfway plot point – albeit on page 25 – so I’m largely finished with issue 1 of a two issue series.
Things I’ve learned: colouring is time consuming. But worth it. Sometimes I rely on the art to do the heavy lifting of the script (bad writer!)
It’s totally worth writing and drawing something of your own. Nothing feels better than knowing this is mine from soup to nuts.
Clip Studio isn’t perfect, especially for things like logo design, so I’ve been chipping away at affinity for that. And actually I may switch to affinity for lettering too (once I figure it out)
And that’s it. Small well done to me.
PJ’s Progress and Start the Week
Ok, last week –
Planed on inking 8 pages and doing two pages of Terran Omega. Well, got 5 inked and did two pages of Terran Omega. So Ok.
This week
Mon – Three Inks (F&McB 6,7,8)
Tue – Run Inks (F&McB 9,10)
Wed – Ink Covers (war story 5 & 6)
Thur – Pencils (F&McB 1,2)
Fri – Pencils (F&McB 3,4)
Sat – Terran Omega Page 25
Sun – Put together pdf of Terran Omega issue 1
Weekends never work out for getting the amount of work done I’d like, so instead I’m focusing on creator owned work at the weekend. But that means doing a certain amount of paid work through the week.
This month
F&McB ep4, Start #5 of War thing (get it pencilled at least)
And let’s see…
Yesterday In Social Media
There’s a lot to great in this, so I’m only go do some highlights today…
My guilty secret is I quite enjoy Fesshole – where people leave anonymous confessions (that aren’t ALL about sex stuff, many oft hem are in fact about one person in a couple clearly hating the other one). Anyway this was posted
And I added:
Once told my youngest - who loved wheetos - they he ate so many wheetos that he could turn in to one. Anyway a decade later found out this was a source of genuine fear for him.
Tread carefully.
This link will take you to that bluesky post and you’ll see people who’ve replied to me with their own little stories on that front.
I love RPGs1, I love making stuff, and I love weird constraits that force creativity, which brings me to …
https://itch.io/jam/48wordrpgjam
I haven’t looked, but I just love the conceit, and you might too.
Went to the game of thrones experience. Way better than I was expecting. Though it has a slight whiff of “oh please god this place better make money soon or we’re in trouble”
Actually, it was pretty impressive. Bloody massive. Maybe a bit smaller than similar sized experiences like Harry Potter World (yes, I know, but she hadn’t gone fully terf at the time)
Here’s me and Wun Wun – you know I can’t resist a photo beside a giant.
You wanna see the next faceless Doctor Who monster freak?
Words to live by:
If you’re interested in making comics, and they pay (not a lot, but if this is the beginning of your comic making journey this is a great way to get published)
I’ll live you with this banger of a tune going round in your head…
- Despite only every playing them once, my artistic publishing career started drawing for RPG fanzines. ↩︎
