In print, in print I’m doing fabulous, but man, in bank balance, in bank balance I’m not. A reflection of those months last year where I only managed 5-6 pages per month, the months where I redrew and redrew pages. Each redraw costing me precious days and ultimately money.
Anyway, don’t let this happen to you.
I’m on a slightly better pace than I was previously, but still not picked up the speed to refill the coffers fast enough. But anyway, on to what was supposed to happen last week:
Monday – DT Pencils 13-14. TO Colours Page 6
Tuesday – DT pencils 15-16 (2 pages, got lunch meeting)
Wednesday DT pencils 17-19
Thursday DT pencils 20-22
Friday Catch up and scan on the DT Pencils
Saturday TO Pencils 10-11 (double page spread) Inks 10-11 (brought over from last week)
Sunday Catch up on anything I missed.
So here’s what actually happened; DT pencils finished pages 13-19, still have three more to do. I COULD have caught up with those at the weekend (I should have) giving me a fresh week to start inking, but instead I’ll be doing those today. Also I didn’t do TO pages 10-11, instead I coloured every page of TO I’ve drawn, so it’s all up to page ep2 page 9.
So, this week:
Monday – DT Pencils 19-21
Tuesday – Scan day! AND GORILLAZ
Wednesday Inks DT 1-2
Thursday Inks DT 3-4
Friday Inks DT 5-6
Saturday TO Pencils 10-11 (double page spread) Inks 10-11 (brought over from last week)
Sunday Catch up on anything I missed.
Not a lot planned this week. 6 pages of inks, plus 2 pages of terran omega pencils and inks. 6 pages of inks sounds like a lot, but it’s not, at that rate you’re drawing a full page every two days. But I thought I’d try this week underestimating and seeing where that gets me.
Off to Gorillaz on Tuesday (they’re here in Belfast). 28 years since they’re debut. Bloody hell. I still think of them as a new band.
I’m slightly obsessed with systems, especially trying to keep track of work I’ve got to do and work I’ve done. A few years ago I even designed a book for helping to track work and uploaded it to amazon self publishing. (You can buy a copy here if you’re curious) but I’m awful at maintaining systems.
My current thing is a new monthly wall white board (it’s only just about a4 size) which at least lets me keep track of the number of pages I’ve drawn.
My system for this is drawing a box with a page number to represent the page and then I add a “/” stroke to indicate it’s pencilled and a “X” when it’s been pencilled and inked (this is very satisfying)
This at least will let me keep track on whether I’ve done enough work this month or not. (answer: I have not).
