Yesterday I slightly over indulged in chocolates and cake and custard and general crap. All gluten free, but still my stomach rebelled leading to a deeply uncomfortable night of no-sleep and finally hitting the sack at 5:45am. Then work up around 12ish. So I’m just … ugh… on auto pilot a bit.
Anyway, here’s last weeks to do list and what I managed.
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.
Ok, managed to get Dog tag issue 4 all pencilled, and inks started – actually inked up to page 7 too -so good progress. Nothing done of Terran Omega, though I did sit and start issue 3 – part 1 of a three part mini, the most ambitious story I’ve written, because … well, it’s longer. But also more characters and there’s things I’d like to do that are a bit complicated to explain in the plot. It starts basically as a riff on Seven Samurai but has a twist very specific to the world building I’ve done in Terran Omega and becomes, I guess, a meditation on redemption and nature/nurture.
Also, how soon we forget: saw Gorillaz. It was pretty good, Damon Albarn is pretty surprisingly low energy, I can see why the idea of an animated front man appeals to him. Best song of the set was Feel Good largely because the guest vocalist (for the one song) came on a got everyone up on their feet and singing along, after wards Albarn is a sort of stoner-like self congratulatory way said “yeah I thought he’d be good to bring on”
Anyway, this week the plan is to get as many inks as possible:
Monday – Wiped out. Maybe one page of inks.
Tuesday – DT Inks 7-8
Wednesday Inks DT 9-10
Thursday Inks DT 11-12
Friday Inks DT 13-14
Saturday TO Pencils 10-11 (double page spread) Inks 10-11 (brought over from last week)
Sunday Catch up on anything I missed.
Determined to get to the terran omega double page spread, so I might even try that today as a sort of slow low pressure task to let my brain come back up to speed.
John McCrea – a regular revisitor to this parish – was round and we spent most of the time just oogling at early Steve Dillon art in the 2000ad Steve Dillon Apex edition, Steve’s early art is a wonder. He broke in professionally at age 16, drawing, among other things, The Hulk for Marvel UK and he’s an artist who looks like he just appeared fully formed. His most recent work before his untimely passing was getting back to some of that form too, and I think we could’ve seen more great work for decades from Steve.
That’s yer lot, I’ll try and catch up mid week, it’s funny how easy it is to stop blogging and find that a week has passed.
