I’ve barely tracked what I’ve done and it felt like I did nothing. Partly just down to me not being abkle to keep the workload straight in my head, but it turns out I did more this month than I expected (with the caveat that I can only invoice for completed pages (pencils and inks) and I need to do about 18 to make enough money to pay the bills and service debts and pay the tax man every mont).
So the top level how much work is pencils: 24 pages, Inks 14.
I finished inking Wormy and Me – a 10 page short for Ahoy comics.
Then I pencilled and inked 12 pages of Dredd – two episodes (I though I was running late, but two in a month is ok)
And finally, pencils on a Medal of Honor story (true stories of American soldiers who’ve won the medal of honor which pay ok(ish) and require an insane amount of research not to mention the moral headache I have every time I do one – so this is the last one)
And, upon discovering that I’m due to have a leopard from Lime street finished, I ended up pencilling a chunk of that over the weekend. It’ll be late, but the editor tells me I’ve plenty of time.
Didn’t enjoy not tracking it all, week by week I like knowing if I’ve done enough, this month I felt like I hadn’t (and really I sort of haven’t)
Outside of that, we filmed part of the short film we’re doing as the final poart of this short film course for making short films I was on. So that was a fun non-comic day.
(Yesterday was the 28th year of me meeting my wife, so I didn’t do much work then. just lots of emails first thing in the morning)
Coming up this next month:
Dredd ep4 and ep5 and finishing leopard (6 pages of inks) and inking the Medal of Honor stuff (maybe – we’ll see)
No time for fiddling in the world of the 64 page digest, nor even for doing this other creator owned pitch. I need to have a 48 page month before I can bank the time to do anything else…
Anyway, new month, let’s go