by Tinkerbell » Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:13 am
Ooops, forgot to comment on a couple of pages (been kinda busy...)
6/8/2007: 'Getting Misplaced'
This was the last page I drew before taking that break, and it really does have 'imminent burnout' written all over it; check out the inking in the first panel, or the massive blooper with a marker pen on the third tree from the right in the second. Mike's pose in panel three might have come out well, but the inking all over the page is utterly rubbish. At the time, I was a little too tired and disillusioned to care...
7/8/2007: 'Useful things to notice...'
What a difference a break makes, huh? This was drawn on about the third day of my time on Skye, and there's a world of difference in quality; Tink's face in panels 1 and 2 is particularly good (I'm less keen on her man-chin in panel 4 >.>), and it actually looks like I care again (the evening before drawing this, of course, I'd just been writing the latter pages of the chapter, and let's just say that it was the excitement at the prospect of drawing them that spurred me onwards). The aeroplane is pretty sharp as well, considering that I drew it without any models or references, and the crash looks violent enough.
8/8/2007: '250 pages!'
I am *so* chuffed to be reaching 250 pages. Seriously. I was excited at 100 and at making it through the first year, because there I'd proved to myself that I could stay interested in something that long. 250 - particularly since this last break - not only is a more significant marker (after all, now 1,000 looks possible, and that means that the rest of the comic - which is probably headed for 2,500-3,000 pages - is beginning to seem less like a distant dream), but also signifies triumph over a year which has done its level best to leave me a wreck, never mind stop the comic.
But we're still going. Things already look good for 300, and after that there's 200 pages of plot which I can't wait to get to grips with. I owe thanks to a few people, though; mostly to Biev and Hogan, but also Cal, Foz, Chris, Naomi, Epsilon, Dom, Izzy, my band, my family and a bunch of other good people (someday I'll publish an official list and you'll all be on it ^_--).
In the mean time, I'm off to bed so that tomorrow I can get some serious stuff done without it killing me... damn real life T_T
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