Creating a wormhole in time through sickness

Somehow I managed to accomplish this task.

First thing you must do is to catch a cold. I did this with the aid of my lovely daughter Hayden.

Take a bow Hayden!

Next, decide that you're going to take it easy and do little beyond resting and watching TV.

Today I watched:
Avatar the Last Airbender (3 EP)
Caprica (2 Ep)
True Blood (4 EP)

I took a 3 hour nap in the afternoon and had a shower.

And somewhere in that jumble I lettered and inked 2 pages of comics.

The only plausible explanation.

I'm considering taking further advantage to this time/space disconnect to learn piano, take up Wizardry and maybe write a self help book, which should be available in stores tomorrow if this keeps up.

January 2011 starts with a bang!

OVER ALL RESULTS

January 4th-31st

32 pages finished

Yep, that was a heck of a month but the results are worth it! Seems I average a good 8 pages a week and this is without question the most comics pages I've ever produced (excluding 24 Hour Comics) in a month. 

If I can maintain this I should be done the drawing part of the book in 2-3 months.... Then I have to go back and start colouring all those pages! The only bump I foresee in the next while would be Wizard Con in Toronto, March 18-21st. Looking forward to it though!

It's been good clocking my hours and figuring out how much work I can handle in a week to be able to plan ahead and get a sense of how long it will take to produce pages. I'm sure my next project will be a whole different ball game but I'm pretty consistent with Angora Napkin pages it seems.

No more weekly blather and analysis in February. I'll think up something else to go on about. Expect to be both thrilled and disappointed in equal measure with every post!

Week 3 Stats

I wasn't sure how close or off the the mark I'd be this week. I had a good number of distractions (ie: new laptop, Avatar: Season 2, college talk, etc.) but some how managed to hit it once more.

RESULTS
January 17-22
8 finished pages
39 Hours (aprox)

Special thanks to Red 6's Jek Porkins (RIP) 

for the encouragement to Stay On Target.

Week 2 Stats

Let's keep this brief and to the point:

January 10th-15th.
8 finished pages.
46 Hours.

Boom.

Day 5 / End results

Over the weekend I managed to thumbnail out all next weeks pages and finish one more.

Breakdown:
Roughs/Thumbs:    3.5 Hours
Pencils:                     .5 Hours
Lettering:                .85 Hours
Inks:                      1.35 Hours

Total:                     6.2 Hours


TOTAL WEEK:    8 PAGES @ 36 HOURS

So there you go. Next week I'll not bother with the annoying daily breakdown and save the results until the end of the week. I got a lot out of this little experiment of putting myself under the microscope and can't wait to get back at drawing tomorrow morning!

Day 4 - True Grit

2 more pages done and in good time!

Breakdown:
(2.5 out of 5 for difficulty / challenging)

Roughs:      2.7 Hours
Pencils:          1 Hour
Lettering:    1.2 Hours
Inks Pg 1:   .65 Hour
Inks Pg 2: 1.25 Hours

Total:           6.8 Hours


This has been a pretty challenging week (that only started on Tuesday for me) but I'm really happy with the progress so far. I'm getting a good idea about what it takes to do this stuff on a proper schedule and how long it takes me to do the work. It's also reminding me what it's like to look forward to the weekend so I can take a break!

Tonight's reward: Going to see "True Grit"!
Tomorrow's plan: Tumbnail out next weeks work and do one page.
Sunday: I'm taking Sunday the frig off.

Day 3 - Going Public!

Another page done! A little bit out of order; I left my thumbnails for Pg 55 at home so I jumped into Pg 56 as there was no continuity issues that required me to have 55 done first.

I roughed out the page at the coffee shop and then Livestreamed the inking later that night. Unfortunately the Livestream didn't seem to record so if you missed it, you missed it forever!

Today's Stats (one page):
(I'd give it a 3 out of 5 for difficulty / complexity)

Roughs:    1.8 Hours
Pencils:     .65 Hours
Lettering:  .55 Hours
Inking:     1.65 Hours

+ Ruling out 20 blank pages:  1 Hour

Total:     5.65 Hours

Roughing the page while hanging out with Brenda

Tomorrow I'm going to shoot for a 2 page day if I can manage it.