It's been around abouts 6 months since my last post, a lots happened in those months and a lots coming in the months ahead.
This summer was a horrible, nuff said. I won't be going into the details of it, this is a creative blog and during those months nothing creative happened.
But! Over the past month I have been getting back into the swing of things, getting back into the comic making game and working on the JAR comic book series again, and have gotten started on the pencils for issue one! (Screenshot below)
My own personal comic book/graphic novel series was also put on hold during this time, but I'm going to get back onto the writing of that soon, there's a new year coming and it will be one of strategic planning an execution. I need to balance several things a time,
1.creative content for JAR which includes design work of characters, environments etc, pencils inks and colours on the first issue, and storyboarding the future issues,
2. creative content on my own comic series, all the above things that I'm doing for JAR, plus plotting and script writing.
3. Planning another, yet to be disclosed, non comic book related project.
So how to do this? Well I have over the past few years watched many other artists complete (or in some cases start and not complete) a 100 days of making comics challenge!
This is a challenge that people undertake that either struggle to find the time to create comics due to day jobs or motivation, or even just do because its a fun way to organise their work flow.
The challenge is simple, find at least 30 minutes in every day to work on your comic project, for 100 days. And at the end of it you will have progressed further than you may have if you were struggling to find time and had been slacking a bit.
Some people make blogs of their progress, some videos that they post on YouTube, some may post on social media like Facebook or Twitter etc.
I'm not sure at this time which medium I will go for, videos would be the ideal way in my mind but the time needed to edit each one is adding to what will already be a busy schedule.
I will definitely be adding a daily update here on the blog, and if I can maybe a weekly update video on YouTube with the past 7 days worth of progress detailed.
Either way progress will be made!
The 100 days of making comics challenge will begin on January 1st, I will of course in the meantime be working on JAR, and my other projects, but as I can't guarantee that over the Christmas period I will be able to work on comics every single day I thought it best to hold off until afterwards.
There's no point in starting a daily challenge with a large obstacle in the way, even if it is a fun, relaxing obstacle filled with food, drink and loved ones!
Anyhow, for now here's a shot of my progress on JAR, this is a page I'm working on currently with a large fisheye view of a room filled with objects, really fun to draw but slightly time consuming, as this project isn't solely mine I'll not be explaining what anything is in too much detail, you'll just have to wait and see!
It's now 6.30am, I've relaxed for an hour since getting up, time to do an a bit of work before i have to go to...work... until next time, stay creative!
