resuming the Great Work
Sep. 28th, 2007 12:27 pmI haven't had a chance to work on Absinthe these past few weeks.
I was looking through back LJ entries and realized the initial story discussions were held in the beginning of February. The project's visual scope sprawled past my initial intentions, but honestly, I feel like the launch should have happened already. I've been moving in fits and starts at best.
18 more pages to pencil before Chapter 1 is all pencilled, and there's still the AI phase to go. About 10 more pages to run through Illustrator and I'll feel like I'm ready to fill up the queue and set it loose. If I can pencil two pages a day I'll have the pencils done next Sunday. Only five more pages to pencil that I have to fill with Wormwood's wild detail. Pencilling the last of those will be an event; Illustratoring the last will pretty much mean it's time to launch.
I dug out the 2007 Hello Kitty calendar that's been lying around and got diverted by looking for a suitable nail to hang it over my drawing board. Wrote that off when it became obvious we haven't any suitable small nails in the apartment; I don't want to get caught yak-shaving by going to the hardware store. So I grabbed some post-its and put them up in a fragment of a grid. With numbers written on them.
If I draw two pages of Absinthe, I get to put a big black X on that day's post-it. If I don't... I dunno. A red zero? Let's not have to decide, huh?
I was looking through back LJ entries and realized the initial story discussions were held in the beginning of February. The project's visual scope sprawled past my initial intentions, but honestly, I feel like the launch should have happened already. I've been moving in fits and starts at best.
18 more pages to pencil before Chapter 1 is all pencilled, and there's still the AI phase to go. About 10 more pages to run through Illustrator and I'll feel like I'm ready to fill up the queue and set it loose. If I can pencil two pages a day I'll have the pencils done next Sunday. Only five more pages to pencil that I have to fill with Wormwood's wild detail. Pencilling the last of those will be an event; Illustratoring the last will pretty much mean it's time to launch.
I dug out the 2007 Hello Kitty calendar that's been lying around and got diverted by looking for a suitable nail to hang it over my drawing board. Wrote that off when it became obvious we haven't any suitable small nails in the apartment; I don't want to get caught yak-shaving by going to the hardware store. So I grabbed some post-its and put them up in a fragment of a grid. With numbers written on them.
If I draw two pages of Absinthe, I get to put a big black X on that day's post-it. If I don't... I dunno. A red zero? Let's not have to decide, huh?