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Jul. 14th, 2004 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashThe timer on my PDA went off ten minutes ago, pulling me out of my doze. No more pages got done; my "nap" turned into "went to sleep".
Insufficient practice at sleep deprivation, and the urge to show off by scanning each page, combined to kill it. It took at least fifteen minutes per scan; that's two and a half quite-conscious hours I could have spent getting to page 15 or thereabouts (factoring in time staring at the paper thinking what now?!? - I still haven't come up with any idea how it ends) and maybe even inertia wasted - I could kinda feel myself losing the groove. If I was going to try the show-offy stunt of scanning each page as it was done again, I'd want a combination of paper and scanner size such that I could just throw the page on the scanner and get it all in one go, maybe two for a spread. A faster one, too - 100dpi full color is not exactly fast over USB.
(I used a vermillion Col-Erase for my roughs, scanned in color, and dropped out everything but the red channel to get rid of the pencils.)
Running out of black Prismacolor didn't help, either. Though I tried - the only parts that were filled in black on the computer instead of on paper are the big shot of the rock-grinder, and a lot of the tentacles.
Things I referred to deliberately, by pulling it out or by swiping an image from a still-fresh reading:
Page size was 16x12.5" for each spread. Medium was vermillion col-erase, and the pens I had lying around: fine-point fountain pen, half-empty black Prismacolor markers, medium Penstix, black india ink with #2 brush. I think I gripped the Prismas a little hard while trying to fill in some of the blacks; my hand kinda aches still.
I'm going to relax a bit, and would certainly like to finish this up in the next couple of days, probably in another marathon. I think there's a few other bits of art I need to do first, though. And if I try a 24-hour comic again, I will not try to post each page as they're done...
Oh, and thanks for all the amusing commentary, folks. *giggle*
(Also: next time, warm up with general doodling first.)
Insufficient practice at sleep deprivation, and the urge to show off by scanning each page, combined to kill it. It took at least fifteen minutes per scan; that's two and a half quite-conscious hours I could have spent getting to page 15 or thereabouts (factoring in time staring at the paper thinking what now?!? - I still haven't come up with any idea how it ends) and maybe even inertia wasted - I could kinda feel myself losing the groove. If I was going to try the show-offy stunt of scanning each page as it was done again, I'd want a combination of paper and scanner size such that I could just throw the page on the scanner and get it all in one go, maybe two for a spread. A faster one, too - 100dpi full color is not exactly fast over USB.
(I used a vermillion Col-Erase for my roughs, scanned in color, and dropped out everything but the red channel to get rid of the pencils.)
Running out of black Prismacolor didn't help, either. Though I tried - the only parts that were filled in black on the computer instead of on paper are the big shot of the rock-grinder, and a lot of the tentacles.
Things I referred to deliberately, by pulling it out or by swiping an image from a still-fresh reading:
- the Tao Te Ching
- Froud and Lee's Faeries (I was going to call the 'rock-grinder' a coblynau, a type of mine-spirit, but there wasn't room for that)
- Ian McDonald, King of Morning, Queen of Day
- A few fragments of my own slow-brewing comic Drowning City
- The results of a Google Images search for 'handgun' (my lack of practice in drawing guns has never felt so painfully obvious as it did last night)
Page size was 16x12.5" for each spread. Medium was vermillion col-erase, and the pens I had lying around: fine-point fountain pen, half-empty black Prismacolor markers, medium Penstix, black india ink with #2 brush. I think I gripped the Prismas a little hard while trying to fill in some of the blacks; my hand kinda aches still.
I'm going to relax a bit, and would certainly like to finish this up in the next couple of days, probably in another marathon. I think there's a few other bits of art I need to do first, though. And if I try a 24-hour comic again, I will not try to post each page as they're done...
Oh, and thanks for all the amusing commentary, folks. *giggle*
(Also: next time, warm up with general doodling first.)
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Date: 2004-07-14 12:39 pm (UTC)It was inspirational at least. Made me jealous, if I'd thought of a talking gun, I wouldn't have too much trouble coming up with things for it to say. So much time with firearms fanatics I'd just string their stories together tied by bullet.
I tried a test over lunch, to see what if I could do a page in 60 minutes. I... um... sort of succeeded. I'll post it tonight. Pretty much, trying to keep up with you.
Ya, I thought about how much time scanning would take for me, and decided it'd be unworkable. Motivating though, I suppose...
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Date: 2004-07-14 01:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-14 04:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-14 09:06 pm (UTC)-T'
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Date: 2004-07-14 10:40 pm (UTC)So take care of yourself for a bit, and then give us the rest of the story! Cos it were really cool :)
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Date: 2004-07-26 11:05 am (UTC)I wouldn't have tried this at all if I hadn't seen you attempt it. Learning from your mistakes and your advice helped - I passed the scanning off on a friend and didn't worry about posting anything. I used LJ as a motivating time marker, but one that I could deal with in under a minute.