the dualist : incoming up; breather relocated.

posted 2009.02.10 at 18:41

INCOMING!

So it turns out that when you have an entire scene written, rendered, set up, and penciled... inking and shading go fast. Damned fast.

I like doing scenes this way - all renders, all pencils, all inks, all colors and cleanup, all shading, all tweaks... but I couldn't imagine sustaining it for anything longer than a couple of pages. This shit is work, yo.

Literally. Lots of work - the renders were done in December and early January, while I was still plugging away on other stages of the reformat.... and I didn't have to throw at the inks until Sunday.

"Fortunately" (har, har) I've been sick the past couple of days - when I haven't been shitting my ass off or doing the freezing-hot fever thing, I've been experiencing the joys of Bourbon-and-Tea (Chai, specifically - try it sometime!), doing the Jedi Healing Trance thing, and working on shading the new pages.

And now that all of the in-progress comic pages have been done* , it's back to the Plate O Freelance for a bit.

POF and work, assuming I don't poo my brains out tonight.

* DCR doesn't count. The next several DCR strips are ready for pencils. Thinking about it makes my brain whine like a puppy that's been kicked too many times. I'll get to it eventually, but for the time being the effort-to-reward is unfavorably disproportionate.

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