Don't ask me how I did it; I'm as astonished as anyone. But after six months I'm done writing, and after what seems like 200 years I'm done arranging dialog boxes. Art Spiegelman did 'em by hand; I used technology. I hope that by doing so I haven't given the book a mechanical look. Anyway, I've been tweaking words for half a year forcing myself not to start drawing this thing. But the waiting is over and I'm giddy as a school girl.
This major shift in project management (moving from writer to artist) will be interesting to observe.
- Will my blog posts improve? My subject/predicate synapses will now be bored!
- Will my whining about tedium decrease? Let's hope so!
- Will my dopamine transmitters unleash euphoric brain chemicals? I can't wait!
- How long will drawing Draft Four (thumbnail sketches) take?
- How will my initial readers respond? I've got 30 names I'm going to invite to "proof read" this thing with me. I'm going to ask them to invite their friends in secular university (age 18-22) to join us.
- Will I migrate to the drawing table I set up?
- Or will I be able to do these prelim drawings on the couch where I've planted myself?
- Will my decision to start drawing thumbnails rather than making full character design pages help or hurt? I plan on making up each character on each page and collect these into individual folders for each individual character.
It's too dark to make a video so here are some photos of my labor since last Dec.
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| You've seen this before (64 pages) |
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| 228 pages with scotch tapes faces inside |
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| The world's most boring photo! (228 pages of scribbled character seating arrangements) |
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My pride and joy, Draft Four (229 pages waiting for thumbnail sketches)
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| The whole she-bang (with chapter division chart) |
NOTE: As I add thumbnail sketches to Draft Four I'll be calling it Draft Five.
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