After a marathon month of working on page 3, work has kind of ground to a halt. The bulk of my time now focuses on redesigning my brother’s website in preparation for the premiere of his indie feature. And even there, the tech work is dwarfing the creative. Trying to wrangle CSS and javascript so that it works across Firefox, Safari, and IE really hurts.
I’m attending Siggraph this week and yesterday picked up a couple of art books from Ballistic. Digital Painting 2 and Concept Art. Very informative and inspirational.
I did put in a couple hours last night on the beginnings of page 4, and I think have finally cracked the staging problem I’d been wrestling with trying to show how Lirielle drops from one walkway to another.
Right now my brother’s website is taking priority. So the page 4 update is probably 3 or 4 weeks away. That’s a long time between installments! The story is crawling along. I’m tempted to just write prose or screenplay format and post it along with one illustration on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, just to try and get things on a more regular schedule. We’ll see. I’m really enjoying the comic art creation. Maybe I’ll just have to get looser and not spend so much time per panel.
