Watching carousel.
Let it spin, I’m getting on it all the same.
Morning,
You’ll be pleased to know there’s no more posts gonna pop up on your socials (if they ever did?) regarding SPACEBOY & THE FUTURE KING 2 seeing as the crowdfunding campaign has finished a few days back & successfully made it’s target.
It only just made it over the line but I’ll take a win whenever I get one!
THANK YOU ALL FOR THE CONTINUED SUPPORT.
I very much look forward to getting the book in your mitts & hopefully hearing if you liked it or not?
In other news I’ve also finished the colours on the second chapter of JINGLE SQUAD, which now gives me the week to come to work on a few bits & bobs for the extra pages like the bio pics & schematic drawings for chapter pages, as well as getting the PDFs for SPACEBOY & THE FUTURE KING 2 done & resizing the pages for printing.
Then it’s back to JINGLE SQUAD & on to chapter 3.
Jingle Squad Chapter 2 complete.
It’s made me realise how my own work system, if you can call it that, operates throughout the month? If I’m cracking on with working from a script it’s just a case of one page to the next constantly moving forward to the finish line, wether that’s pencils, inking or colours, you just keep moving forward in a relatively orderly fashion.
When it comes to doing a bunch of loose end stuff as I call it, from profile drawings of the creative team to bio pics of the squad (used in their files) to schematic drawings of vehicles & equipment, it’s difficult to know where to begin? Along with the basic stuff for getting my work resized & formatted etc, which I imagine once you’ve done it a few times becomes second nature, it can all feel a little bit of a carousel lottery, all spinning around waiting for you to try & jump on?
Once you do it becomes less daunting.
Don’t forget, it doesn’t hurt to take a day for yourself as well, do something completely unrelated to give your mind a break.
While it wasn’t a completely unrelated moment I did decide to begin a much needed tidy up of the ol’ studio & I ran into some old friends…👇🏻
… I picked up that issue 1 of the SLEEZE BROTHERS on a school trip back in ‘89 hence the fold down the middle, comics always lived in my back pocket, & I’ve very fond memories of pouring over the art & enjoying the strange world these dudes seem to occupy. I didn’t know much about collecting a run of comics back then as I didn’t have access to both funds & a comic shop but I did have a great newsagent who guaranteed I could get them through him & he’d hold on to them if I was a bit skint that month? I’m pretty sure this was my first proper full set!
Fast forward to the present day & I’m extremely lucky to be working on a book who’s editor happpens to be one of the creators of these guys (as well as many many other fantastic titles) Andy Lanning!
Sorry Andy, I hope I’m not embarrassing you?!
Needless to say the tidy up mission pretty much stopped at the first couple of hurdles as I also noticed a couple of missing issues from near complete runs that I’ve since tracked down & they will be winging their way to me very soon.
Well, I guess that about wraps it up for another week, as I sit here watching the carousel spinning around I’ve got my eye focused on which one I’m gonna jump one first.
Have a great week.
Rory.