"There aint no startin' back once arteries start to squeeze.."

Little bit more on the comic - started a new sketchbook. Getting really into my layouts, feel like I'm getting them tighter and tighter. Need to do more though. 

"Look out honey, because I'm using technology.."

Just posting up some stuff - been lax, but also really busy so I don't feel that bad. More of the same really, I'm trying to work out a problem with the comic at the moment. 

"Losing my favourite game.."

Phew! Been really busy this last week and weekend - no time to myself and no drawing time. 

An added bonus was leaving my sketchbook at a gig I did on Monday - luckily after a few days of phone calls I finally managed to contact the venue and I'm picking it up tomorrow - so I'll post some stuff up soon - probably late Friday night. 

Looking forward to doing some recording this weekend - I've been doing a lot with the band recently, but it's been really long time since I did some 'solo' stuff. Going to clean out the front room and just muck about and hopefully sample the results later. 

"I'm the garbage collector.."

"Gouge away, you can gouge away.."

Only one page (and a bit) but I feel like I actually made some progress today. I quickly realised plotting out the whole story is going to take me longer than I thought, at least if it's to be worthwhile.

I think I'm going to carry on the way I'm doing it now - three steps forward, two steps back. I've found that by redoing the earlier panels each time I add new ones I can get a sense of the pace of the comic and whether the storytelling is tight enough or not. Each time I do it I'm streamlining the story a little and adding little details - or taking them away.

Hit a wall at the end of todays work so I left a page half done. I felt I was getting sloppy anyway. Pretty pleased with the basic idea of the first eight pages so far anyway. This was supposed to be a short story though...

Also pissed about with the scanner. I don't know why. It's probably because I'm a fucking child.  

"Kiss could've killed me, if it were not for the rain.."

Some new bits. Not much because I have been weathering headaches recently. Whereas the brainstorming before felt like I was making progress, I feel like I'm just being pinickity with this latest lot. A lot of useful nice little touches came to me but I should just lay out the whole story in one rough swoop instead. I always find when I do that I get so rough that I may as well not plot out anything. So there's obviusly a middle ground to be found there. 

Did some looking at various comic artists for references/inspiration. I'm going to try and do more poses without references but I'll still look up everything else. 

By the end of this week I think I should aim to have both comics roughly plotted - not sure which one I want to do first though. But I know enough about each of them to plot them out and then I can go to town designing each panel, playing with the sound effects etc. 

I should and could write it all out in text first but funnily enough neither comic has any dialogue in so it just seems boring and more useful to plot it out by drawing. 

One of these days I'm going to get the time to cook dinner, draw, post a blog and read something before bed. One of these days. 

"Got me so down I got me a headache.."

Been doing very little work - seem to have been having non-stop but mild headaches at the moment. Very annoying. Will be back on track soon. Have some stuff to post up but I'm going to wait until it's more substantial.