CLS 139
CARL'S LARGE STORY PAGE 139!!
Ha. Sometimes I'm not even sure if Carl is joking. I think he is in that last panel, but you know, that guy is terrible at comedy!
So we are nearly half way through the month and I am thrilled. I've changed my procedures and its made me very productive! When I started CLS I had the first fifty or so pages laid out almost exactly as they are here, the rest outlined. After I drew those I started making very loose layouts about 6 or seven pages in advance which devolved into almost no layouts. This is what I've been doing lately and it has been crazy stress. Everytime I finish a page I'm in the wilderness and end up doing a lot of staring. So this month I started working on eight pages simultaneously, no layouts, as a modest goal for the month ( I usually can do ten to twelve if I'm doing nothing else which is rare, but this year I plan on being Carl focused). Anyway its almost halfway through the month and I'll be done in about two days!
Remarkable. It's kind of a combination of my old way of working and how I've been doing things more recently.
I used to draw everything, then ink everything, then letter everything, up until I laid out the beginning of CLS. It was then I decided I wanted to do one page at a time, to avoid going months without inking, and I figured my pages would benefit from lettering first. So it became, light drawing, lettering, finished drawing, inking, then the next page. This was ok as long as I had detailed layouts. Problem is my layouts have been devolving lately. Truth is I kinda hate doing them. So now I'm trying to draw everything like the old way, but only for a chunk of pages. It's a small enough set that I can bounce around from page to page, doing whatever I feel without hitting any snags. A little inking here, a little lettering here, it's the new style! This makes for a lot less staring at the page. If there's something I can't figure out I move on. Less frustration, less procrastinating, less fear.
On another note I've been taking a buddy's advice and doing my best to free myself of any goal other then finishing the book. I haven't been all that interested in promoting it or even doing long posts like this. But I want to thank everyone who does come here, I plan on putting some secret contests up soon for the faithful! Ya'll are crazy. If I get ahead of myself the schedule may increase at some point. We will see!
Ha. Sometimes I'm not even sure if Carl is joking. I think he is in that last panel, but you know, that guy is terrible at comedy!
So we are nearly half way through the month and I am thrilled. I've changed my procedures and its made me very productive! When I started CLS I had the first fifty or so pages laid out almost exactly as they are here, the rest outlined. After I drew those I started making very loose layouts about 6 or seven pages in advance which devolved into almost no layouts. This is what I've been doing lately and it has been crazy stress. Everytime I finish a page I'm in the wilderness and end up doing a lot of staring. So this month I started working on eight pages simultaneously, no layouts, as a modest goal for the month ( I usually can do ten to twelve if I'm doing nothing else which is rare, but this year I plan on being Carl focused). Anyway its almost halfway through the month and I'll be done in about two days!
Remarkable. It's kind of a combination of my old way of working and how I've been doing things more recently.
I used to draw everything, then ink everything, then letter everything, up until I laid out the beginning of CLS. It was then I decided I wanted to do one page at a time, to avoid going months without inking, and I figured my pages would benefit from lettering first. So it became, light drawing, lettering, finished drawing, inking, then the next page. This was ok as long as I had detailed layouts. Problem is my layouts have been devolving lately. Truth is I kinda hate doing them. So now I'm trying to draw everything like the old way, but only for a chunk of pages. It's a small enough set that I can bounce around from page to page, doing whatever I feel without hitting any snags. A little inking here, a little lettering here, it's the new style! This makes for a lot less staring at the page. If there's something I can't figure out I move on. Less frustration, less procrastinating, less fear.
On another note I've been taking a buddy's advice and doing my best to free myself of any goal other then finishing the book. I haven't been all that interested in promoting it or even doing long posts like this. But I want to thank everyone who does come here, I plan on putting some secret contests up soon for the faithful! Ya'll are crazy. If I get ahead of myself the schedule may increase at some point. We will see!
Labels: Carl's Large Story
posted by Marcos Perez at
6:34 AM
1 Comments:
WHAAAAAT???
I didn't think it would all tie together like this.
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