New script first draft: 16 pages done
I've written a first draft of the new script. It's 16 pages. Page 16 may end up being the end of the first part with other parts following.
In all, I'm shooting for 40 pages. Why 40? Well, Create Space charges the same amount to print a 40 page color book as it does to print a book with any number of fewer pages. So, that leaves me with 24 pages left. I may do three 8 page stories or two 12 page stories. We'll see how it works out.
I'm going to move forward and start doing sketches this weekend. I'll have to figure out what the cover will look like. I have one idea, so I'll start there. I'll need a lot of acrylic paint. I'm hoping to find larger sized bottles for the most used colors, black and white. I'll see if I can find some empty containers to mixe the browns I'll need. I'll need a lot of it and it has to be a specific shade and buying it by the tube will be expensive.
I may consider Utrecht Artists' acrylic paint as they sell it by the pint and gallon (although it's like $74 a gallon on sale). A pint is $20.99. It looks like I can get just about any color in the pint size and a few in the gallon size (not that I play on buying by the gallon). They only have only four brown colors: raw sienna, burnt sienna, raw umber, burnt umber.
http://www.utrechtart.com/Acrylic-Paint-Paint.utrecht
Another option is Americana. Only available in liquid but a lot of colors for each type (ie: tons of browns). In addition to the above four, they have cinnamon, cocoa, milk chocolate, mink tan, oxblood, camel, cashmere beige, sable brown, dark chocolate, DeLane's dark flesh, expresso, traditional versions of the above 4 (not sure what makes them different from the non-traditional ones), and honey brown. The trade off is price verses a consistant color throughout the comic. Ex: If I choose to use cocoa for the sock monkeys, the color will always be the same. If I have to mix a color that looks like cocoa, they might be slightly different shades of the same color and I'll need to add the correct amount of the thick stuff with water or some other thinner. The advantage would be I'm buying the colors in bulk and since part of the cost in the Americana stuff is the water/thinner used to thin it, I'm getting more paint. So, it'll be cheaper by some degree.
http://www.decoart.com/cgi-bin/ColorChart.cgi?Americana_Acrylics
In all, I'm shooting for 40 pages. Why 40? Well, Create Space charges the same amount to print a 40 page color book as it does to print a book with any number of fewer pages. So, that leaves me with 24 pages left. I may do three 8 page stories or two 12 page stories. We'll see how it works out.
I'm going to move forward and start doing sketches this weekend. I'll have to figure out what the cover will look like. I have one idea, so I'll start there. I'll need a lot of acrylic paint. I'm hoping to find larger sized bottles for the most used colors, black and white. I'll see if I can find some empty containers to mixe the browns I'll need. I'll need a lot of it and it has to be a specific shade and buying it by the tube will be expensive.
I may consider Utrecht Artists' acrylic paint as they sell it by the pint and gallon (although it's like $74 a gallon on sale). A pint is $20.99. It looks like I can get just about any color in the pint size and a few in the gallon size (not that I play on buying by the gallon). They only have only four brown colors: raw sienna, burnt sienna, raw umber, burnt umber.
http://www.utrechtart.com/Acrylic-Paint-Paint.utrecht
Another option is Americana. Only available in liquid but a lot of colors for each type (ie: tons of browns). In addition to the above four, they have cinnamon, cocoa, milk chocolate, mink tan, oxblood, camel, cashmere beige, sable brown, dark chocolate, DeLane's dark flesh, expresso, traditional versions of the above 4 (not sure what makes them different from the non-traditional ones), and honey brown. The trade off is price verses a consistant color throughout the comic. Ex: If I choose to use cocoa for the sock monkeys, the color will always be the same. If I have to mix a color that looks like cocoa, they might be slightly different shades of the same color and I'll need to add the correct amount of the thick stuff with water or some other thinner. The advantage would be I'm buying the colors in bulk and since part of the cost in the Americana stuff is the water/thinner used to thin it, I'm getting more paint. So, it'll be cheaper by some degree.
http://www.decoart.com/cgi-bin/ColorChart.cgi?Americana_Acrylics