Well, that didn't take long...
Yesterday I started digging into what I would consider the "meat" of Big Apple Monsters Issue 1. In two several-hour stints separated by a lunch, I roughed out pages 3-13 of the book. I wanted to get to 16 to be halfway through the roughing stage, but it was not to be. Several technical and motivational obstacles got in the way.
The morning went pretty well, but I found the afternoon session to be emotionally difficult. I was getting into new stuff that I hadn't roughed out in any form before, and I think that's where the fear came from. It doesn't help that there's a big talky bit in the middle of the issue that I'm afraid will be totally boring, and it's really static so it's a challenge to draw.
It's hard enough to convince myself that it's a legitimate thing to spend all day drawing comics, so my brain is going to be finding all sorts of ways to undermine and side-track me as this project wears on. I just wanted to start documenting it now to try to rob it of some of its power.
Okay, back to roughing. I'm pumped for day three.
The morning went pretty well, but I found the afternoon session to be emotionally difficult. I was getting into new stuff that I hadn't roughed out in any form before, and I think that's where the fear came from. It doesn't help that there's a big talky bit in the middle of the issue that I'm afraid will be totally boring, and it's really static so it's a challenge to draw.
It's hard enough to convince myself that it's a legitimate thing to spend all day drawing comics, so my brain is going to be finding all sorts of ways to undermine and side-track me as this project wears on. I just wanted to start documenting it now to try to rob it of some of its power.
Okay, back to roughing. I'm pumped for day three.