Production blog 18

Hello and welcome to my last Hero Chick Production blog. As you've probably guessed, I've finished up issue #3 and it's off to the printers. I'm sorry it's been a while since I wrote one of these but I was in a mad dash to get the book done on time for it to be ready at the Long Beach Comic Expo on May 11.  Also the pages I was producing where full of spoilers and we wouldn't want to see those now would we. Maybe I'll make a process book and put it up on my deviantart after the book is out. 

But there's one more thing to talk about when it comes to a comic and that's the cover. So for this final Production blog we're gonna talk about designing the cover....

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Hey Everybody. Well good news I'm almost done with the pages for issue 3. Every page of the book is now started, I only have to finish four pages, do some touch ups and re draw a panel where I made Drew walk in a physically impossible way. Then the cover and then print. Unless I screw up royally I'll have issue #3 at the Long beach Comic Expo May 11. Now I recently finished a part of the book that I can't show you. But I'm now doing a part that comes earlier, which has one of my long time nemeses
Crowd Scenes...

Sketch Cards

Hello everybody. I've been doing sketch cards for my upcoming cons and I figured I'd like to share. 

 

 I'm doing it in the moments before and after  I start or stop my days work on the comic. 

I'm using Copic markers and I'm really enjoying the results. 

Though this post is just about sharing I'd be remiss in my duties if i don't point out that they'll be available at my Convention appearances.

Later 


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Production Blog 16.

Hey everybody...

Well I've been keeping busy. Just more of the same. This book should be finishing up soon. Not much really to talk about, so I'll just get to the pictures.

Actually I'll use this time to let you know about my convention schedule. So far I have confirmed the Long Beach Comic Expo on May 11 2013. And the Long Beach Comic Con on November 23-24. And I hope to get a table at the Comikaze expo.  

Also I'm getting to the ending of this story, so I'll have to not post one of these for a little while, don't want to spoil it.

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Hello Everybody. Well I'm still trucking along on the third issue of "The Super Cliche Hero Chick" And Finally there is an end in sight. I'm now drawing the finale of the fight, I do however have one more major scene to finish after that. There really is nothing much to say at this point except, I'm still drawing and I will get it out on time for the Long Beach One Day Comic Expo.

So I decided to talk about the end of project malaise. One thing no one tells you when you get a how to draw comics book is just how much work one of these thing is. And more so how repetitive it is. You really do end up drawing the same thing over and over again. At recent count I've drawn my character Alice 72 times (on panel I'm not counting the sketches or separating pencils and inks). Luckily I have the disposition for it. I really don't mind doing this sort of repetitive work. Some of my artist friends however have said that it would drive them mad.

That said, usually around the end of a project (though sometimes in the middle) I start to get a real boredom with the work and the work slows. Of course taking a break is not really an option, these things need to get done. And while I'm not putting out a monthly I like to have something new for each portion of the convention year. So this is where making comics really becomes work. I as an artist have to keep myself from getting bored, and more important keep that ever necessary sense of momentum.

How I tend to do this is by succumbing to my shortened attention span constructively. I do this by working out of sequence. As you know I've been doing this book scene by scene out of sequence. But when I'm working on a page and get bored I'll start another, then when I'm bored with that go back to the previous, or start yet another page (though I do cap it at three pages at a time). This keeps the process fun for me and it also keeps the pen moving. When I'm not feeling it There's always lettering to be done. When I'm tired of coming up with pencils, I often start to ink. Even when a page isn't finished, some part of it is.

This is how I keep my Momentum and over come the end of project malaise. 

And now the pretty pictures.....

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Hello all.

I've been working pretty full tilt on the book since we last talked. And haven't really been able to keep up to date with this blog.

I've been plowing my way through the fight scene, keeping with the two to three pages at a time work schedule.

There really aren't any neat stories to tell  about any of this except I recently finished the last two panels of an earlier page that I put off  because they had part of the fight scene in them. So it was kind of nice seeing where I was then as opposed to now. Well. now on to the purdy pictures.

As always from this point on....

SPOILER WARNING. 

production blog 13

Sorry I've been away so long, went off to visit my friend Dr Jigga Who and I learned that when he tells you to not press the red button on the quasi quantum time dilation generator.... don't. but anywhoo I'm back and I'm hitting the pages so much so I'm having a hard time remembering to take pictures and post them.

I'm at the fight scene now and am working on two to three pages at a time. I've found that in the action bits it keeps my energy up. It also keeps continuity easier.

Another problem has arisen while writing these Production blogs. I'm now getting into spoilerey territory. For a while I was redacting the parts of the image that would spoil things but that was driving me insane. so I decided instead to place all the spoilery stuff after the jump. Don't worry I'm still withholding really important pages. But you just got yourselves a SPOILER WARNING.

SPOILERS AFTER THE JUMP.