Sleepy, but cheerful

[layla]

I'm kind of amazed ... I've penciled and inked five pages of Midnight Sun in the last day and a half (all day today, and Friday evening, plus doing a bit of penciling after class on Thursday). And they're nice looking pages. I'm very happy with them. Unfortunately I can't scan them because my scanner driver is a fekkin' piece o' crap. It's finally gotten to the point where it's completely unusable -- when I try to preview the scan, it freezes up the computer every single time. Oddly, it worked ... well, not FINE, but reasonably okay, for five years only to suddenly crap out (not all at once, but in fits and starts) over the last month. It might fix it to reinstall the drivers, but I bought it five years ago, and I have no clue where the disk is (if I even still have it).

So I'll go in to work tomorrow and scan the pages. I have very little touch-up to do -- for MS I'm doing the art different YET AGAIN and doing almost everything by hand instead of toning/lettering on the computer; I'm back to cross-hatching and hand-lettering again!

I'm also very happy at how a certain character has turned out on paper, because I've had him in my head for over 10 years, and had a bugger of a time getting him to look right in the preliminary sketches -- but the final inked version is just perfect (slightly young-looking, but I think my mental image of him *is* younger than he was originally supposed to be; there's no reason why I can't age him down a bit). Most of the main MS cast were conceived for a different story while I was in high school; I'm a shameless recycler of old characters!

Tomorrow, while I'm at it, I'll also scan the five inked pages of Kismet: Hunter's Moon that are sitting here ready to go. Next weekend, the plan is to do final touch-ups on the Raven's Children book and color HM pages.

Comments

[arcana-j.livejournal.com]

Five pages!? Color me impressed!

Oh, an I too am a shameless recycler of old characters.

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Of course today has been a total waste to make up for it. I can't figure out where the day went -- I mean, I did drive into town to scan them, but all of a sudden the day is gone and I have not much to show for it, so it's a good thing I got the project mostly done yesterday. ^_^

[neosquirrel.livejournal.com]

Isn't it absolutely gratifying when you can get a character you've always had in your mind's eye completely evolved to get it cranked out?

One of my characters, Zip (a human/animal hybrid) was this evolution of leads over the years that was this amalgam of coolness, agility, well dressed, adventure and confidence that makes him my most beloved character of all. And yet, my Li'l' Bolty character/mascot was created in all of a minute, first try, from a warmup sketch. And he's just as much fun to put into motion as Zip.

I need to get back to my sketchpad soon... all this writing is making lose sight of the other half of my very being.

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

We independent comics creators are such well-rounded people. Not for us the confines of ONE creative outlet. Writers? Pah! Artists? Feh! We can do it all, baby.