It's Over

OK, I was really busy and really tired, so I forgot to come last night. Oh well, the only thing I was going to say was that I'm finished, I didn't reach my goal, but I got close enough at 40 pages.

Oh well, it was fun. I feel really good seeing that huge pile of paper on my desk and knowing that I wrote and drew all of that. I guess I'll go back and rewrite them and then continue on making more comic pages. I really needed something like this to get me out of my fear of not being able to make a comic right.

Maybe one day you'll see it online. Let's hope.

Day Twenty-Nine

So I managed to get six more pages done today, bringing me up to 40 pages of comic done. So I guess it is possible to finish all 50 before the end of the month.

So yay!

Day Twenty-Eight

OK, today's my birthday and... I lost my camera. I could find it today so I didn't get any pictures. There wasn't much to take pictures of anyway. It was just me eating a lot of food because everyone wanted to make me excellent birthday meals. And the only gift I got was 21 dollars, part of which I spent on a cup of coffee, a book, and a miny crop circle kit.

I did manage to get a picture of the book:

The book's OK so far.

I also managed to get two more pages done of my comic. I was hoping to get five pages done, but after being pulled around town because someone was getting bored and wanted to go for a walk. She even had the nerve to say that it was her birthday gift to me. The first thing we did once we left the house was try to visit one of her friends. I mean, I guess I could have used my birthday power to make her go where I wanted, but I don't like ordering people around.

Day Twenty-Seven.5

OK, technically it's the 28th, but it's just barely the 28th, so technically I didn't miss a day. Well, I didn't miss a day in posting. I did miss a day of comic creating. After half the day spent in court and a bunch of other little things, and waking up early after a few hours sleep, I was exhausted, so I ended up sleeping the rest of the day, and tomorrow (technically today) is promising to be as complicated.

Because it's my birthday tomorrow! I'll be turning 21 years old. Don't worry, I'll try to remember pictures. Not that I'm sure you're worrying about it. Oh well. I'll try to get some stuff done tomorrow. Maybe I'll try not sleeping.

Day Twenty-Six

Yes, I skipped another day. I was way too busy and stuff. But today I'm finally back on track, I made one page of comic today. I'm so far behind. I'm ten pages behind and I only have a few days left before I call this to an end. Maybe fifty pages wasn't so easy. All you need is a few days of getting distracted to fall far behind.

Not only that but tomorrow I'm going with a friend to court, she says she can help me get a job there, and the day after that I have my birthday and either on my birthday or the day after I'm going to Capital Ex, which means I'll be gone for the whole day. So things are starting to get a little more in the way.

Although, come to think of it, even if I don't reach all fifty pages by the end of the month, it will still be an accomplishment. I've never gotten this far in a comic before. And I plan to continue after this month is over. Someday I'll finish the comic completely and it will be awesome.

Day Twenty-Four

Oh, wow, I kind of forgot about this, haven't I? Well, that's because things haven't been going very well. I sort of peaked out at thirty pages. I still have time to get things done, but life has sort of been getting in the way. Well, life and laziness.

Well, knowing the way things usually go, I'll have one day of writing a huge amount. I just need one good day alone in my room with no internet, then I'll get a lot done.

Day Fourteen.

I got five more pages under my belt with this day, this is also the day that I reached the half way point. I'm starting to think that 50 pages was too easy. I'm glad that I'm actually getting it done, and that I'll be able to finish before the end of the month, but it kind of takes the excitement of a tight deadline.

Oh well, I've made more pages of comic today that I have in the past year of my life, so that's good as well.

Day Twelve

Well, it's been an OK day for me. I managed to listen to Nyan cat for 4 and a half hours before I had to shut it up because I was going a little crazy and feeling nauseous. I also managed to get two pages done, but only to realize that I've hit the end of the first story arch. I'm not sure what I'm going to do now. I can either start it over to make it flow better or I can start on the next story, which will either be Noah, Mandy, and John, or someone else.

I'm thinking that I start with someone else and then have John sort of stumble into the story with other characters, and then later is pulling into his own story arch by Mandy and such. It gets a little confusing and you don't know what's happening and when, at least that's what I hope it turns out as. Nothing is easier to make than crap, unless that crap turns out to be good, then crap can be hard to make.

So yeah, lots of things going on in my mind, while very little is happening outside of it. For example, I've just had ten Doctor Who fanfics in my head that star me, while none of what I daydreamed about actually happened in real life. Ain't life grand?

Day Eleven

OK, before you say anything, I think you should know what I totally intended to get work done today and I will totally make up for it tomorrow. Besides, I'm a page ahead, so I'm only a partial page behind. If that makes sense. It shouldn't because it's late and I'm starting to feel a little dizzy. I think I should go to bed immediately without work.

Day Ten

OK, I've finished another five pages today. I'm feeling pretty good. With that fifth page I'm a day ahead of where I should be. Because I counted the pages I needed to do a day to easily pass the fifty page mark, and today I needed to be at 16 pages. Well, guess who just made it to 17 pages today!

OK. I know I shouldn't be bragging, but I'm feeling pretty good, despite the fact that I read over what I've created and realized how it moves too fast and makes little sense. I've written away most of it what I've already done as a dream, and it makes so much more sense. Especially since I explained that the main character was in a car accident and the dream was a garbled mess of memories, not to mention that he's being haunted by a demon out to steal the souls of people who have lost their identity.

Day Nine

Nothing keeps you focused on things like comic book making like having several other things that you have to do.

I managed to make six pages today. I'm almost all caught up in my goal for this half of the month. In fact, if I'm get more productive before I go to sleep, which is likely, I might be able to take a long break to finish the things I should be doing. Especially that novel I promised a friend that I would have finished before my birthday on the 28th.

Yup, all I need are a few very productive days to make up for weeks worth of unproductive days. I'm not blind to the fact that many days of semi-productivity is more productive than a few days of super-productivity spaced out between weeks of unproductivity. Still, those super-productive days sure feel better than semi-productive days.

I even had time to take the long walk to the store, buy groceries and carry them back. With my little brother in tow no less. (OK, he's just my younger brother, he gave up being my little brother years ago). It's been raining all this morning and it still looked cloudy so we dressed for rain, then the sun came out and we were cooking, then we got back and it started raining again. But it was after it started raining again that I became super-productive. Maybe there's a correlation.

Day Eight

Well, I guess I just had another day of no productivity. I hardly got anything done. I feel a little bad about it. I'll probably be able to get at least one page done before I go to sleep, but for the most part I've been focused on other things.

I'm still confident that I'll reach my goal, after all I'm a tenth way there, which means I'm not even half way behind. I'll spend all of tomorrow focusing on getting pages done.

Day Seven

I've managed to get three more pages done, and I have to say, why didn't anyone tell me making comics was so hard?

I knew it wasn't going to be easy and it would require a bit of work, but people also say the same about novels and I've written a few of those. But it takes me half an hour to draw one page of comic, and I'm not even drawing the details or even trying to draw well. And that one page of comic moves the story along as much as one paragraph in a novel. Not to mention that I decided to read over what I had so far and nothing makes sense. None of the pages seem to flow together. It jumps around much more than I meant it to, I meant it to be a bit jumpy and inconsistent, but their conversation changes so quickly it's like they have ADD.

Not to mention the fact that it's so hot out that the only way I could be comfortable enough to get any work done was to strip down to my underwear. I'm so glad I have a room to myself to hang out half naked.

But at least I've managed to get three more pages down before it's time to sleep. I aimed for three pages and I've gotten three pages. And now I have a whole new respect for comic creators. Comic book writing isn't considered one of the more respected goals, but it takes more effort to write and draw (even if it's just a very rough sketch) one page of comic than it does to write one chapter of a novel, and the story that passes in one chapter of a novel is probably worth fifty pages of comic. The good news is that I won't run out of pages to draw, but the bad news is that I have so many more pages to draw.

Day Six

Since there was nothing really happening as I was at my friend's, I didn't see any point in posting any results. I was planning what I would write/draw during my time off from all work, but it wasn't until today that I've drawn anything.

But unlike the past five days, I've actually gotten some work done. I have two pages sketched out and so far it's going exactly how I pictured it. But it's a little hard to do surrealism when I have a very literal mind. I tend to look at metaphors in a more literal light, so some of what I'm trying to do is a little hard. At least it's still in the rough sketch stage. I still have a lot of work before I feel like showing it to anyone.

I'm still ten pages behind on what I should be, but things don't have to be perfect just yet. I still have a lot of time. But now that I'm home and can work on this in the solitude of my own house, I'm feeling pretty good about it.

Day Three

OK, I missed a post for Day two because there was nothing to say. And there's nothing to say today as well. In fact, knowing how things are as I stay at my friend's place, there probably will be nothing to say until Tuesday. I really wish that wasn't the way it was, but it's hard to get anything done when among friends. Also, there are a few other things that I tried to get done before July started, but I wasn't able to, so I have to try and finish them along side this little challenge I set myself.

Day One

There were a few things that I imagined the first day would work out. I would sit down on my bed with a piece of paper, I would scribble down a few boxes to get an idea on how the layout would look like, and then I would write and draw the first three or four pages of my comic.

Well, I'm not on my bed. I'm not even in the house that my bed lives in. I've decided to start this comic book writing challenge at my friends house. Partly because she's having trouble breathing at night and partly because she guilted me into it. Another thing is that I haven't even touched a piece of paper today, not counting the clutter of notes my friend has laying around.

So, 15 hours into my personal challenge, and I'm already getting lazy. But to be fair, I haven't been able to sleep well for a long while, and I saw a dead cat today.

I'll try to get at least one page done before I collapse by the end of today. Fingers crossed.

The Time is Near

In one week I'll be starting my 2011 and first comic month. I'm excited, and nervous, and thinking, and many other emotions. I do have some sort of a story going, and I do have some art skills that I can rely on. So it shouldn't be too hard. And since I've been teaching myself to draw fast, I can do a rough comic page in five minutes (time might be exaggerated).

Still, I'll be using this week to finish up other projects that I have going (A novel and a novel size Invader Zim fan fiction), and relaxing a bit before I wind myself up again.

But when this is all finished, who knows. I might start fixing it up and making it into a web comic. But don't worry (in case you were worrying), I'll let you know where I put it.