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Tips on color & light from The Artist’s Guide to Color by Wendon Blake

Wow this is…. actually super helpful! Reboggling for future reference :U

Oooh~ So useful! :D

17 pages altogether and only rough sketches - seriously pathetic. But I’m too gleeful to feel ashamed about it! XD

I have to admit it was really more of a fun than a serious race with time for me so I don’t mind the result,I let myself be lazy and probably that’s why I enjoyed. ^^
(Okay there WAS a point where I thought that I just don’t wanna do this anymore and quit fully but I resisted XD)
Besides I learnt a lot, this is the first time ever when I tried to measure how fast I work on comic pages. Some pages were REALLY fast and others were extremely slow. One time it took me a WHOLE HOUR to get one age down when my brother kept talking to me - that’s another thing I learnt: when trying a challange like this, make sure you are FULLY alone! XD
I also learnt that for such a fast-job I need a story that I don’t take that seriously and don’t mind if it’s not “perfect” (unless if I get  pro and able to get down everything how I wish for first try, I’m far from that XD). Some of the pages are still unsatisfactory for me, but you know this was the BEST thing about this challange - for once I had to let go of my perfectionism and keep going after a point even if not exactly  how I wanted. Because I still can go back later to fix it once I figure what my problem is (which usually does take time for me), but if I’m stucked with details then I go extremely slow and never get anything down in the end. X(
And though this wasn’t the fastest comic I ever did, it was still the longest time that I kept doing comics. ^^
With this style I once did about 20 pages in 3-5 hours or sth. (I know it couldn’t be more because it was in one sit and I never draw longer than that for one sit. ^^’ ). BUT in that case the size was half of this one (A5 when this is A4), I also didn’t care about composition, backgrounds, paneling, interesting angles, perfect conversation or story flow - I just got down what was in my mind. The only thing I was interested in was to get their expression and gestures right - that’s always my main MAIN focus, I’m a people-person. =P

Oookay, I go back and continue it while I can but gotta leave soon. Not sure when can I finish them all. Actually I have other more urgent buisnesses but I REALLY needed a break like this. And draw mah own storyyyyy~
Missed it! TTwTT
Plus if I finish it, I’ll finally have SOME comic of this story, even if unofficial, haha. And.. I’ll talk about the pages themselves, add notes to them once you get a clear, readable version of them. XP

Thank you for everybody who followed me with it. ^^

I passed the midpoint, yeeey~

Less than 3,5 hours and 11 more pages (ack, one is not even thumbed. I guess i won’t have to worry about it anymore XD; ).

Aww, I disapoint myself. It seems I won’t even be able to make the sketched pages even. Horrible XD;

I went to bed after page 3 and slept almost 4(!) hours. I only wanted 2. *sadface*
But I haven’t slept too much in the past weeks so no wonder I guess. I also made pudding for my brother’s demand, lolz.
Anyway. A terrible mistake I realized way too late: I am soooooo much faster with a SOFT pencil than a HB, it took me awefully long to make the first 3 pages and it was almost ridiculously easy, fast and comfortable with a soft pencil. I always prefered softer pencils but it’s funny how I wasn’t aware  the difference of my own performance in speed and easy. I learnt sth new, yaaay~

Anyway, I should be faster now (and no more demands for my bro, though he keeps nagging me for cook. Nope~)
Hm, I have 8 hours left for 20 pages.This means kinda 2-3 pages per hour. XD;

Tadaaam~ Here is my creative process! (clue: on every picture there is 4 pages, that’s why so messy XD)

I’ve thumbnailed all the pages and scripted the conversations. I have one missing page though but I really have blank mind about it. =/
I’ll skip it for now and hope inspiration strikes me when I will get there. XD;

Now to the sketching. I wonder how much it faster will be with the thumbs down already. I hope I will be able to catch up with the time I’ve lost so far XD;

My goal is to make descent pencil sketch btw. I probably won’t aim for inking because I want it to be proper. We’ll see.
Also some sleep will be in order at a point but so far so good. ^^
And lastly, it feels REALLY great to finally do Age of Phoenix comics again X3
I know you who know me and my gallery asks what “again” when I don’t even have up anything AT ALL in the first place. But it’s not the case. I have plenty plenty of pages, but all are silly and outdated and sketchy. I made them for myself only. And they always entertained me so mcuh that at a point I decided to take it seriously, haha.

Ok back to work now~