Back at it
I've had a wonderful week, hosting and enjoying a city I love but will leave soon. Close friends and limited time tend to foster perspective, and a reminder of what's important. Assessing where I'm at in this current story and where I need to go, I am determined to have a productive week.
I have a whole lot to do in the coming month - my taxes, moving out, and investing enough time for an appropriate farewell to a place I've called home for four years. I also want to create a "packaged" version of Power Out to send to the Center for Cartoon Studies, hopefully improving my chances at their half-tuition scholarship. This will include a printed out thumbnail of the entire comic with balloons for dialogue, character design sheets and descriptions, a brief summary of the plot, and a sample of around 10 or 12 pages. Such focused ambitions have previously been aided by a certain personal asceticism that reminds me every time I look in the mirror that I'm fucking serious dammit! but I might have to hold off until my sister's wedding. It's going to be interesting figuring out how I want this book to look, and will actually try a little ink (like, black liquid stuff in a bottle that I apply with a brush) on some roughs tomorrow.
There's so much to be done this week! This might require more planning than usual.
MONDAY
Get Ready, Finish Roughs, Back to Brush Inking
7:30 - 8:30 - shower, bandage ankle, breakfast - oatmeal, psyllium, tea, cereal, OJ
8:30 - 10:00 - make list of pages I need to redo, pick two pages to ink, print pages and put them up on wall
10:00 - 12:00 - clean up studio, get out inking materials
12:00 - 2:00 - mini-roughs of added / redone pages
2:00 - 3:00 - lunch - apples w/ peanut butter, buy bananas, and fruit
3:00 - 6:00 - drawn versions of redone pages
6:00 - 7:00 - clean up closet with tax information, find 2007 forms
7:00 - 8:30 - Casa Mon Amour for dinner
8:30 - 10:30 - ink page with brush
10:30 - 11:00 - correspondence
11:00 - 11:30 - Daily Show
11:30 - 12:00 - blog
bed by midnight
TUESDAY
Start Taxes, Digital Inking, Gym
7:30 - 8:30 - shower, breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 - pick out good scenes for character design, find reference
10:00 - 12:00 - online tax forms, change / file claim
12:00 - 2:00 - digital inking
2:00 - 3:00 - break
3:00 - 5:00 - digital inking
5:00 - 7:30 - gym
7:30 - 9:00 - dinner (smoothie, chicken with green beans)
9:00 - 10:30 - start entering dialogue into pages
10:30 - 11:00 - correspondence
11:00 - 11:30 - Daily Show
11:30 - 12:00 - blog
WEDNESDAY
Finish taxes, character designs, brush inking
7:30 - 8:30 - breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 - draw character designs
10:00 - 12:00 - finish taxes, clean studio, correspondence
12:00 - 2:00 - inking, brush work on sample pages
2:00 - 3:00 - lunch
3:00 - 6:00 - brush inking of sample pages, character designs
6:00 - 7:00 - correspondence
7:00 - 8:30 - dinner, buy food
8:30 - 10:30 - enter dialogue into pages
10:30 - 11:00 - correspondence
11:00 - 11:30 - Daily Show
11:30 - 12:00 - blog
THURSDAY
Start Sample pages, Gym
7:30 - 8:30 - shower, breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 - pick out sequence for sample pages
10:00 - 12:00 - rule out paper for sample pages, dishes, housework, errands
12:00 - 2:00 - start drawing roughs for all pages
2:00 - 3:00 - break
3:00 - 5:00 - next pass
5:00 - 7:30 - gym
7:30 - 9:00 - dinner (casa mon amour)
9:00 - 10:30 - third pass
10:30 - 11:00 - correspondence
11:00 - 11:30 - Daily Show
11:30 - 12:00 - blog
FRIDAY
7:30 - 8:30 - shower, breakfast
8:30 - 11:30 - make first draft of "package"
11:30 - 2:30 - lunch, Jim Handley's
2:30 - 5:00 - drawing at Dean & DeLuca
5:00 - ? - ????
I got a Mozart double CD and a New Pornographer's album - new music always makes it easier to stay at your desk.
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