Why 1 year?\u00a0 I think it helps you to get that sense of confidence needed in making these sorts of books.\u00a0 Does that mean that people who take longer are wrong or messing up?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 But!\u00a0 As you are learning to make these books, especially if its not your full time job, it’s good to be completing work.\u00a0 So when I took on making Adamsville I decided that the most important thing\u00a0 for me was I wanted to finish in a year.\u00a0 I want to have a definite date for completion, if at all possible.\u00a0 I did a couple of things that helped me with this.<\/p>\n
I had a finished script.\u00a0 I took my time before hand, crafted out a outline, complete script and then sat down and broke the entire script down into pages and panels.\u00a0 Essentially giving me a road\u00a0map for the whole thing before I even put pencil to panel.\u00a0 What that helped me do was see that the whole project was about 130 pages of\u00a0completed art.\u00a0 I then realized that I had taken about two months to write so that left me ten months to work with.\u00a0 So that means I have to complete about 13 pages per month to get to my goal on time.\u00a0 Now I’m pushing to be done faster, but having that sense of certainty was really helpful in planning out my project.<\/p>\n
I had also decided that I wanted to make the book originally in black and white, but after coloring the entire first chapter, I realized that this book is coming together very quickly in fact in the color stages and that I could handle a completion rate of three or so pages a week without much of problem.\u00a0 So I decided to go ahead with that.\u00a0 But the real reason I did was that because I had a road map I could do the math and see if it was smart or not.<\/p>\n
2) Plan Your Day Better<\/strong><\/p>\n For most of us, making a comic or graphic novel occurs while also working a full time job and other responsibilities.\u00a0 But with my road map in hand I was able to take a look at what needs to happen and when to hit the goal.\u00a0 I realized that I have tons of free time throughout my day that I probably spend surfing the web, starting at a wall or whatever.\u00a0 Now I have really wanted to work all digitally but because I want to keep my home time for me and family as much as possible, I decided I had to ink and draw the book away from home as much as I could so I could free my home life up.\u00a0 It’s worked out great and I’m finishing about five to seven pages a week pretty easily right now.\u00a0 So I’m head of schedule on some aspects!<\/p>\n So think about your own life.\u00a0 When do you have time?\u00a0 How could you use it better?\u00a0 And try to be as productive with what is basically dead time as possible!\u00a0 You’ll be surprised how much you can get done if you do!\u00a0 Here’s a great post my buddy Stephen McCranie made about procrastination and time management. http:\/\/doodlealley.com\/2011\/11\/30\/be-proactive-not-reactive\/<\/a><\/p>\n Finally here is the chapter 1 image for Adamsville.\u00a0 Had fun thinking up this image.\u00a0 Work continues and will have a new post on Monday!<\/p>\n
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