Tomorrow night we hand in our "process books" of everything we did over the semester. I'll spend this afternoon cleaning and polishing it all, i think.
As my regular readers know, Ive been thinking about doing a webcomic. There are some obvious pros and cons. I may as well think aloud for a moment:
Pros:
I really need the practice. Doing a weekly comic would sharpen my illustration skills a lot. If you look at anyone who's done a webcomic for a year or so, it really makes them blossom. There comes a point when you have to stop saying "when I get better" and just make yourself better through disciplined practice.
I could use the exposure. A library of finished, polished material would be good for my portfolio.
it would be fun. And it would keep me off the streets.
Cons:
Im too slow. Things are slow now, and i seem to have time for this, but I need to be job-hunting. It takes forever to do one of these. Its a fearful comittment.
Its hard on the wrists. Im already wearing carpal-tunnel braces all day and designing my life around keeping my wrists happy. Isnt time I found a hobby that was easy on my hands, since all the work I do is so hard on them?
Anyway, these are things I think about. Meanwhile, here is the first "test" page, which is an idea, more or less, of what a webcomic might look like.
For those of you keeping score, it took all of yesterday (sat) to layout and draw (and I do mean all) and I finished it this morning.
It's OK. the challenge would be to do a lot better.