STUART
Spent my weekend trying to finish the art for a 6-page story called STUART for Chris Arrant’s FOUR STORIES anthology due out at San Diego Comicon. I came *THIS* close to finishing it Sunday, alas it needs a bit of Photoshop work.
Here is the first page, unlettered:
Babbling about comics, time and such behind this cut:
(And this cut thing is experimental, so let’s see if it works)
It took much longer than expected to finish the marker work on this story. It’s a big reminder that I’m out of practice and an even bigger reminder that LW#4 is still lying here waiting to be finished and that I need to get back to it. This 6-pager was the perfect warm-up.
It’s been like clockwork. Every time I’ve tried to get back into LW, I’ve been interrupted by client work and blown every release date I’ve announced for the past – jeezus YEAR. It’s discouraged me and as a result the art has just sat, untouched. There is clearly no way I can wrap it up and have it printed before HeroesCon, but there is still time before Chicago.
It won’t be easy. Other responsibilities are still in progress: continuing my Newsarama column, finishing the big LW web redesign, and then a few smaller things I’m not at liberty to discuss. Fortunately, work is slow. So, I’m taking two or three weeks off client work over the next six.
Arg, six weeks to Chicago. That’s not much time.
Living, eating, and breathing comics all day, every day for a six week period. I’ve done this before. I can do it again.
It’s strange. There is something enjoyable about putting myself through the trauma of sleep deprivation, the intense focus on a project, and racing to meet a difficult deadline. I guess it all comes down to one thing in the end – a feeling of accomplishment. Accomplishment is my crack.
Wish me luck in my coming zombietude.