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title: Progress!
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author: nek0
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- english
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- writing
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- comic
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description: "An update on my endeavours since my last blogpost"
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Hi there!
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Once again I have to apologise for not having updated my blog in such a long
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time. But here I am and I'm trying my best to summarise what has happened so
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far.
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Long story short: I was busy. Very busy.
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I expected drawing a comic alongside my dayjob would be dificult and time
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consuming, especially if I wanted to finish it in the foreseeable future. I
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shelved my other projects, especially the gamedev ones, so I would have the
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focus needed for this. I'm not entirely happy with this arrangement, since I
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also enjoy doing gamedev, but I can't draw a comic and shave a yak at the same
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time.
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So I set out to draw the first comic out of the upcoming series and started out
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with the storyboards and used those later to create page layouts. I did several
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iterations on the layouts until I was satisfied. Before that I did not know for
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sure, how many pages the comic would even have. After that I started with the
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actual drawing. I did that for a month without a schedule, because I did not
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know how fast or slow I would progress.
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To my surprise I made progress quite quickly and was able to put out around a
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page a week. A great help in this regard also was the decision to keep the
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comic mostly in grayscale. With this data I could make a rough estimate and set
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myself a reasonable schedule. I expect to be finished with the first comic
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around the end of February next year.
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Since I would like my comic to be actually read by people, I also dod some
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research on how to promote it, once it's out. There were several options, but in
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the end I am going to apply at the webcomic collective [SpiderForest][sf] and
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already joined their Discord community to get to know each other.
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So much for what hapened in the past two months or so. Now you ,ay have a sneak
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peek at the comic itself:
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With all that I wish you also merry christmas and a good start into the new
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year.
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Keep calm and wash hands.
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[sf]: https://spiderforest.com
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