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+title: Progress!
+author: nek0
+tags:
+- english
+- writing
+- comic
+description: "An update on my endeavours since my last blogpost"
+---
+
+Hi there!
+
+Once again I have to apologise for not having updated my blog in such a long
+time. But here I am and I'm trying my best to summarise what has happened so
+far.
+
+Long story short: I was busy. Very busy.
+
+I expected drawing a comic alongside my dayjob would be dificult and time
+consuming, especially if I wanted to finish it in the foreseeable future. I
+shelved my other projects, especially the gamedev ones, so I would have the
+focus needed for this. I'm not entirely happy with this arrangement, since I
+also enjoy doing gamedev, but I can't draw a comic and shave a yak at the same
+time.
+
+So I set out to draw the first comic out of the upcoming series and started out
+with the storyboards and used those later to create page layouts. I did several
+iterations on the layouts until I was satisfied. Before that I did not know for
+sure, how many pages the comic would even have. After that I started with the
+actual drawing. I did that for a month without a schedule, because I did not
+know how fast or slow I would progress.
+
+To my surprise I made progress quite quickly and was able to put out around a
+page a week. A great help in this regard also was the decision to keep the
+comic mostly in grayscale. With this data I could make a rough estimate and set
+myself a reasonable schedule. I expect to be finished with the first comic
+around the end of February next year.
+
+Since I would like my comic to be actually read by people, I also dod some
+research on how to promote it, once it's out. There were several options, but in
+the end I am going to apply at the webcomic collective [SpiderForest][sf] and
+already joined their Discord community to get to know each other.
+
+So much for what hapened in the past two months or so. Now you ,ay have a sneak
+peek at the comic itself:
+
+![](/images/2021-12-16-01.png "picture of an antspider")
+
+With all that I wish you also merry christmas and a good start into the new
+year.
+
+Keep calm and wash hands.
+
+[sf]: https://spiderforest.com