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+title: One step further ahead
+author: nek0
+tags:
+- english
+- writing
+- comic
+description: "Some nice things have happened in tha past month"
+---
+
+Hi there!
+
+Some time hase passed since my last update and there has been some great
+progress. First off: The story outline for my comic or rather series of short
+comics is finished!
+
+While being occupied with other things like work, event planning and my ever
+returning mental health issues I was unable to work on the story of my comic
+very much. What I was able to do, was to draw some reference for one of my main
+characters, which led to me drawing a lot (about 20) different facial
+expressions of this character for practicing conveying emotions better, which
+had been a problem before.
+
+After that I explored a little bit the options of how to color my comic and
+came to the conclusion, that most of the comic will be black & white, since
+this mode of (not) coloring leads to faster production of pages. Shadows will
+be handled as simple cel-shading using semitones as well as hints of color
+values. Special pages or panels will be in full colour though.
+
+The nicest breakthrough with my comic happened just this weekend, where I was
+able to sit down with my older brother and discuss the story a bit. I already
+had a good beginning and a fairly decent ending, but my middle part was still
+an unsolidified mess of ideas for possible events.
+
+The process was quite simple in retrospective: I began telling my brother the
+story as far as I had it from the beginning and whenever I reached a point of
+unsolidified ideas or outright plot holes he would ask critical questions and
+we would discuss possible solutions to the problem at hand. A great help in
+this whole process was, that my brother at this point was not very well
+acquainted with the story, so he head an unbiased and uninformed view on the
+whole construct.
+
+The resulting story outline is shorter than I had expected, but it is in
+a way the "minimum viable product" to tell the story. Now that the story is
+more or less defined and in place I can begin drawing storyboards and layouts
+for the individual pages. As always: nothing is set in stone. I might deviate
+from the story outline spontaneously during the drawing step, but at least I
+have a plan with a finite scope.
+
+So much for this update. I hope to keep you updated here and on my
+[art portfolio][art] without spoiling too much of the story.
+
+Keep calm and wash hands.
+
+[art]: https://art.nek0.eu