---
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
