--- 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