It ain't just tracing.

I had originally wanted to get a full 24-page comicbook written, pencilled, inked, colored/toned and lettered by the end of January. Dude, that is so not happening. I mean, I've gotten it written and drawn, but be damned if I can ink 20+ pages by midnight tonight. Especially when it's taken me about 4 hours to get page two done. Yikes! But then again, I had some stuff to fill in on page 2 because I decided to take some illustrative "short cuts." More fool I. I will have to note that the more complete my pencils are, the easier my inking will be. In theory.

But hey, even with cleaning the filter for the furnace and demantling and reassembling the water heater pipes (oh, how I loathe thee!), I should probably be into inking the really fun stuff by tonight. Which will ROCK! Or not, but hey, no more freakin' dwarves to ink, eh?

Latest update.

Dropped off the kiddo sans hearing aids.  Ugh.
Crawled beneath the house and cleaned out the furnace air filter.  Double-Ugh.
Finished the inks and scanned in the 2nd page of the comic.
( which is here )

The day's work:

Just finished page 3 inks (I plan on doing tones via PhotoShop).

Little Dude is in bed (we watched a chunk of Spider-Man 2 together, YAY).

Listenin' to the ol' "Evening with Kevin Smith" DVDs. I used the first 20 minutes of "Chasing Amy" as a primer. I can really feel for Banky now. Tracer, indeed!

I think I'm gonna chill for a bit before going onto page 4. Page 5 is, I think, when I started to hit my stride with the characters and art, so that'll be fun.

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( Page Three )