something I am grateful for today
Jan. 9th, 2012 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johncomicNoticing how my drawing practice is paying off.
Since around May of 2010, I have been drawing comics regularly -- as in rarely a day passes that I don't do some sort of work on a comic. It finally occurred to me how much of an effect this has had on my speed. In the case of a normal page (not a lot of fine background details and tricky perspective and whatnot), I can now pencil it in about an hour. And I can ink it in about an hour. The graphic editing on computer takes around two hours now. This means that the most time-consuming aspect of drawing a page is waiting for the ink to dry (3 or 4 hours).
I realize that I haven't focused like this on drawing comics since I was in junior high. In the decades between, I always had a bunch of other things I also wanted to do, so my time was divided. Or I was simply too scattered, or whatever. But I was never able to draw as fast as I can now.
No point in bemoaning the years where I never got serious and got down to work. But I can start re-thinking what projects I might be able to take on in future, if this continues...
Since around May of 2010, I have been drawing comics regularly -- as in rarely a day passes that I don't do some sort of work on a comic. It finally occurred to me how much of an effect this has had on my speed. In the case of a normal page (not a lot of fine background details and tricky perspective and whatnot), I can now pencil it in about an hour. And I can ink it in about an hour. The graphic editing on computer takes around two hours now. This means that the most time-consuming aspect of drawing a page is waiting for the ink to dry (3 or 4 hours).
I realize that I haven't focused like this on drawing comics since I was in junior high. In the decades between, I always had a bunch of other things I also wanted to do, so my time was divided. Or I was simply too scattered, or whatever. But I was never able to draw as fast as I can now.
No point in bemoaning the years where I never got serious and got down to work. But I can start re-thinking what projects I might be able to take on in future, if this continues...
