Writing in depth on a website somehow feels very intimate.
I spent the last month churning out pages for the comic I’m working on. I have a draft completed. Parts of it are good, parts of it need significant work, parts of it stand somewhere between those two extremes in a vast middle ground where the solution isn’t obvious because I’m not sure if there’s a problem.
Now I’m coloring the comic. I’ve put this off until recently, for the most part. I’m two weeks in, will need several weeks more, and I feel sort of insane because my coloring process consists of adding and removing layers and tweaking opacities and changing palettes until it eventually starts to look reasonable. Can I have a good draft done by the end of the month?
At this stage I find it hard to maintain the inquisitive, quiet mind that I know is necessary for the task of actually seeing the comic as I work on it. I need to see whether the colors work, I need to make a note of the small fixes on individual pages that I’ll loop back to eventually, and most importantly I need to figure out what’s wrong here structurally. The fact that I’m in front of a computer, distraction just a click away, surely is a big reason for this. I’m hoping that writing about the process here, at least this once and ideally a few more times, will help.