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Coloring #49 tonight -- reflections on comic scheduling
3 years ago
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Coloring page #49 of AFCAH tonight at https://picarto.tv/Rimme at 6:30 PM Eastern.
So, here's a spreadsheet of the release dates of my comic, and how long each page took (not counting the 3 "redux" pages I made).
It's strange to know that I've spent 9 years on a single in-universe hour. I mean, I love my comic, but it's more accurate to say I love the plans for my comic. A lot of early pages were written by the seat of my pants, and deliberately vague about what was going on; I didn't settle on a firm backstory until around page 19, by that point I'd become too invested in the idea that AFCAH is a TF anthology to scale back on the number of characters. Why not make a comic that encompassed the entire company? Even if most of their stories aren't really going to appear until, I don't know, a couple more 50-page phases or beyond.
So, this page and the last two pages have been less about the cool exciting things being done, or the tense inner lives of the characters, and more about setting up things for much later on. I'm a bit uncomfortable promising that there will be payoff in the future, because look how little story I've produced in 9 years. But... I'm hopeful that things will be different this time, that my current pacing isn't a fluke. And, heck, I might even get to Phase 2 by the end of next year. We'll see.
So again... coloring tonight on my stream. Coloring is one area I definitely feel I have room for improvement, so I'm eager to try it out tonight. See you there!
So, here's a spreadsheet of the release dates of my comic, and how long each page took (not counting the 3 "redux" pages I made).
It's strange to know that I've spent 9 years on a single in-universe hour. I mean, I love my comic, but it's more accurate to say I love the plans for my comic. A lot of early pages were written by the seat of my pants, and deliberately vague about what was going on; I didn't settle on a firm backstory until around page 19, by that point I'd become too invested in the idea that AFCAH is a TF anthology to scale back on the number of characters. Why not make a comic that encompassed the entire company? Even if most of their stories aren't really going to appear until, I don't know, a couple more 50-page phases or beyond.
So, this page and the last two pages have been less about the cool exciting things being done, or the tense inner lives of the characters, and more about setting up things for much later on. I'm a bit uncomfortable promising that there will be payoff in the future, because look how little story I've produced in 9 years. But... I'm hopeful that things will be different this time, that my current pacing isn't a fluke. And, heck, I might even get to Phase 2 by the end of next year. We'll see.
So again... coloring tonight on my stream. Coloring is one area I definitely feel I have room for improvement, so I'm eager to try it out tonight. See you there!
