[Patron-Only Feed] Making comics is pretty hard, huh?

Note: This post has been made public for presentation purposes.

Don't forget to check the Monthly Dropbox Archive if you haven't yet. It's up to date with everything drawn so far this month, even the NSFW sketches.

Reflection: This Week

Y'know... I wanted to produce 4-5 comic pages per day just so that I could finish by the end of this month, allowing me to spend all of October on Linktober without worry.

But that was an unrealistic demand of myself, in retrospect, and goes against one of the rules I set for this project -- to be mindful of my health. I was so insistent on creating a set of circumstances that I was seriously going to risk both my health and work quality for it. The idea that I could consistently produce that much work on a daily basis was crazy, and I have to remember to work smart -- not hard. Now I see why mangaka have assistants.

Elayne Comic Status

I wish I was further along, but the comic has been progressing.

The release deadline is October 31st, but I think I could finish by October 12 and still have plenty of time to make adjustments and ready it for publishing.

Here are the thumbnail sketches for the entire comic:

The script will also be made available via the Dropbox Archive. I don't really want to spoil anyone, but transparency is very important to me, so the option to read ahead is there for those who are interested. However, I will update the script in portions so you can't read the entire thing at once and ruin your experience! Right now, it only goes up to Page 6.

I've begun working on the comic, and I took around 4 hours to produce the page below. I'm not used to working in black & white, so it's challenging work. Usually, I'm able to rely on my colours to make the work appealing, but now my line art has to do some heavy lifting. I need to find a way to arrange the values (blacks & whites) so that it doesn't hurt to look at. Or maybe it's fine and I've just been looking at it too long.

Linktober

Although I've yet to begin working, I've spent some time planning out concepts to work on in accordance with the official Linktober calendar. I'd generally prefer for them to feel like genuine snapshots into the universe, rather than drawings fueled purely by fetish.

You can see my ideas for each day of the month here: LINK HERE 

I should start getting to work on it this month, so I can more comfortably manage both it and the Elayne Beaumont comic during October. I can begin building some of the scenery work in Dreams, and then integrate that with my art.

Anyway...

Link's Awakening releases soon, and Code Vein's demo is going to be updated to include a brand new area, as well as multiplayer. So I'll try to take it easy and then resume work on Saturday. 

I've shown the work above in my Discord server, but I know that not everyone goes there, and since I didn't get as many pages as I wanted to do in the last day, I figured I'd share all of the progress so far with everyone instead of through a dedicated illustration post.

Thank you for patience, and your support.

Don't forget to eat & sleep.