Episode 301: What it Takes to be a Working Comics Pro

But let's talk about the first thing you did this week.

Well, I guess the most important thing is part of the prep for the Crestline meetup, and that is prepping the pages that I want to get done for that weekend.

I want to arrive with the remaining three pages that I need for second shift number 17.

Um, I want them penciled out.

So basically while I'm there, I just want to ink everything, throw line weights, just finish everything up.

So that's, that's my goal for the rest of this week.

Um, so I have been working that over the wedding weekend, every free moment I got, I was kind of messing with that a little bit.

Um, it wasn't the main priority cause we were there to hang and I did want to experience that without going, Oh yeah, you know, we got a show or, you know, things like that of that nature.

So, I did a little bit of that and I think I am off to a good start with this first page because I was struggling with the layout all weekend basically.

And what I decided was I'm trashing it.

I'm not doing what's on that written page.

It's just not working for me.

So it's just kind of reimagining the dialogue, what they're talking about.

And once I can figure out what they're talking about, it'll give me a good flow for the rest of the page.

But the establishing shot is correct.

Like what I needed off of that page was, okay, they're moving into this secondary location.

I need to establish that, the surroundings, just so people can get an idea of the space that those characters will be in.

So after that, then comes the new dialogue.

How are they talking to each other? Who's saying what? What are the emotions? How's everyone feeling on this page? So that is the next step.

I'm going to get home rather late tonight.

So I think I'll have a little bit of time, though, to work, which I'm happy to do.

And so I'll kind of figure that out and kind of try to flesh that page out a bit more.

That's awesome.

Is this the page we were talking about yesterday? Yes, it is.

Hell yeah.