Done Marker!

The ten page project is 100%.

Over the next day or so I'll add the final hours together and work backwards in the posts for the prior week, placing them in the order I finished them.

The total hours I have placed on this project are:

 Page  1)  5 hours pencil, 225 minutes inking, 8.75 hours total
 Page  2)  5.5 hours pencil, 270 minutes inking, 10 hours total
 Page  3)  6.5 hours pencil, 160 minutes inking, 9.25 hours total
 Page  4)  12 hours pencil, 370 minutes inking, 18.25 total   (BIFF BAM POW!)
 Page  5)  7.5 hours pencil, 260 minutes inking, 12 hours total
 Page  6)  5 hours pencil, 460 minutes inking, 12.5 hours total (1st page done)
 Page  7)  6 hours pencil, 325 minutes inking, 11 hours total
 Page  8)  4 hours pencil, 325 minutes inking, 9.75 total
 Page  9)  5 hours pencil, 270 minutes inking, 9.5 hours total
Page 10)  5 hours pencil, 110 minutes inking, 7 hours total

That's 61.5 hours penciling, 2495 minutes inking (41.5 hours)
or 103 hours of crafting.

I'm gonna just go out there and say I spent 10 hours additionally on building the booklet, pagination, and printing, and an additional 30 hours at least on thumb nailing, and all the versions of scripting.

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- J.

SSS Pages 9 and 10

(This is working backwards after completion on the 29th of this project).

The first page is page 9.
What we're looking at here is page 9.  The pencils were 5 hours.  Inking was 270 minutes.
So this page was 9.5 hours.

The second page is page 10.
According to my notation, the penciling took 5 hr.  The inking was 110 minutes.
That makes this a 7 hour page all together.

- J.

SSS Pages 7 and 8

(This is working backwards after completion on the 29th of this project).

The first page is page 7.
The pencils were 6 hours.  Inking was 325 minutes.
So this page was was 11.75 hours.

The second page is page 8.
According to my notation, the penciling took 4 hr.  The inking was 325 minutes.
That makes this a 9.75 hour page all together.

- J.

SSS Pages 5 and 6

(This is working backwards after completion on the 29th of this project).

The first page is page 5.
What we're looking at here is page 5.  The pencils were 7.5 hours.  Inking was 260 minutes.
So page was almost 12 hours.

The second page is page 6.
According to my notation, the pencilling took 5 hr.  The inking was (estimate) 7.5 hours.
That makes this a 12.5 hour page all together.

- J.

SSS Pages 3 and 4

(This is working backwards after completion on the 29th of this project).

The first page is page 3.
The pencils were 6.5 hours.  Inking was 160 minutes.
So this page was 9.16 hours.

The second page is page 4.
According to my notation, the pencilling took 12 hr.  The inking was 370 minutes.
That makes this an 18.16 hour page all together.

- J.

SSS Pages 1 and 2

(This is working backwards after completion on the 29th of this project).

Panel 1 of page 1 is the final panel of the comic drawn and finished.  It was one of the very few original sketches from the planning BEFORE the writing and thumbnailing ever happened.

The first page is page 1.
What we're looking at here is page 1.  The pencils were 5 hours.  Inking was 225 minutes.
So page was was 8.75 hours.

The second page is page 2.
According to my notation, the pencilling took 5.5 hr.  The inking was 270 minutes.
That makes this a 10 hour page all together.

- J.

SSSwet

Here is the second inked page in this set.

It's coming in at around four and a half hours.

So added to the pencils that is "under 8" hours plus 4 and a half hours. 

So... 12 hours.  And a half perhaps.

- J.

reset

This was what I finished tonight.

3.5 hours added onto the prior 2 hours makes this a (less than 6 hour) piece.

I'm content with that.

- J.

SSS oo

This is another page from this project.

This was 4 hours.  

- J.

SSS ink01

This is the first inked page out of this batch.

The hours were under 4.  Probably 3.5  That's for inks.

So total time with the 5 hours penciling is 8.5 hours.

- J.

Seymour Sexton Saxon

This was a little piece I did before getting farther into this process.

It's my basic reference for Seymour Sexton Saxon.

- J.

SSSz

The hours on this first one are specifically 5 hours total.  It was one sitting.


The hours on the second one are 3 hours, and two panels are a pencil01 stage.  I finished it off there to get it down to the printer for printing bluelines before the weekend.  The bluelines will be finished a little more before inking.

- J.

SSSy

This is the pencil02 version of these pages.

The first one took 5.5 hours according to my notation. 

The second one took about 6.5 hours I believe.

- J.

SSS x

Here are some updated pencils.  These are both pencil02.

The first one has the note of "4 hours 2nd sitting" and in a prior post I wrote that the underdrawing of pencil01 was "under 3 hours" which I would have said without checking.  That makes this a 7 to 8 hour pencil.

The second one was 12 hours.  It's 13 panels and the slowest page of any of the pages in this story.  It was complicated.

BT 3

Here are the same two pages from yesterday.  I'm going to say 2 more hours on each.

These are both in a "pencil02" stage.  They are going to ink tomorrow.

These are all pages I am working at a fast pace this month.  I am trying desperately to record hours on every sitting but I'm doing poorly, so that will be a goal for the next few days!

- J.

BT 2

Here are two more pages.

These are both in a "pencil01" stage.

The first one is very nearly a finished "pencil02" but clearly it is not yet. 

The second one is very rough.  It's just a half done "pencil01" so it's got probably 2 hours left to go.  There's a point to all this.

These are all pages I am working at a fast pace this month.

- J.

BT 1

These are from a different story.

You've got a page of unfinished pencil01,

followed by a page of finished pencil02.

- J.

SSS 3

Here are a few of the next pieces.

The first one is in the "pencil02" stage, the second page is basically heading into that stage but it's not there yet.  It's not worth showing.

The first piece does not have hours recorded but it was drawn in one sitting on January 28th.  I did the letters on Tuesday the 29th down at Drink & Draw in Denver.  The second piece does not have hours either.  It was SUPER fast, I remember it was in one sitting at coffee, one night this last week... I think if I claimed 3 full hours I would be overestimating the time, but it's also not finished art.

Of course, these are all thumbnailed beforehand.  Basic composition decisions have been made beforehand.

- J.

SSS 2

Here are two more pages, this is at the initial pencil stage, "pencil01"...

of course these terms are a little silly, but they're useful for me.

There are two stages of pencils... pencil01 and pencil02.

The difference is... one is "finished enough to show off" and the other is "still having decisions made."  There's a saying in the industry...

"quality of completion is subjective, but finished or not finished is not subjective"

and so, these are not finished.  This is a process blog and also a peer-pressure exposure opportunity.

The first one is at 4 hours.  The second one is at 3 hours.

- J.

Seymour Sexton Saxon

So this is what I'm calling "scan" or "pencil 2" stage.

My pencils are usually either really, really loose and people say "your pencils are too loose for an inker to do anything" or they are really, really tight and people say "your pencils are ridiculously tight and leave no where for the inker to go" so I'm trying to strike a nice balance.

I've chosen to leave some edges a little loose and shaky and leave some detail areas out but give a generally strong depth of variety and render.

Here's what I would be handing off to someone else at this point.

The next step for me is bluelining it off and inking separate.  Normally I ink over my pencils and I'm tired of being criticized for it.  From now on, two separate portfolios.

This one is clocked at 5 hours.

2-1 was 1 hour.
2-2 was 2 hour.
2-3 was 2 hour.

Then I dicked around with it on the computer for a while so that's penciling time, not process time.  I'm codifying my system in notepad during this process.

- J.

Statement of Purpose

I'm making a lot of comics in February 2016.

This may end up extending into March... we'll see.

It's a separate blog from my normal blog so that it can be a small, finite endeavor.

You may find my normal blog HERE.

Enjoy!

- J.