Making Movies at the Speed of Light

[pasithea]

Okay, much slower than that, but I do feel pretty fast today. I kept pretty tightly on schedule this weekend. This directory Contains all the work I did for the guy for his movie. The ones titled 'Comics' were some different concepts that I presented for different drawing styles and comic book genres. Worked with him from there and produced the rest today.

I can't believe how fast I've gotten. I mean, I came up with an idea, drew, inked, and coloured like 7 pages in about 6 hours flat. These photos aren't fantastic because I just took them with a digital camera but... Geez. I can now draw characters and hands like a total bat out of Hell. I'm stunned. I knew my draw time for characters had gotten down for about 3 minutes each to do the pencil roughs, but everything else has gotten similarly fast.

I also expiremented a bit today. I did my ink washes using rubbing acohol to thin the ink rather than water. This made it dry a lot faster so I could work areas that were close to one another in a relatively short time. On the negative side, copic markers do not seem to be resistant to acohol, but on the whole, very groovy. I'm pleased.

Comments

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

I especially liked the next to last treehouse one. I dont know why. (I think because I always wanted one!)

[paka.livejournal.com]

That's incredibly fast. The reasons why I picked up looking were working directly on the paper, having a simpler style and fewer panels. Would you have any other suggestions for cranking that much work that quickly, or for that matter getting motivated and staying motivated?