Alex Heberling

This Saturday, around 10 in the morning, I intend to do a 24 Hour Comic.  This is kind of a big thing for me, since I’ve never exactly tried to push myself at time deadlines with a large number of pages.  Jigworthy strips usually took me around 3 hours to do apiece, and Garanos took 3 to 4.  It adds up quite a bit when you update three days a week, though I always thought the quality of the artwork was worth it.

I’ll probably be taking a different approach to these comics than my usual style, mainly the fact that I’ll probably be inking again.  GASP!  I know.  I haven’t inked anything, digital or otherwise, on a regular basis since 2004, other than a few individual pieces, and of course, Corner on Main.  Hell, I haven’t even colored with traditional media in even longer.

It will be an interesting exercise in going back to my roots.  Once upon a time, I hoarded skin-tone colored pencils and inking pens.  Now I… don’t.  Though the colored pencils have been rattling around in the bottom of my tacklebox for quite awhile.

In preparation for this weekend, I’ve been trying to clean up my apartment and get it looking very very tidy, so I’m not distracted by clutter.  When I’m faced with a looming, important deadline, it’s not uncommon for me to suddenly become very productive at cleaning and generally doing anything but what I should be doing.  This behavior works on many levels for me, since I’ve been easily distracted from getting this important cleaning done in the past few days, in favor of reading webcomics that I’ve been meaning to read.  (Though I did get my bedroom vacuumed!)  I’m frustratingly predictable sometimes, heh.

There’s also the matter of the website for these comics to be collected in.  I’ll probably have to hold off on actually building it until next week.

Time to retrieve the laundry.  I’ll probably post again tomorrow!  Good night.