Alex Heberling

It’s a bit after noon, which is the halfway point for my 24 Hour Comic Day.  I just finished my 12th page!  So I’m plugging along just about on schedule.  I keep thinking I’m behind and need to pick up the pace, but then I remind myself that that includes my breaks, which have totaled about 2.5 hours thus far, so I’m not really behind schedule.

In fact, I feel fine right now.  Around daybreak I was really dragging, but then I took a nap while Chris made me curry.  The curry seemed to wake me up pretty well, and at the moment I feel like it’s a normal day.

Chris’ mom came by a little while ago with an electric pencil sharpener, which will ease up the process immensely.  I had an electric sharpener, but had to dismantle it in the name of art two years ago, and since I haven’t colored with colored pencil in at least as long, I never bothered to replace it.  Up until then, I’d been sharpening with a little hand sharpener that came with some pencil set.

That’s right, I’m going old skool with colored pencil.  I’m actually doing a sequel to The Shepherd, as I mentioned on Twitter in the wee hours of the morning.  It’s about the Summer goddess, since she’s the only one I didn’t portray in the original.  It’s very whimsical and fun so far.

I’m inking a lot more than I thought I would.  The first few pages of this comic are very pencily and colored pencily, but as I went on, I found that I didn’t hate the inking so much if I was just erasing the pencil directly underneath it.  Go figure.  The look of this comic reminds me of the colored pencil and marker art I did all the time around 2001, before I got into computer coloring.

Back to work.