NanoMango

So November is NanoMango. Today was the first I heard of it too.
It's something someone started on livejournal (unfortunately) as a Comic artists alternative to NanoWriMo.
I've decided that while this is an extremely ambitious goal to have, I'm going to try to make the prequel to Conflagration, Embers, In this time frame. The goal is a page a day of pencilled comics, and with a full time job besides.. I don't know if I can do it, but I'm sure going to try. I'm working on scripting it out right now, and have layout complete before November 1 so that It's a more obtainable goal.
Embers should be at least another comic to have going to sell at conventions and to generate some interest in my biggest awesomest story I have going right now. Unfortunately because I've been working with these characters so long, everyone knows OF it but really nothing about it. So hopefully this will be an asset to my comic pile.
I'm still planning on having Hello, Albertosaurus done by the summer of 2012, then a couple Mini Projects in there as well (2 of them I'm very keen on) then Full production on Conflagration. How cool!

Hello, Albertosaurus - Production Diary -colouring

So I've spent a great deal of today working on Hello, Albertosaurus. It's been fun. I've got a full page coloured and I'll finish the second page here in no time. Once I've got a few pages done I'm going to start posting them online to view. The first chapter will be viewable online while the rest will be available to purchase either through our shop or at Conventions. Hopefully by the end of this week I'll have some pages started to go up :)
Here are some little teaser pictures:

Production Diary - Hello Albertosaurus Inking

Well, I'm moving slowly, Juggling projects and life, but I'm getting stuff done!
I've done the pencils for several pages from Day one(my chapters go by days of the trip) and so today I started inking some of the pages that were fully pencilled.

page 4 being inked on my Light Tracer 2

The Light box is a great one, but being that I'm working in a smaller format than Jeri does on Daqueran, the big light box can be cumbersome for me, especially since I like to work on my desk.

I'm excited that soon I'll be getting the 9x12 light pad from artograph. My store where I work is going to be getting them in soon (they already have the 6x9). its got a glass top so the surface will stay flat, and it's narrower so it will not sit so high on my desk. Also since it's 9x12 it won't take up so much room on my wee desk.The day 1 chapter will be readable on line once I get some pages set up and I decide where about I'm going to be posting it on line. Probably just on the website.

Anyway, back to inking.

Hello, Albertosaurus - Production Diary

been working on Hello, Albertosaurus today. I was going to wait until after my Memoir course at Emily Carr, but I already know how to make comics, I took a course on it on 2004 as well, so why wait? I'm really only looking at the course to give some specific insight into making it a memoir more than the comic making part.

Anyway, I started working away on the page planning aspect of it. and I had an unopened sketchbook that turned out to be perfect. I have everything set up here, my post it notes, Triangle (improperly labelled as a t square, lol.) travel journal, and post it notes.

I am finally making use of all that table space I cleared out so I could have an art desk. When I'm home alone I often find it awkward to draw on the couch because I prefer to listen to music than watch movies while arting, but Kitty likes the movies. On my desk I'm right next to my music, and google, for referencing.

So I wanted to plan it out pretty well before tackling the full pages. I'm going to be colouring the whole thing in copic markers which as many of you know, can be a rather time consuming operation with all the layering and blending, so I want to make sure I have as few redo's once I get to the colouring stages, as possible.

Since my comic is going to be in a square format, Post it notes were a beautiful way to plan out my pages. I've taken 2 post it notes per page in my sketchbook, and each post it represents a page in the future comic. Then I have room to dabble little notes through out the margins. If I need to change a page, or add a page, I just un-stick the post its to re arrange. I've also left the back sides of the pages blank, in case something needs adding in etc. See my photo for a close up of a page layout page.

I'm so happy to finally have a Full Spectrum lamp at my desk. It's true what they say about reducing eye strain, and the colour matching! my Copics never looked so good! when i look up from the desk, my whole apartment looks like I'm looking at it through a glass of apple juice. The world is just yellow! LOL

Anyway, back to work!

Screenplay Progress

Word Counts
  Element Total Words
  Action 7846
  Dialog 3763
  Scene Heading 1187
  Character 336
  Parenthetical 135
  Transition 32

  Character Total Dialog Words
  SARAH 800
  JACK 702
  VICTOR 464
  PEHNY 406
  NAKIA 367
  SETH 263
  DEMI 206
  EDLYN 119
  BALA 88
  GERARD 77
  GINO 76
  ANDRE 59
  PENELOPE 56
  STACY 37
  MAN 2 20
  Other 25


Words at start of session: 11468
Words at end of session: 13299
Total words written: 1831
New Scenes: 34
Action Words: 989
Dialog Words: 634


Words Written: 13299
Word goal: 20000
66.4% complete

Conflagration Screenplay status

Should start posting my progress on the screenplay, since it is part of Film production :)
So I have some production statistics I get with my screenplay, and here they are. I'm doing a lot of revisions, so for basically every word I write, I also delete, so please keep that in mind!

Total session time: 3 hours, 51 minutes

Words at start of session: 10537
Words at end of session: 11548
Total words written: 1011

New Scenes: 13
Action Words: 815
Dialog Words: 88


New Characters:
    * MAN 2
    * PEHNY
    *  JACK


New Dialogue:
PEHNY 360

GERARD 52

 NAKIA 44

VICTOR 26

DEMI 22

MAN 2 20             

 JACK 11  (gah! this name has a space in front! Have to fix that)           

JACK 9             

PENELOPE 2

Total Dialogue (words)

JACK 658

  SARAH 588

  VICTOR 459

  PEHNY 360

  NAKIA 352

  SETH 234

  EDLYN 121

  GERARD 66

  DEMI 58

  PENELOPE 58

  ANDRE 43

  GINO 41

  STACY 37

  MAN 2 20

  Other 47

Element Total Words

  Action 6856

  Dialog 3129

  Scene Heading 1044

  Character 266

  Parenthetical 159

  Transition 13

Script Goal (approximate)
Words Written: 11467
Word goal: 30000
38.2%