Thursday, June 30, 2011

Batgirl


I really don't feel like whining about how much I've been working. Though I could.

Instead, I'll mention how I took great pains to clear this past weekend so I could work on my remaining PERHAPANAUTS pages and that worked out really well. One more page to go and that one looks like it's going to be a lot of fun.

Just for shiggles, (that one's for you, Ricky) I did the math on how long it's taken me to do this assignment, per page and, if I applied that math to THE HAND ME DOWN HORROR, it would probably take me 132 years to draw that. I don't think that will actually be the case, though. I plan on doing much simpler drawings and not noodling the backgrounds so much. I guess that's because I'm going to be inking them instead of Christian. As I've sent each 'HAPS page to Christian, I've gotten a response from him in the vein of, "OH COME ON!!! SERIOUSLY?" Dude is going to be living with a ruler in his hand for a while.

Speaking of HMDH, though I've not come anywhere close to meeting my schedule of starting the art on it this past January, I can say with some satisfaction that my rewrite has gone well and I'm pretty much done. Most of the dialogue got rewritten. The very first scene was re-conceived and some plot holes were fixed. Except for a few tweaks to some heavy-handed dialogue that I can do while lettering, I think I'm good to get started when I'm done with the 'HAPS. I'm much happier with it now. Still not completely satisfied but I feel like I've taken it up a notch above where it was.

Also, I want to say that I've been getting quite a few emails and Facebook notifications from folks since Heroes and just have not had any time to respond to any of that so I apologize. I'll get to that as soon as possible.

Lastly, the sketch above was done while I was waiting around the other night at work. Been pulling some all-nighters lately and that's got me back to sketching. I liked how this started out but by the end, I wasn't as happy with it as I'd hoped. Still figuring out how to draw women. And I was too damned tired to figure out the background.

Okay, that's all I've got. I'm exhausted. Going to bed early. Later.

2 comments:

todd said...

well, since craig and christian and i are the only ones who've seen any of your perhapanauts pages so far ( and i apologize for the long wait on this project between work and publishing, brother--i know how frustrating THAT can be...! ) let me just say that the pages you sent in are FANTASTIC!! you did such a wonderful job on them and i just can't wait for people to see all the hard work that both a you guys have put into this! can't thank you enough!
and cool batgirl~!

Warren said...

Cool Batgirl, Matt! I love the expression on her face.

And the best way to draw girls? Hang out with Justin Beiber! Yuk-yuk-yuk!