Good progress this month. As planned, I put aside my work on the first 13 pages of EDag7 and jumped into remaking 16-19. Luckily I was able to use most of what i had already put together. As it developed i was able to get most of 16-18 done…still have to work on the highlights. 19 I still have to do, but It feels like it’s going to go easy. These were the first pages I had built from scratch in Adobe Illustrator CS2 which I’m now using as my old copy of Illus10 is on my decommissioned Transport X3000. To my delight, the HP laptop I’m working on now is much more responsive than the than my old machine. This new machine can actually keep up with my markings, unlike the old setup for which I would have to pace myself and work a lot slower than natural. Very pleased about this as it will up the enjoyment of making these things quite a bit. Not without it’s problems tho… I had page 18 drawn up and was working on the color flats when the system crashed and I lost the whole file. Luckily i took a picture of it before it went down so the background drawings which had been lost completely were easy enough to reproduce. Cost me a couple days of work. Much anxiety to make double backups for everything….
Presently i’m taking a few weeks off to rest my shoulder which has pretty bad tendonitis or bursitis…. painful when moving my arm up and down laterally. Luckily is doesn’t bother me when working. I’m going to take these weeks to do some writing. Then, after Christmas i’ll first finish pages 19 & 28, the last two pages of EDag 7. My goal had been to have Kalthar, 7, and Tales of the Irreal ready to print by Jan 1st and, honestly, if I really pushed I could get it pretty close. I just need the covers for Kalthar and the rest of the EDAg work. But, considering my sore arm I’m not going to push it. Also worth mentioning that, as i have cut loose from my day job for the winter, It’s going to be a minute before i have the funds to print them up, anyway. it’s just the same… my process has been to get the pages to about where they are and then do one last touch up before posting them here…. and then one more before printing. Sticking to that process will give me just a little bit of Edag work to do every week, affording time to work on some other projects. I’ve been looking forward to penciling the PHM 20 pager…. some side projects need attention, too… and, of course, Issue 8 looms on the horizon… ugg gotta start thinking about that one…(crowdfunding and conventions,too…)
