I’ve just finished tightening up the rough pencils for page 2 of the Boxing Bucket story I’m working on with my friend Chris Reilly (he wrote the story). I really struggled with a background for the second panel of this page–everything I put in there looked wrong somehow, and you can see that it’s been drawn and erased several times over. But, I’m thinking, maybe there’s a reason for that, so for now I’m going to leave it empty and see if it works as is. I’m thinking it might, since it’s got the potential for a nice comedic panel-to-panel transition between that panel and the next one in which the Einsten/alien appears. If it doesn’t, I’ll keep working on it.
I have to say: I’ve really been enjoying working on this and I can’t wait to ink this page. In fact, I’ve found that I’ve been subtly procrastinating of late, putting off good-paying freelance work to make room for the ol’ Boxing Bucket. This is a dilema no one should face in a rational society.
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“I have to say: I’ve really been enjoying working on this and I can’t wait to ink this page. In fact, I’ve found that I’ve been subtly procrastinating of late, putting off good-paying freelance work to make room for the ol’ Boxing Bucket. This is a dilema no one should face in a rational society.”
Yeah; that’s pretty much how it goes. I talk someone into collaborating on a project, and I whittle them down to a soulless hobo.
I challenge anyone to find Darron Laessig, the co-creator of Punch and Judy.
Everyone I work with ends up like that Tom Waits “Renfield” from that awful Dracula film; Blah!
Chris