Okay, so for starters, let me clarify that I am no professional. A professional would have known that sometimes, even if you work full time, you can’t get everything done in one day. After working for over 10 hours straight, I didn’t even come close to finishing half of what I planned for my glourious 400th comic. I wasn’t planning on making this entire story arc in colour, but I wanted the intro to be in colour, because that’s the entire purpose of the fourth panel there.
When drawing this, I woke up, went to do some grocerie shopping and eat lunch, came home for a quick shower,and then spent the entire day working on the comic. This was a big comic. I’d have been pressed for time just doing it in my usual blue and white vision. Hell, I had to rush just to get those last panels shaded in blue at the very least. It wasn’t until I began colouring the big panel that I realized it just was not possible to do a full, in-colour, fully shaded, giant comic page like this one in just one day. Drawing comics like this requires full time work! It’s no wonder many webcomics have such poor schedules.
Speaking of schedules though, in the end, I had to get the bare minimum done. I needed some colour, and I barely squeezed it in with my poor paint job. Even though it would take at least another day to do everything I had planned, I could still sacrifice a few hours past midnight to take my time a little bit for that one panel, but I ended up going for a mediocre job done on time than being late for something that still wasn’t up to my expectations. I guess it’s easy to tell where my priorities are.
Either way, I’m definitely not trying this again anytime soon. Like I said, doing full comics requires full time, and seeing as I don’t even have a real job at the moment, I can’t even think about drawing comics full time. I can barely get by as it is! I’m just not cut out for the big leagues I guess, but I try dammit! This certainly isn’t the first time I screwed up a milestone comic, but 400 comics is still an accomplishment, so it’s something at least.
Here’s to another good run of comics, and hopefully ones where I learn my lessons the easy way. Wish me luck and remember to love your lolis folks.