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Uh, yeah. I'm way behind on commenting and all things internet. Two weeks ago I, I dunno, pulled or twisted my back and as a result walked around with a knot of steely ropes where once were muscles. It kept me mostly in read-only mode. On the upside, the gordian knot seems to finally slowly un-knot itself, but it's been really distracting and I got only half my planned work done. On top of that, the format of the book I'm currently working on is a few centimeters longer than A3... doubtlessly just to annoy me. I have the first four pages pencilled and need a way to transfer them onto the watercolor paper. I've been trying to coax the copy machine at my favorite Xerox place to do just that. Four failed attempts so far, each time a different problem. Now I'm debating whether I should try one last time with slightly lighter paper (risking that the copyshop owner will get an aneurysm the moment he sees me walking in) or bite the bullet and trace the drawings on my lightbox* like our forefathers did and their forefathers before them (I guess they didn't even have lightboxes before that). There's one whole stage that I'd practically eliminated from my work process, back. Meh.
So, aneurysm or lightbox, that's the question. I'm actually leaning toward tracing; I could ink it with sepia and make it look extra shiny so the extra work wouldn't be entirely pointless.
*but speaking of lightbox, lookit this baby. We went to IKEA where I got it: a desk with built-in lightbox.
And these past three days I colored three double spread pages of the historical book so I'm no longer feeling like I'm making no progess at all. And I got word that our 'Nanuk will fliegen' got licensed out to a US publisher, which makes the author and me pretty ecstatic. And I read some awesome fic, but I'll make that an extra post, or several...
So, aneurysm or lightbox, that's the question. I'm actually leaning toward tracing; I could ink it with sepia and make it look extra shiny so the extra work wouldn't be entirely pointless.
*but speaking of lightbox, lookit this baby. We went to IKEA where I got it: a desk with built-in lightbox.
And these past three days I colored three double spread pages of the historical book so I'm no longer feeling like I'm making no progess at all. And I got word that our 'Nanuk will fliegen' got licensed out to a US publisher, which makes the author and me pretty ecstatic. And I read some awesome fic, but I'll make that an extra post, or several...