Today I have mostly been drawing Richard The Third chatting up Lady Anne Neville over the corpse of her late husband. And so began the first day of finally getting round to drawing the new graphic novel in earnest, after a month of schools and other stuff keeping me way too busy to get on with it. Work in progress looks like this:
July 2nd - had the idea at Macc-Pow.
By July 12th - by the time of LFCC I'd scripted the first ten pages and drawn the cover.
By July 17th - Pages 1 - 13 drawn, and announcement of book made.
July 18th - Pages 14 - 16 drawn, then a long wait before any more gets done.
August 18th - Rest of book scripted in two days.
August 23rd - Pages 17 & 18 drawn, in AirBnB flat in Derby
Aug 29 - Pages 19 - 27 (9 pages) drawn.
Aug 30 - Pages 28 - 32 (5 pages)
Aug 31 - Pages 33 - 41 (9 pages)
Sept 1 - Pages 42 - 47 (6 pages)
Sept 3 - Pages 48 - 50 (2.5 pages, one to ink - done in my hotel room in Bedford)
Sept 4 - Pages 51 - 60 (10.5 pages)
Sept 5 - Pages 61 - 69 (9 pages)
Sept 6 - Pages 70 - 76 (7 pages)
Sept 7 - Pages 77 - 87 (11 pages)
Sept 11 - Pages 88 - 97 (10 pages)
Sept 12 - Pages 98, 99 + 10 Chapter headings (12 pages)
Sept 13 - New page 36, pages 110 - 119 (11 pages + drastic renumbering)
Sept 14 - Pages 120 - 125 (6 pages)
Sept 15 - Pages 126 - 130 (5 pages) - BOOK FINISHED (almost)
I still have the sponsors faces to draw and insert in the Battle pages, and then there's the colouring/grey pages to make. But, by golly, getting the whole story drawn in principle is a very satisfying feeling from the end of a Friday afternoon.
Mon Sept 18 - Sponsors inserted into Battle scenes. Colouring begins.
Sept 18 - 20 - Colouring all 130 pages, then converting back to greyscale. So we end up with part-coloured pages with the main characters in line. So we can print a black and white book now, and possibly a colour version in the future.
Friday Sept 22 - First draft book and covers completed. Await amends from sponsors.
Monday Sept 25 - Completed book sent to Stuart Gould for printing. Ebook uploaded to D2D, hardback to Lulu. Paperback trying to upload to D2D but not approved yet.
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