Wheels Keep On Spinning 'Round

As of Recently I have found myself to be a very nocturnal person. I often won't go to sleep until roughly five-thirty in the morning and wake up in the mid afternoon. It's not even that I stay up really late now but it is also at these late hours I'm finding myself to be the most productive. While sitting around at four AM this week I have written a couple scripts for my manga and created character profiles, settings and general plot concepts. I'm kind of like a way less cool version of  Batman. As for how this manga is coming along I still have lots to do in the way of learning to draw. The faces I draw are definitely way better than they were a weeks ago and I improved a little at drawing hair but I have a long way to go. Luckily Keith is around to tell me when my drawing sucks. The current name I have for my manga is The Bureau of Regret but I'm having trouble creating a good plot from the concept I created for it. Actually, that's not quite true, a more accurate description would be to say that I'm having trouble deciding which of several basic plots I have would work the best in the long run.

Now that the first issue of Killing Time is done I'm kind of excited to get started on the second. This really seems like a long and slow process for us but I think it could have some fun experiences in the future.

Also, I got tickets to see CAKE in Toronto in September. Huzzah! I'll be living in Toronto at that time so for once in my life it won't be a problem for me to find a way to get there. Hopefully this concert is good enough for me miss seeing Trooper a couple weeks ago.

Play Time is Fun time!

Yay! Killing Time issue one is complete. Keith and I put in the finishing touches yesterday and it looks good. On the other hand it will be kind of anti-climatic considering people have been waiting for something like three freaking months for it. But to all those haters I say "Eat your pants and shove it". We will start work on issue two soon which I pretty excited for except that I wrote it a long time ago and now I'll need to remember those minute details that I wanted in there for some reason. In the future Keith and I will be living in the same apartment so maybe we will be able to get comics done faster. Maybe.

In other news, I decided to spend this summer learning to draw. I've wanted to make my own manga for a while now but never started because I am such a terrible artist. But not anymore. I'm going to draw regularly this summer, take tutorials, take lessons from Keith, eat pies, draw more and maybe by the end of the summer I will be able to start issue one of my manga. This also gives me plenty of time to write a story. I have a concept for the manga created but for the life of me I can't decide on a conflict. I always have this problem, though. I create all these concepts that I think are really cool but I don't know how to create a good conflict within these settings. Maybe that says something about my personality... but maybe not.