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You know, I'm very much aware of how fortunate I am to be able to do the thing I love most (art) and be paid for it.
I'm also acutely grateful to be working with Phil Foglio, who has been a favorite artist of mine since I was a little fannish sprog.
That said, working on Girl Genius on a three-page-a-week schedule is like being perpetually nibbled to death by relay teams of mice. Or being systematically flayed, inch by slow inch, in such a way that the skin grows back to permit the flaying to resume at the starting point once my toes have been peeled.
I still have fifteen freakin' pages to go on this issue, many of which haven't even had basic color flats laid yet, and several of which look like they'll require intricate painting (nighttime scenes with firelight).
*beats head on monitor, sobs fitfully*
I don't know if I can do this, or how I'll live with myself if I don't.
I'm also acutely grateful to be working with Phil Foglio, who has been a favorite artist of mine since I was a little fannish sprog.
That said, working on Girl Genius on a three-page-a-week schedule is like being perpetually nibbled to death by relay teams of mice. Or being systematically flayed, inch by slow inch, in such a way that the skin grows back to permit the flaying to resume at the starting point once my toes have been peeled.
I still have fifteen freakin' pages to go on this issue, many of which haven't even had basic color flats laid yet, and several of which look like they'll require intricate painting (nighttime scenes with firelight).
*beats head on monitor, sobs fitfully*
I don't know if I can do this, or how I'll live with myself if I don't.
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Chai Tea rocks :-D
Regarding your art.... Whoever says that artists don't work hard for their money has never seen you stay up 36 hours to paint comic book pages. Girl... I envy your endurance and passion! I have enough problems getting up to animate 2 icons! You obviously enjoy what you do enough to put up with uncertain pay cheques, idiot editors and long nights of tea, chocolate and the computer.
**NL Bows in honor of her buddy**