[Image description: A pencil drawing of Sami, a medium-skinned girl with black hair in a ponytail, wearing lace fingerless gloves and a slip. She is leaning on a vague wall with her hand and is halfway turned away from the viewer.]
I drew Sami again at work last night.
GUYS GUYS I have the first issue outlined. XDDDDD
[Image description: A pencil drawing of Sami as Hue Spectrum, who wears a black and white costume with bracers, tall boots, and a skirted leotard-ish thing.]
Here’s this thing I drew today on my lunch break! The new Sami in the old school Hue Spectrum uniform. I haven’t yet decided in what capacity the uniforms will be in the new version of the Hues. I’ve got ideas for variations on the basic costume that differ from girl to girl.
Sami is from my upcoming comic series, The Hues.
[Image description: A pencil sketch of Hannah, a lanky, androgynous teen holding her arms over her head and shuffling a deck of cards between them.]
Drew Hannah awhile back.
I’ve put enough planning into The Hues so far that I’ve got a rough idea of when I want to start actual comic production. So to at least get my ideas out there somewhere tangible, I’m going to write them here!
The Hues is my post-apocalyptic magical girl comic that I first wrote when I was 12!
But of course, since I wrote this in junior high and high school and I’m now in my ripe old mid-twenties, it needs MANY EDITS before I can put it out there. ^_^
I’ve got a plan for the first two issues so far. I’d like to have at least those first two issues in the can before I start posting it online regularly. I’m planning to have 99 cent digital downloads of each issue of the comic available at the beginning of each new chapter, so for 99 cents, readers can get a whole chapter at a time if they don’t wish to wait for it to be posted on a page-by-page basis.
The whole series is comprised of three ‘season’ arcs, and the first arc will be 26 issues long to echo a 26-episode TV season. Issue #13 will be a mid-season finale with a climactic story point.
I’d like to start online publication in June 2012 during the week of the 14th, which is the anniversary of both Garanos and Alex’s Guide, so it’s kind of a personal tradition now. But most importantly, I’m going to start actually drawing for comic pages on February 1st.
It’s going to be an exciting new year. :D
I woke up around 6:30 this morning, and for the first four or so hours of waking, found myself completely in the wrong frame of mind to get a comic done for Alex’s Guide today, so I decided it was best to take a day off.
Since I don’t have to work again until Monday night, I get to be a Daywalker this weekend! I’m currently at a coffee shop sipping a latte with cinnamon powder as I write down planning notes for The Hues, my upcoming comic series. It seemed like a good idea to get myself out of the house, and the change of scenery is doing good things for me. It was a rough morning full of self-flagellation at not updating A’sG, so I’m trying to remember to be kind to myself and doing something good for myself.
I’m also working to let myself face my current depression and feel my feelings, instead of shoving everything into the back of my mind to let it fester, like I have been doing all this year.
I got lunch at the local Japanese supermarket, which sells bento, sushi, and onigiri; something I’ve been craving lately. And this particular coffee shop is where the local cartoonist group (Sunday Comix) usually meets on Wednesday nights, so I figured it would be a good idea to go hang out somewhere I associate with being creative. I have gone to precious few Sunday Comix meetings this year, thanks to my third-shift schedule. Most of the time, unless I plan my week very carefully, I just can’t wake up early enough to attend meetings (which are from 6pm to 8pm) and still get enough rest to go to work and not feel like crap.
Sunday Comix is something I’ve missed very much this year. I started going to the meetups about this time a year ago, but then in January, my schedule changed to nights. I tried to keep up with the group, but my schedule and workload proved to be too demanding to do both, so I haven’t attended a meeting in several months, unfortunately.
BUT ANYWAYS. Today I’m sitting here in the coffee shop working on the development for The Hues. I’ve got my notebook of All Things Hues that has a few pages of notes I wrote over a year ago, so I’m going back over it to see what I like and what I don’t like now, and adding other ideas I’ve had since I picked the project back up a few months ago.
Lo and behold, I found a rough plot for volume 1 that I think I can start building from. What I’m concentrating on today is roughing out some of the character arcs I want to tackle over the series, which will span three “seasons,” as it were.