Cocktail Hour, a webcomic by Scraps

So it’s 5:40am and I just finished scripting. If you notice my proposed timeline below, I’m about an hour behind where I thought I’d be. Oh well, at least I haven’t given in to sleep or given up.  It was tougher than I thought, this forced production, very different from how NaNoWriMo and Script Frenzy have gone in the past. But that part, probably the 2nd hardest part (the first being the pencilling yet to come) is now complete and I can get on to the visual bits. I’m looking forward to something other than typing for a bit.

Well, I certainly thought I would have had another progress report by now, namely one that said “letters complete, moving on to pencils” but that’s still a couple hours away. I just finished lettering page 15 of 24 so at least I’m on the downhill slide of that task, but I can’t believe it’s taking me this long. Still, there’s almost 12 hours left and I’ll be happy to finish the day with a complete set of pencils. If I get any inking done at all, I’ll consider it gravy, icing, hell the whole cake! lol

Once Spectrum woke up it was easier to stay awake, felt more like daylight, but at 10 I needed a serious break and took a shower, changed clothes, etc. Feel somewhat normal, think it’s mostly adrenaline I’m running on. That and baklava. In fact, when Todd returns I’ll be having gyro or something else deliciously Greek for lunch courtesy of the Greek Food Festival that I’m missing right now. Oh well, my commitment to comics comes first?

It’s a few minutes early but I’m pronouncing my effort done for today. At some point not tonight I’ll do an overall wrap-up impression, but for now I’ll say that I scripted, laid out and lettered 24 pages. I pencilled 6.5. I’m okay with that. If (and that’s a big if) I ever try this again, I’ll do something less time-consuming, but at least I’m this much farther ahead on the rest of the year’s strips. Good night!