[10/12/2009] As I said last week, I participated in 24-hour comic day. Today’s image was the result of passing around a sheet of paper and asking everyone present to draw a self-portrait and sign their name.
So, the target was 24 pages in 24 hours … I planned out a 12-page comic (plot wouldn’t stretch any farther), and was able to pencil in 8 pages before time ran out. I’m going to finish pencilling them in at some point, and then probably ink and letter them. I also have the original plan for the comic, which was laid out on 3″x5″ index cards. I’ll probably post those at some point too.
Of course, when you stay awake for 24 hours straight, you start getting a little wonky. One of the things produced as a result of this wonkiness was this:
The expression here is based off of a well-known face made by the character Konata from the show “Lucky Star”, as seen here.
Another product of our sleep-deprived minds: Manga on BREAD!!
One of my friends said she had a “nightmare” in which I told her to draw manga on bread because the India ink would stay better (or something like that), but that was crazy because drawing it on bread obviously wouldn’t work … cue another friend and I whipping out our pens and drawing on of of the endpieces of a loaf a bread we had bought as food for 24HCD. I used a thin felt-tip lineart pen (the same type I use to ink my comics) to draw on the “crust” side of the bread. However, the softness of the actual bread made it impossible to ink on the other side of the slice, so I borrowed a brush-tip pen and was able to draw. I suspect it’ll be easier if you let the bread dry out first…
Until next week, when hopefully I can post the finished version of my 24HCD comic…
