Some thoughts on my first published piece Cross Platform.

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I never really had a chance to talk about my work on Cocktails 1 and considering we are fast approaching the 1 year anniversary of it I figured I would talk about it.

When I was invited to work on Cocktails 1 I had scheduled 1 month to work on it.

Sadly I had broken down my effort incorrectly. I had 1 week to sketches, 1 week for inks and 1 week for color with the last week as a buffer to fix things. I should have had 2 weeks to ink. ACTUALLY I should have given myself 2 months.

As some of you know I work a full time day day job. 9 to 5 plus commuting. So about 9-10 hours a day I had no access to for Cocktails 1. Working with Miu I iterated through several illustrations for each Character in my story. I had created their personalities in a short paragraph, named them, then attached faces to them.

Half way through the month i became very aware of the effort involved in getting this comic done. My Schedule became 9 to 5 for day job then 6 to 8 for the comic. With about 2-3 hours sleep. The thought of getting 5+ hours sleep was an intense day dream.

By the end of the month I was done and my schedule had lightened. I handed off my part and then sorta took some time off.

Sadly I believe breaking my ass like I did. Sleeping improperly, fucking myself over physically for 1 month solid practically had consequences i still deal with now. I have very low sitting tolerance now. My back constantly nags and complains when i sit down for longer then 1 hour. There was a time I wanted to quit work and art because I just couldn’t handle how shitty I felt anymore.

I’ve been wanting to do a lot more comics then the 2 I have. I actually had a lot of thing planned. From a year back but I’ve to afraid of breaking myself that I’ve been really cautious, then caution has sort of led into laziness maybe.

I’m better now finally after a lot of time and money spent in health care and im gearing up to producing more again. This time i’ll be more cautious.

Thanks.