3. Mo' pages, mo' peds, mo' problems...

I've fallen in love with flat colors and 1990s comics. The new coloring style has given me more energy to finish the first issue, though I haven't been working as hard as I should be each day. It's kind of tough finding the time to do a page a day like I need to outside of my actual job. But I've been able to get a few parts of a couple more pages recently. Instead of working straight through and penciling a full page before I move on to inks and colors is kind of hard. So most pages I have are done pieces at a time. It feels more like a digital collage sometimes, but it's also nice that way. A few pieces I've got so far I'm quite happy with and feel like showing here.

On another note, I've been looking at some old mopeds. I'm hoping to have one sometime soon in the future, but for now I just want to incorporate a 1980s model into The Fencer somehow. Maybe just in a background shot, or even better, maybe the main character uses one in future issues. Honestly, it would suffice enough just to do a large painting of this moped, maybe hang it above a couch or something. I just need to draw it, that's all, hah.

Having a job/career aside from this comic book endeavor (which, unfortunately at this point is just a hobby), and the pencil/ink/coloring all being a one-person attempt, it's impossible to make a month-to-month deadline. I gave myself certain deadlines because ideally, I would love for me and Scott to put out an issue every other month, just for ourselves and our friends. But I'm drastically past my deadline for this first issue, and it's taken so many months just to figure out how I wanted to illustrate it. But I have to remind myself it's just a fun thing right now, and I want it to be something beautiful when it's finished. So it's worth the months it takes.

However, we are expecting a little 8-page Series Preview we put together to be available in a week or so. It's just a little something to show ourselves that we've done good work so far, and to show others that we're definitely committed to following through on this project.