24 HOUR COMICS DAY
24 HOUR COMICS DAY
is upon us!






I will be beginning after dinner, i.e. around 8pm.

I will be drawing from Good Omens,
since it is a comfort book and has fun expressions
and will force me to draw sunglasses and wings
and tables crowded with food
and natty old cardigans.

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[8:11 PM] OH GOD OH GOD I'M SORRY I'M LATE MY COUSIN WOULDN'T LEAVE

[8:18 PM] Scripting quickly because gods know I cannot do these things without a plan ajsdjfhhd

[8:38 PM] First six pages = The Garden!



[8:39 PM] I love these two so much, srsly. NO YOU WILL NOT GET ANY RELEVANT PLOT, ONLY AZIRAPHALE AND CROWLEY BEING DORKS.

[8:51 PM] Cannot believe I just committed myself to drawing 24 pages of sunglasses. What sort of bright idea was this???

[9:01 PM] SHIT. HAVE DRAWN THIS ALL AMERICAN WITH CROWLEY DRIVING ON THE WRONG SIDE. SHIT. CANNOT FIX, WILL KILL COMPOSITION. AUUUGHSF. /wrists

[9:07 PM] No, look, it's okay, THIS IS WHY IT IS OKAY TO SPEND 10% OF MY TIME PLANNING. GOOD, EVEN. I can make all these mistakes and thrash over having to draw a Bentley and a bicycle and SUNGLASSES, GOD, early on and just get on with the comicking later.

[9:22 PM] Pause while I CLEAN UP STUPID LITTLE RATDOG'S PEE from several hours ago since she left with her owner shortly before eight. JDJFDJFJ. STUPID LITTLE RATDOG. Also, have page sketches.



[9:29 PM] Yes, Crowley has degenerated into sunglasses and a scowl. HUSH NOW.

[9:32 PM] Shit, whose idea was this? How am I going to make these recognisably expensive cars when I can barely draw boxes with wheels on?

[9:46 PM] dfkdfjfd AND GUNS. WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS? ;_; Nice, I said. Relaxing, I said. A comfort book with fun expressions, I said. RIGHT.

[10:13 PM] Again with 'what the hell am I even' with a side-order of 'ow ow ow my eyes'.



[10:19 PM] lol, even the planning is getting progressively lazier and lazier, I can't imagine what the comic itself is going to look like

[10:24 PM] *just realised she gets to draw Pollution*

[10:24-10:30 PM] *happy dance of happy Pollution yaaaaaay*

[11:05 PM] Adding to the list of horribly detailed things: BERKELEY SQUARE. A NIGHTINGALE. THE RITZ. /wrists

[11:07 PM]



[11:10 PM] Right, okay. Bedtime. YES YOU CAN SLEEP IN THE MIDDLE OF 24H COMICS DAY. Especially when you, er, start about four hours before your country's comics day officially ends... >_>;;

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[7:31 AM] RIGHT. Showered, breakfasting, and readying myself with Best of Queen at top volume (only for me, of course, I am a kind and benevolent neighbour).

[7:55 AM] Working on the principle that Aziraphale was not quite as chubby before he started hanging out with Crowley.

[8:00 AM] Damn. Note to self: pay more attention to your plan, or you will draw panels really well in the totally wrong place. (Isn't this what the plan was meant to prevent?)

[8:05 AM] So what part of 'nice quick easy fun sketching' is the Garden? Because, really, all those animals running around = NOT CONDUCIVE TO EASY SKETCHING. Stupid, stupid me. XD

[8:42 AM] PFFFYEAH WHAT PART OF THIS IS MANAGING 24 PAGES TODAY AHAHAHA

[8:45 AM] PAGE ONE. Now for more tea and a brief eye break.



[8:59 AM] Hint: pages are much easier when they do not involve the sodding Garden of Eden in the background.

[9:44 AM] Much, much better without backgrounds. WHO NEEDS CONTEXT ANYWAY, I SAY.



[10:11 AM] God, Aziraphale, you are so cute, asdjjhdfhd.

[10:14 AM] Man, I will just get used to drawing snake!Crowley and Angel!Ziraphael, and I'll switch to their human counterparts and the sodding Bentley. XD; I SEE A FLAW IN THIS PLAN.

[10:25 AM] SCREW YOU, DETAIL PENCIL - GESTURAL ALL THE WAY. It is a comic, after all.

[10:43 AM] Can I get a HELL YEAH on panel two? Thankyou, thankyou, that will be the best panel all day.



[10:51 AM] Okay, ow, ow, hand break time.

[11:27 AM] Back to work, and in slightly less pain. >_> Er.

[11:52 AM] I didn't lose much time with the break but I'll never make it to the ducks at this rate. :\



[12:57 PM] Truefax: Aziraphale makes the most endearing expressions.

[1:10 PM] Agh, Aziraphale needs to stop looking so worried because I keep mimicking his expressions while I draw them and I'm getting a tension headache. XD

[1:16 PM] Falling behind a bit, but happy with this page. >>;



[1:38 PM] I like it when pages are all one panel.



Now for WILD TIME-SKIPPING. And hunting down '26 Bentley reference images. :| WISH ME LUCK.

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[2:15 PM] Dear Crowley: Fuck You And Your Car. No love, me.

[2:31 PM] Would just like to extend a hearty fuck you to Bentley.

[2:52 PM] Well, the Bentley is dealt with. However, so is my hand. Ow, ow, ow. 'nother break!

[3:16 PM] A shorter break this time, at least. BACK TO PAGE SEVEN.

[3:33 PM] OH AZIRAPHALE DJFJHDJHFHJDKS

[3:52 PM] I drew Crowley when the page was on mirror. T_T He looked much better before I flipped it back.



To reiterate: FUCKING BENTLEY.

[3:57 PM] LOL APPARENTLY I DREW THE NUMBERPLATE WHILE THE PAGE WAS FLIPPED, TOO.

[4:49 PM] I love Crowley so much. XD



I may need to start skipping pages now... not too excited about the rest of this scene, or drawing Anathema. XD; AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT DRAWING WAR. May just skip the shooting scene.

[4:52 PM] This would go much faster if I didn't need to keep pausing to let my hands recover.

[5:34 PM] Mmmnrgh, okay. Hands take a little under half an hour to recover; eyes are taking longer than that. I think I'm going to have to call it quits! Still, eight pages is eight pages more than I managed last year. ^__^ I might fix a few of these up, and finish of this scene at least over the next few weeks, but NaNo preparation is going to take precedence.

[8:15 PM] FINISHED THIS JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME, WHICH MAKES IT NINE PAGES IN 24 HOURS. WOO!