DONE IN 24

Well, aside from getting food, eating, working out and... 8 hours of sleeping (oops!), I worked for 24 hours straight!

Here's what I did done:



I get to check one thing off my 100 pages in 141 days, and I'm a lot closer to finishing the action thing. Those are second draft thumbnails, but they're pretty much full-size. Theres 3 more second draft pages to go, and then the finished pages will probably be done on heavy tracing paper.

CRANK! Hittin' pages like they're the cheeks of Luscious Lopez.

VALENTINE'S NAILING 244: MATTHEW'S PASSION IS BACH

Even with the V.D. behind us, I'm still trying to nail it. Here's a poorly lit photograph of the still-unfinished pencils for the first page of Secret Project February:


_________________________________

On a break from constant 2007 music listening, I went on a major Classical binge, all the way back to Bach (technically not Classical!). I've been listening to the 62-track Weiner Philharmonicker's rendition of St. Matthew's Passion (or BWV 244, Parts 1 and 2). Anyway, the recording appears to be from an older recording, complete with album skips, the occasional cough from the audience, and at least one moment when someone knocks into a mic. Well, I went for the one recording of the piece(s?) that was iTunes Plus and had at a recomendation to it.

I'm not sure what I think about the piece as a whole. It's certainly not as riveting as the final choral section ("Wir Setzen Uns Mit Tränen Nieder" — the part on Essentially Bach). Now that's some polyphony! For the most part, it seems more elegiacal than I expected. In the somber sense, not the punnish sense. More staid than a complex, contrapuntal work. Or, maybe I don't really know what I'm talking about.

EMAW 10 PAGE 27

So, even though February is the month of working on other things, I was regretting not getting any pages up on the board. I haven't even been able tick my 100 pages in 143 days chart all month, because none of the pages I've done for the other project are usable at all. And I've had a need to get a damn page done.

So, EMAW 10 Page 27. When I started this serial, I knew there would be times when I'd sacrifice storytelling for a beautiful image (or weak attempt at one) and times when I'd sacrifice beautiful images for storytelling, and I've come to accept the fact that I've sometimes sacrificed both just to move on. But there was also something else I've been trying to do since I started Kaiju Jugoruma, and I've never been able to put it into words.

I still can't. This page comes closest to doing what's been at the back of my mind since I started. This backdoor goal I've had that remains hidden even from myself. Some thing of comics I've been trying to get at. I'm not saying that this page IS that, just that, for all the page's faults, I think it is a step closer to BEING that. Or my getting there.

Or something.

SECRET SKETCHBOOK

From the sketchbook dedicated to the other thing that isn't Earth Minds Are Weak, comes the most Earth Minds Are Weak image in it so far:



Yes, sometimes I make New Engineering jokes in my sketchbook.

EMAW 10 PAGE 26 (?)

First of all, that was the most Wire of Losts. Second, that was craziest of Xiu Xiu. Third, call me Jimmy cause this was quickest of page. Basically, I did almost all the work in ink with pencil just pointing out the forms. I wanted this to look more like my thumbnails, and I think I hit what I was attempting. I want to say more, but I'm kinda drunk on my first sober night of the week. Sooper loopy. Let drawing speak for the shelves: