Project Update | Figuring Things Out (Patreon)

Hey guys! Wanted to share a small update on where my head's at. Currently, I am working on Bun Bash, and still in the early stages of production. For the past several months while working on my big animation, I've been writing, reworking script for Bun Bash so that, once I was finished with it, I could have a roadmap for when I start production on it. Seems like the obvious move, but since I've always been used to making one-shot comics, I've treated serial comics the same way, which resulted in the time between chapters being quite egregious for my liking.

So far, I have finished writing for several chapters, and have thumbnail sketched 2 of them. So save for making the pages look pretty, they are essentially readable at the very least. I am still in the process of sketching more chapters before I get into actually inking them. This is a new pipeline that, quite frankly I should have been following ages ago. Despite having 10 years of comic making experience, I'm still fully self-taught and trying to figure out effective ways to finish long-term projects.

The writing step takes me the longest time, naturally - getting raw ideas onto paper, reworking plot points, getting the pacing right. I've maybe gone through 5 rewrites before figuring out where I want to go with the story. Thumbnail sketching is the second-most challenging step as I'm figuring out how to turn words into panels, figuring out if the script pacing works visually. Sometimes it doesn't, and I have to rework dialogue to make it read better. In a way thumbnail is a part of the writing process and takes the same amount of mental capacity to figure out.

The inking stage, while still tedious, is perhaps the easiest step for me. I've done all the thinking and problem solving in the writing/sketching phase, so it's just a matter of doing what I've always been good at: drawing the damn pages! It's like setting up an elaborate row of dominoes and knocking them down one by one. And with a little extra help from my assistants, that work time gets cut in half!

During this downtime following the release of my big animation, I am still in the writing/thumbnailing phase. It will still be a little while before I can confidentially give you a release date, but I at least wanted to tell you guys that I'm getting work done. This is been a learning experience for me and I feel like I'm making breakthroughs!

Thank you for your patience and support!