QUESTIONS

[Suicune's Fire]

Ahaha, fair enough. And yeah, I suppose they could be asked in different ways too! True. I've a question:

1. Has the format in which you've completed each comic page remained the same throughout Rising Shadows? (As in, doing sketching first, then lineart, then colour.) Also, at which point do you do your backgrounds? I know that some people do them before they even sketch the characters in, while some do the background sketch with the character sketches, and go from there.

Yes, I was serious about planning for NaNo. I would definitely want to plan before tackling something like that, because otherwise I'd go completely off track, make it far too long, or simply have no clue what I was doing and it would all collapse. XD But that's just me.

[Nekomata]

Ahaha, fair enough. And yeah, I suppose they could be asked in different ways too! True. I've a question:

1. Has the format in which you've completed each comic page remained the same throughout Rising Shadows? (As in, doing sketching first, then lineart, then colour.) Also, at which point do you do your backgrounds? I know that some people do them before they even sketch the characters in, while some do the background sketch with the character sketches, and go from there.

Yes, I was serious about planning for NaNo. I would definitely want to plan before tackling something like that, because otherwise I'd go completely off track, make it far too long, or simply have no clue what I was doing and it would all collapse. XD But that's just me.

The format in which I do each page is generally the same.

Panel Boxes > Sketch > Sketch 2 (If the page is particularly busy) > Lines > Color > Shading > Background > Final Details (if needed) > Text

But sometimes I'll change it up just to break the habit. I'm sure there's a livestream or two where instead of doing the above steps on the entire page, I'll do it for each panel- or I sometimes don't shade until the backgrounds are done- though that's more likely to happen when there's different lighting than usual. In the end, the order depends mostly on the page and how I'm feeling. I find lineart to be the most difficult part sometimes, so when I get frustrated, I'll just color the panels I already have done. Then sometimes I ask Snowy to help color a page or two- I'll add in the text before sending her the file to color and such. xD But most of the time I follow the above order.

xD You can never truly prepare yourself for NaNo. You can have a story idea, an outline, etc. but getting the motivation AND time to do it all month is quite difficult. It gets really discouraging when you fall behind, so a lot of mental willpower is needed. You can't prepare for that part. X_x

[Suicune's Fire]

The format in which I do each page is generally the same.

Panel Boxes > Sketch > Sketch 2 (If the page is particularly busy) > Lines > Color > Shading > Background > Final Details (if needed) > Text

But sometimes I'll change it up just to break the habit. I'm sure there's a livestream or two where instead of doing the above steps on the entire page, I'll do it for each panel- or I sometimes don't shade until the backgrounds are done- though that's more likely to happen when there's different lighting than usual. In the end, the order depends mostly on the page and how I'm feeling. I find lineart to be the most difficult part sometimes, so when I get frustrated, I'll just color the panels I already have done. Then sometimes I ask Snowy to help color a page or two- I'll add in the text before sending her the file to color and such. xD But most of the time I follow the above order.

xD You can never truly prepare yourself for NaNo. You can have a story idea, an outline, etc. but getting the motivation AND time to do it all month is quite difficult. It gets really discouraging when you fall behind, so a lot of mental willpower is needed. You can't prepare for that part. X_x

Ah okay. :] That sounds like a good order to do it in! That all makes sense. x) And yeah, lineart/proportions/facial expressions would probably be my weak suit. Ah yeah. ^^ How much does it speed up the process by having a co-artist? :]

I should definitely do it next year! :D Even if it's when my school year will be wrapping up. xD Hooray challenges!

[Nekomata]

Ah okay. :] That sounds like a good order to do it in! That all makes sense. x) And yeah, lineart/proportions/facial expressions would probably be my weak suit. Ah yeah. ^^ How much does it speed up the process by having a co-artist? :]

I should definitely do it next year! :D Even if it's when my school year will be wrapping up. xD Hooray challenges!

That's pretty much my weak area. xD

And having a co-artist doesn't speed things up too much if at all usually. Snowy helps out once in a blue moon and is slower than I am with coloring and such- but it does help since it means I can focus my time on getting more pages lined/sketched. xD She hasn't actively helped with any official pages in a while though. We've both been busy!

And NaNo ended. I won with 4.5 hours to spare~!