I’ve been trying really hard for the last three weeks to stick to the Mon-Wed-Fri schedule, and just barely was able to do it, but it was a close thing. It’s a lot of work to put out three full color and painted pages a week, especially how I color. Besides this, I have come to realize that I need to be able to put some time to a professional project that will actually pay something and see print. The problem with a webcomic, is that because it’s free online, few want to actually buy the book. My new project that I’ve been planning will not be a webcomic. I need to finish plotting the story and then write the script for issue one. Then I can try to pitch it to various publishers in hopes of getting a deal for a four issue story. A paying project needs to be my priority. So I need to be able to schedule time to do it.
But I love Far Reaches and I’m really wanting to continue the story. But I just can’t do three color pages a week. I’m going to see how long it takes to tone it in monochrome. If I keep it simple I may still be able to do two or three pages a week. I’ll have to see. But a lot of work needs to be done. I seriously need to take a few days and carefully plot out the whole story to the end and script out the next sequence with Brin and her crew. I have it loosely in my head and know where I want it to go, but I need to nail it down. If I’m ever going to get anywhere with Far Reaches, I need to do some careful planning. So in the mean time I’ll only be inking the pages so I’ll have more time. I know so many of you are looking forward to seeing how it ends. So please bare with me as I do all this planning work.
