When progress is not progress

I got the wall paper drawn, and some minor details, but overall not great tonight. The last few days I've experienced increasingly distracting pain in my back and neck. I will make a bonus post tomorrow with a progress shot in addition to the character spot light. Sorry :( Here's fingers crossed for good health!

Inspiration: Gone With the Wind

So I'm sure from seeing the previews of page two, you've noticed the big dresses and civil war suits. I actually didn't get a great deal done tonight because I put in Gone With the Wind--one of my favorite movies. I didn't remember that Scarlett was half Irish--which was kind of funny to me. I did get to relive why I wanted to use Scarlett as a main character inspiration for Mikala. She's coy and charms the men. Earlier versions of the story had girls plotting to dumb punch on Mikala, men surrounding Mikala as she sat aside being generally bored with the night's events.

Again there's the theme of strength with the women I chose to model who I wanted Mikala to be. I noticed a tenderness with Scarlett, who fights desperately to need no one. There's still a decent amount of writing going on, so I know I'll be thinking to that as I edit the next 3/4 of the story.

And, finally, the setting captured me. I live in Atlanta now, and I lived in Savannah a few years. Trust me, it's not the same. (Ha!) But the southern antebellum look took me in. Originally this setting was only for about ten pages and it was never to be seen again. Don't worry. We'll spend a later issue back in the beauty of the deep south.

Some progress shots tomorrow of some furthered images of page 2.

Hey, it's election day

Congrats Obama on re election. Here's what I worked on the last for hours.

Character Spotlight: Mikala

Mikala Thompson is your typical southern belle. She spends her time reading, sewing, and dreaming of the perfect life.  Mostly her perfect life is away from home. Mr. Thompson is a merchant who travels to distant lands and brings back anything Mikala could desire. Without having any sons, Mr. Thompson fills his daughter's head with running his business when he's gone. Of course, Mrs. Thompson does not agree and spends her time trying to find Mikala a suitable husband. Mikala is smart, which can make her often coy attitude dangerous for the men who pursue her hand. A husband is not exciting, and therefore is on the button of Mikala's to-do list.

Kind of a boring Sunday progress

So I'm trying a new theory of working I'm segments. I've just finished 31 pages if page borders and will be starting to layout panels soon. I have also this week gotten reference show of some of my models, so here's your moderately boring post for today.

Meet Logan (my model for Harris)

and Corey (my model for Caden),

 

 and for good measure, here's a picture of my cat, but i think she's a little big for that tupperware container...

Progress for Saturday

Here's some shots of the Web stuff, some banners and the Web layout.

It's still Saturday somewhere right?

11/2/12 Week in review

See you all tomorrow for a progress report! PS, thanks, YouTube for only picking three terrible shots every time. Ha!