Perhaps its because of Comic Con right around the corner (my wife is going this year, strangely enough I couldn't scrounge up a pass-been so busy working on three TV shows that it slipped my mind to even get one) or perhaps because I picked up and blew off the dust of the Wacom tablet yesterday, that I feel I should get back into posting on the blog.
Truth be told the comic has stalled a bit (obviously). The pressures of what I get paid to do for a living, along with animating a short (pitch for Nickelodeon) by myself, guests staying over, the dog's sickness, and pretty much everything life could throw at me, meant I had to take a step back. But a step back doesn't necessarily mean 'away'
I'm still determined to get back on the horse and get this bad boy done. I've done you, the reader, a dis service by not posting so long, and not responding to emails, which is just stupid, and I'm sorry.
Right now figuring out how to budge my time is the major thing. I figure if I can create a schedule as stick too it, I should be done fairly quickly, even though at the moment I have increasingly less time, and less energy. Oh, and the fact that I'm being stupid enough to do this: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/dark_knight_training.htm
yeah, Christian Bale's workout routine for Dark Knight. I promise I will not walk around like this though:
Anyway budgeting time. I've been looking a lot at what great literary writers have done, at least schedule-wise. I'm not saying I'm remotely on par, but I figure you look at what a successful person does, try to mimic that to the best of your ability, with variances that work for you and you should, in theory, get something that works. For example:
Granted #2, pretty easy to do, but you get the picture. One of the things that really intrigued me was this however, Ben Franklin's routine, which he apparently had printed up:
I love that A) he only sleeps 4 hours a day, and B) the "What good shall I do this day". It has nothing to do with the purposes of this blog, but I just like the little side note he has set aside for introspection.
Basically what I'm babbiling (again. . .I know right) about is that in order to complete your goals, especially if they are something outside you usual skill sets you're going to need to:
A) Observe others that are successful, especially if they are related to what you want to accomplish.
B) Plan, and plan for you
C) Stick with plan
(Step 4: ? Step 5: Profit!. . .sorry couldn't resist)
Welp, I'm trying to bang this out while at work (big shock right) so I may edit this later. Just know that the comic is coming back and so am I. . .
Oh and the next post should be about how I'm trying to do the comic digitally (the process of creating it more so than making it a digital format)
Later Gators and have fun at Con.
-Trevor.
