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Re: David, how long does a page take you to make? Posted By: MACK! In Response To: David, how long does a page take you to make? (smokinghawk)
Well,
Often i work on several pages at once. Or when doing one page at a time, it still turns out to be several at once. When doing one page at a time, I try to do the best I can for that page in one day. I do as much as I can figure out for that day.
Then I set it aside and the next day I just move on to the next page.
This is sort of the most fun part. Because it all comes together, and then I work on all the pages at once. I can spend another two weeks on all the pages at once making them work as a whole and try to tweak to the rhythm of the story. I might change the order of the pages, because one page looks better next to another and has a better effect than my previous plan. or I may move panels around. Or re-write things. Or add panel, or ad different media for contrast at this stage. And some times I work scene by scene. One scene at a time. Most of the time for Kabuki, I make rough layouts of each of the pages in the entire issue before I begin doing anything more detailed. I sort of draw it all out, but not in a detailed way. A very crude way just to map it out. That can take a couple days to a couple weeks. It is really when I am figuring out the storytelling style of the issue. The pace and rythm of it. Sor of like writing music.
I did the first issue of Echo this way too. But the remaining issues, I did not have time to map it out first. I just went page to page, without mapping out the entire book in layouts first. Just the first page, the best I could think. Then the next one off of that and so on without seeing how the pages are mapped out. It was a fun change. When doing Kabuki, I like to have 2 months for each issue to accomodate, the whole thing including lettering, letters collumns and design. With Echo, I did the first issue in 2 months. But the rest of the issues, I had to do in closer to one month each. Thus the new method. And I didn't have to do all the production work with Echo. Hope that helps! : David, as you know I've been enthusiastically buying up
: I can certainly see the clever logic of using
: Given the detail and the mixed media you use, how do
: Thanks again, David!
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