It has been a relatively unproductive week. After inking my third page of the Nighthawks, I decided to revamp the dialogue completely and turn it into a letter format, i.e the narrator is writing a letter to his sister Sally. It resolves several problems I had with the unravelling of the plot towards the end, and I have persuaded myself that this is the way to go. I’m still not too satisfied with the rather casual style of drawing and inking I’ve employed here though. Perhaps this is my most natural style – as opposed to the Card Players – and I’ve never particularly enjoyed drawing backgrounds, and stark, flourescent-lit diner backgrounds are especially difficult to conjure up in one’s mind, especially in an era which one has not personally experienced. Perhaps my next story should be set in a later time period, something more contemporary and familiar. At any rate, I am struggling to finish this story within ten pages, this one might drag closer to twenty, and most of the scenes will be banal diner ones. I hope it will still hold a reader’s attention though…. I have been taking a break from working on this comic, reading Proust – Vol IV and thinking about re-designing the ArtemisDraws website with a bit of Javascript. And I’m up to my 4th page of Nighthawks, and still rewriting the script as I go along.
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