I colored three pages of Courtly Manners 2 today, bringing the total to 5. This takes me about 2 hours a page including cleanup, so I was a little too optimistic yestarday.
I'm now re-reading Geir's script for it. Here's his description of that first page I posted back in March:
P1.
Panel 1
Idyllic setting. Out in the forest, in a green clearing between the trees, where sun rays filer down between the branches, surrounded by fluttering butterflies, multicoloured birds and cute little fluffy animals.. Kel, rocking a napping Fay. (Well, actually Fay rests in a hammock held up and rocked by two animated tree-creatures while Kel leans back against the trunk of a tree, munching strawberries and reading her favourite book of errant knights and derring ladies. There must be SOME advantages to being a greenery-affinated faery witch!)
Text: None, but Kel’s expression says it all: “Ahhh…. Peace at last!”
Panel 2
Kel starts mightily a mighty POOF! explodes just in front of her nose. The tree-beings start too, snapping back and forth as if in storm.
Panel 3
Kel, quirking one eyebrow in surprise while the other is linear angered as she reads a golden scroll dripping sparkling star-dust all over the place.
In the background, Fay (we see only the hammock) lets out an enormous WAAAAH! The tree-beings now have reverted to be only trees.
Kel: “What the…”
Panel 4
Kel turns as Kra, enthusiastic as always, storms onto the scene. She is waving a rolled-up scroll, identical to the one Kel is holding. Background solid lettering WAAAAAAAAAH!
Kra: “Kel! Guess what I got in the poofst!”
Sorry, Geir, for not including any butterflies and cute bunnies. I,ehm, forgot. I'll put in some sheep later on if you want.
How should this be published? Not that I'll begin publishing it until it's at least halfway done and there's a good chance of me getting to the end in time, without interruptions. Right now, I'm leaning to publishing it as a free comic on Webcomicsnation, financed by either ads or donations. It has to be financed in some way otherwise I can't afford to put time into it (except one or two days every few months when I'm a bit depressed and suffering from writer's block), but I'd like it to be free so I can draw more of an audience. That part of my online work has suffered a bit in the past two years. Because WCN is free to me as a Modern Tales artist, I may be able to draw a modest profit from some sort of ad-based scheme, although I know it's a long shot.
In any case, I will have to start thinking about the business side long before I start publishing the work itself. It's boring but it has to be done.

Comments (1)
Nå, the butterflies and cute bunnies did get you in the right frame of mind, didn't they? Don't matter to me if they hid behind a bush just when you snapped the picture...
Posted by Geir | August 18, 2004 8:45 AM
Posted on August 18, 2004 08:45