Clocking in

Despite the lack of having the scanner, I have been keeping productive with the story.  While I have been doodling in the sketchbook to work out ideas and stories, as well as getting accustomed to my Rapidograph and Copic markers.  I think there has been some pretty decent improvement over the past weeks.  Although it sucks that I can't share much with you at the moment.  I do promise once things start working like normal again, that you'll finally see the stuff I've been working on.

As I've progressed with the comic, I have timed myself and can officially say, it takes me a whole day to sketch thumbnails, layout, pencil in, ink over, and 'color' in one whole panel.  I know it sounds crazy.  One day, one panel is a bit much.  I can bet there are a lot of other professional artists out there who gloss over a page of about 5 - 7 panels a day.  So I'm slow.  I'm ranking up there with the really slow artists.  Let's just hope I get really familiar with my new tools and technique that I can speed things up.  Without losing quality of course.  Should it not work out, well, I prefer quality over quantity.  What do you think?