RachelHWhite

Thought:
I'd like to work on a comic page. I haven't worked on a comic page in forever!

2nd Thought:
Well, I don't want to start a new comic because that takes so much time.

3rd Thought:
I have that comic I started and have a lot of sketches and work already done on it. However, the pages I did aren't great. I need to re-do them.

4th Thought:
But before I re-do them, I need to re-script them. And also, when I started that story, I wasn't writing it to be a comic, so the whole story really needs to be scripted.

5th Thought:
But if I'm going to do a script, I need to know how I'm going to structure pages and speech bubbles. I need my pages to work individually AND in a sequence. I need scenes to flow together well. I need the environment and characters to be consistent. I need a lot more planning.

6th Thought:
To do that much planning, I need to know ALL the details of the story. IE: I have to FINISH THE STORY!

...I guess I better do some writing...

Well, after a long time coming, I finally decided to let ADMIN_Sublime go. It was quite a development process:
First, being contacted via email by Scott and the initial excitement of the idea of doing a full comic book
Then, the ups and downs of working up the script, doing the sketches and first page, then re-working the story/script, re-doing and doing new pages
The triumph of getting the first quarter of the book published
Then finding that the company that published that wouldn't be able to keep up with publishing or promoting
Both Scott and I had personal life changes, in my case moving from SC to AZ
And just the frustration building and dragging me and the quality of the artwork down
Until another publisher rejected the project based on the quality of the art.
The whole reason I'd stuck with this was to be a professional about it. But if the work doesn't look professional, that's going to hurt me just as bad as backing out of a contract.
With dread, I wrote to Scott and asked to be released, but instead of arguing with me, he agreed with grace and said this could have come much sooner as he's been too busy for the project for some time too.
But I have learned much, both in artistic practice, business skills, and in what it's like to do a comic book: how much time it takes, how to think in terms of panels > pages > entire book, needing to be consistent in style, cutting back on heavy text and using visuals more, etc.
There is a webcomic in my mind, the original story partially written: The Hotel. It will not look like ADMIN the majority of the time, and will be closer to my own natural style. I've been planning to even go so far as making maquettes of the main characters. I don't know when I will be able to start converting it into a script and so on, as I am currently moving right along with a set of short stories...but it's going to happen. I have spoken.

Yes, I know, long time no blog. But I've put up two new ones since my last post, and a third is coming soon on the same vein as these two. They have to do with dismantling your current reality and manifesting a new one.
Here's the linkage:
Dismantling the Illusion (Part I) rachelhwhite.wordpress.com/201…
Building Inner Reality (Part 2) rachelhwhite.wordpress.com/201…
If you're interested, I have also moved to Phoenix, AZ! Big change, taken up a lot of time lately, but now that I'm all moved in and officially a resident (got my driver's license today), I'm going to make sure I put my mind back on my less physical, more creative pursuits.

Yes! All 22 pages and cover now done. Won't be long now and TwilightPop will have it up and ready for download.
My focus now turns to issue 2, as well as my plans for moving in with my boyfriend. He actually moved away a few months ago after we dated for about 6 mo and got pretty serious, so rather than lose each other over a little thing like him living halfway across the country now, we are planning to move somewhere interesting in the near like next 6 months future. Don't know where or when yet; top cities on my list at the moment are Santa Fe and Phoenix. At one time I was thinking about Asheville, but I have grown tired of the South and wish to try living in a different environment, culturally and politically speaking. I'd love to move to Nor Cal but it's quite expensive to live there. Plan A is to win the lottery so I can pay off my bills and never have to work a day job again; still working on Plan B.

If you noticed the low level of activity, I merely would like to note that I'm still in progress on the graphic novel 1% Solution: ADMIN_Sublime. I'm about 1/4 of the way through!