Just about barely finished penciling a page, pretty loosely at that. Was planning on getting two in the can, but several hours were lost to trying to efficiently pay for and print USPS shipping labels directly through the online shop without jumping around between various applications or dealing with excessive amounts of copy-and-paste. It's either a case of no one having yet designed an intuitive enough system or my having reached an age where I may require millennials to explain shit to me.

I prefer not to ink on the same day I pencil. Only because it requires a slightly different setup given the change of tools: ink, brushes, water instead of just pencil and eraser. So I'm trying to work towards a system of 2 pages a day for penciling followed by a day for 2 pages of inking.

Minus weekends, that would give me 20 pages of finished comix a month. Of course in my case I still have to letter them, so add 4 more days on top that.

In the past, it would simply be impossible to plan things this way, because I'd constantly get invited to fly out to give talks or workshops or put on an exhibition, any of which could take up an entire week at any given time. Now that all of that is gone for the foreseeable future, I can (and should!) operate purely on the basis of a steady producing-from-home/online-retail existence. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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