I can’t recall if I posted this before, but for anyone who is entertained by such stuff, here’s what an unfinished Hubris cartoon looks like:
I print out these 8.5X14 sheets with boxes of the right height and width, divided into quarters and thirds. There are also lettering guides printed all over the space. I lay out my lettering, draw in the balloons and boxes, then fill in the space left with little drawings.
Then the thing gets slapped onto a huge light table drawing board that I have. A nice clean sheet of 100 lb, hot press surface slick thick paper gets laid over the penciled page, and all the ink gets put down. And the white-out. And then the correct ink, til the whole thing is done.
Then it goes in the scanner, it’s colored in photoshop, I save two different sizes, and I post the smaller one to the web here.
And if all that stuff sounds like it ought to take an hour, tops, well it sounds that way to me, too. And we’re both wrong.
I will never be successful freelancer. In my head, a project seems like it should only take 2 weeks tops, and 6 months later, I find myself trying to explain why it’s not done yet.
One must suffer for truly great art…
That’s what I keep telling myself.
Oh I have had my keyster munched on underestimating a timeline! Double it and shift one time unit value (if you think it will take 20 min, multiply by 2 and move from minutes to hours. Yep, 40 hours. And if you have procrastination-it is, do it again, 80 weeks and it’ll still be collecting dust half done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
I have been a contract artist in several mediums, estimating can so come back to bite you a good one!
I also have problems estimating deadlines. I definitely couldn’t do all that in an hour though!