Day 6: "oh! Oh! Pick me!!"

I was doing so well last night, I thought I was gonna be able to finish two panels. Then I had a major technical issue with FlickNex and before I knew it, two hours had gone by and the technical issue was still there... ain't technology swell?!?

At any rate, here's my panel. I told you Gus MacDugal was only biting his time. The rest of the page is pretty much all him. 

I love having Gus in a scene. He is just such a fun character to work with. More than once he'll pretty much write himself and I am forced to cut jokes that I find hilarious but have nothing to do with the story and actually slows things down. At least he has several chances to shine in Prizefighters & Knickerbockers as he also did in Bullets, Babes & Bylines. 

And, as always, if you want to learn more about Jon Pay or Gus MacDugal, there are three comics available on ComiXology (for a very reasonable price if I do say so myself... and I'm a cheapscape...)

(Jon Pay, PI and Gus MacDugal ™ & ©, C. A. Aabø, 2017.)

Day 5: half a page done

Ok, I will honestly say I wasn't sure I was gonna make this one;a bit of background, tiny bit of foreground and three characters on different levels. Granted compared with some of my other backgrounds, this is nothing, but still.

Can't show everything this time around, so here's the background WIP and a young man patiently waiting his turn. 

I also accidentally did a close to a full time lapse of the inking of the characters. However, I don't think anyone would sit through seven min, so I will see if I can't edit in to a vlog-episode (of which I have made a whole ONE of...so far...). If you feel otherwise, let me know and I'll post it later.  

And, as always, if you want to learn more about Jon Pay, there are three comics available on ComiXology (for a very reasonable price if I do say so myself... and I'm a cheapscape...)

(Jon Pay, PI ™ & ©, C. A. Aabø, 2017.)

Day 4: Mix it up

That's four days in a row. Maybe I will be able to keep this up.

Here's a bit of a time lapse and the finished panel. Out of context, it gives nothing away, so I felt safe sharing. 

If you pay attention to the video, you may spot  how, thanks to inking digitally now, I am actually able to edit or change my pencil. I was once taught by a very prominent inker that "the reader will see my work, not the pencilers". Granted I'm nowhere near as brave as he was and don't think I would give anyone the same advice, however it has pushed me to be looser with my inks and to not always stick a 100% to the pencils. Then again, I am inking myself, and I am a very forgiving individual.

And, as always, if you want to learn more about Jon Pay, there are three comics available on ComiXology (for a very reasonable price if I do say so myself... and I'm a cheapscape...)

(Jon Pay, PI ™ & ©, C. A. Aabø, 2017.)

Day 3: something a little different

As promised I will try to mix it up a little. That being said, here is a time lapse of my latest panel. I have been looking forward to this one. Just thought Jon Pay looked cool in it.

As you can probably see, I try to stick to the rule of doing the outline of the character first, followed by all the details after. It's not so important in a panel like this but in a busier panel with things happening on several (visual) levels, it makes the panel work better if you can separate the different levels solely by the outlines. At least that was what I was taught and it works for me, so again, I try to stick to it.

As always, comments and feedback is more than welcome.

And if you want to learn more about Jon Pay, there are three comics available on ComiXology (for a very reasonable price if I do say so myself... and I'm a cheapscape...)

(Jon Pay, PI ™ & ©, C. A. Aabø, 2017.)

Day 2 Here's this guy!

If someone's gonna say something about when I've posted something, I will point out A) it's not tomorrow until I've had at 15 min of sleep and B) the time difference, I'm sure we're in different zones. At least I am sticking to my new commitment (at least for day 2...).

At any rate, here is a whole new panel. If you have picked up Jon Pay, The Comedy is Over, available from Comixology, you may recognize this doctor from the news page. This is how my script doctor used to portray himself in cartoon form. The character has developed a bit over time but that just goes to show how long it's taken me to get here. At any rate, I needed a doctor so why not use one that I actually trust.

As always, any comments or feedback is welcome.

(Jon Pay, PI ™ & ©, C. A. Aabø, 2017. Doc Monster ™ & ©, Rob X Román, 2017)

New commitments

Well, that year flew by. My apologies. This has been a bit of a tough year for my family. I won't go into details but we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel (far far FAR ahead...). 

I have done quite a bit of progress on Prizefighters & Knickerbockers and the plan is now to have daily ink updates. I'm not sure I'll be able to be as consistent as I was with my  642 Things To Draw challenge but the plan is to finish a panel a day or half a page a week. I am not working on this full time and with my daily life (and my basic 12-panel layouts) it seems a fairly realistic goal. I won't be able to post every panel as it might ruin the story, but I will do my best to keep things interesting. 

Here are my latest two panels to be finish. 

If you wanna see some of what I have been up to, please check out the Jon Pay Facebook. And if you want to learn more about Jon Pay, there are three comics available on ComiXology (for a very reasonable price if I do say so myself... and I'm a cheapscape...)

Thanks for checking in and feel free to let me know what you think!!

Have a good one. 

Progress

It's been a while since I posted updates here, especially ink updates on "Prizefighters & Knickerbockers". Too many updates to cover here, but if you check out the Jon Pay Facebook, you'll see a lot of updates including ComiXology publications and new book out next Saturday at Spook Screen in Cork, Ireland.