 I had to take some stuff to the post office and apparently we have to fill out all these forms now instead of like being able to fill them out there. I had to do it online before I went there so I had this massive bag full of like comics and stuff to take to send on to people and now I have to fill them all out individually online and then write down like the weight of everything, the price of everything even though it's just like prints and comics and stuff and then note down the ID for it when I finished so I'm writing it down in the book and then I'm doing like a post-it note on each envelope and I've got about, I've done four and it's taken me about twenty minutes. I am dying inside like, I can't. Why do they make it so difficult? It's just so annoying. I don't know if this has something to do with Brexit, probably does, like I'm in Gibraltar by the way in case you guys don't know which is like a British territory so it's kind of different than being actually in mainland Britain but they're still applying all the crappy rules and it's kind of annoying so I have this thing where I massively put stuff like filling forms like off so it was a real blocker for me so now I'm finally just getting around to it because I got a coffee and I'm just like okay just power through and then tomorrow I'm gonna take them to the post office at lunchtime during my break and yeah, fun times. I'm really grateful for my patrons and anyone who bought the comic and stuff so it's nothing to do with that it's just annoying like postal stuff which is great, love it. That's what was left to do and I hate it but once it's done I can relax because I think it's one of those things I've just been like thinking about and I was like I should do that and just been putting off so once it's done it will be good hopefully well sometimes I say that and then I'll go to the post office and they'll be like well you haven't done this and it's just like post office okay that's it, that's it. 10pm and I'm just figuring out like some Kickstarter stuff and just figuring out what to do like the layout and pricing and stuff like trying to figure out how much money I would need if I wanted to print the comic, get some rewards like extra rewards I was trying to figure out what I would want so I have a few ideas for that and then I was also thinking about doing like a bundle of Emily is Burning in case some people haven't read that with the comics so I could reprint Emily is Burning that could be like one set. I also had this idea to have like so a day and night kind of vibe for the two comics and then they be bound together by a sleeve and I was thinking what I could do on the sleeve is like have one side have a night time with a 90s kind of house and then daytime with like a kind of manner, regency manner thing. It's all just ideas I was just scribbling down some quick ideas with a ballpoint pen and trying to figure it all out because it's a project in itself doing a Kickstarter so I'm just trying to like get it in my head what I need to do before I have to do it so I have to make a lot of like images for online which will work online better than you know print so I need to think about that stuff so this is just my scribblings basically and now I'm gonna work on the next part of the 90s comic. I think it's gonna be called Wishing on a Star so I did some last night and not really happy with the way that it turned out so I'm probably gonna have to photoshop a little bit her face here because it looks a bit silly and I don't know where to redraw this one because I just wasn't happy with it. I'm not sure yeah so it's coming on I think I just need to maybe do some more random drawings for this one because I'm kind of not happy with the way that it's looking so far I'm not sure I was really happy with the Regency one maybe it's just me being a bit insecure so I'm just gonna maybe push ahead and I can always fix little mistakes when I come to Photoshop it all together so I think it will be okay I just need to work on it a bit more maybe add some more color here and stuff yeah I think it's alright like there's just small a couple small mistakes like I do like the way that her pose is and stuff but I don't like her face I'm gonna do some more pencil coloring on this one I thought like I really liked the style of this with a lot of the pencil shading and stuff so I'm gonna try and bring that a bit more into this one which will be a little bit different than the Regency one which had some kind of you know pencil-y stuff going on but not too much whereas this has got a lot more no it's kind of the same I don't know I think I'm just at that stage where I'm looking at it too much so I'm just like is this right this is just some preliminary work that I did for the Regency one so maybe I need to go and do some like more preliminary work for this one possibly anyway I'm watching that show Ginny in Georgia well listening to it and so I'm probably gonna work on this for like half an hour and then go relax and bed watch them YouTube and go to sleep oh I finally I finally finished doing all these envelopes so I had to fill out every single one of them will form online like I told you and then jot down a number and tomorrow I'm gonna take that to the post office it's gonna be fun it's gonna be a fun day going through that and then stamping each one so thinking if I do do a Kickstarter that is gonna be painful if it gets funded because it's gonna be like last time last time I did a Kickstarter was 200 people bought the comic roughly and I'm hoping to get a bit more than that this time because it would be nice to exceed that goal I don't know if it will at all I'm hoping so yeah let's see anyway that's it for today I think Pesto doesn't like that Chris Pesto she's been sleeping with him like this whole time somebody said recently that they didn't know that I had free cats while I do this is Kubo it's usually Pesto gets featured because she's the one who's like always jumping in front of the camera wanting to get in front of the camera and stuff so here's her yeah Kubo's little fish and I've been coloring in this page I sketched it out and then I'm going to color it in and flip it over and do the lines something I noticed is that some of this is like a lot blotchier than the other comics but I think it will work well in the favor because I want to work on the lighting of this project on this comic a little bit better because it's gonna be all set like nighttime so I'm trying to like have the light come through this window and do that night sky and stuff and then use pencils to kind of show where the light is and I hope that it will look cool so this is kind of what it'll be like I went over this page a little bit more with some colors and stuff and I do I do like how it's looking I think I just had one of those moments where I was like oh I'm not sure about this so yeah it's getting there tomorrow probably tomorrow night I'll probably work on the line work for this but that is more or less three pages well I guess this is a double spread so that is more or less four pages on its way to being completed and that's pretty cool I found this really good way of like storing my other comic with some papers and I'm just keeping it all together like that I should probably just get like a folder and keep them all together that's it it's now I was looking at remote controls for this panel just gonna turn on the TV off it'll make more sense once I do the lines and stuff still watching that Ginny and Georgia show it's kind of just great background noise sometimes you need background noise when you're just trying to work on stuff so yeah I'm gonna go and try and sleep now because I've got work tomorrow and then I've got to take these to the post office tomorrow so I will catch you tomorrow okay guys I'm not joking every day this seagull comes to my balcony and I feel like this is our seagull friend he just hangs out here and Google is chases him away the other day he came here like six times I'm not sure if he's trying to tell me something what do you want we have this new like wood litter chip thing and I'm like does he like that what's going on that's the story of the seagull all the cats are like what how why are you here currently quarter to 11 first day evening and I finished drawing up this page or lining it I want to say inking but I'm not using ink so it doesn't make any sense so I'm kind of happy with the way that it turned out I'm gonna do all the dialogue on photoshop like and like it did with Emily is burning what I did was I took a typography that I liked and then I hand drew over it and changed it up a little bit to suit the comic a little bit so I'll pick like a font that suits I think yeah so I'm kind of happy with this um it's it's getting there I think I'm getting more happy with it as I go on and I'm really liking the textures in this this one so yeah I'm happy with it and I'm gonna go back and change this to be more like this I think I might just cut out a piece of paper glue it over the top of this and then when I scan it I can make it look like it's part of the image and yeah so that's kind of what I've been doing so I am now four pages down done and of this short comic so I'm pretty pleased with that I have two four six eight pages left but a lot of the pages are more way more complicated than this now and I think it's gonna be difficult so that's it yeah I'll probably speak to you guys again sometimes before this vlog comes out but that's me for this evening I think I'm gonna go to bed now or maybe start drawing lining the next page I'm gonna see yeah that's it okay I lied I it's now 12 and I finished coloring and well first of all sketching out another page and then coloring it and this is how it looks the colored side and then this is where I'm gonna do the pencils on it looks a bit weird without the pencils but when I add those in it will look different this is gonna be like this shining being thing that appears in her bedroom so I have to work on this a lot but yeah there's a lot of textures a lot of stuff going on and then there's gonna be like a lot of pencils coming off it like this so it's gonna be hopefully quite impactful it is now midnight so I think I need to go to bed it's sometimes hard to step away from this when you're kind of in the groove so I'm currently on this page I've got one two three four five six seven pages left and yeah I'm going to bed now I'll talk to you guys tomorrow good morning everybody it is Saturday and in a weird turn of events it's raining outside so perfect time to work on the horror comic where I left off it was Thursday evening and I had finished coloring this page and now I need to line it so I thought I would just line this one and camera and answer a few questions that you guys had from the previous video I always have to check that these are plain papers because I don't want to color over anything this one should be fairly simple to line because I haven't really got that much going on I really need to get a folder for these to keep these in and there's now about 12 midday and I'm gonna upload this video later and in typical style as I've started doing this the cats have gotten really hyper and I don't know if you can hear them like running around chasing each other but these vlogs have always been a little bit more laid back than the other videos I do where I like edit everything and make sure the sound is good whereas this one's I just you know me trying to share every day working with you guys by the way this is my favorite sharpener ever I've probably said this a few times but in case you haven't seen this before it's the blackwing CUM one I don't like to say CUM as the word because it sounds something rude I think it just really like makes the pencils really sharp good story right I've had real trouble like drawing this characters face for some reason I don't know why probably should go and do a little bit more drawings of her to like get used to drawing her a little bit more so I got a question from it's me art how to make short stories so this is something that I always struggled with previously basically Emily is burning the first sort of short comic that I did was sort of a push for me to work on short comics because I would always do the same thing as you described where you come up with an idea and then it turns into this really long epic thing that is just pretty intense and hard to do and probably would take you know a lot of time that you might not have so for me it's always been important to think about the ending of the story because I think it's something to aim for so I know that if I write straight ahead meaning that I'll just be like okay I've got this vague idea of a story and now I'm going to write to that point and then write to the next chapter and see kind of where the characters lead me or where this goes it can extend to like a really long story and I think it's really important to edit down your work a lot I'll get into how to do a short story a little bit or how I do short stories but first I want to talk about if you are an author or you're pitching a short comic you want to go to an agent first who will become your little literary agent and they will send out works to public publications a lot of places don't take unsolicited work so to get it solicited you have to get an agent a literary agent so in that case a lot of places they won't even look at drafts of stories that are like over 990,000 words kind of thing because they think they're not gonna buy into a massive long story that nobody you know potential that nobody would buy it whereas if you go to them and say hey I've got this short like shorter story and the option to expand into more stories in case it does well that's a much better sell for them so you've got to think about how you approach that kind of like idea so you've got to think when you're first starting out to write a little bit shorter anyway I don't know if that's helpful to anyone it's kind of more about writing than it is about comics comics I would say you could say I have this comic or I have this comic pitch and I have ideas to expand into more comics if it you know becomes successful but you really want to focus on the fact that this story is the self-contained story and this is what I'm pitching otherwise you're basically asking for a lot rather than just one thing if that makes sense so how to write a short story like I said you need to focus on the ending and this is really where that kind of you know middle school story writing comes into play where you have them in the middle beginning and end you really need an end to write to so that's how I focus on it I'm like okay I want to do a story about this and I need I know that the ending will be this so I need to get to A to B what happens in between A to B has to be interesting so you have to have like an idea of what you want to do and if you have like an ending in mind a to B can be a short or as long as you want it to be right so you have to focus on the ending really how to get there it's kind of difficult to explain because for instance if I was writing a long story I would probably just be like okay the ending is out there but I'm not focusing on it so much it's like taking a train ride and thinking like I need to get to London from Ipswich and I know in between that I'm gonna hit this station and this station so I need to think what happens at those stations and that will help you stick to that and not make it expand too much into a longer story and I hope that helps some people it helped me thinking of it that way like I need to just keep to this idea that I need to just get to the ending and that's that's it really that's the advice I can give you because I know it's difficult you have to be really tough on yourself as well Stephen King has this advice where he says kill your darlings and basically it's like just edit edit edit edit anything out that you think is just fluff or in the sense of writing anything that isn't progressing the story is just not interesting to the audience like I mean it could be but it's it's not pulling the story forward it's not propelling anything so there's no point of it so the more concisely you can tell your story I guess the more bite it has the more interest it has like obviously there are some authors who have beautiful literary style they're like writing their languages amazing so they can they can be really flowery in their descriptions and stuff like that so they can have really really long books and it still be kind of interesting I suppose it depends on the type of author you are but it's to me I like people to be kind of a bit concise and I don't like overly descriptive or described stories it depends on what you enjoy I know like for instance JR talking and stuff like that would write probably like the description of a flower for half a page and stuff like that so you can do that obviously but it depends it depends I think for like horror stories it makes sense for it to be short and snappy and for fantasy it makes sense for it to be kind of flowery and consuming so I hope that helps answer your question it probably answered all questions and you actually had but yeah that's kind of how I go about writing my short stories so I just sit down and make myself do it as well I think that was the most difficult thing for this comic holding me back was sitting down to just write the thing because even though I had the idea in my head and I knew exactly what it was gonna do just sit down and write each panel is kind of difficult so it held me back for a long time and then I just was like just do it and now look at us and I'm here I'm doing this out another question from somebody MW could you do your day in a life as a graphic designer so I guess that would be like on the idea basis that would be interesting because it's like oh a graphic designer would like to know what you do a today like that would be I know that would be an interesting concept but I'm working from home right now and all it would literally be is me on the computer not able to show you anything because I can't really show you what I'm working on because it's confidential with my work and then me talking on my headset in meetings every now and again so not really very interesting content for you guys and I understand like you're probably interested in that side of my life of doing graphic design but I can't really show you anything so it's not it wouldn't be great that's kind of a vibe that I miss you know working from home is you can't really pick up on stuff you can't look at somebody else's screen and be like oh what you working on there like how do you do that and it's it's something that's really useful like learning from others and sharing information in a team is really handy and I think it's really really important and obviously sometimes you can't do that because maybe you're a freelancer and you're working by yourself and things like that so maybe it's handy to like look online and learn things YouTube as well has so many like friggin resources you know what I mean so I think it's really useful to think what you want to do in your life and then try and bolster up anything you can yeah so that's my answer to why I can't really do a day in my life of graphic design it wouldn't I wouldn't be able to really show you anything interesting the next question is from Danielle and is talking about Emily is burning the first comic that I did if that's coming back into stock so if you're watching this video you might have seen earlier when I said when I was organizing the Kickstarter and I want to do a reprint of Emily is burning and possibly put it into this new Kickstarter somehow like maybe make a bundle of my comics but I'm not totally sure if I want to do that yet because I don't really want to make it about Emily's burning because they're not really apart from being horror comics and the fact that I wrote both and their short stories are not really connected but I guess that's a connection enough really if you wanted to buy them but I don't know I have to think about it and let me know guys if that's something you think would be a good reward like the comics bundle I'm not sure I should order more of Emily is burning anyway because it would be nice to to have them again that's the answer for that one I'm not sure when they will be printed because I remember last time I got the printed because I live in Gibraltar I got the printed in the UK and then shipped out here and for some reason the second time that I printed them they took ages to arrive and I was like come on like people are asking me for it and it took ages for them to get here and I'm not sure why so I'm hoping that that won't happen again especially if I print out stuff Kickstarter because you know I want to give people their rewards if if it gets funded that is a knock on wood as soon as I can so I hope that won't be an issue again that's the the answer I guess either way about shipping would be fine because I have to get the other ones printed and shipped anyway so I guess it's not really a reason not to print Emily is burning again so I wanted to talk about how long this comic took because I saw a couple of comments being like oh you did that quite quickly and I don't think I really did because I mean once I sat down to do it maybe relatively quickly but to sit down and then write the story took me a long time like I had these ideas for this comic last year I'm not sure when about maybe like October time I was like oh that would be like I had the hints the first hints of the idea basically and yeah so to sit down and write it took a long time and then I had it written for even longer and then I pushed myself to do the the thumbnails which also were a thing that held me back because I think I feel like the writing of it and the thumbnails are like the hard work that leads to the fun part of actually making the comic obviously this is hard work but it's like the fun the more fun bit you know like I enjoy this bit the most and drawing and coloring and stuff and think whereas that is all kind of like figuring out and assessing and trying to figure out the the flow of your eye of the panels and what's happening in each panel is it leading the story somewhere is it describing something is it doing something for you so that's kind of like hard work translating word to images and then coming here is like the fun bit because you already did the hard work so it leads to a more enjoyable experience when you come here um yeah so that's that's how long it took me I would say this part of it of drawing the comic I mean for the invisible one the first comic it took me probably about a month to draw out all the pages so not including the time of writing it and thumb nailing it and doing the preliminary work of like character design and all that stuff probably a month of you know every now and then after work or in the evenings drawing up a page I think I've gotten into the rhythm now of like drawing kind of a page at a time each evening or roughly you know some nights I take a break cuz I'm tired or whatever so roughly a 14 comic page would take me you know couple of two weeks and a half so that's the kind of time I'm looking at once I've done all that work that goes in for it obviously that's different for everyone so don't take that as like a golden standard because some people you know they they take two days to work on one page my my pages are a little bit rough I would say they're probably more simple to do than kind of like a Marvel comic standard page stuff like that so it all depends on your your workflows stuff so that but that's just like my timeline and another question is from reigning sunshine if I have any comics to recommend and oh yes I do there's a lot of comics if you like horror comics Junjito has some really great works I think definitely taken a lot of inspiration from him story wise not style wise because obviously our styles are like super different but yeah I think he has really creepy stories and they're really well written and well drawn and interesting and just very scarring as well so if you don't like horror leave that one out but yeah if you like horror you will like that another one is Joe Hill and what's his name don't at me if I'm wrong I think that's his name for lock and key I actually own all the lock and key now the books and I got them for my birthday last year I already read them before but they're like one of my favorite comics set series they came out Netflix actually with that series so it's kind of like that but better if you like that series the actual book is better surprisingly I have that opinion but yeah it's really good it's a little bit creepy it's a little bit whimsical magical fantasy realism high school dramas plays with time space lots of different things I really really like that comic I think it's really really fun and engaging as well that you really care about the characters I think it's awesome set of comics so if you can get your hands or maybe like the first one and see if you like it and then you can test out the rest of them I think anybody who wants to be an a comic artist or aspiring artist should read blankets I keep forgetting the names of people it's something Thompson my Craig Thompson I think that was one of my favorite comics when I first started like properly getting into comics and thinking actually I want to I want to make comics that was one of the first ones that I read and I was like well this is awesome this is like it's a true story and it's about a guy trying to break out of sort of a overly religious family and it's dark it's very dark and it's a true story and I really liked it it was really engaging another comic that I loved when I was first getting into it was Anya's ghost and I really like that one it's like it's probably a young adult more a young adult kind of comic but it's about like this girl who finds a ghost and the ghost starts following her around and it's it's it's really good it's I don't want to spoil too much so I'll just say that but yeah it's it's it's it's great and I really like the visuals in that and it's sort of like high school drama dynamic is something that I enjoy reading about so there's a kind of some recommendations if you guys want more recommendations let me know because I'm happy to keep recommending stuff I enjoy reading comics that aren't superhero comics so I would say that I haven't really read that many I love like the Watchmen and obviously who doesn't stuff like that but I don't really like superhero comics like I don't know even though I haven't really given them a massive chance I would say that I just prefer more real life kind of comics even though Lock and Key and Junji so aren't really real life I guess that's kind of my taste I don't know I've read like the Joker the killing curse and stuff like that in Batman year one and it just I don't know not really for me but that's just my taste you guys might like those you know that's kind of all I have for recommendations right now I obviously could go on and I keep looking at my bookshelf so that's why my sound probably sounds like a moving away but each year new comics come out so I keep finding new ones to enjoy if you guys have any comic recommendations let me know down in the comments I'm always on the lookout for new stuff I would be interested to see what you guys come up with or tell me is your favorite as well oh that would be really good if you guys could let me know your favorite comic because it would be really interesting to see what our community like most likes if that makes sense because you guys are here watching me make a horror comic I would think that you like comics so let me know so that's kind of like all I have for questions really because I didn't really see any other type of questions if you guys did leave a question that haven't answered it just let me know I'll try and answer you down in the comments as best I can I think it's obviously easier for me to talk to you here because I can blab on but yeah I hope that those things that I was talking about help someone I went to to talk about like how I know about pitching to an agent and stuff like that is like I did a pitching to an agent course back when I thought I was gonna be like a writer and I wanted to make novels and stuff rather than comic and I thought like yeah I'm gonna make a massive fantasy book and I'm gonna pitch it to these people and they're gonna buy it up you know dreams that people have sometimes when I was a kid I was like this is this is it this is what I want and now I think I've changed a little bit into more I want to make comics so yeah I did that course so we've it was like at Random House as well which are the people that published Hi Potter I believe at the time and it was really interesting like they were really good because they had a load of literary agents there talking about how to get an agent and all this stuff and it was really good because they were like then you could have like 20 minutes speaking with them and I had to talk about my idea of my book to like an agent and it was really I was so nervous I was just like because I never back then I never really spoke to anybody about that kind of thing so it was really awkward because I was like I don't know how to speak about this story which is not obviously not a good sign if you don't know how to tell somebody your story is like maybe you don't have a good story so it was really awkward but she was really nice and she was like oh share it with me when you're done kind of thing and I was like okay I'm like so funny you're thinking about it but I definitely learned a lot from doing that kind of course it was just like a day course kind of thing so it was really interesting so I'm glad that I did that if I could share some information with you guys yeah I hope that it helps someone out there who's gonna be an author or something but yeah super funny thinking back on it it wasn't that long ago as well it was like my early 20s and I was just like this is my new dream I'm gonna be an author and I'm yikes I mean I could still do it I maybe one day I don't know so this is like a being that visitors visitors what am I saying visits her in the night and I'm trying to make it look how I can see it in my head and I hope that it's gonna be looking like that I'll probably finish this up on my own because I think it's gonna take too long now but this is kind of the idea and I hope that you guys enjoyed this kind of weekly vlog and information about these comics please consider if you're watching this in the past checking out my Kickstarter and stuff because I'm gonna be doing that soon in a couple of weeks or maybe more than that probably more than that but yeah I really want to do that soon and just get this comic off the ground I'm really excited to work on finalizing it all up and I can't wait obviously this one needs a lot of work but the first one is done and I need to scan them in and Photoshop them also probably take you guys along for that process as well and talk about how I do that because I think it might be useful to some of you maybe not all of you but if it helps one person then that's good right yeah so this is my style this is what I'm doing I I'm just going for it and try my best navigating the world like the rest of you so I hope that you are kind and let me know in the comments see your favorite comic and what you think of this and yeah what you think of my Kickstarter ideas and that that's it basically thank you guys so much for watching please like give this video a like it really helps me out and subscribe if you're not maybe you enjoyed this content I don't know okay thank you guys bye