If your out there and your listening you may have been wondering what I've been up to when I have time? I've been working on my "Graphic Novels". I've spent a year working on these "Graphic Novels" on and off. Anytime I had time I've worked on them. If you took the hours and put them together and made them 8 hour days that would be 2 months all together. Take that and spread it a cross a year and that would be around 2 hours a day every other day on and off.

It's been on average every other month I've been working on them. Organizing my time and cutting back on wasteful things. I don't even watch TV no more. Just when I thought I got rid of one bad habit my room mates switch to a super-fast internet. Now the web is trying to replace what I've let go, when I watched TV. Sticking with sacrifice and discipline, I keep the web at bay using it for only 2 or 3 hours a day. If the going gets ruff I'll cut "FaceBook" out. Oops, I'm running off with my words again, here's how the "Graphic Novels" turning out.

The first "Graphic Novels" "Woody and the Crew" is steady making it, I'm almost half way in with the pencils. I've spent the whole December stuck in the holidays with extra work and had no time to work on the "Graphic Novels" that month. The month before that I've spent the whole November sketching non-stop. I filled up a sketch book just by sketch out each panel to get the right camera angles, then sketching backgrounds and more background concepts designs. The good part is I never once had to stop to think what I was going to draw that day. I've already written out the whole story and did the character designs. When building, I like to think big, then brake it down to smaller parts, build each part up, then but all the parts back together.

So if anyone ever looking to make there own project that will keep them drawing with out an artist block. Then write yourself a story and illustrate it, if it's sequential art then you only have to write no more then 2 or 3  pages if you wish to keep the book under 20 pages of sequential art. Also remember to not cut you self short, write something epic and big that you will be willing to not only spend your hard earn time sitting down and reading or watching on TV but sitting down and illustrating it out as well. Remember think big or go home. You just got to remember to write down your idea, dreams, day dream's, or even real life events you have experienced. Sit down and meditate on them and thinks about them then write them down!

I think after a year of experimenting, I've got a  good system down to the point that I can do the writing and sketch's of a new idea and have sequential art started in under a month. I've written a layered system down that's goes into detail on how and what to do and how much time it takes to do that. It's just a long list of detailed objective with time tables, its too big to post with this already large journal. I'll post that when the time is right. If you can draw fast or learn how to, if you can or willing to fill a sketch book up for around 30 to 60 pages in under a month then you should not have a hard time creating storybook illustrations, "Graphic Novels", or comic books idea's from scratch, from writing to the point where you can start doing the sequential art.

I've told many people not to jump into story telling just to make money. Truth is, there's little money to be made if any. If your not in it because you love what you do and your willing to do if for free, then your wasting your time! Selling books for a living won't put a roof over the head of the average Joe. It takes hard work, allot of luck to make real money from selling books. Just about everyone I know that makes books have a day job.