Today I placed page 1 of my Dirge World comic. It is intended to be a rough draft, but I don't even know if I will find the time to rework it to produce a better product. I have to splice the page to together after scanning it (I draw it on 14" by 11" paper) and after tweaking a balance of contrast to brightness, I go about giving it simple color. I was hoping that shading techniques would be easier, but I have quite figure them out yet. After color, the lettering, man that lettering. Just picking a font was a challenge and then placing the text boxes on the page was much tougher than I thought is would be. I'm still not happy with the result. This whole process used far more time than I thought it might.
I'm at a crossroads on Dirge World. On the one hand, I can fix a few issues here and there for it but this will use up more time than I have. On the other hand, one of my mission statements was to continue to keep a good pace (about a page a week) and let mistakes through to keep on working on it rather than becoming frustrated and scraping the project.
At the moment I'm leaning toward just producing pages just to see if the story is even working then later going back and cleaning up the pages in a re-release.
Ultimately, I figure this comic won't have an audience anyway, but I always wanted to produce my own comic book.

"End Rant."