Anyone up for some 24 hour comics?

Ataraxia · Post by **Ataraxia** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:21 pm

Hi everyone! I'm not dead yet!

This coming Saturday is 24 Hour Comics Day. Is anyone here planning to do one? As there are no events being held in Korea, I'll be doing one at home and posting updates to internet. It'd be great if there were other people doing the same.

Here's the 24 Hour Comics webpage, in case you don't know what I'm prattling on about:

http://www.24hourcomics.com/

Perk_daddy · Post by **Perk_daddy** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:22 pm

I'm planning on attending an event at a local comic store; I think I've only got about 12 hours in me, though, but I'm looking forward to just working on the comic all day and getting a buffer going.

Salyavin · Post by **Salyavin** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:45 pm

I'm planning to go at it alone too, I won't make 24 pages though (I think) my goal is more along the lines of rebuilding my diminished buffer.

RobertBlake · Post by **RobertBlake** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:33 am

I would do one if I could get some time myself, as well as a buffer.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:48 am

Why do these things always get organized on a day when I can't make it?

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:35 am

Or two weeks after I just did one and am not in the mood to do another?

Kaloo · Post by **Kaloo** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:36 pm

Dang it! I thought it was next Saturday. My sister's getting married this Saturday.(which is wonderful) Oh well. I can always do one some other time. I've been planning to do one next weekend, for like 3 months.

Snail · Post by **Snail** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:12 pm

I've been meaning to take the time to do this one of these weekends!
Might as well give it a go

Kris X · Post by **Kris X** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:41 pm

Totally doing this again. Except... At my apartment by myself. I'll be on the chat probably most of the time.

I'm not sure there's a location I can go to nearby anyway.

Reinder · Post by **Reinder** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:24 pm

I'm in this one.

RobertBlake · Post by **RobertBlake** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:28 am

mcDuffies wrote: Why do these things always get organized on a day when I can't make it?

It's a conspiracy.

Spqrblues · Post by **Spqrblues** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:56 am

I'm definitely in this year--the first year (since I had an injury a few years back) I've felt my hand and arm are physically up for the workout. I'm planning to go to the comic shop near work. If I did it at home, I don't know if I'd have the self-discipline to finish. The shop is a bit of a long haul from home, but some friends have promised to come cheer me on.

I know you're not supposed to go into the event with an idea already formed well in advance, but I can't help myself, I know exactly what I want to do. I haven't plotted it out or anything, so we'll see what creeps out of the back of my subconscious 'round the 20th hour.

Ataraxia · Post by **Ataraxia** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:54 pm

I began work at 9:15 this morning. It's now 3:51 in the afternoon, and I have pencils and text down for 24 pages. I expect it'll take 12 hours to ink everything.

Good luck to everyone else out there doing the challenge.

Kris X · Post by **Kris X** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:02 pm

I will be starting in 12 hours from now or 12pm on Saturday.

Salyavin · Post by **Salyavin** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 2:05 am

I have started the challenge.

Spqrblues · Post by **Spqrblues** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:22 am

Turns out the person I spoke with at the comic shop had wrong information--they'll only have five or six professional artists set up there, not (as I was imagining) tables for ordinary folks to draw while giving one another moral support. The general public is invited to come by at any time day or night and watch them work, cheer them on, bring them snacks, and buy stuff. A celebrity or two will be there signing things, etc. But, since it's at least a two-hour round trip for me just to get there, I dunno if I want to take that big a bite out of my day so I can look at other people making comics

I haven't decided whether to 1) draw a 24-hour comic alone (ha! I know I'll see something shiny and wander off...) or 2) draw as many installments of my own comic as I can in 24 hours (interrupted by shiny things) and start a real buffer for the first time.

I've given myself until 10am my time to figure out what I'd like to do and get started

Ataraxia · Post by **Ataraxia** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:09 am

spqrblues wrote:I haven't decided whether to 1) draw a 24-hour comic alone (ha! I know I'll see something shiny and wander off...)

If you can get 100 panels of an online comic done, that counts as a successfully completed 24 hour comic. Come on! It'll be fun!

I am now 12 hours and 45 minutes into the challenge. I've inked 16 pages; they need more work, since I haven't done any texturing or shading, but right now I'm just racing for the prize. My right arm is beginning to hurt a little. Do not let this dissuade anyone of what I said above about this being fun; sometimes fun hurts a bit. It's the nature of fun.

Here's a picture of the first three pages of my story.
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q211 ... 700262.jpg

Spqrblues · Post by **Spqrblues** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:47 am

ataraxia wrote:
spqrblues wrote:I haven't decided whether to 1) draw a 24-hour comic alone (ha! I know I'll see something shiny and wander off...)
If you can get 100 panels of an online comic done, that counts as a successfully completed 24 hour comic. Come on! It'll be fun!

Really? Then I'm in!

My right arm is beginning to hurt a little. Do not let this dissuade anyone of what I said above about this being fun; sometimes fun hurts a bit. It's the nature of fun.

Here's a picture of the first three pages of my story.
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q211 ... 700262.jpg

Whoo-hoo! Pom-pons! Cheering! Short cheerleader skirts! Way to go!

But be careful with your arm, take breaks and stretches. Don't lean your drawing arm (or the other one) or your elbows on a hard surface--or any surface--for prolonged periods while working. (I know whereof I speak, sucks to pinch a nerve.)

But otherwise: Whoo-hoo!

Ataraxia · Post by **Ataraxia** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:23 am

It's 4:00 in the morning. I have completed my comic, scanned the entire thing, and uploaded it to internet. It's called "One Monkey Short". Enjoy:

http://transplantcomics.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4103

Spqrblues · Post by **Spqrblues** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 2:41 am

Congrats!

I'm on hour 18

and did decide to draw a webcomic for 24 hours straight (less about 2 hours spent on a train). I fell asleep for about a half hour but feel pretty awake now and am back at work.

I suspect I'm only going to end up with about 70 panels. But that's 70 more than I started with yesterday afternoon.