Today begins my detailed analysis of my own process of creation and productivity. I have been drawing the comic, "featuring Talking Guinea Pigs!" since the middle of March, 2008. I started posting it online, on my website JoeGP.com, on June 20th, 2008. It began as a thesis project when I went to the Center for Cartoon Studies, and has since evolved into my new series.
I began webcomics long, long ago, but I will get into that at some other time. Right now is just about setting up this specific through-line.
Anyway, fTGP! updates three times a week. It's about guinea pigs from outerspace. The first story arc finds them accidentally landing in 19th century Russia. It combines my three loves: sci-fi, Dostoevsky, and drawing guinea pigs. That's literally where it came from, just mashing up the things I'm obsessed with.
I'm writing in this journal right now when I should be finishing up page 10 of Chapter 3. My update schedule is Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but I keep updating on these days later and later. At first I updated at midnight, then I would get distracted or busy or tired and finish up after work, which would give me just enough time to post at 5 pm. Now it's 8 pm and I'm just about done and ready to post. I plan on exploring the nature of this procrastination and the things that help and hinder this process in future entries.
For now, I think this serves as a pretty good introduction. I'm going to get back to shading page 10, and hopefully will be posting it in about a half hour. My plan is to start page 11 directly afterward, as I know that if I start that tomorrow, then this same cycle will repeat and I'll be finishing that one up Friday night. I would love it if that didn't happen.
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