Sorry about lack of updates!
I just finished with college finals, which were a pain in the ass. So over this winter break I am hoping to work more on UFO Epsilon... though what that means for updates I can't say anything promising, since I usually try to draw out the entire chapter first.

So I say don't expect anything soon. Though I am working on it over break, classes of course start in January again and I can't promise much work to be put into Epsilon during that time. College is my foremost concern, and though I love working on Epsilon, it is a side project that I do for fun. I have to sideline to make room for more important things.

I'm sure ya'll can understand.

Deciding to put this news section to use.

On this day, 10/10/10, I finally finished the first chapter of UFO Epsilon. What would've been really cool if I had finished chapter 10, right?

Anyways, that really shouldn't have taken as long as it did... but alas my first priority right now is college. But I will do what I can do be more productive when it comes to Epsilon as well.

This is how the production goes: I start scripting. Right now I have up through Chapter 7 scripted, so not too many worries there. When I get started on a chapter I thumbnail out all the pages, including splash covers, so I know exactly how long it will be. Then I work those thumbnails into the larger sketch-version of the pages. I do this for all of them before I even start inking. When they're all sketched out, I scan them all in, and start inking and toning them one by one. As I finish each one, I post them up.

I decided on this "batch-route" as it were, because in all honesty I know I don't have a lot of time to work on this personal project of mine. So the mentality I have is that if I sketch them all out at the same time, if a lot of time goes between chapters, any style changes I may get over time will be limited to chapter by chapter instead of page by page. I've done comics before where a lot of time went between pages, and since I had improved over that time, the next page was radically different in style from the previous one.

If this is limited to a chapter-by-chapter basis, the change will hopefully be less jarring.

So why did I type all that? Well, so you know that you may not see Chapter 2 in a bit of time. Even though I've started straight-away on the thumbnailing, it may take some time to finish and then get all those pages up to a more final stage...

I guess that's all.