Questing: 28th Aug to 4th Sep 2019

And so Wednesday rolls into view again!

'Quest list for next Wednesday:

Main Quest

Idea generation

Almost Lawful

Side Quests

Life drawing

Business cards

Crap my dad says

Look at/photocopy ‘Kings and Queens of Maya’ book

Print out and file Ix Chel and Bacabs'

Hey guess what, I managed to work on everything on the list this week! I attempted some idea generation and produced some basic concepts using mindmaps, I'll aim to develop some of them further in the future. I also tried to speed up my comics process by doing one part at a time - I spent most of the time working on it drawing the panels. I'm unsure as to how effective this way of working is going to be as my ideas about what goes into the panels may change.

Life drawing took the form of a few building studies, as I don't tend to practise architecture that frequently. It wasn't particularly enjoyable but that just means I have to draw more buildings!

I got some sketches of business cards down, and then transferred a few of them to InDesign. Hopefully I'll get to finalise them later on. I did start on the 'Crap my dad says' zine, I'm using this project to experiment with book layout and I'm hoping to produce a concertina-esque book.

I've read through some of the 'Kings and Queens of Maya' book, there's a detailed section on their writing and numbering systems which I've photocopied for my research file, I'd really like to make time to read more before I have to return it to the library. I also filed the Ix Chel and Bacabs info.

Quest list for next Wednesday:

Main Quests

Continue with Almost Lawful, finish end of section

Pick an idea from the generation process and develop further

Side Quests

Read more of the Maya book

Finalise one business card design

Violin time

Figure out the page dimensions for 'Crap dad says'

More life drawing - maybe focus on hands