Letter letter For @chrono-corvid

A friend sent in some anonymous monies to get you this letter.

 Though they might want a refund since the pixie that brought it exchanged the letter for an apple helmet. They remember it though, so just pay attention to the words bird say around you for the next couple days. You’ll figure it out. 

I can’t say I have good advice for formatting except, decide on as much of it as possible before you start! What size each page is, what font you use, what medium, that kind of thing. It’ll help you keep a consistent look.

As for motivation...well, uh. I tend to keep going on discipline, really. I don’t know how to motivate myself when I get home from Dayjob all tired and stuff to stop staring at the wall and work on a page instead...I’ve just been doing it so long that it’s what I do. I started doing comics when I had a graveyard shift job and eight hours of mostly-quiet time to fill, so it was pretty easy to get started and stick with it. By the time I left that job, I just had a routine, that’s all.

Breaking your workflow up into chunks might help! Currently I do the sketch version of a page when I get home on Fridays--I finish that, and then I’m done for the night. Saturdays I do inking. Sundays I do flat colors and/or finish the page. Usually I’m done with the page by Tuesday at the latest, depending on the complexity of the page. Since most nights I have only a specific step to do, it’s easier to convince myself to do it.