Update Schedule

Well It's the weekend. I get two whole days, free of the drudgery that is my full time job, to do whatever I want. I kick back, take it easy, enjoy a few beers, and fill up my buffer for the next week....

0ldCøre/HardSchool the webcomic. My update schedule is an aggressive 5 strips a week. In order to be able to do that, and work a full time job, I have to get a lot of drawing done on the weekend.

It's Saturday night and I have four pages inked. I feel thats pretty good. Granted I still have to scan them and process them digitally... (I actually do quite a bit of clean up work on the computer.) -And also I'm planning to append two of those pages together, so actually we're looking at only three strips... (Tuesday's post is going to be double...) I'll draw some more tomorrow...

I am highly tempted to letter this weeks comics with a comic font. Up 'till now I've done all my own lettering by hand... but all along I've been tempted to do it digitally. Will this coming week mark the debut of digital fonts on 0ldCøre/HardSchool? -I'm torn. On the one hand, digital lettering is consistent and easily readable, on the other... hand lettering is 0ldschool and natural...

Like I said, I'm torn...

As for the update schedule... Many of my favorite webcomics update once a week, some of the more frequent updater's do it three times a week. So for me, forcing myself to update five times a week seems unnecessarily aggressive. I've kept it up these past three weeks and I intend to continue... But I know I won't be able to keep it up indefinitely...

But I'm gonna press it for as long as I can hold out! -And here are my reasons for doing so:

#1 ) I'm making up for lost time. I quit drawing for seven years, and now I'm getting back into it again...

#2 ) It forces me to do drawing more... Not just drawing but comics! It's easy to absent intendedly doodle on a napkin, but drawing comics is a discipline! The aggressive posting schedule forces me to draw more... and the more you practice; the better you get... -I'm already noticing improvements in speed and ability...

#3 ) To re-establish myself in webcomics. If I can continue to post five updates a week, I'll not only quickly establish a strong archive of comic strips, but I may also gain some popularity! People on the internet like websites that update frequently, It keeps them checking it daily...


Well that's basically it... If you havn't done so already, check out 0ldCøre/HardSchool the webcomic. It updates five days a week, Monday, Tuesday, wednesday, thursday, and Friday, at 4:20PM west-coast time...