Recently I got back into drawing, first some concept art set in the Spectra galaxy, and then I continued sketching Badly Drawn Sons of Adawine and updated a few pages.
Just a little spaceport. Not related to Spectra itself, just some worldbuilding ideas.
Then the first new page of SoA, clearly demonstrating the problem of cycling in and out of story projects:
After reviewing pages I had drawn and not previously uploaded, I realized that Chapter 3 is very much an out of order mess in terms of scenes. But that’s okay, because it’s much easier to see how to arrange things when all the pieces are tangibly visible. Draft first, edit later! I have since uploaded the previous pages with an addition, now they form a scene meant to take place before this small scene on the bridge.
This section does need at least one more page to complete it, but the current draft is a single bracketed author comment, so it’s gonna need a bit more before I continue.
From this I’ve gathered I work in thematic segments, rather than chronologically. Which is useful for not getting completely stuck when I don’t know what is immediately next, but that also means ALL the scenes consider themselves up for grabs and pull at my attention. Thankfully, I have a scene checklist to help with that.