Day 134: Week 20 Summary

I managed to squeeze in a quick e-book on outlining stories, finished Saga Vol 1 and Gotham Academy Vol 1. That's a pretty successful week for me as far as reading goes.  I had to play around a bit more with my final t-shirt design but mostly this week was back to mechanical pencils and working through reams of printer paper.

I'm very slowly working my way through Matt Groening's "The Simpsons Handbook: Secret Tips from the Pros".  The plan is to draw every picture in the book at least once and add my own notes along the way.  Sure, it's a bit of a deviation from the anatomy studies I've been working on but it's just fun to draw something that looks like it's supposed to look.

I'm still planning to start my web comic on January 1st, I so I need to understand how to design a character that's easily drawn and looks consistent from panel to panel.  Matt's book is fantastic for this, I just wish more animators would release handbooks like this one.

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Metrics

Pages Read This Week	162
Total Pages Read Since Launch	1618
Books Completed Since Launch	14
Total Tutorial Run-time	12 hours 52 minutes
Days Since Launch	134
- Active Days (1 hour or more of practice)	129
Drawing Time This Week	7 hours 5 minutes
Drawing Time Total	126 hours 5 minutes

* I'm considering Friday to be the end of the week for tracking metrics so that it lines up with my summary posts.

** I had to use a some fuzzy math to figure the page count for some of my Kindle books since they only have location tagging.