Before:

After:

I know that 46/46 has a nice, romantic ring to it, but I think that 60/43 sounds good too. This one went faster because it’s black and white and was fully sketched out before the actual painting begun. Nevertheless, those were 43 testing days. I found out that those 24 hour comics challenges gave me much more than just a small comic book done in a day. Namely: endurance and mental toughness. I remember in the past I was marking pages whenever they were done in one day (I’d write 1dw on them, meaning one-day-work). Now it’s kind of given. One page daily is bare minimum. And it all seems to be easier after those 24h sessions. Strange how it  all goes.

One more thing: this time, since I had complete sketch of the entire album I decided to keep those sketches instead of throwing them away as usual. The time will tell whether this was an important move from the standpoint of history of comic books (spoiler: it wasn’t). Here they are anyway, compared to the volume of the actual book:

Zeszły śniegi (przynajmniej u nas) i czas się zabrać do roboty, festiwal w Warszawie za rogiem a tu trzeba album namalować. Tak więc tego, zaczynamy. Czas zapolować na jakąś planszę roku znowu.