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Simon Shawn Andrews
Creator
About
My background is fine art. In 2025 I decided to complicate my life by making this comic, so it's now a slow crash and burn. This story is based on research I've done into testimonies of those who have experienced alien abduction.
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Simon Shawn Andrews
5 hours ago
48 done and i like it too... perhaps not quite dense enough visually but it has the feel of what i want. Onto 49...
Simon Shawn Andrews
3 days ago
47 done. it was only a few simple panels. I think it turned out pretty good, but time will tell... Page 48 up next. getting close to 50... I'll have to have a little celebration then.
Simon Shawn Andrews
5 days ago
46 is done and i think it turned out ok, i like the relaxed linework and it is in the spirit of my storyboard which is rare lately. The process started with writing the whole thing, which took a few months, then i storyboarded the first 20 pages, then penciled and inked each page in succession. On pages 15-36 i cut out pencilling and just did inks based off the thumbnails. Then i went back to pencilling pages 37-45, but less complete before inking. Now i'm back to straight inks again. Not sure if i'll go back to pencilling again, but who knows. Anyway, on to page 47...
Simon Shawn Andrews
1 week ago
finished page 45, onto page 46. the next set of pages are the heart of the story and im not all that satisfied with the results so far. It's a mixed bag for me, but i press on....
Simon Shawn Andrews
2 weeks ago
finished page 44. This one took longer than i would have liked because it was heavy on design and screentone. The results were ok but i'm not satisfied with the overall direction of these newer pages in terms of the artistic impression i want. It's all a little too tight, too exacting, too descriptive. So i will try to adjust for that in the next page. It's a constant battle with my inner critic, which is simultaneously perfectionist and timid. Anyway, 45 is up next, so fingers crossed... hitting 50 pages is my short term goal.
Simon Shawn Andrews
2 weeks ago
finished page 43 and onto 44. Lets see, how are things going so far? I'd say i'm obsessing a bit much on things outside the comic creation, areas of personal vision, style, what i'm really trying get across with my art. I feel the comic is a machine that takes my ideas and grinds them to dust if they suck, and it has demands that go far beyond just making art. I feel there is a great connection to be made with this comic and the rest of my art, but i don't know how to make it just yet. So each day i press on, with regrets and failures for each page, but also a certain satisfaction.
Simon Shawn Andrews
2 weeks ago
finished page 42, half done page 43
Simon Shawn Andrews
1 month ago
done page 40, onto page 41. I remember reading about advice for new comic makers: " don't do anything too long, keep it short, no more than 6 pages". My thoughts are, if you have a great story you want to tell, you need to just do it and accept that it will be uneven in quality. I'm not exactly sure how long mine is going to be; although it's completely written , the length can be variable depending on how i want to draw it. I think its over 100 pages . There is a huge difference between doing a 6 page vs 100 page story, it's like a walk in the park vs climbing a mountain.
Simon Shawn Andrews
1 month ago
on to page 40...hooray!
Simon Shawn Andrews
1 month ago
finished page 38, started page 39. I can see why most creators never get very far before packing it in... it's a very strange and difficult endeavor making comics and one must wear a lot of hats. Then on top of that there is a lot of self doubt that creeps in. It's not like there is some comic making institution that lays it all out for you, so that also adds to the difficulty. Now that i think of it, this a completely bizarre type of work where you can only learn by doing and studying what others have done. Toiling in obscurity, that's what it's all about :^)
Simon Shawn Andrews
1 month ago
finished page 37. Now onto page 38
Simon Shawn Andrews
1 month ago
finished pages 32-36 for the next chapter. It's been rough trying to find a way of working that i'm satisfied with and has good results. I've redone some of these latest pages 3 times and i've lost a lot of time doing that. Anyway, I think what i've done is satisfactory and i'm on page 37 now. This chapter has over 20 pages, so I don't have an idea of how long the next release will be. I thought this status update thing was removed by globalcomix , but i noticed they just moved it... so i'll update regularly now.
Simon Shawn Andrews
3 months ago
finished the paintings for part 3 and all pages will be published in a few hours. On to part 4...
Simon Shawn Andrews
published a new release
3 months ago
Simon Shawn Andrews
3 months ago
working on finishing a painting for part 3.2, hopefully in the next day or two.
Simon Shawn Andrews
published a new release
3 months ago
Simon Shawn Andrews
3 months ago
finished 1 painting, working on 2 other ones. Hope to be done all this extra stuff by end of the week.
Simon Shawn Andrews
3 months ago
i'm working on 2 paintings for the release, but to do that i've decided to really get into learning how to paint better. I have a lot of experience painting but painting mostly out of your head is a whole other ball game. So i'm doing that this week and next. I've got 12 paintings on the go, hopefully 2 of them work out. I've got all the pages scanned and ready to go, just this extra stuff is what's taking up my time.
Simon Shawn Andrews
4 months ago
finished page 30 and 31. Figuring out what extras to include, then scanning and preparing for release.
Simon Shawn Andrews
4 months ago
on page 29, took a few days off to study how to improve my comic making.
Simon Shawn Andrews
4 months ago
on page 28, almost done the pencils...yay! i think page 27 turned out pretty good, its getting closer to the sort of look i want.
Simon Shawn Andrews
4 months ago
sort of finished page 26, but i will probably come back to it. i'm redoing portions of page 24. There's 5 pages in this chapter so it's technically done, but im working on the next chapter as well, its 6 pages, but i haven't decided if i will release them together or separate.
Simon Shawn Andrews
4 months ago
on page 26
Simon Shawn Andrews
4 months ago
Finished page 24, onto page 25.
