A year or so ago, I made the decision that it was time to stop working on weekends and evenings. I'd allowed my work life to grow to the point where it was, well, my life, and I wanted to get it under control. So, I slowly let my clients know and I went from there. It's a hard thing for a freelancer to do. So many of us start out with this as a second job that weekend and evenings are the only times you can work, and sometimes your clients come to expect it. Anyway, I staked out my position and have tried to stick with it.
Now, I'm not saying I'm never in the studio after office hours. I am. A lot. But it's usually only on stuff I want to work on. Things that are fun, or that I have a burning desire to do. Or, when a friend calls and needs some help, which is what happened this weekend when John Gallagher asked me to help him finish off his Free Comic Book Day issue of Buzzboy. John's a great guy, and we've all fallen under the Dreaded Deadline Doom. So, I said "sure" and started coloring.
Fortunately, it wasn't a horrible job. As coloring goes, the pages were pretty simple. And I still got out to see "Zodiac" (very good, by the way) and out to dinner on Saturday, too. So I wasn't locked in for the weekend or anything. Best of all, they came out pretty good. I posted the first a couple of days ago, the balance are below. Click on any of them to, as Jebediah Springfield once said, embiggen them.
