I was very excited at the announcement of making a city for our class project. It was a chance for me to experiment with various media and show off my skills in the field of 3D model making. It didn't cause me any trouble, the eight-page comic on the other hand quickly turned into my biggest nightmare. It was my biggest project in terms of making a comic book and I saw this as an opportunity to try and create a different genre of a story than I'm used to. However, things started to quickly fall apart. All because of one accident with a memory stick.

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I think losing saved files two weeks before the deadline it's something that no one could be prepared for. However, I got a strong feeling of guilt from my side as I could prevent it from happening. The eight-page comic was going great and I was enthusiastic about the ideas I had until I decided to work from a Mac computer. I thought carrying my work with me on a memory stick was a wise choice as it allowed me to just plug into any computer anywhere and work. I was very confident that I will be able to make 8 pages with 43 panels in a very short time. What I didn't plan was to spend additional few days recovering from losing my files. I could have organized my time better and make space for mistakes like this, but instead, I failed. As a consequence, I lacked time to present my work with better quality than I intended, and I nearly failed to deliver the finished project. It got me stressed as the deadline was very close, but I wasn't ready to give up. I changed my plans, and instead of working fully in photoshop, I chose to use fine liners for the lineart. This quick decision saved my project as I picked quantity over quality. 

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My goal for this project was to challenge myself by producing work in a different context than I used to create. It was my first time trying to write a romantic comedy, and the final product isn't perfect. I consider this project neither to be successful nor a complete failure. If I could change something in this story, I would replace the time the characters spend travelling to the hospital and build them some background story. It would make it easier to skip the part where they spend time together during the trip and make them confess their feelings for each other. I think my story-generating skills completely failed here and it's something I need to work hard on in the future. I was never an excellent writer, but I could and should have read about basic rules for the various literary genres instead of just going with the flow.

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Overall, this project was one of the hardest because it put me under so much pressure. Although the eight-page comic is  one of my worst work in terms of quality, I am proud that I handled the situation with lost files well and found alternative solution. From now on I will make sure accidents like this will never happen again and I will make sure to alway have a backup files. This was definitely the biggest and scariest lesson, but it taught me how big of a responsability is time managment and organization.