i suddenly hate the layout of this page and i can't work out why. help? Spoiler: under a cut for xtreme big-itude pls ignore how messy my thumbnail sketches are lmao EDIT: the top two panels look fine but everything below that like ://// i can post the script for this page if that helps
so life hit me in the face last week and i didn't actually get to work on the comic at all, and i'm sick right now so my throat is just passively causing me a great amount of pain all the time but goddamnit i will find a way to work on this comic if it kills me
just gonna drop this here to prove my awful messy thumbnails end up at least halfway recognisable before i ink them ;p Spoiler: booopboop
i've only gotten a page done but i've named all the spiders above my desk so really i'm basically being way productive
can fandom and lyric comic making be discussed here, or is this thread only for original, (serious) comics with original characters and stuff? 'cause i've started out actually planning one of the fandom/lyric comic ideas i've had, and yeah, i might want to discuss it here.
you can totally discuss fandom comics here especially if you do it right now so i dont have to think about how stuck i am on this one panel :Y
:D so i was thinking about doing this one for a while, but didn't know how i'd actually plan out and do this kinda thing. but then i realized that i could use a document in google drive to basically write out the script part, and then look at that on my ipad while drawing the thumbnails and sketches and stuff. 'cause, i realized, one of the main things that's hard about comics is the planning and organization and stuff that's involved, that it is necessary to create an organized plan and keep it nearby 'cause it's hard to hold all the stuff in my head at once, and that if i get that under control, the other parts will proceed from it. and now i'm thinking i might have to write out scripts/plans/etc. for literally any kind of complex art thing i do, since i've just remembered that my short term memory is really bad (like, there were tests and that's an Official Assessment, though i doubt they used all those exact words) and that that has been causing problems for me with my art. 'cause there's a lot that i need to hold in my head when drawing things, a lot more than there is when writing things. the translation from thoughts to writing is much more direct than the translation from thoughts to drawing.
do it! i used to be really lazy with planning but now i've started actually writing things down it really does help
:D:D:D it's amazing how many of the simple little things that i've overlooked and dismissed actually help with my executive function, anxiety and with doing art. things so simple and little that i didn't even think they were necessary.
Someone kick me in the dick and make me work. Just come up and clock my crotch in the dick, even. I have no excuses. Executive dysfunction is a cruel bitch, and I am tired of her.
I am coming to realize that as much as I hate tables in all other circumstances, I really do kind of need one for comic work and it's a Pain in the Ass.
So @Key and I started updating Maria again to today, we put out the first page of chapter four: Spoiler: *screaming* This took me, like, a week? because of the first panel. I know a lot more about Japanese license plates than I did before making this page, and also I never want to draw a car again (I say, fully aware that I will have to draw the car again in two pages). So the screaming is half "yay I did the thing" and half "oh no I have to do the thing again later". I was up until two last night getting this ready because procrastination and forgetfulness happened, I spent like an hour putting the finishing touches on, going "There! Done!" and exporting it, only to notice that I'd made a mistake or forgotten something and needed to go back and fix it. I do not art well after my bedtime. And then I had to get up at 5.30 to go to work, so I am tired. *lies down*
Thank you! :D Actually used the Comic Workshop (or Studio? or whatever) app that's been gathering dust on my 3DS for months last night, lying in bed sketching page layouts.
made the series on Tapastic made thumbnail and banner and shit scheduled the first three pages first one goes live a week from today *hyperventilates*
hello, I'm a comic-maker, I make this comic: www.blackgrasscomic.com UHHHH i don't know if i should be posting here or not but making this comic is extremely challenging lmao.
