I still don't have the paper I need and I'm going to be away this weekend so I'm doing a practice comic of a short story to practice emotion mostly
I tried to make a 14ish page comic almost two years ago, I was going to try and do 9 pages in a month. And well, that didn't work out. It took me that long to do rough sketches of all the pages and almost 6 months of on-again-off-again work to finish the rest, I didn't even make it all the way to the punch line. I salute anybody who is shooting to do a complete story in comic format. It's such a time consuming project, but the results can be amazing
I'm shooting to finish up the first ten pages within the week since they're mostly done already, so I can pop the bastard onto Taptastic and get to work on the next ten, and hash out rough pages when I get bored of inking. I think that's the best way to keep wiggle room available for myself for the no-brain-no-body days, and if I gamble correctly, should even let me do an international move without breaking stride on updates. There's thoughts of a side-project that'd be less long-scale webcomic and more episodic cute fluff that could even be ashcans involving someone with a slime s/o that would be done in screentones instead of full color, potentially, because i have a weakness for monsters. = v =
I keep puttering around with world-building and havn't written much about the story or characters in this comic I've head in my head for years. I'm just thinking pretty soon I am just going to have to bite the bullet and start writing/drawing if I ever want to get it done. Even if it has shit writing/pacing/art and isn't this sweeping masterpiece I see in my head. Because otherwise it will never actually get done. I could die tomorrow and it would die with me. Or alternatively someone could publish their own story that is eerily similar to mine and then people would think I copied them. Also I consider @Vast Derp and Kagerou a huge influence of mine, just watching the progress evolve before my eyes when I archive binge. It makes me think "wow, I can do this too!"
I did it. The first page is scheduled to go live hella early in the am on the 14th, with Mon/Fri updates thereafter. I'm upset that these early pages don't look at all like I want them to/how they look in my head, but even as the pages go along I'm seeing a noticeable improvement so. Mission is being accomplished. I'mma scream into the void now because IT'S ACTUALLY BEGUN AND THERE IS SO MUCH TO SCREAM ABOUT. eta: I forgot to link the bitch.
Instead of using my returned Comic Drawing Inspiration for monetary gain I drew 17 more pages of self-indulgent crap about my MMO character. And I'm not even finished. I'm tempted to end Emotional Battle With Your Dark Side Personified with them making out, my selfcest thing is showing. Also I never want to look at Final Fantasy armor again. EDIT: posted on the tumblrs, spoilers for Final Fantasy 14: Heavensward and the lvl 50 Dark Knight quest
Dark Knight comic updated with ten pages, inconsitent shading, stupid goth armor and a little bit of lesbian selfcest subtext
I went and bought actual decent paper! And some backup pens just in case. And @peripheral finally finished the script for chapter one, so all that's left to do is thumbnails and then I can start!
I've got most of the pages complete for next month, and 3/4 of the illustrations I'm popping up while I'm MIA for the move. Decided to go with a brief pause to take stress off myself because it was hitting a -lot- harder than anticipated.. and pair with the week + lost due to being off my meds... ughhhhh. But otherwise, Gray Stardust is chuggin' right along.
recently started actually getting into comic-design and i fucking love it despite having no motherloving idea what i'm doing; thing is, i keep wanting to make at least a fairly short contained story for practice, but every time i try to pick one to focus on my brain just '?????? lol no one page's worth of this story is all u get bud' like, i can force myself to expand on the story more from that, but i just... completely lose interest. i haven't been able to write decently in over a year because of this, either. ghhhh.
That's rough, you have my writerly sympathies. Have you tried working with someone? If the comic-design is what's really fun for you, perhaps you'd be able to work at turning a script into a comic without losing interest.
@Elaienar that's actually a really good idea, thanks! i'm not sure how to find someone to test it with, though; most 'find a collaborator' venues i've found online seem geared for people who aren't, well, experimenting with something that they know might or might not work out for them. they seem to be more 'find someone you fully intend on finishing a thing with.' unless somebody on here wants to try it with me or something -eternal shrugging- (also thanks for the writerly sympathies, long-lasting writer's block suuuuuuuuucks)
@Carnivorous Moogle Hmm, that's true. I used to be on Manga Magazine/Inkblazers, where they had a forum for people trying to find someone to collaborate with, and it was 90% people like "I have a forty-volume fantasy epic in the planning stages and all I need is an artist". Idea! You could try the writer's thread - someone there might be interested in trying something out, just to see if it works. Or ... I have an idea for a short (<10 pages) comic that would be in the same vein as A Girl & Her Shadow/The Story of a Lonely Girl, but I haven't started it because I'm busy with Maria. I don't know what genres/types of story you like, but if you'd be interested in something like that you can shoot me a PM and we can see if it works for you. (And if not, no worries, I'll get around to drawing it myself in ... two or three years probably, haha.)
I would give advice but my collaborations tend to just be screaming about plot excitedly while @Bel Capricorn reminds me I need to script write. So.. do that?
So a friend reblogged a link to this article about a free class being offered by the California College of the Arts - it's called Comics: Art in Relationship and it actually started a couple of weeks ago but it looks interesting so I went ahead and signed up anyway. Dropping this here in case anyone else is interested.
so I kind of started making a Giant Story Project into a comic after being stuck on it for ages and it's actually going kinda okay for once??? I've got like, 13 pages completed (not including like title cards) and I've got another 3 open waiting to be inked right now and, idk, the hype is real I guess?
