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since i'm bogged down with moving chores, i haven't had much time to work on the comic. i did get a chance to do a little coloring on page 13, though. it's nowhere near finished, blah blah blah. anyway, i get antsy if i don't post something new on my website every once in a while, so the page-in progress is behind the cut:
the other pages-in-progress can be seen on my website.
last week, i finally saw what these pages look like on a crt, and i was mortified. the colors look radically different on the laptop on which i did the work (i know, lcds are awful, but i'm a man of limited means -- resist the urge to point out my n00bness, jut!). i've got a good monitor back in ohio, so that's the first problem i intend to remedy when i get home.
if you're a comic book artist and you REALLY want to demoralize yourself, watch a video of moebius drawing a page. saying i'm salieri to his mozart would be an insult to salieri. the page just flows out of his hand at lightning speed, as though he were seeing the finished object in his head and transcribing it without thinking. we're talking pen on paper, no pre-drawing. and it's perfect. i console myself with the thought that he never really got a chance to match his art to a great story. if i can make any gains on the guy, it'll have to happen on the storytelling side of the equation.
what am i saying? i have no idea how to write a story, either. thankfully, comics is still one of those mostly-unexplored frontiers where anybody with a little chutzpah can stake a claim. in a hundred years, there will be rules and past masters and huge expectations, and then only geniuses will need apply. but for now, it's a fucking free-for-all, and there's no dress code!
the other pages-in-progress can be seen on my website.
last week, i finally saw what these pages look like on a crt, and i was mortified. the colors look radically different on the laptop on which i did the work (i know, lcds are awful, but i'm a man of limited means -- resist the urge to point out my n00bness, jut!). i've got a good monitor back in ohio, so that's the first problem i intend to remedy when i get home.
if you're a comic book artist and you REALLY want to demoralize yourself, watch a video of moebius drawing a page. saying i'm salieri to his mozart would be an insult to salieri. the page just flows out of his hand at lightning speed, as though he were seeing the finished object in his head and transcribing it without thinking. we're talking pen on paper, no pre-drawing. and it's perfect. i console myself with the thought that he never really got a chance to match his art to a great story. if i can make any gains on the guy, it'll have to happen on the storytelling side of the equation.
what am i saying? i have no idea how to write a story, either. thankfully, comics is still one of those mostly-unexplored frontiers where anybody with a little chutzpah can stake a claim. in a hundred years, there will be rules and past masters and huge expectations, and then only geniuses will need apply. but for now, it's a fucking free-for-all, and there's no dress code!