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So I had a V-8 moment when I realized I've been doing it wrong, or at least not the way I use to do things that worked for me. See a long time ago (15 yrs) I had made a couple of comics own my own. Came real close to getting them published, had a preview order ad in Diamond Distributions Catalog and everything, except.... I had no money for printing and my credit was for shit so I could take out a loan. Then came the dark year when I teamed up with a group of hapless assholes who did everything in their power to drain my soul away. They nearly succeeded, DeviantArt was a creative life, which eventually became a crutch.
But enough about yesteryear, today I now know and I am working the old way, the right way. What ways is that you might ask (but probably not)? Draw out the full layout first, then write the script to fit. This maybe totally backasswards to most people but it worked so well for me in the past. I'm not the best writer, in fact I'm pretty bad. Putting my ideas down in words is just not up my alley. So when I started for some fuck reason to write the script first, it came the creative feat of moving a hundred car freight train with the last forty cars are off the track. I think I heard that it was the thing to do and I was so eager to get out of my creative slump that I would try damn near anything to just get rolling. So I've started my old-new process and I hope to have something to show soon.
Here's a sample of my old work. Gawd what a n00b I was, I even used Comic Sans, what the hell!?
But enough about yesteryear, today I now know and I am working the old way, the right way. What ways is that you might ask (but probably not)? Draw out the full layout first, then write the script to fit. This maybe totally backasswards to most people but it worked so well for me in the past. I'm not the best writer, in fact I'm pretty bad. Putting my ideas down in words is just not up my alley. So when I started for some fuck reason to write the script first, it came the creative feat of moving a hundred car freight train with the last forty cars are off the track. I think I heard that it was the thing to do and I was so eager to get out of my creative slump that I would try damn near anything to just get rolling. So I've started my old-new process and I hope to have something to show soon.
Here's a sample of my old work. Gawd what a n00b I was, I even used Comic Sans, what the hell!?
100 Day Comic #2: Day-69 (Jan. 10th start date)
I hate that all this time went by without me updating. I have been working on it, more tweaks to the story and what not. But I had a few other projects that were taking up a lot of time and I've started back working out, so at the of the day when all that was done I would be fucking tired. Forcing myself to make time and make an update.
Here's the next page. Knocked it up pretty quick, just didn't get back to moving on it.
More to come.
100 Day Comic #2: Day-55 (Jan. 10th start date)
Been out of pocket for a little bit, finally able to get back on the horse. Got another page laid out. Moved the bottom panel pic from the last page over to this one for a better flow of the story from page to page. hope I left enough room for all that dialog I wrote up. Got enough fan service to keep the pages turning.
100 Day Comic #2: Day-49 (Jan. 10th start date)
Pushing forward on the next page. The bottom half seemed easy to layout. Also, when in doubt, add fan service. But this whole comic will be full of fanservice from beginning to end.
100 Day Comic #2: Day-48 (Jan. 10th start date)
I have sad news that a good friend of mine has died. He died last year but I've just learned about it today as he was my internet pin pal and email was the main way we communicated. We had lost touch and I didn't know why but I knew he was facing hard times. I found out today on a whim by going through our old emails (I never trash the old ones) and finding a link to his deviantART page. He didn't use it a lot but I thought maybe it would lead to a clue of what was going on. His wife is on DA too, and from her journals I learned of his death. It was an absolute shock to me. I was heartbroken. I can kinda hide in plain sight in my office and I
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Two steps forward, one step back is still progress! Keep it up! ^_^v