Webcomics
I did draw something for today, but my scanner decided to be uncooperative, and so it's not here. Maybe tomorrow? For now, here's a picture of a queen I did about two months ago for a poster design that was rejected:
I was channeling Mucha (again) for this. I did get to use the crown, sceptre, and orb in the final poster, so... yay?
Today I went to a webcomics panel featuring Jeph Jacques, Randall Munroe, and Pete Abrams (my sketchbook now has a picture of hat-guy telling generic-guy that he "fails at internet"). It sort of made me want to start up a webcomic again. I'm hesitant, though; much as I loathe to say it, the potential popularity of my maybe-webcomic worries me quite a bit. I'm not very good at writing funny, which, it seems, has the greatest influence on whether your comic is popular or not. All my stories tend to be, hm... Serious? Dramatic? Corny? Always with the end of the world and such (this comes, I suspect, from playing too many RPGs growing up). On the one hand, I want to be DEEP (which I'm rubbish at), but I also want to be fun, and quirky, inspiring and above all, original. I'm sensing a definite lack of these qualities in the stories and characters I come up with. Or at least, that's what I tell myself, and then nothing gets done.
Oh well. We shall see, we shall see. In the meantime, here are some webcomics that I love (LURVE):
Friendly Hostility. Oh, the characterization is so good. SO GOOD. And it's so funny. SO FUNNY. The artist used to do "Boy Meets Boy," which was a joy in itself, but the Friendly Hostility characters are. Well. They are fantastic.
Gunnerkrigg Court. This is everything I want my comic to be. It's well-drawn, it's funny, the storytelling is top notch – but the thing I like most about Gunnerkrigg is how imaginative it is. I sound like Reader's Digest or something.
Dresden Codak. Beautiful. Wonderful. Whimsical. Love.
That's all. I'm feeling rather dull and uncreative. It's a terrible feeling.
I was channeling Mucha (again) for this. I did get to use the crown, sceptre, and orb in the final poster, so... yay?
Today I went to a webcomics panel featuring Jeph Jacques, Randall Munroe, and Pete Abrams (my sketchbook now has a picture of hat-guy telling generic-guy that he "fails at internet"). It sort of made me want to start up a webcomic again. I'm hesitant, though; much as I loathe to say it, the potential popularity of my maybe-webcomic worries me quite a bit. I'm not very good at writing funny, which, it seems, has the greatest influence on whether your comic is popular or not. All my stories tend to be, hm... Serious? Dramatic? Corny? Always with the end of the world and such (this comes, I suspect, from playing too many RPGs growing up). On the one hand, I want to be DEEP (which I'm rubbish at), but I also want to be fun, and quirky, inspiring and above all, original. I'm sensing a definite lack of these qualities in the stories and characters I come up with. Or at least, that's what I tell myself, and then nothing gets done.
Oh well. We shall see, we shall see. In the meantime, here are some webcomics that I love (LURVE):
Friendly Hostility. Oh, the characterization is so good. SO GOOD. And it's so funny. SO FUNNY. The artist used to do "Boy Meets Boy," which was a joy in itself, but the Friendly Hostility characters are. Well. They are fantastic.
Gunnerkrigg Court. This is everything I want my comic to be. It's well-drawn, it's funny, the storytelling is top notch – but the thing I like most about Gunnerkrigg is how imaginative it is. I sound like Reader's Digest or something.
Dresden Codak. Beautiful. Wonderful. Whimsical. Love.
That's all. I'm feeling rather dull and uncreative. It's a terrible feeling.
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posted by Allison at 11:13 PM
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I really Like your Drawing, Lovely
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