Figured I'd take a minute to sum up some highs and lows of the day. There aren't many, so this should be a short post. Of course we all know how wordy I can get. So here we go.
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I finally got a chance to read Archenemies #4, and it was quite a good issue with a quite a great cliffhanger going into the next mini. Kudos, Drew!
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I didn't get this side editing position I really, really wanted and needed, and I'm really bummed about it.
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I finished two lettering projects last night/this morning.
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Both need corrections, and they're my fault. Sigh.
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I wrote some more of my first fanfic that I hope to debut when my site goes live.
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I have a ton of other stuff I should be writing instead, but I just can't seem to get in the groove.
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I moved some stuff to disk today to clear up some space.
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I still don't have enough space and I'm running out of disks.
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I hear Booker T won the world title on the PPV last night.
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I hear Rey Mysterio lost the world title on the PPV last night.
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I ate some A-1 steak sauce on grilled chicken today. YUMMY!
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It's all gone. :(
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I wrote a very long column on the SDCC that should post sometime today, but hasn't yet.
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Did I mention that editing position I didn't get? Yeah, I'm really bummed about that one. :(
An another note, I am really contemplating doing the sequentials I keep promising will debut with the website. I have started them, but my heart's just not in them. I got to thinking about the sequentials I've drawn in the past, and it dawned on me that aside from one issue I did of a new G.I. Joe team I made up with existing characters, and the cameos of Spider-Man, Green Goblin, Doc Ock and Darkhawk I put in stories with my own characters, I've never drawn any full sequentials of anything but my own characters!
Now this isn't to say I couldn't or wouldn't, it just hasn't happened yet. This also means with the exception of one single sequential page, I have never drawn from someone else's script! I've learned in trying to do these Noble Causes pages that it's quite different working on someone else's stuff.
It just bums me out because I used to be so into my art. At one point, about ten years ago, I actually drew 19 pages in one day, with backgrounds. One page was an intense metropolitan city skyview shot even. Drawing was my life! Now it feels like every time I sit down to draw it's a chore and it takes the joy away from it.
If anyone has any advice for me please shout it out to me as I need it. Not that I will ever pursue drawing comics as a living anymore, because I'm afraid it will take me years to get that good, but I still do at least hope to draw my own series someday. And more than that I just want to find the love for it again.
See, told ya I was wordy. I'll spare you anymore though...for now.
B-Out
2 comments:
Think about it like this. What if you wrote the script and drew the layouts, and then someone else came and did finished pencils over your layouts?
You are one HUGE step ahead of me, because my layouts would be populated by little more than obese stick figures.
That is an awesome skill you have and it will benefit your story telling as you have a better grasp of how the panels work and what you can illustrate within that panel.
Now quit whining ;)
Mate I can't draw a straight line with a ruler, you're way ahead of me. Interesting list, I'd say it's a good thing you can find pluses and minuses. Keep up the good work.
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