I want to say first of all that YES! the comic is still being done! With that said, I've had a few things that have caused me some hiatus with it. I had to finish up some final projects for a class I was attending and also I felt drawn to get some characters fleshed out and put on paper before I continued further. The biggest issue now thoug is this:
This is the first issue and I'm sure that some of you have seen that my style changes page to page. the characters don't but there are tweaks to the style. That's because I was testing things out. figuring out the style I wanted to play in as a base. I'm doing everything myself from writing to completed page and so it's a constant battle between, how dynamic do I go, but what is the simplest on me as the artist so I can get lots of work done and actually tell a good, lengthy story.
Your comments have been of great help in this. I think though that I may have figured it out. I will always be learning and growing and improving as I work but litterally choosing the kind of work I want to do for this has been a challenge.
Basically, Recently I've had some folks really push me to clean up my work. Yes, I can if I want too, but there is a beuty to raw, uncleaned work that I personally love and when I clean it up and make it totally pristine, it looses some life I feel. That and time is a problem with that kind of work. I don't have a team sadly, it's just me. So i'm gonna be doing some exparements with style and such and I'm gonna see what I can come up with for the next issue. This issue has about 4 pages to go and then it's finished and by that point I want to be more grounded in a style choice than I have been. So wish me luck folks and any support, crits, advice, or ideas when I post my test work and what not is greatly appreciated.
So this is kind of the obligatory "it's been 3 weeks, better tell them I'm not giving up yet" journal LOL.
Peace mateys!
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As far as your style changing/evolving through the work, one thing you might do is pick up a copy of the Gen 13 original 5-issue series by Jeff Campbell.
Check out how his style changes, from start to finish. It's subtle, but by the end of the first run he was SO much different - fluid, bold, more consistant.
... No, he never got any FASTER at it, but hey, you can't have everything!
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Kind of like.. as a person reads on and they get more into the story, they'll also get drawn into a more solid style, too.
But I kinda like the raw style like you say. Thought the pristine versions have a wonderfull feel to them as well, I do admit some of the unrefined (I mean by that not gone over with a fine comb) pieces have a different yet just as nice appeal.
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