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The comic status

Journal Entry: Mon Jun 22, 2009, 4:22 PM


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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:iconlethe-gray:
:)

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! :D

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:icontidalnight:
I think a developing style also adds somewhat of a progression of story in itself.

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.
:iconwolf-strider-2:
It dosent matter, you obviously have other things in your live that need to be taken care of. What you epect us to be on your doorstep demanding pages at all hours of the day 'lol imagin' GIVE ME MA PAGES OR YA GETS THIS FERRET NOSTRIL SHOVED IN YOUR LIGHTBULB.

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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if the world took an eye for an eye the whole world would be blind

Journal History

You are raising a mighty army to take over the world, your minions are: 

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9 deviants said Clones of a completely ordinary guy named bob
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9 deviants said an assortment of corrupted, simple minded woodland creatures.
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8 deviants said Farret spies with cool goggles that do nothing, but look cool
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8 deviants said an army of illequiped ken dolls out for revenge because they are illequiped.
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7 deviants said Lemming suicide bombers
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6 deviants said I don't have an army, but I can transform into a giant pink bunny and ravage cities.
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4 deviants said Highly trained attack hamsters
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4 deviants said Genetically altered lab mice with Orson Wells complexes
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4 deviants said Britany spears clones(OH the horror!!)
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3 deviants said A hord or angry darklion artists, all out for artistic vengance and mayhem

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*darklion:icondarklion:
yes but if the villain knew bounds then yellow caution tape around the comp with the nuke launch codes would be an effective deturant to >.> thust relegating him back down from villain to disgruntled citizen status XDDDDD
Sat Sep 12, 2009, 12:04 PM
~RBVGP:iconRBVGP:
They say that evil knows no bounds... that must be why bad guys keep falling off of cliffs, castle tops, and high rises. If they knew bounds... they could mark it off with yellow caution tape and avoid the whole "falling to one's doom" routine.
Thu Jul 9, 2009, 7:04 PM
~wolf-strider-2:iconwolf-strider-2:
how dare you steal teh icons
Fri Feb 20, 2009, 12:17 PM
~RBVGP:iconRBVGP:
:noes:
Fri Feb 20, 2009, 11:07 AM
*darklion:icondarklion:
That's cuz I stolez them MWARHARHARHARHARHAAR
Wed Feb 11, 2009, 5:19 PM
~RBVGP:iconRBVGP:
Not the big ones, no, :no:
Fri Feb 6, 2009, 8:19 AM
~wolf-strider-2:iconwolf-strider-2:
DAMN IT ICONS DONT WORK ON THIS
Sat Jan 17, 2009, 2:36 PM
~wolf-strider-2:iconwolf-strider-2:
Thanks to modern medcine (and a stratigicly placed lemming) you fall on a syringe with a new enzyme formula. You gain a new ability :iconimsarcasticplz: . You discover that you've gained the ability of....
Sat Jan 17, 2009, 2:36 PM
*darklion:icondarklion:
I try to go right but because of my status effect of dislexia, I go left.
Thu Dec 11, 2008, 4:59 PM
~RBVGP:iconRBVGP:
Outside the room, there is a hallway going left and right. Immediately ahead, on the wall, is a right-pointed sign, with the name Kokemo scrawled hastily into it...
Mon Dec 8, 2008, 10:08 AM

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