Bobandgary wrote:Best Part: Writing the comic. I love the process of coming up with the characters, the plot and the ideas behind stories, and enjoy writing the scripts a lot.
Worst Part: Drawing the comic. Not because I'm bad at drawing or find it boring, it's just that I'm my worst critic and never believe that any of my stuff is good enough. The amount of time that I've draw an entire page, only to find one part which is wrong with it and then have to start again because that one bit has managed to ruin the entire page for me...
As you can tell, I do a lot more writing than I do drawing
works for me in those times
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"Your service is to the story and to the characters. Fuck the audience and fuck your own whims." - Yeahduff
Best part is finally getting your imagination out in solid visual form and self admiring it. Also getting comments and feedback from readers.
Worst part is detecting the mistakes too late. I especially detest it when I've been sloppy and make jagged or weak lines show up too much in the final version.
The best part about my comic is the feedback I get from it. I like to hear what people think of it.
The worst part would be spellchecking - which I've failed horribly. I already put my comic up for sale and it's got about 3 spelling mistakes that I overlooked. Even when I have my friend proofread it for me too.
Derek Dragomir wrote:The worst part would be spellchecking - which I've failed horribly. I already put my comic up for sale and it's got about 3 spelling mistakes that I overlooked. Even when I have my friend proofread it for me too.
The simple solution here would be to deliberately spell every word wrong. Mayntayn karect gramer, bot jost gow tew taon weth tha spalleng.
Don't kid yourself, friend. I still know how.
"I'd much rather dream about my co-written Meth Beatdown script tonight." -JSConner800000000
Derek Dragomir wrote:The worst part would be spellchecking - which I've failed horribly. I already put my comic up for sale and it's got about 3 spelling mistakes that I overlooked. Even when I have my friend proofread it for me too.
The simple solution here would be to deliberately spell every word wrong. Mayntayn karect gramer, bot jost gow tew taon weth tha spalleng.
My solution would be that if you're going to SELL a comic, run your script through a goddam word processor. Even the free ones have a spellcheck. FIREFOX has a spellcheck, just copy paste it in your reply window. I find something has as much value as the care put into it, so if you're not willing to tack on 20 seconds to your production time *shrug*
Worst part: looking at the line art before I colour it. Even when it's good, it's horribly horribly wrong because it's full of clean white space and totally fails to convey what I'm trying to show.
Best part: tie between drawing my characters, particularly in cool poses at cool angles (Zed and Myriam are both ridiculously fun to draw) and thinking up new ideas for monsters and settings. My third arc is totally gonna be set in a bunch of islands that float in the air above a plain riddled with pools of lava. And firebirds and dragons and demon ants and... and... it's going to be awesome. Yep.
Best part(s): Making a sketch that looks fluid and dynamic. Having someone comment positively on a comic. Seeing the finished product.
Worst part(s): Inking over a fluid dynamic sketch and losing all the dynamic fluidity. Having noone comment on a comic. Realizing that now that you're done you have to start on the next strip.
Annoying part: Thinking you're coloring on a new layer, going past the point of ctrl+z-ing your way back to where you started, and then finding out you're coloring on the same layer as your carefully inked lineart.
Corgan_dane wrote:Best part(s): Making a sketch that looks fluid and dynamic. Having someone comment positively on a comic. Seeing the finished product.
Worst part(s): Inking over a fluid dynamic sketch and losing all the dynamic fluidity. Having noone comment on a comic. Realizing that now that you're done you have to start on the next strip.
Yeah, I added "fuzz" to my characters because I miss some of that fluid that just flows over my characters when sketching while drunk at 4 in the morning. Wait, a sec, I'm talking about pencil flow and not any other fluids 'kay?
I HATE missing deadlines. God there's not enough hours in the world, and even then, I'd be at work.
Sometimes the failed experiments are the ones that don't try to kill you
Best part: Admiring the finished work, when I'm happy with the result.
Worst part: Looking over the finished work, recognize it for the utter crap that it is, knowing I'll put it up on the site anyway.
The best part is that I regularly get a chance to express myself artistically and have an audience see it. I need that pretty desperately, and I wish my rent job provided a similar outlet.
The worst part is the time constraints, mostly because of the aforementioned rent job. I've really been exhausting myself lately. I've updated in the late evening several times in a row these past couple of weeks, when I normally update in the afternoon, and I'm fairly disgusted with myself about that.
BEST PART: Finally getting this story outta me. Seriously; this is something I've wanted to do and a story I've wanted to tell since forever. And seeing it come to fruition--and looking really, really good in my never-humble opinion--has been wonderful.
WORST PART: Having no idea if anybody's even paying attention. I've gotten one or two feedback emails, but...well...I have no idea what my reader base is like, or if anybody cares.
