How are you doing, comic-wise?

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 1:22 pm

VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:...has the discontinued microsoft photo editor software that worked perfectly and never gave me a single problem so obviously it was a useless program that they should not offer any longer

Man I feel the exact same way about an ancient copy of ACDSee that I have. Like version 3.11, though I did play around with version 4 some.

RobboAKAscooby · Post by **RobboAKAscooby** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 1:23 pm

After having a "I'm too depressed to do anything" week last week, I managed to get 4 updates for my comic this week.

On a side note, someone used google image search in Greece to find my website today...

...I'd love to know how that came about.

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Fri Feb 14, 2014 9:07 am

Creative blocks are basically the worst.

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Fri Feb 14, 2014 10:58 am

RobboAKAscooby wrote:After having a "I'm too depressed to do anything" week last week, I managed to get 4 updates for my comic this week.

Nice!!!! Get it while the going's good!!

Cope wrote:Creative blocks are basically the worst.

I'm kind of having this problem, except it's not the creativity, it's like, the ability to draw all of a sudden. My scene I'm going to be working on heavily features a character I haven't drawn in a long time and I"m trying to really nail down his design before I start trying to draw the actual pages. I thought I'd just have to do a simple facing forward, side profile, and then a few different expression excercises, but everything keeps coming out really deformed. Like it looks like things I would have doodled during class 4, 5, 6 years ago.

I *think* what I need to do is just take a break for an hour or afternoon and do some real-people studies, because it *seems* that what's happening is my brain is kind of frying out on symbols/shortcuts and not understanding what they represent, if that makes any sense. Like it keeps coming up a hodgepodge of symbolic features instead of, you know, something that approximates a human face. Part of it is that I don't think I ever decided what exactly the character is supposed to look like, so I just keep throwing down Mr. Potato head parts on the paper and hoping this time they'll look acceptable. The trouble is I don't want him to look too different from his last appearance, so I'm trying to keep things kind of lined up with how they looked last time?

I've actually been noticing this happening more often lately, and am not sure why it happens. Just this weird temporary regression back to like, I dunno, almost the way I drew when I was in high school. But at least the characters in, say, Band Geeks Anonymous were relatively distinct and serviceable for the purpose I was using them. It's like my brain wants to get things done, so it reverts to an "easier" method/technique instead of rising to the challenge I'm setting for it.

It's very frustrating.

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Fri Feb 14, 2014 4:44 pm

I think I'm going to go through my links page and remove the ones that go to comics that are either abandoned or seem to be on indefinite hiatus (as well as the ones that are simply not online anymore

). I also need to add some new ones so all told the number of links will probably remain the same.

I was thinking of splitting the links list to "Updating Comics," "Complete Comics," and "Hiatus/Abandoned/Incomplete," but with the third category it's tough to tell so I might as well just remove them altogether. If I see someone's come to life again I can always add them back to the list.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:49 am

I'm still here... one day I'll update again, I promise!

(just probably not tomorrow)

MariaAndMichelle · Post by **MariaAndMichelle** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 4:25 pm

VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:
Cope wrote:Creative blocks are basically the worst.
I'm kind of having this problem, except it's not the creativity, it's like, the ability to draw all of a sudden. My scene I'm going to be working on heavily features a character I haven't drawn in a long time and I"m trying to really nail down his design before I start trying to draw the actual pages. I thought I'd just have to do a simple facing forward, side profile, and then a few different expression excercises, but everything keeps coming out really deformed. Like it looks like things I would have doodled during class 4, 5, 6 years ago.

Ugh, THAT is the worst.

Michelle lost her bead on what she was doing at the end of January, and things have been floundering around since. But yesterday she got back into the swing of it, and she's trying to churn out as much as she can before she loses it again.

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 4:33 pm

MariaAndMichelle wrote:
VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:
Cope wrote:Creative blocks are basically the worst.
I'm kind of having this problem, except it's not the creativity, it's like, the ability to draw all of a sudden. My scene I'm going to be working on heavily features a character I haven't drawn in a long time and I"m trying to really nail down his design before I start trying to draw the actual pages. I thought I'd just have to do a simple facing forward, side profile, and then a few different expression excercises, but everything keeps coming out really deformed. Like it looks like things I would have doodled during class 4, 5, 6 years ago.
Ugh, THAT is the worst.

Michelle lost her bead on what she was doing at the end of January, and things have been floundering around since. But yesterday she got back into the swing of it, and she's trying to churn out as much as she can before she loses it again.

good luck to you both

I want a bead.

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Sun Feb 16, 2014 4:40 pm

This is my 254th post in this thread >:( that is too many and i am bad

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Sun Feb 16, 2014 11:24 pm

It's like you think this is a forum about making comics or something!

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Mon Feb 17, 2014 2:52 pm

Cope wrote:It's like you think this is a forum about making comics or something!

it's a center for ants

I wasted the whole day that could have been spent on my comic moping around and feeling like trash. Great.

I really want to get this chapter started updating next Monday but that's startin to lookin like it won't be happenin.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 9:56 am

VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:it's a center for ants

man this grain of sand is heavy you know what I mean I wish I was in the line to pick at that pigeon carcass instead

MariaAndMichelle · Post by **MariaAndMichelle** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 11:21 am

Michelle finished all the character line art and lettering on our mini-project a couple days ago, and the backgrounds are coming along a lot more easily than anticipated.

IVstudios · Post by **IVstudios** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 3:24 pm

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 10:23 am

I finally started advertising. It's gotten me about... uh... 60 new visits so far. Lots of adviews but few clicks. My banner probably sucks.

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 12:18 pm

Sortelli wrote:I finally started advertising. It's gotten me about... uh... 60 new visits so far. Lots of adviews but few clicks. My banner probably sucks.

I wonder if saying "From the creator of Elf Only Inn" would help?

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 1:01 pm

Tim wrote:
Sortelli wrote:I finally started advertising. It's gotten me about... uh... 60 new visits so far. Lots of adviews but few clicks. My banner probably sucks.
I wonder if saying "From the creator of Elf Only Inn" would help?

It miiiight, but might hurt too, since this isn't at all like EOI. Although any past readers who've found NS aren't complaining about it.

I kinda don't like resting on those laurels though. I feel like I failed to keep up with the old comic so I don't want to stand on its shoulders.

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:10 pm

I saw little success with advertising and have resolved not to spend more money until I've *made* enough money on my ad slot to even be close to breaking even with what I spent total. At the current rate this wil take me about 10 years.

*thumbs up emoticon*

hopefully it will work out more favorably for you.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:15 pm

Sortelli wrote:
Tim wrote:
Sortelli wrote:I finally started advertising. It's gotten me about... uh... 60 new visits so far. Lots of adviews but few clicks. My banner probably sucks.
I wonder if saying "From the creator of Elf Only Inn" would help?
It miiiight, but might hurt too, since this isn't at all like EOI. Although any past readers who've found NS aren't complaining about it.

I kinda don't like resting on those laurels though. I feel like I failed to keep up with the old comic so I don't want to stand on its shoulders.

You need to write "from the friend of K-Dawg" and boom 100 million visits.

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:40 pm

Draw a titty, even the shittiest titty will do

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