Source of Inspiration

SergeXIII · Post by **SergeXIII** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:28 am

Where do you get your inspiration for writting and/or drawing comics?

I don't really have one persay, but I find that I make more when I visit message boards (namely this one). Also if I find a new webcomic and read it all I usualy come out trying some techniques I picked up from observing it and changing up my comic.

This backfires sometimes because everynow and then I'll want to do a big change or a new comic, and with college in progress thats allot to demand.

Right now I had the urge to break away from my usual "No plot all jokes" writting style, and try out a story arc. I think I'm going to go through with this one, namely because I've designed everything for it and really want to tell a few jokes I've written into it.

Anyway thats me, how 'bout you?

Garneta · Post by **Garneta** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:37 am

Well, I guess coming here is the main one. I see all these threads about comic milestones and anniversaries, and it makes me want to keep doing mine so that I'll eventually get to start one of those threads. I see peoples banners, signatures, doodles, etc, and it makes me want to improve my drawing so that someday someone might look at my stuff, and they'll get the urge to improve. If I actually get the time to read other comics (dang work taking up all my time) I look at the writing and want to improve my own writing.

Also, I'd like to bypass Jim on how many readers I have so that I can stick out my tongue at him and go "Neh-neh!"

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:00 am

Life. I COULD be original and come up with complex story arcs, but instead, I'll just take anecdotes from my life, add a punchline, and voila.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:42 am

Here's a funny thing: the other day, I was reading an article on how writers get their inspiration, and while reading it, I got the inspiration for a comic loosely based on it.

CaptainClaude · Post by **CaptainClaude** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:44 am

i enter a trancelike state and only come out when an idea comes into my head.

I can be there for days sometimes.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:48 am

Mine started off as some kind of masked diary thing. Now I'm making stuff up and watching the chracters react to situations I put them in.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:00 am

i get inspiration from everything, daily life, movies, t.v. just random things that fly through my head. Often I really have too much inspiration as I could never get all the projects i dream up done.

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:20 am

legostargalactica wrote:i get inspiration from everything, daily life, movies, t.v. just random things that fly through my head. Often I really have too much inspiration as I could never get all the projects i dream up done.

Ugh, yeah. Except for me its also that alot my inspiration is too detailed for me to draw, lol. If only I could get everything down on paper...

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:32 am

Killbert-Robby wrote:
legostargalactica wrote:i get inspiration from everything, daily life, movies, t.v. just random things that fly through my head. Often I really have too much inspiration as I could never get all the projects i dream up done.
Ugh, yeah. Except for me its also that alot my inspiration is too detailed for me to draw, lol. If only I could get everything down on paper...

this is why i have had the good fortune to find myself a few artists to help me bring my ideas to life.

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:33 am

legostargalactica wrote:
Killbert-Robby wrote:
legostargalactica wrote:i get inspiration from everything, daily life, movies, t.v. just random things that fly through my head. Often I really have too much inspiration as I could never get all the projects i dream up done.
Ugh, yeah. Except for me its also that alot my inspiration is too detailed for me to draw, lol. If only I could get everything down on paper...
this is why i have had the good fortune to find myself a few artists to help me bring my ideas to life.

*shakes fist*

RemusShepherd · Post by **RemusShepherd** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:28 am

This topic has come up a few times. And I'll answer the same way I always have: I get my inspiration from the bilious and bottomless pit of rage inside me.

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:46 am

I posted to this feckit before the INTARWEB crashed like a bitch. ANYWAY my answer was like that I get ideas from watching the discover channel, I'm all inspired, it's like OMFG THESE PEOPLE KILLED AND ATE MONKEYS THAT'S SO AWESOME must make it into a comic LOLZORZ.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:16 am

well for decypher it was the then Scene we had here, a nice little tight niched group of kids who went to shows and coffee shops and stuff.. so ala my life and friends.

however with the dying city I live in now, most of my inspiration comes from old memories, and well music and what not.

the other comic I am slowly developing is totally inspired heavily by music and old b movie science fiction.

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:18 am

Simply psychosomatic.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:21 am

LibertyCabbage wrote:Simply psychosomatic.

you don't really know what that word means, do you?

Kilre · Post by **Kilre** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:28 am

I don't know, honestly...every now and then I feel the drive to just attack a sheet of paper with a pen and keep going until I flush all the ideas from my mind. That's about all. It's somewhat guided by what music I'm listening to at the time.

Edit:
Stupid me, I didn't understand the thread.
I got inspiration from everything I've read and seen. Books, webcomics, movies, music...

Linkara · Post by **Linkara** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:38 am

From a variety of sources, but more often than not moral indignation. ^_^ I'll hear about some vile injustice committed in another country and I'll be all the more apt to push my Western moral absolutism to a situation and show how an outcome will occur.

...Or I just listen to music or listen to a scene from TV/Movie for the scene I'm working on. For example, the music from the musical "Camelot" is a heavy inspiration for a lot of my work.

I'm also in agreement with the others for inspiration to come from reading other webcomics. Most of my panels, despite being influenced by a more comic book aspect, really can seem boring sometimes so I'm trying to go to a more broad look at the way I layout pages.

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:50 am

legostargalactica wrote:
LibertyCabbage wrote:Simply psychosomatic.
you don't really know what that word means, do you?

...no.

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:58 am

LibertyCabbage wrote:
legostargalactica wrote:
LibertyCabbage wrote:Simply psychosomatic.
you don't really know what that word means, do you?
...no.

I'll clear this up for you

Basically, LC gets his inspiration from the depths of Hades itself.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:58 am

My questions generally come from my readers, and I draw them based on whatever research I needed to do.