Getting the Urge

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:39 pm

I'm getting the urge right now, but damn Warren is hoarding the bathroom.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:33 am

I feel the same way actually. I've been actually working towards developing a way to put together something that more accurately tests my drawing energies. however the ideas I get tend to be way past my skill level. I have that catch 22 thing. I know that Decypher is easy to draw and I feel horrible limiting myself both writing ways and drawing wise with my comic. yet my ideas that are geared to a more serious approach tend to be closer to semi professional type stuff. so really right now I'm just forcing myself to enhance my skills by drawing on these ideas via concepts until I feel that I'm there... if I ever am. it gives me a chance to at least in my sketchbook feel I'm not limiting myself. and it also gives me a chance to practice. part of me knows I'll probably never put these ideas to finish product but its good practice and healthy.

Turi · Post by **Turi** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:04 am

I got the urge recently: I wanted to create a superheroes comics, with Danish heroes. I knew I couldn't do another webcomic (hell, I haven't updated the Saga for the last fortnight, so doing another one seemed insane), but I really like the idea. What I did was shanghaiing some other like-minded and start a co-operative comic project, which just might work out.

Chaos Cricket · Post by **Chaos Cricket** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:35 am

Warren wrote:
Chaos Cricket wrote:Well, earning a Master's degree got in the way of doing more. But that's done now, so maybe I can get back on track.
Like education means anything.

Well, it was in history, so...

...yeah, probably not worth anything. Curse me and my desire to pursue the humanities!

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:24 am

Chaos Cricket wrote:Curse me and my desire to pursue the humanities!

Oh, the humanities!

Chaos Cricket wrote:[...]But that really points the way towards your solution--who says you have to always do Vapor Lock or always do Troubled Times? One could go on (dare I say the dreaded word) hiatus for awhile. Crank out a short-story comic or two, then return to the main comic. It's an idea I've actually considered--while I love drawing Crooked Halo, there are some stories I want to tell that just don't fit in with the world I've created there.

Troubled Times has been going on since JULY '03 and we're still only in the 3rd chapter! Vapor Lock...well, Cricket, you know some of the ideas I already have lined up for it. Going on hiatus is basically not really an option for me.

There IS the one day a week we aren't updating...

But I think this'd be something I do on the side, finish, and then post the finished work on Sundays until it's all up.

Chaos Cricket wrote:"The Thingie"

Chaos Cricket · Post by **Chaos Cricket** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:31 pm

Noise Monkey wrote:But I think this'd be something I do on the side, finish, and then post the finished work on Sundays until it's all up.

Not actually a bad idea, I guess. We really could do something with that Sunday. It just sorta languishes there, unloved, doesn't it?

Noise Monkey wrote:
Chaos Cricket wrote:"The Thingie"

Glad you liked it. I knew I had to draw it, 'cause it made me giggle when I came up with it.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:27 pm

mcDuffies wrote:I'm getting the urge right now, but damn Warren is hoarding the bathroom.

phactorri wrote:I feel the same way actually...

huh huh huhuh huh

Chaos Cricket · Post by **Chaos Cricket** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:45 pm

Lord, just what we need--toilet humor.

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 7:31 am

Chaos Cricket wrote:Lord, just what we need--toilet humor.

Yes...none of that crap.

Nyke · Post by **Nyke** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:37 am

Noise Monkey wrote:
Chaos Cricket wrote:Lord, just what we need--toilet humor.
Yes...none of that crap.

Shit, I got to go to a dump.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:00 am

*Waits for Joel to join*

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 8:55 pm

what? are we a bunch of women? do we have to go in herds?!?

(why must I derail my own thread?!?)

Isukiyomi · Post by **Isukiyomi** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:13 pm

Is this based on the whole "going to the bathroom" in groups stereotype?

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:13 pm

mcDuffies wrote:*Waits for Joel to join*

I don't do toilet humour. Anyway, I'm not even paying attention to this thread. Even if I do see it, it's just because I'm bored and nothing else has new posts so I probably won't check back afterwards anyway.

- Joel Fagin

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:44 pm

Isukiyomi wrote:Is this based on the whole "going to the bathroom" in groups stereotype?

no. I just like mentioning herds and women in the same context because it makes my wife love me.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 7:53 am

Isukiyomi wrote:Is this based on the whole "going to the bathroom" in groups stereotype?

Why stereotype, to my experience it's very true...

I don't do toilet humour. Anyway, I'm not even paying attention to this thread. Even if I do see it, it's just because I'm bored and nothing else has new posts so I probably won't check back afterwards anyway.

Ah, I know you, you can't resist a good bad pun when you see one.
Common! Let your inner Seinfeld speak!

Chaos Cricket · Post by **Chaos Cricket** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 2:39 pm

Noise Monkey wrote:
Isukiyomi wrote:Is this based on the whole "going to the bathroom" in groups stereotype?
no. I just like mentioning herds and women in the same context because it makes my wife love me.

She loves you with a baseball bat, right?

Isukiyomi · Post by **Isukiyomi** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 2:55 pm

Chaos Cricket wrote:
Noise Monkey wrote:
Isukiyomi wrote:Is this based on the whole "going to the bathroom" in groups stereotype?
no. I just like mentioning herds and women in the same context because it makes my wife love me.
She loves you with a baseball bat, right?

She probably loves him with a large mallet...of doom.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 7:52 pm

Isukiyomi wrote:
Chaos Cricket wrote:
Noise Monkey wrote: no. I just like mentioning herds and women in the same context because it makes my wife love me.
She loves you with a baseball bat, right?
She probably loves him with a large mallet...of doom.

with spikes.. can't forget the spikes! double her pleasure and all.

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 1:13 pm

actually, it's just her elbows, but they're a lot like spikes....

I think I've decided that I'm gonna do what I posted earlier about my idea. Make it, as time allows, then upload it all when I'm done.

And since this is thread started with my wondering about the urge thing...the next issue that's come up with regards to this is, have any of you ever wanted to do something completely different with your drawing style? For my idea I've been toying with a lot of different ways of drawing (most of which I hate) to give this a different feel from TT and VL. Granted, it'll probably be a lot closer to those when I actually do it, but I want it to look different. So...anybody ever done a massive reworking of your drawing style (all at once)? How did you decide on the look and feel of it?