Inspiration!

Sss · Post by **Sss** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 10:31 am

How about it! Whats your muse?
Ready... Set... Sell yourself!!!

Nick Sacco · Post by **Nick Sacco** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 12:38 pm

I need a beautiful woman to be my muse, but since I don't have one.. usually music, other comics, artwork, comedy, and friends.

MrPokeyCactus · Post by **MrPokeyCactus** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 1:07 pm

I hate a lot of TV. Well, I use TV as a Basis of my comic.

Justinpie · Post by **Justinpie** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 1:34 pm

As anyone who visits the Turbocool site knows, my muse is alcohol.

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 3:22 pm

Alchol. Music. Computer Games. Comics and sex...

Wait, scrap the sex part, I meant college... Ummm, not that I go to any form of education right now but... Awww screw it, just repeat the Alchol bit...

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 3:35 pm

Real events. Only I'd never draw about real events, I just use them for a start button. And, It's usually not events that happened to me, my life is pretty mush boring, it's mainly my friends.
I don't think it is neccesary to say what mused me to start a comic, it's other online comics, and pretty much obvious which.

Srdjan
http://mcduffies.keenspace.com

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 3:36 pm

Oh, I must add: dreams! I have very interesting dreams, and they are very usefull for making comics

Srdjan

Scrubbo · Post by **Scrubbo** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 4:20 pm

70's Porno movies..... ahhhh... now THAT'S inspiration!

Shoe · Post by **Shoe** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 5:31 pm

While drawing comics I tend to listen to either Barenaked Ladies, Weezer, or extremely depressing video game music, like FFX's Suteki Da Ne Instrumental.

While thinking shit up, I use my friends. They're quite droll at times. I also use personal experiences, like my comic right now involving myself and a linux server. Actually happened, folks.

1812_Overture · Post by **1812_Overture** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 8:05 pm

My inspiration is mostly movies and video games. When these sources fail me I have a little trick that all great artists do but will never admit it:

I put on a rubberglove, take of my pants, and pull something out of my ass.

That technique is garuanteed to be fool proof (unless you have really big hands or something

).

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 5:35 am

Odd1 · Post by **Odd1** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 10:10 am

I think that sickened just about everyone from posting again...

Sss · Post by **Sss** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 2:13 pm

Dang! I thought I had finally started a cool thread!

JPSloan · Post by **JPSloan** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 2:19 pm

>>Sloan looks up from his computer at work as he wonders what serves as inspiration for his strip... he sees a man on a forklift attempting to drop a pallet on the back of a short truck... he sees that the forklift operator is unaware he's reached the truck bed... he sees the forks press down on the back of the truck bed as the truck's front end rises into the air<<

"Um... I don't know. Ideas just come to me, I guess."

Shoe · Post by **Shoe** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 2:39 pm

Movies and Vid Games are a given I guess.. I also get inspiration from other comics like PA and MacHall.

ZOMBIE USER 8296 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 8296** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 3:44 pm

an overactive imagination

Shoe · Post by **Shoe** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 3:59 pm

That helps I imagine.

Mixed Myth · Post by **Mixed Myth** » Sun Mar 31, 2002 4:36 pm

I suppose several things inspire me. I admit to being a rabid gamer, so character concepts and things that happen during game sessions often crop up in my comic. Despite this, it's not meant to be something just for gamers and I hope it can be taken as a story, rather than a spin off of RPGs.

I'll agree that music really helps...though for me, it's mostly during a dramatic bit of the storyline, rather than one liners.

The biggest influance is various myths (old and new renditions) and all the stereotypes of fantasy. I love to make jibes at that.

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Sun Mar 31, 2002 4:48 pm

Ohkay, after lots of thinking and vasts amount of alchol I think I know what inspires me...

Games... And lots of them. Ohkay, mainly Half-Life, I just so love the style! And the feel! And the aliens! And the guns! ooOOooOooo yes, the guns *drool* and what inspires my overly active gun imagination is Airsoft and WW2 re-enacting... I'm a Waffen SS storm trooper on the weekends and a wannabe soldier via airsoft in the weekdays... http://www.lagthemodeller.com/PIC1.jpg It's me!... Well I'm in there somewhere...

And, ummm. Movies. I guess. Sometimes...

P.S. No I'm not the little kid at the front, pah... But I do look young in there... Man, that was taken 3 years ago... Wierd o.@

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Dustin · Post by **Dustin** » Sun Mar 31, 2002 5:22 pm

I forget where I get a lot of inspiration. I'll go to scan a bunch of comics and stare at them in bemusement. Who knows what I was thinking. People ask me questions about something I've done, and I have to go back and figure out what the @#%! they're asking me about.

Sometimes I draw in the early hours of the morning and only really see what I've done after I wake up four hours later. I also find mysterious notes and tiny pictures scrawled in the notebook I keep by my bed.

Important notes.

Notes like:

"Green"

Okay, a lot of them are more usefull than that, but still, sometimes I wonder.