Inspiration!

ZOMBIE USER 3098 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 3098** » Mon Apr 01, 2002 5:48 am

Here is my inspiration:

Bass guitars and lots and lots of music. I usually listen to Cabaret Voltaire or whatever electronic music. The more pessimistic the song and more energized the beat, the better.

Second muse - math and physics. Stick around and randomly turn the pages of a math or physics book, think funny thoughts, then you get an idea. Actually, it works for all science books.

Another muse: Think w/ head. Actually, isn't that practically the only muse I've used so far?

Yet another: play too much tetris.
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BunELovecraft · Post by **BunELovecraft** » Wed Apr 03, 2002 3:59 pm

My muse is....I dunno, everything? I think I work best when I'm in a warped and horny mood but then again...aheheh...

I think up my storylines while mowin' the lawn! Yeah that's it! My Snapper is my muse in red leather biznatch!

ZOMBIE USER 8008 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 8008** » Wed Apr 03, 2002 7:27 pm

Well my muse is embodied in the form of a lovely, bishounen with long flowing black hair who is wearing only a corset, hot pants and thigh high boots. *Yumm*
He will likely show up in my comic sooner or later.

As for ideas on story i get alot for online role playing games and MUSHs

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Seven3 · Post by **Seven3** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 2:21 am

For me I'd have to say a vivid imagination (no it's not made out of permanent markers) - PortSide (my old comic) came from a roll of tape and a clothes peg.

Oh, and near lethal doses of caffine and sugar help too.

Sidwood · Post by **Sidwood** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 5:03 pm

Most of my ideas come from exaggerations on everyday situations, but when I'm pressed for time i find it works to bash your forehead repeatedly with a tack hammer.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 5:07 pm

There wewe a lot of threads about out techniques of making comics. What about making script? For example, when I get an idea, first I draw a little sketches like tumbnails on a paper, then I type script from tumbnails in good old msWord, and then I draw using Word script without looking at thumbnails. That allows me to make a better arangement of frames on table and space management (or whatever it's called in english, i'm not sure of an exact expression) than it was on thumbnails. On the other hand, thumbnails allow me to include a visual component in comic, not to make it all on dialogues.

Srdjan
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Saganaki · Post by **Saganaki** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 5:51 pm

Well, I start out jotting down scenes for each of the three panels and dialogue in my little notebook reserved for that use.

Basically, this serves as a rough draft for my comic, which I follow loosely when drawing it in my big sketchbook. Sometimes I add a revised version of the script next to each panel.

Finally, after I've inked and scanned, my dialogue undergoes a (possibly second) revision, especially if I think certain lines seem weak or out of character.

after that, I put the whole thing together and upload it. So, er, yeah...

As for inspiration, I look to tabletop role-playing sessions. In fact, both of my protagonists are descended from tabletop incarnations.