Starting Up: What Happened?

ZOMBIE USER 8978 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 8978** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 11:52 pm

How did you become a web artist?

For me, it was just the idea of trying to do it. I thought up the story (some major details whilst I was writing the comic, actually) and the characters. Names that could fit into the caption bubbles.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 4:02 am

I realized that anyone could do it.

Odd1 · Post by **Odd1** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 5:17 am

Same here.

ZOMBIE USER 13217 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 13217** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 5:42 am

The do it already, girl!

ZOMBIE USER 13217 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 13217** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 5:44 am

Oh, and I didnt start my comic out for the web, I just started drawing and writeing (with help here and there from my dedicated

co-writer) one day for the fun of it. seven storylines later i figured i could publish it online. so i did.

McBean · Post by **McBean** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 5:51 am

Ever since I was little I knew I wanted one of several jobs. I decided that I loved drawing more than anything else, even more than being a radio DJ, a bus driver, or a Baltimore Oriole. I draw on the web because it's the best way to get your work published if you're just starting a career.

Jeffy · Post by **Jeffy** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 5:53 am

i think i decided to prove my 5th grade teacher wrong.... grrr.... she thought the Peanuts were the best thing ever...

ZOMBIE USER 12411 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 12411** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 6:50 am

Drew Keith purely for friends, then the jokingly mentioned putting it on the net....so I did. Also I've seen some pretty bad webcomics...so I thought "Man...Keith is pretty bad, but it's better than THOSE o_O" Soooo I thought if semi-bad comics can go on the net than Keith can toooo!

and so Keith was born....and there was much rejoicing. "Yay." And I was forced to eat minstrels.

Indybuda · Post by **Indybuda** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 7:00 am

One day the evil that is Burke of http://grimbles.keenspace.com
finally admitted he'd been putting his comic Diabolica online. So I said, "Why not?"

Brian Young · Post by **Brian Young** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 7:08 am

Having a comic is a lot of work as you all know but it's rewarding to here from the people who don't hate your work! hehe

Dragonsong12 · Post by **Dragonsong12** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 9:45 am

I started out the same as Jamie, drawing it all out by hand, just for myself, just for fun. Then I realized that "hey, if I put it online, I can give people I know the URL and force them to go read it at gunpoint!" So that's what I did, and now everyone I know lives in fear of the gun-toting, comic-making psycho!

...that and the fact that there's always the possibility here on keenspace that random people whom I DIDN'T force will stumble upon my comic...and if I'm lucky, they might even glance at it before sneering in disgust and going on their way! 8)

ZOMBIE USER 8978 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 8978** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 1:55 pm

I tried doing a second- it failed horribly. I even have space reserved for a third, as Bryy @ High School, but I'm thinking of killing that, too.

Sidwood · Post by **Sidwood** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 2:03 pm

I started drawing as soon as I could grasp a pen. I live for it. I decided to be a cartoonist at probably age 6.

Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 2:35 pm

I was just cultivating an underground following amoungst the Hentai crowd when I was introduced to the comic Sexy Losers, which was known as "The Thin H Line" back in the day. But the important thing to remember is I was wearing an onion on my belt, as was the fashion at the time.

Anyways, I was amazingly impressed with Hard's comic genius and artistic talent and thought, "I'm wasting my efforts drawing James with tits being ass-raped by Jessie with a strap-on." I tested the waters by drawing a guest strip for Sexy Losers. That was all it took to get me hooked on drawing comics.

Still, I needed an idea for a comic. Sure I could have done yet another freaking comic about college roomates who play videogames while watching anime and try to date cat-girls and robot elves but I wanted something a little less played-out. I knew I wanted to make a hentai comicstrip and there were certainly a lot of genres in the field of hentai I could exploit for ideas. Once again it was Sexy Losers that gave me the answer I needed. It was this strip which inspired me to draw a comic with a pair of Tentacle monsters as the main characters. The cast eventually grew as I began to exploit more hentai cliches.

And that's how it all happened.

-Yanagi-San- · Post by **-Yanagi-San-** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 4:30 pm

I used to do a comic book series back in high school, from 7th grade until 12th grade that was called *sigh* "Feline Warriors". Each issue was 30-40 pages long, with a colored front and back cover, and people at my school would read it. They would actually pester me about when the next issue was coming out. Well, after high school, I got sick of the cleanliness of that comic (I was writing out of my way not to swear excessively, nakedness with detail, etc.) so I started a comic called "~No~ Innuendo" (which I am seriously considering restarting afeter I finish PSC) which was hentai, and everything I didn't let myself do in Feline Warriors. However, I was used to motivation, and I found I couldn't get enough motivation without an audience, so I took my newest idea, and put it on the web. (PSC) However, I really regret not finishing Feline Warriors. I got to issue 53 and stopped mid-way through. There was supposed to be one more story arc before it ended, but... I can't do anything about it now. ^^; Heh heh.

Saganaki · Post by **Saganaki** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 4:33 pm

I should have known better, Ghastly, but I'd appreciate a warning as to whether a link is work-safe or not... there was a supervisor passing by when I clicked on one of those, and I'm sure that there would have been an issue. So please, protect me from my own stupidity.

As for why I do a comic, I started K&D in an attempt to work around a nasty case of writer's block by changing my creative focus. The community kept me hooked on doing it, despite the fact that all I do is derivative tripe. Just don't tell Liz I said that, or she'll rip me a new one...

Seriously, though, I like to see doing a webcomic as a way of forcing myself to improve on my artistic skills. Compare the first strip with one of the more recent ones in my forums, and it should be apparent that I'm improving

ZOMBIE USER 8978 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 8978** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 6:32 pm

-Yanagi-San- wrote:I used to do a comic book series back in high school, from 7th grade until 12th grade that was called *sigh* "Feline Warriors".

Ah. I'm trying to do a real life comic now, too.
Then again, I'm trying to do everything. Too much.

Fi13r · Post by **Fi13r** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 12:18 am

DarkBryy wrote:How did you become a web artist?

3 words, my friend:

Magical Space Pixies.

ZOMBIE USER 8978 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 8978** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 12:23 am

Those magical pixies.....

Fi13r · Post by **Fi13r** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 12:25 am

DarkBryy wrote:Those magical pixies.....

No, not those. OTHER ones.

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