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dolariAWFW and CS are updated.
I have a really bad habit of blabbing plot twists and story ideas to people. I'd like to think I kept quiet about today's CS.
AWFW has kicked in, and after much wrangling has been re-edited twice. There a story as to why it's so wierdly put together. Originally, it would have been one panel of the house, and then one gigantic panel of Andrea and her Aunt & Uncle Lording over her. I made andrea MUCH too small in the pencils and decided to break it up into 5 panels instead. But for the first time since Episode #3, the entire strip was drawn on one sheet of paper.
As for CS, I have one comment: I really need to learn hw to draw people sitting down. They have NO hips And a conviently placed word balloon hides the fact that one character seems to have broken her spine.
I had a LOT of trouble putting CS together, though. If you look in my comics, there's never any thought balooons. I've never used them. We should know EXACTLY what the other characters know "about each other." We are privy to their conversations but not their thoughts.
Well, when the heroine is in a ball gag, it's hard to vocalize your thoughts. :) And since I had no real design for thought baloons (my square balloon style hasn't changed since I started drawing comics), I decided to just use the standard Quoted Box.
The tansparent box is supposed to be a completely different conversation. I was trying to figure out how i ould make two people talking look different when we never saw them talk. I gave up, and just decided that we'd make sure one ALWAYS responded to the other. The result? This comic has more quoteation marks in it than any other one I use. Plus, I deviated from my usual quotes rule (only beginning quotes in every box until our character finished talking) to make it an easier read.
Drawing comics CANNOT be healthy. I spent the entire day planted in this chair working ont these comics, and got up ONCE to get dinner.
Andrea has a Red Velvet cake - my fave kind of cake.
I have a really bad habit of blabbing plot twists and story ideas to people. I'd like to think I kept quiet about today's CS.
AWFW has kicked in, and after much wrangling has been re-edited twice. There a story as to why it's so wierdly put together. Originally, it would have been one panel of the house, and then one gigantic panel of Andrea and her Aunt & Uncle Lording over her. I made andrea MUCH too small in the pencils and decided to break it up into 5 panels instead. But for the first time since Episode #3, the entire strip was drawn on one sheet of paper.
As for CS, I have one comment: I really need to learn hw to draw people sitting down. They have NO hips And a conviently placed word balloon hides the fact that one character seems to have broken her spine.
I had a LOT of trouble putting CS together, though. If you look in my comics, there's never any thought balooons. I've never used them. We should know EXACTLY what the other characters know "about each other." We are privy to their conversations but not their thoughts.
Well, when the heroine is in a ball gag, it's hard to vocalize your thoughts. :) And since I had no real design for thought baloons (my square balloon style hasn't changed since I started drawing comics), I decided to just use the standard Quoted Box.
The tansparent box is supposed to be a completely different conversation. I was trying to figure out how i ould make two people talking look different when we never saw them talk. I gave up, and just decided that we'd make sure one ALWAYS responded to the other. The result? This comic has more quoteation marks in it than any other one I use. Plus, I deviated from my usual quotes rule (only beginning quotes in every box until our character finished talking) to make it an easier read.
Drawing comics CANNOT be healthy. I spent the entire day planted in this chair working ont these comics, and got up ONCE to get dinner.
Andrea has a Red Velvet cake - my fave kind of cake.
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Date: 2003-09-15 11:45 am (UTC)Mmm, red velvet cake...
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Date: 2003-09-15 08:52 pm (UTC)I was wondering: years ago, you e-mailed me a quick sketch of a mask. You told me that that mask -- the shape of that mask -- was something you had seen in your nightmares. Does that mask make an appearance in AWFW?
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Date: 2003-09-15 09:11 pm (UTC)I had a lot of trouble with the title for this one, since it REALLY wanted to be A Wish for Wings that Work. But I KNEW that was a Bloom Country title. I just chopped off the last 2 words.
As for the mask, the way it appeared in my dream is in the series (In episode #17) but not the mask itself.
In the dream I had as a kid, the mask appeared when I looked into the sun. I looked back at my aunt and uncle, and they were still in the truck wearing those masks. Looked kinda like a more evil Underwood Devil.
The Shadows, though, are based on things I used to see as a kid. Fuzzy flamey shadowy things.