gathering clouds

[egypturnash]

I decided to forego doing a test spread for 'Drowning City' and am just starting at the first page. I have enough paper on the drawing board to have the proper feel for the top sheet, some aids for quick layout, and have begun.

I keep getting too detailed and anal. I need to stop that: my pencils are the guide for painting over in the computer, not something to stand on their own. As long as they contain the information I need, they're good enough. This is a problem I have when I start trying to animate something, too; I get tied up in one particular drawing before I have the motion working.

I'm glad to have it beginning to happen, even if I'm fighting myself.

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* nod*

[maui.livejournal.com]

Inertia is a great thing; I hope it sets in for you soon. Let it carry you through the rest of the project.

Why is getting started always the most difficult part of the process?

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I hope it sets in too. I thought it might happen for me today, but while I got most of the first page 90% penciled yesterday, today all I've done is write a scent message for my character on HLM.

Admittedly, it is a complicated, programmatic scent message that is randomly generated each time you sniff her, but it is also not drawing Drowning City.

An object at rest tends to remain at rest.

[maui.livejournal.com]

Need a swift kick? ;)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I do. I logged off of the mucks I was wasting time in, saying I was going to the store for munchies suitable for eating while drawing - and I came back with potato chips, which are anything but suitable for eating while munching on, and am back at the computer, mucking and web browsing and the like. Grr. me = suxx0rz.

[maui.livejournal.com]

Damn it, go draw, you.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

:cowers under the accusing, unblinking stare of Maui's default icon!

[maui.livejournal.com]

>_>

GRR.