24 hours

[egypturnash]

So.

I'm seriously considering doing a 24-hour comic with this alien taur girl I've been drawing. If I can find an end to aim for. It's kinda against the rules, I know, but it's part of my theory of improvisation - improv and jamming goes a lot smoother with a structure beneath, even if you don't end it the way you originally expect to. Change horses in midstream, sure, but start out with a horse in case you don't find another one to switch to. If you don't have one in the first place, you end up flailing around aimlessly.

And because I am insane, I will do it direct in pen. There may be some paste-overs of really botched panels, and maybe veeeeeery rough thumbnails - but mostly just me, pen, paper, and my skills.

I might have to experiment first and find a line weight of pen that I can work larger with, that'll scale down to the same size - do splash pages at 100%, multi-panel pages at 150% or so. Build some templates and stuff, so all the calculation's out of the way.

And because I am insane, I am contemplating presenting it in realtime - as each page is done, quickly scan it and post it. Probably on DA as they have bandwidth to spare; do LJ posts that leech their bandwidth for it, too. Interesting comments might actually affect the course of the story as it happens if I catch them soon enough.

Did I mention that I'm insane?

Comments

[martes.livejournal.com]

I could never do that, because I don't want to stay awake for 24 hours.

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

Meet your new friend, the Triple Latte. ^_^

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Aww, c'mon. The madness is part of the appeal. It's been years since last I was up for 24 hours straight and I kinda miss it.

[milkpanzer.livejournal.com]

Yay for insanity! Well, insanity of the creative sort. ^^

The little comic drabble you did a couple days ago was really intriguing. I'd love to see more!

[kamenkyote.livejournal.com]

What a whacked out, insane idea. Go for it! You know I want to see it, but I'm a bastard running from your hounds. :"D Seriously, I can't wait to see what comes of this.

Scott just recently published a trade of some of the 24 hour comics that've come his way. There's a couple of variations in the intro, such as the Neil Gaiman (stop at whatever you have after 24 hours) and another where you keep going until the story's done.

This whole thing makes me grin. :"D

-T'

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I figure I have to find a way to make it harder, to make up for the fact that I'm partially planning the story out beforehand... it all balances out! Rules are made for bending.

(Woof woof woof)

[twotails.livejournal.com]

I doubt I could do this in a continuous 24 hour stretch, but... hrm. Hrm hrm hrm. I'm very tempted to try this, too. I failed miserably at Nanowrimo, not getting past the first week, but my fiction writing classes in high school showed that I can do pretty well when under a hard deadline (my best story was written within a few hours before the class in which it was due! :) )

BTW, at the risk of sounding fangirlish, I really enjoy the art you've been posting, bus doodles and all. It's inspiring.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

It's good to be inspiring. It always vaguely surprises me when I'm told my art gives people ideas...

I've wanted to do a 24-hour comic ever since reading about them. I just haven't had the insanity to do it. But with a half an idea poking at the back of my head... maybe I will.

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

DO IT!

[neogeen.livejournal.com]

I second this.
Mmm taurgirls.
And hoorah for 24hour comics.
in your pen style, it will be the awesome.

[ovon.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Ain't no harm in having some ideas beforehand, I think. McCloud's own 'stack of random art books' is a little like that, though purer in its... self-containedness.

The realtime idea could certainly add some excitement. Perhaps a 'no replying to comments until afterward' rule would be a good thing, too.

Now you've got me wanting to take on some kind of wacky all-nighter challenge too.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

*g* 24-Hour Score.

[slinky-treecat.livejournal.com]

Woot! Sounds like a great idea to me.. I've been tempted to give the 24 Hr Comic challenge a try as well. Mmm.. if you're going to post as you draw, you may want to avoid reading -any- commentary about the comic until you're done. It'd be so easy to get distracted by that when you should be pen-to-paper, non? <:) Mmm.. taur grrlz... *giggle*

[radd.livejournal.com]

And you thought I was pushing it with one page a week?

Heh, I really can't wait to see what you turn out. I imagine it'll make for a very interesting read.

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

Has anyone mentioned that you're insane? =};-3

Sounds like a fun idea. Hope that the results are soimething unexpected for you.

[baxil.livejournal.com]

You're insane and we lessthanthree you for it!

Anything you put together will probably put my own effort (http://www.tomorrowlands.org/comics/24hr/) totally to shame. I'll look forward to reading it -- and commenting along the way, if you follow through with that. Just give us drooling fanthings some advance notice so we can sneak open browsers at work, eh? :)

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

Gods, make me more jealous.