yay for motion

[egypturnash]

Today I've been working on Absinthe again. I'm just about done with the full-figure picture of Hester that dominates page 2 - sadly, this is nowhere near meaning the page is done, as the background is a huge array of bookshelves. Upon which I do not plan to spend days and days writing Clever Titles, believe me - in the entire library sequence that opens the story, there's one panel which has a legible title on a book spine.

Maybe I'll manage to get it done tonight, I dunno. I'm still going really slow but the important part is still that there's some regular forwards motion. And when I get a few of these ambitious, painful, detailed scene-setting shots done, things will go a hell of a lot faster. Maybe.

This was supposed to be a quick-to-draw comic but it has turned away from that long ago. I'm still having fun drawing it, and I'll be extremely proud of the finished product when Nick and I get it done! It's just taking so much longer than I originally thought, no matter how I do it. But there's so many parts that need love. And so many places where I decide to challenge myself.

Also I am thinking of drawing a pinup of Hester tonight and letting folks watch via ustream...

Comments

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

Porcupine Tree! Great band <3


I tinkered on a comic idea just long enough to realize the amazing amount of work it really is. So I feel the pain! It's going to look great. :)

[eredien]

How do you use ustream?

[kamenkyote.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad you didn't just keep with the 'quick draw' comic. What you've done so far is amazingly above and beyond most of what's out there for web comics and they need that kind of shot in the arm. Yours looks to me to be one of those frontrunner things that will show a lot of people what CAN be done with webcomics. I'm really looking forward to it, and wouldn't be so eager if it was slap dash. Get it done and do it on your own terms. Like the tarot deck, it will gather an audience and a bigger one since you are giving it so much love.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I still need to get the cover letter for the deck together and toss it at possible publishers. o.O

I don't really think of Absinthe as a "webcomic"; it's very much a comic that happens to be premiering on the web. So I'm not setting my sights on being better than your average webcomic; instead I'm aiming at being better than your average professional printed comic. Most web comics are, well, amateur projects done for fun. I'm comparing my work to stuff people were willing to spend big bucks to print a zillion copies of in the belief that there would be a market for it. I'm not doing anything especially "webcomic" - all my excursions outside of the usual page size are in the form of double-page spreads.

Being traditionalist is oddly progressive, somehow.

That said, my labor of love is a dirty furry comic. Well, maybe it'll redeem those sectors to some extent too!

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Watching is pretty simple; you just go to a web page. Broadcasting involves either a webcam or a program that streams your display to an imaginary webcam...

[kamenkyote.livejournal.com]

Sorry, didn't mean to demean Absinthe by referring to it as a webcomic.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I have a half-dozen other comics projects waiting in the wings for when Absinthe is done, or when I want a break, too.

And for me, comics are kinda nothing. Not compared to the thought of animating something personal, at least...!

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's fine - it is on the web, after all, or at least it will be soon. I hadn't realized the gap between my ambitions for it and those I see in most webcomics until I typed all that!

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

And you have a really efficient workflow with AI, which probably helps! I still more or less hack at things the way I did when I was using oils. XD

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

It's just a genre thing. :D I thought the same way about Fite, that it can exist successfully as a printed comic or on the web medium.

[kamenkyote.livejournal.com]

That's nice of you to say. I guess I was a little shocked to think that 'web comic' was considered an insult. It's what I do after all.

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's an insult at all, but the format of the webcomic what comes to mind for most people, which emphasizes 5-days-a-week posting, more quickly done art, newspaper style smaller formats and such, it's different than what you and Peggy do.