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Write ye a webcomic with a thoughtful story, work a job pending its success, then live on reader donations. I plan to start one at some point, but I need to find a premise I'm comfortable with, and that I can mesh with and enjoy working on before I can have any hope of sustaining it, let alone any hope for reader support. However, I'm confident that if I do enjoy working on the story and doing the art, success will come eventually. Not that I'm counting on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
Well, I have a major story going for many years, but I wanted to turn that into a series of books/videogame(s)/serious animated cartoon (anime?), not a comic strip. I need to learn some more artistic skills because right now I'm extremely hampered by my abilities...mind is pacing faster than the hand can learn and draw. I really want to apply to DigiPen after my stint here at the community college is over, but the uncertainty about landing jobs in the gaming industry, let alone with a good company, stays my application because DigiPen is a vocational school; I can't really apply what I would learn there to much else and it will drain my bank account.
You people willing to take the plunge, I salute you. Have more guts than I do!
I use comic as a catch-all term for any story in which illustration is the method of conveyance. Also, the whole mind pacing faster than you can draw thing is normal. Professional cartoonists just hide it really well. Andrew Hussie of MSPA, for instance, has said that he is completely surprised at his success. Jeph Jacques of QC has also said he has no idea why people like his work, they just do. If you've got a developing idea, put it on paper and wing it. Of course this is all easy for me to say, but I've still had a hard time not putting successful artists on a pedestal and assuming that I could never do as well.
If you've got aspirations for a graphic novel or something like that, doing a regular comic is good practice. It helps you test and develop your skills in the medium, and can build a base of fans for when you finally do decide to look at writing something really serious.
I'll give that a try, thanks for the inspiration! I just hope that my perfectionist attitude doesn't get the better of me and force me to stop because it deems what I'm doing not good enough. :gonk:
To be honest, I've been in a depressed state for the past several years, and it's really taken its toll on my will to create...I've been trying to climb back up for awhile now.
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My medium of choice for practice is an MSPA forum adventure. You don't have to worry much about where to take the story in the early bits, since actions are user suggested. Finally got around to linking mine in my sig.
Uh, yeah. [/hijack] :shrug:
I've been following. It's pretty lulzy, actually. :lol:
By nature though, I'm not a very light-hearted person when it comes to creating things; I'm a sucker for the deep, angsty, or epic stuff. My current medium of practise is primarily character and ship concepts. I'm rarely happy enough with what I do to actually post it up anywhere, and even by my standard what I do post up is not as good as I know I could have done it...it's sad when you know you drew better three years ago than you do now, on a relative scale.
Please look at the thread name.
Please take note it says my gallery.
The Emotional Similarity and Man Love thread is that way ---->
Think of it this way:
You were the inspiration.
:D
Ill just post this here, but feel free to post it in anyones doodle gallery guys. Dont know how useful it is.
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs38/f/20...Coelasquid.jpg
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs38/f/20...Coelasquid.jpg
Very nice find, I can actually use this. +rep.
Deviant Art these days seems to be a spam of anime and Pimp My Gun models...