Tuesday, July 15, 2003
does html work in these posts?
i went to aaron's house tonight. we made burgers. we made fries. jake and i spent a lot of time doing the activity you see pictured to the left of this text, unless html doesn't work, in which case i don't know what i'll do.
sometimes i feel like a real deadbeat as far as drawing AABH is concerned. here i am, living it up, drinking the nectars of life, with nothing at all to do most of the time, and i still can't get comic pages done half the time. i feel ashamed. i can't pass it off by saying that i work too much. this is untrue: on Friday and Saturday i work a lot, and the rest of the week i sit around making farty noises on my arm. i'm trying to figure out if the problem is that i'm lazy or that i'm just not one of those people from whom art just pours. i have to MAKE myself do art. i have to practically TEAR my arm away from my mouth, where it is perfectly happy making farty noises all day, and make it pick up a pencil with its hand, and i have to force myself through the long, torturous process of creating comics. it causes me pain.
well, it's not THAT bad, but i get the feeling that art doesn't come as easily to me as it does to a lot of creators. music does come easily. i can't stop myself from doing music. maybe music is my true thing.
well, i'm leaving for Wisconsin on Thursday, so the question becomes: can i do today's AABH today, and can i also do Friday's AABH tomorrow? two comics in two days? maybe it will be good for me if i just make myself sit down and do it. i don't know if i can live with breaking my two pages-a-week streak. yeah. nose to the grindstone.
actually, i've been looking at Scott McCloud's 24-hour comic challenge, and it looks like something i need to try. basically, you sit down for 24 hours straight and create a complete 24-page comic book in that time. the problem is, i don't know if i would be willing to do that sort of thing alone, and i don't know any other cartoonists in town who would also be willing to spend 24 hours with me in a creative frenzy.
i went to aaron's house tonight. we made burgers. we made fries. jake and i spent a lot of time doing the activity you see pictured to the left of this text, unless html doesn't work, in which case i don't know what i'll do.
sometimes i feel like a real deadbeat as far as drawing AABH is concerned. here i am, living it up, drinking the nectars of life, with nothing at all to do most of the time, and i still can't get comic pages done half the time. i feel ashamed. i can't pass it off by saying that i work too much. this is untrue: on Friday and Saturday i work a lot, and the rest of the week i sit around making farty noises on my arm. i'm trying to figure out if the problem is that i'm lazy or that i'm just not one of those people from whom art just pours. i have to MAKE myself do art. i have to practically TEAR my arm away from my mouth, where it is perfectly happy making farty noises all day, and make it pick up a pencil with its hand, and i have to force myself through the long, torturous process of creating comics. it causes me pain.
well, it's not THAT bad, but i get the feeling that art doesn't come as easily to me as it does to a lot of creators. music does come easily. i can't stop myself from doing music. maybe music is my true thing.
well, i'm leaving for Wisconsin on Thursday, so the question becomes: can i do today's AABH today, and can i also do Friday's AABH tomorrow? two comics in two days? maybe it will be good for me if i just make myself sit down and do it. i don't know if i can live with breaking my two pages-a-week streak. yeah. nose to the grindstone.
actually, i've been looking at Scott McCloud's 24-hour comic challenge, and it looks like something i need to try. basically, you sit down for 24 hours straight and create a complete 24-page comic book in that time. the problem is, i don't know if i would be willing to do that sort of thing alone, and i don't know any other cartoonists in town who would also be willing to spend 24 hours with me in a creative frenzy.
