in my spare time i've been having fun drawing, of all things, a comic book. nothing much, just the usual story: you know, four strangers who wake up in a desert together. why a desert? because i'm too impatient to draw backgrounds.
i wouldn't even know where to begin as far as inking this stuff, but maybe, if i actually finish enough pages, i'll try it. so far, my drawing style hasn't advanced much since i was drawing comics with jun kuramochi back in grade school; and i'm obviously more interested in the look of the page as a whole rather than the actual story. hence the rushed look of the second page here (the four different sizes of mr. lexington's head being the prime example) and the dialogue, which isn't as natural as i'd like. in other words, i had the drawing before the words, and was more excited to get to the punch-line than anything else.
i will say this, though: one thing i have learned in the...what? fifteen years between my mack styles, p.i. comic of 1980-something (about a bedraggled private detective who's a chicago bears fan and has a friend that looked an awful lot like hawk from spencer, for hire) and this is the ease of using the stick-figure outlining of how to draw comics the marvel way, a book i had as a kid, but never really heeded; instead of reading it, i just copied the drawings, learning nothing. but, as you can see here, it works well. i mean, it's not ashley wood, or anything...but...you know. for me.
i wouldn't even know where to begin as far as inking this stuff, but maybe, if i actually finish enough pages, i'll try it. so far, my drawing style hasn't advanced much since i was drawing comics with jun kuramochi back in grade school; and i'm obviously more interested in the look of the page as a whole rather than the actual story. hence the rushed look of the second page here (the four different sizes of mr. lexington's head being the prime example) and the dialogue, which isn't as natural as i'd like. in other words, i had the drawing before the words, and was more excited to get to the punch-line than anything else.
i will say this, though: one thing i have learned in the...what? fifteen years between my mack styles, p.i. comic of 1980-something (about a bedraggled private detective who's a chicago bears fan and has a friend that looked an awful lot like hawk from spencer, for hire) and this is the ease of using the stick-figure outlining of how to draw comics the marvel way, a book i had as a kid, but never really heeded; instead of reading it, i just copied the drawings, learning nothing. but, as you can see here, it works well. i mean, it's not ashley wood, or anything...but...you know. for me.
so. i think that men should never ever ever write dialogue for women. i've broken my own rule and put three women and one guy alone in the aforementioned desert. where is it? i dunno. again, i don't really have a plan in mind, but i think it might be on mars. i guess we'll find out. there's a career girl, a tough lady, and a woman that sleeps a lot. the guy is a fancy-pants metro guy who's a complete jerk. so far, i've got about ten pages.lots of fun to do. nice stress relief. and nice practice.
