Okay. So, that's five candidates for further development, and hopefully, in six months or a year, I'll have developed one of them into a script, which I'll then illustrate, and post at a rate of a page a week. I am inspired by Gina Biggs' Red String, if you'd like an example of what I'm talking about.
I see that people have looked at them, but with the exception of Abby, no one has commented here. (By the bye, if you don't know her, Abby Arsenic is a player for the Arizona Derby Dames banked-track roller derby league. I love roller derby. The women who play it are tough, and sexy, and confident, and it just rocks my small, self-centered world).
So let me talk a little about the considerations, here. I am not a great artist. Of course, many web comics start with substandard art, and XKCD is virtually defined by its poor art. I am a good writer, having spent many years honing those skills. Is a well-written but badly-drawn comic worth reading? You tell me. (No, really, I mean it... tell me!)
Do you really have no opinion about which of the teasers I've posted should be developed? Do they all suck so much that you wouldn't read a web-published graphic novel developed from any of them? Tell me.
I have some experience with LightWave, and if I were to develop either #2 or #5, I might use it for the graphics, instead of drawing them. Indeed, in my mind's eye, I see Blackrock Fief as being done in a sort of Ukiyo-e woodblock style that I'm fairly certain LightWave could do with the right shaders.
But I need encouragement... and raising page counts with no comments aren't very encouraging.
I see that people have looked at them, but with the exception of Abby, no one has commented here. (By the bye, if you don't know her, Abby Arsenic is a player for the Arizona Derby Dames banked-track roller derby league. I love roller derby. The women who play it are tough, and sexy, and confident, and it just rocks my small, self-centered world).
So let me talk a little about the considerations, here. I am not a great artist. Of course, many web comics start with substandard art, and XKCD is virtually defined by its poor art. I am a good writer, having spent many years honing those skills. Is a well-written but badly-drawn comic worth reading? You tell me. (No, really, I mean it... tell me!)
Do you really have no opinion about which of the teasers I've posted should be developed? Do they all suck so much that you wouldn't read a web-published graphic novel developed from any of them? Tell me.
I have some experience with LightWave, and if I were to develop either #2 or #5, I might use it for the graphics, instead of drawing them. Indeed, in my mind's eye, I see Blackrock Fief as being done in a sort of Ukiyo-e woodblock style that I'm fairly certain LightWave could do with the right shaders.
But I need encouragement... and raising page counts with no comments aren't very encouraging.
3 comments:
As long as you don't ask me to rank the starts, I'm good. I've long been a fan of your writing, which you well know, and I'm willing to "suffer through" your art learning, though I imagine you will develop a style that works quite well for you, having seen some of your tiny cartoon characters over the years. Just a suggestion of who and what and where is all the human mind needs. No matter about the drawing, I'd be reading for story every time.
Mostly, I would simply say, do what pleases YOU.
I just wanted to comment because, yes, I did read them all and hard work like that needs to be commented upon!I don't know if your genre is my thing, but I do like the way you write so I will probably read what you put out here.Whatever that is. I do, however, have a little speech about giving hard work away for free. I also have one about honing your craft in a public forum with kind and constructive criticism from people who want to support you. These two speeches pretty much cancel each other out...so that is a decision you need to make for yourself.
And lack of art skill is in the eye of the beholder.
I really do believe that the era of the traditional printing house is ending. Traditional book distribution is dying. The question is, what comes next, and how do I make a living off it?
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