Damn You, Time Zones!
Oct. 8th, 2002 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_gneechStayed up late again chatting with Vince some more about the whole artwork thing. As helpful and enjoyable as it is to chat with friends, family, and fans about the subject, there is also an irreplaceable value in talking to another artist, and more specifically, another cartoonist, about the topic. If nothing else, the shared experience of creating the strip and dealing with the unique issues attached to that process, gives us a common language. When one of us talks about the grind of daily production, for instance, we know that the other one really does understand the implications of it.
Unfortunately, Vince lives in California ... by the time he shows up at night, I'm already overdue to go to bed! So I don't get to "talk shop" with him nearly as much as I'd like to. Heck, I don't get to talk to him at all nearly as much as I'd like to!
Anyway, it was a helpful and pleasant discussion; we talked about various levels of tooniness in artwork, what serves the strip vs. what takes away from it, character construction, and so forth, and he gave me some helpful tips on how to develop further. One thing he suggested, which I'm going to try, is creating new poses with Pepe LePew, Yippee Coyote, etc., being very careful to get them right, so I can figure out the underlying construction methods -- which I can then apply to building my own characters.
We also talked about what was good, bad, or indifferent about HybridIguana's piece, about what makes Leonard look like Leonard, and so forth. Much useful artistic crunchiness. :) I just hope that today I'll get a chance to act on those insights, as well as the suggestions people gave me yesterday.
Oh, also last night, I got next Monday and Wednesday pencilled. Assuming I can get them inked tonight, I'll still be a week ahead -- in fact, a week and a day! How cool is that? :)
Catcha later all!
-The Gneech
Unfortunately, Vince lives in California ... by the time he shows up at night, I'm already overdue to go to bed! So I don't get to "talk shop" with him nearly as much as I'd like to. Heck, I don't get to talk to him at all nearly as much as I'd like to!
Anyway, it was a helpful and pleasant discussion; we talked about various levels of tooniness in artwork, what serves the strip vs. what takes away from it, character construction, and so forth, and he gave me some helpful tips on how to develop further. One thing he suggested, which I'm going to try, is creating new poses with Pepe LePew, Yippee Coyote, etc., being very careful to get them right, so I can figure out the underlying construction methods -- which I can then apply to building my own characters.
We also talked about what was good, bad, or indifferent about HybridIguana's piece, about what makes Leonard look like Leonard, and so forth. Much useful artistic crunchiness. :) I just hope that today I'll get a chance to act on those insights, as well as the suggestions people gave me yesterday.
Oh, also last night, I got next Monday and Wednesday pencilled. Assuming I can get them inked tonight, I'll still be a week ahead -- in fact, a week and a day! How cool is that? :)
Catcha later all!
-The Gneech
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Date: 2002-10-08 07:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-08 07:28 am (UTC)I'll talk shop with you anytime you want, Gneech - and I'm in the Central time zone.
I know Scandal Sheet! is wet behind the ears compared to yours and certainly not in the same league as TCM, but anyhoo...
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Date: 2002-10-08 07:46 am (UTC)Just remember that as an artist, I make a pretty good writer. *grin* I know my artwork is really uneven (can you say "Expand-o-Head"?) but I'm working on it.
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