Future Aspirations, New Panel Designs
At every point in an artist's life, the first step needs to be made toward the goal they have dreamed of.
For several years I've wished I could work on a webcomic, something wrought from my own hard work and talent. I called myself gathering information and references - compiling a folder of webcomics at least twenty listings deep. Constantly I checked for updates, feverishly waiting for the next panels like a frenzied addict.
Meanwhile, the original idea I had fell to the wayside - approached only when I discovered notes on it. The cycle repeated itself, ad nauseum according to some of my more honest friends. I paid little attention.
After all - I had to learn how to draw better, write better, do everything better before I was ready to work on this magnum opus of a webcomic. Why should I rush something so close to my heart.
Those words rang with ignorance that I am almost ashamed to say that I was capable of summoning. Looking back, I was pretentious to think I was capable of refining such a large idea with such little work.
I shelf this idea, this story that haunts me for something a little more real.
I've found someone who makes me put up or shut up. He has the most insane ideas and somehow manages to run circles around me in writing. But best of all, he's patient and simply pushes when I get completely terrified of the fact that I am actually making progress.
I've asked him to help me with a comic, part our lives, part complete lunacy.
Welcome to SpaceGIRAFFES.
Posted by
Anji @ 29 May 2010 01:00 am