So, I've been feeling a tad guilty that my updates have been late. For two weeks I was well on schedule, and then I fell back into just updating once on the Friday, and now I have no excuse really, because I don't have Uni to go to anymore.
This comic is what has been referred to by a third party as a "lazy day comic" haha, and really it is. It took 70% less time than last week’s comic update. I can either pass off the look of this comic as "artistic effect; they're nervous, and so they're shaking" or, general laziness. haha, it works. so shh.
I thought it might be an idea (just an idea, neither good nor bad, a neutral idea) that I would go through my writing process. Because you never know, someday, somewhere, someone, may care. This blog is transaction related after all, let us never forget that.
I'll talk through briefly the process I use. Though to even suggest it's a process may be misleading. It's just a way really.
Ok, so I don't know if this is typical or not but I start with dialogue. Of course there's a vague concept of what's happening bopping around in the back of my mind but dialogue is the main focus. I hear words, sentences playing out a scenario in my head, and then if I like it, I write it down.... as you can see.
It usually changes as I go along, but the basic idea is there. I write it so I know in my head who's speaking, sometimes I bother to write out, Br (for Brian), B (Becks), S (Sam). The numbers are to do with pixels and things, it's not important.
(And as today was a "lazy day" update the governmentesque blacking out is what's going to happen on the next comic, initially, all that was there was supposed to happen in just one comic, but I spread it out... oh. genius. I know).
Then when I'm happy with the dialogue I think as to where to place the characters, the reactions, and how it will translate on paper. Usually I'm playing a 3D birds eye view or movie shot sequence of the events, and from there I try and place it on paper... I do a real rough outline of what I'm hoping to achieve...
It's pretty rough, and subject to change. From that, I take an A4 sheet and start marking out where everything should be, and then I begin to draw it. (simple enough).
I scan this in, then do the outline.
Colour it in, then do the borders and frames.
Then the dialogue and the speech bubbles come last.
It's a lengthy process I tell ya.
There we go, and that's basically it. If I bother to read "How to write..." books my method may change, but I'm a lazy sod, and my way is working alright for me at the moment, I'm quite interested (if no one else is) if I change how I do this in the upcoming years... (I have a good few years of ideas I want to get out- though it sometimes feels I'll never even get to finishing this initial arc. haha, I blame the lazy days).
I realised I may have a deep rooted affinity with cats. Through my years cats have tended to be rather fond of me, and they play a significant role in many of my dreams. (Like the one I had last night, though I don’t recall much of the dream, only a hazy image of a cat being there). Since realising that cats are quite accustomed to me, and toying with the idea that I’m actually an incarnation of the Goddess Bast, they’ve started to keep their distance and I’m sure I don’t have to tell you, being snubbed by a cat is pretty disconcerting. Though reason shines through, and I’ve concluded I just must smell different or something.
Today’s been a day like any other day I’ve encountered these past few days. I wake, wonder if I’ve been abducted, recall my dreams, get a coffee, come online. Wonder to myself where the time goes, have a little nap, read some sandman. There was an incident which sparked a household paranoia. One I won’t go into, but now my paranoia has a conflict of interest. Do I keep the light on at night to defer “alien” beings, or do I switch my light off as not to incite unwanted interest from “earthly” beings. It will be interesting to see how this pans out later towards the night. I did have a little excitement before. I had an unbelievable urge for some biscuits to dip into a nice cup of tea and so went on a “Biscuit Quest”, though typically all a “Biscuit Quest” entails is walking to spar. It went without a hitch, and on the way back I realised I’d been undercharged! Woo Hoo, a grand day indeed.
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