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Confessions of a Creataholic
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Brotherhood of the Black Flag
I now have a complete set of layout sketches for Brotherhood of the Black Flag: Volume One — Flag in Flames.
193 pages including chapter titles.
I think I'm in shock.
What am I going to do to amuse myself when the computer isn't available now?
Context starts tomorrow
Pavane in Pearl and Emerald
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Last week did not go well writing-wise, although I did get some valuable background stuff done — most particularly my calendar, which made me realize that the dance *should* have been scheduled for the night of the feast. I must remember to go back and mention in the first entry that it was put off because of Orbuni's broken ankle.
This week's writing is going much better. I have every hope of making my quota in spite of the fact that I have a con to get to. (I only intend to go for Saturday. My energy levels are too low to risk the entire weekend, when I have OVFF coming up at the end of the month.) I have a much better grasp of what is going on, and yet somehow that isn't making things any less bewildering– there is just so much intriguing and social maneuvering to keep track of. And there is at least one major plot twist I haven't figured out yet — there is no way [spoiler] is going to sit by and twiddle his thumbs, so what excruciatingly almost-brilliant plan is he going to come up with?
For Flag in Flames I have finished Chapter 12 (of 18ish) of my page layouts, which gets me to page 24 of 40 in my script. I'm clearly more than half done this stage, and am starting to wish I had some way to get feedback on the layout sketches before starting on the actual artwork. I can't quite figure out how to go about that… I don't know of any critters.org for comics, and I'm not sure how much the quick sketch nature of the layouts would effect how well the story reads (not to mention that it's harder to email a hundred and sixty or more pages of sketches to a friend than it is a text file).
I am very much enjoying the sensation of being in the middle of two projects that appear to be progressing nicely. Sometimes I think I enjoy it too much, and that I'm not as willing as I should be to divert attention to the rest of what is going on in my life.
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The fan that I knew would show up (that's why I used one in the lj icon) finally did. And Kide's already putting it to good use. 🙂
I've also finished Chapter Four of the Flag in Flames layout sketches.
I think I'm going to spend some time organizing my 3D graphics toys next.
My contrary nature once again?
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I think we have passed the point of maximum confusion, and from here on in Kide actually gets to find out what is going on. (And then I sure hope he can figure out how to fix everything, because I haven't managed to do so yet.)
I've been searching the web for stuff that will help figure out what I should be doing with the layouts for Black Flag, and one of the things I found was a critique by some guy named Alex Toth of some other guy named Steve Rude. And although I have no experience and no training and know next to nothing in this field, Alex Toth's critique makes me positively eager to go and do all the things he tells Steve Rude not to — most particularly, when he goes on about Steve showing characters from the back.
In my search I have been looking at a lot of manga related sites (because they are there) and one of the comments that has been made is that in manga you are much more likely to see a main character's back. This is almost never done in American comics. Well, now I know why — if you tried to show them from the back some geezer would yell at you. I've been showing people from the back when there seemed to be a good reason to do so. And I intend to continue doing so, until I figure out a good reason not to.
One of the other things I found on the web was McCloud saying in an interview that everyone starts out in comics by wanting to imitate the style of some favorite artist. I suspect he's mostly right, but I can't possibly be the only one who has approached the field from a completely different angle than that one.
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Boyd bought me Sims2 in the hopes that it would be something that can actually hold my interest for an extended length of time. It is rare for me to maintain an interest in a computer game for more than a week, but it would be nice to have something for me to resort to when I've run out of books and don't feel well enough to visit the library.
I've also done some work on the Cantata cover. (It would go a lot faster if I wasn't so picky about getting it *right*.) I am making some hair for Bazomi, having been unable to find anything I thought truly suitable, and having decided that the hair I had made for the earlier version of her wasn't good enough. I have the hair base pretty much done, and I think it will do. I am now working on her bangs. Next I do the rolls and the loops, which will hopefully be the easy part.
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Trivia:
Although I have started a hundred stories (and finished maybe thirty, although six of those are novel lengthed)…
…I have no story titles starting with the letters J, U, X or Z.
(There's this “alphabetical fanfic” meme going round, see, and although I don't do fanfic…)