Pfft... at least I hadn't
missed a day for quite a while, right? Not sure how I missed last
Friday like that (Of
course, I didn't really miss it... I just didn't realize it was Friday
until Friday morning, and then I didn't have the time to update until
the evening.), but heh, I did. *shrugs* O'well.
Hmmm... not much to blab about, I'm afraid. I'm spending the day
drawing and reading "Deathnote", this wierd manga that my roommate
discovered. It's... interesting. Not quite as "out there"
as I'd
like, but an intriguing idea. Not to mention that there are a few
things it does that I'd wished I'd done before. I had a series of
character/story ideas back about 4 years ago with a boy and a character
from a spirit world. The idea was that the boy was to be pushed
towards fulfilling some duty that almost no one would really
want. My
first thought was for him to be responcible for deciding who is to
die. But then I realized that was pretty twisted and at the time
I was
trying to stray from that... so I mostly ended up with some character
design pages and some silly things like the spirit guy sicking some
creatures that looked a lot of Puck's SD-form from "Beserk" on the boy.
I'd really like to be able to do some "deep thinking" comic or
something like that some day, but it's really hard to find the time to
be motivated towards that goal. That's really the thing. I
suppose
that's one of the reasons I really hate being called an "artist".
Why
I refer to it as a "hobby". You don't see me sketching and
doodling
all day long, whenever I have a chance, do you? It's always been
a way
of passing time when there was nothing else, and now it's largely a way
to feel productive with my life.
The other thing is that to really create a more serious comic you
actually have to know what you are doing. I can rough design a
story
that I might feel works pretty well, but I really lack the ability to
fully form it. It's like I can start the sculpture, but before I
finish it always breaks in half and falls over. *shrugs and
laughs*
Well, maybe someday.
4:05 (PST); 08/01/04
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