Slakrgrl’s Weblog

so of course now that the project is done and handed in i have a flood of new ideas. i think that i will keep sketching them down, and eventually scan them in and put them up.

i had such a frustrating experience trying to post that site. i tried at least 3 different ‘free’ webhosting sites, and none of them worked out. whether it was the pages were too big, the pictures were too big, or the bandwidth was too small- after i posted it on geocities, i wasn’t even able to look through it because apparently i had exceeded my bandwidth transfer for the hour!

eventually i spoke to my brother, who gave me some space on his shaw account. he lives in alberta though, so it wasn’t like i could run over there with my info stick and transfer everything over. SO i got to learn how to use an FTP site as well.

quite an experience.

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holy smokes.

i just spent about 3 hours doing another comic. i thought i had a process down for it this time, but when i got to the last 2 panels i realized i hadn’t made enough copies of the background. which meant i had to improvise, because i didn’t remember what colour the wall was, or exactly how i did the eyes on the guys, so on and so forth. i was also surprised by how frustrating it is transferring the medium over. when i draw on paper with a pencil, i can easily erase just one thing. the lines aren’t blurry. it’s easier to get the eyes level, or to change the shape of the eyebrows, or to draw the hands. i used to have one of those pads with a pencil instead of a mouse. i wonder if that’s still kicking around somewhere…

it was a lot easier than the first one though. i think i’m getting the hang of it. the next one will probably go a lot smoother too. but i think i will wait a little. 3 hours is a long time to be hunched over photoshop.

i took jimmy through a photoshop experience. it took a lot longer than i thought it would, because there were a lot of tiny little details i didn’t consider (like making sure everything was in the same spot for each panel).

i’ve been trying to think of different ways to present this project. i’m seriously considering moving all of the comics to photoshop and then making a very simple website. i don’t want the focus to be on the webpage- i’ve built enough of those and know that i can make them fairly well. although i absolutely adore photoshop, the majority of my time spent on it has been taking other photos and playing with the filters, or cutting and pasting. making this comic over the past two days has forced me to use more tools than i have before. i also need to work on the sizing…

i’m going to try and attach the jpg images that i’ve done….

i’ve been puttering along with the project. it seems like i’m going to be doing a series of smaller comics rather than one longer one. i went to the library last week and picked up some reading, it’s been pretty interesting so far. i’m taking notes and will sit down and type some of them through here in the next few days. there has been some inspiration for ideas from the reading. i’ve been thinking on how to present the project. i’ve done websites before, and i know i can do them well. i rather wouldn’t focus on that aspect, but i’m not sure exactly how else i can present the comics. maybe i could just do a very basic site? i’ll have to see about that. i’ve also been thinking of ways to encorporate different mediums into it. i will be trying out mspaint today (no photoshop on the desktop).

here’s another one.

it seems like these are scanning pretty  big. i don’t know exactly how to work this scanner thing. i think i may eventually need to just split the comics up into strips. this will make the presentation pretty interesting. or.. i guess i could just draw them smaller?

this weekend was spent tinkering around with drawings, ideas, a couple of comics drawn out, one re-discovered and re-sketched. i think these comics will be a series of shorter ones, rather than a longer one. sometimes i have a problem with sustaining ideas for too long (something numerous creative writing courses has taught me), so maybe a grand scheme idea, but smaller scenes around it. i am still going to have the character go to school, and i think the ideas he picks up will help shape his interactions with the people around him.

i have attached a scan of one of the comics i did this weekend. i’m not sure if it will work. the scan.

ideas:

marshall mcluhan’s media maelstrom: the movie. is the medium the message? this could be epic.

comic

i’m having a difficult time coming up with an idea for this project.

at one point in time i used to draw little comics with a character named jimmy. i’m thinking i may do a webcomic, or maybe a small animation, on jimmy’s journey through the media maelstrom.

i don’t know. just an idea.