04-10-2023, 12:36 PM
@ThereIsNoJustice and dimensional-knight, here is the why of it (please read on after the image):
From https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/15...7118130178
When I used to make comics long ago, I had the construction method so ingrained that I often skipped the step on paper. But when I saw the horrors of AI images, I wondered what it would feel like if I unlearned everything and only focused on the lines of contrast without understanding a single thing of what I was seeing and drawing. I focused on the music instead of the image, trying to repel everything else. I failed, of course, and the result is a weird in-between that doesn't make much sense. One last one and I'm done with this robotic experiment:
From https://youtu.be/ZxHG-PQVi9w
All that being said and done, Camila, I'm still interested in your construction method. Mine for hands was often by starting the fingers from the wrist (I mean including the metacarpal in the construction) and considering the palm as a constrained part of the whole.
Your first comic pages will likely take you what seems like an exaggerated amount of time but keep going, I promise it's going to get faster from one page to the next as long as you're invested in the story. Story is key. If the story evades from you, it may be that you got sucked into drawing too many unnecessary panels or things.
I have dropped my projects indeed, whether in novel or comic form. They still live in the back of my mind though and might one day take control of my hand again ^^
From https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/15...7118130178
When I used to make comics long ago, I had the construction method so ingrained that I often skipped the step on paper. But when I saw the horrors of AI images, I wondered what it would feel like if I unlearned everything and only focused on the lines of contrast without understanding a single thing of what I was seeing and drawing. I focused on the music instead of the image, trying to repel everything else. I failed, of course, and the result is a weird in-between that doesn't make much sense. One last one and I'm done with this robotic experiment:
From https://youtu.be/ZxHG-PQVi9w
All that being said and done, Camila, I'm still interested in your construction method. Mine for hands was often by starting the fingers from the wrist (I mean including the metacarpal in the construction) and considering the palm as a constrained part of the whole.
Your first comic pages will likely take you what seems like an exaggerated amount of time but keep going, I promise it's going to get faster from one page to the next as long as you're invested in the story. Story is key. If the story evades from you, it may be that you got sucked into drawing too many unnecessary panels or things.
I have dropped my projects indeed, whether in novel or comic form. They still live in the back of my mind though and might one day take control of my hand again ^^