Briefly I'm posting this unfinished comic book page up. This is the first (and probably last) page of a graphic adaptation of my second novel -- I started the novel a few years back and then abandoned it because I still had my first novel to write. I started this graphic adaptation sometime in August or September and all I've done is this one page, which should tell you something about my overall pace of work. I can't include the entire page here because I drew it on that BlueLine regulation-size comic book paper and it won't fit on my 8"X 11"-centric scanner. I got most of it here though. I sketched out the next few pages last week, but it'll be a while before I get anything drawn up. Anyway, let me know what you think -- is it even clear what's going on in this page? [Ed. note: the last frame that was cut off at the bottom is another drawing of the woman, this time with her eyes closed.]
8 comments:
Umm what is this...
http://kidandi.com/
The Kid and I looks like the end of a lot of careers.
Or the start of yours. Dude, why didn't you scan the page piecemeal, then stitch it together in photoshop. I know you have photoshop, right? Dumb-dumb.
Hey, that's some of your best work to date, I think. Looks really good. Some broad looking at her shoes and shit. Good stuff. Very poetic and what not. [yawn]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2406460985877029386
Um... you gonna post something? Today?
Yeah, yeah, she's wistfully absorbing the color and beauty and life represented within the ladybug, but at the same time she's juxtaposing it with the wanton destruction of another of nature's species: man. Wow, way to go all pretentiously unoriginal, Crane. What's your next cliche, huh? A prophecy of a baby born with a unique birthmark will rise to free mankind from some form of oppressive villainy? When the baby is born, the villainy tries to destroy it, so the parents send it off in a floating carriage down a river where it is raised by a pack of wolves? What to go, dude. That sucks. Hannity will be very pleased.
Yeah, so?! So what I want to do a modern retelling of Willow?! SO what if I do?!
I hope it doesn't come off too pretentious on the very first page -- I wasn't trying to be. I was just trying to show the quiet before the storm, because in the next few pages, it gets very stormy. By stormy I mean violent. She's calming herself before she commits herself to the what she has to do next -- it's life and death stuff so she wants to be in the right headspace. So she takes in details like the ladybug, the distant skyline across the river (which also helps set up time and place a little). Also, ladybugs are supposed to be lucky, but as it soon becomes apparent, the woman with the ladybug on her shoe is, as we come into the story, decidedly UNlucky. She is after all, not a person who believes a whit in superstition or luck. If I ever draw those next pages, you'll see what I mean.
it's not pretentious. Just giving you crap. Gosh! When did you get all sensitive? Panties and batting for the other team and all that.
Post a Comment