Drew 4 mini-comics in the last 2 weeks
Mar. 12th, 2021 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
potofsoupI'm pretty happy with myself -- it feels like I've cleared out a lot of pent up feelings about Endgame / pent up comicking desires!
It started with someone adding a comment to Cadillac asking where part 5 was (tumblr-bot had thought the sand was nsfw), which then lead me to say, "hey, let me see if I can just finish this real quick." And I did! What helped was just saying "hey, past-self put too many arbitrary restrictions on this. Let me just ignore all those dumb things." (Arbitrary restrictions like that it had to be all close-ups. Dear self of 2017 -- that's just called Bad Comicking.) That took 2 evenings.
And then, since I'd finished a 4-year-old project, I decided to finish a 2-year-old one, which was the Thor part of my Endgame fixits. For this one, the blockage was that I needed to look up reference video, but didn't want to buy Endgame. Thankfully I found the necessary clip on youtube. Huzzah! (That was mostly Tuesday.)
And then, I realized that Bucky's birthday (Mar 10) was coming up, and for once I remembered more than 1 day in advance. So I re-read my previous ones, and drew the comic over ... ~5 days? Maybe a bit longer -- the comic was slippery, and unlike the previous 2, there wasn't a thing that's been sitting in my head for a few years, just waiting for execution. First I'd wanted to do some fluffy reminiscing, but then I realized that it's too early for that. Then I wanted to do something about Steve watching over Bucky's family in the past, but then I realized it wasn't logistically practical. Then I got upset over the fact that Steve lived 70 years without Bucky, and realized that I still have residual annoyance at Steve to deal with. And then I had to figure out a way to address that with the right tone and keep things hopeful. So... that took a while, but I got it done by Wed night!
And then yesterday afternoon, I drafted Vormir after the idea settled in my head as I wrote responses to some AO3 commenters, and somehow between last night and this afternoon, I as able to draw it a post it! :D!!
So yeah, it's been a lot of comicking -- the adrenaline rush is pretty great, ngl. :D
It started with someone adding a comment to Cadillac asking where part 5 was (tumblr-bot had thought the sand was nsfw), which then lead me to say, "hey, let me see if I can just finish this real quick." And I did! What helped was just saying "hey, past-self put too many arbitrary restrictions on this. Let me just ignore all those dumb things." (Arbitrary restrictions like that it had to be all close-ups. Dear self of 2017 -- that's just called Bad Comicking.) That took 2 evenings.
And then, since I'd finished a 4-year-old project, I decided to finish a 2-year-old one, which was the Thor part of my Endgame fixits. For this one, the blockage was that I needed to look up reference video, but didn't want to buy Endgame. Thankfully I found the necessary clip on youtube. Huzzah! (That was mostly Tuesday.)
And then, I realized that Bucky's birthday (Mar 10) was coming up, and for once I remembered more than 1 day in advance. So I re-read my previous ones, and drew the comic over ... ~5 days? Maybe a bit longer -- the comic was slippery, and unlike the previous 2, there wasn't a thing that's been sitting in my head for a few years, just waiting for execution. First I'd wanted to do some fluffy reminiscing, but then I realized that it's too early for that. Then I wanted to do something about Steve watching over Bucky's family in the past, but then I realized it wasn't logistically practical. Then I got upset over the fact that Steve lived 70 years without Bucky, and realized that I still have residual annoyance at Steve to deal with. And then I had to figure out a way to address that with the right tone and keep things hopeful. So... that took a while, but I got it done by Wed night!
And then yesterday afternoon, I drafted Vormir after the idea settled in my head as I wrote responses to some AO3 commenters, and somehow between last night and this afternoon, I as able to draw it a post it! :D!!
So yeah, it's been a lot of comicking -- the adrenaline rush is pretty great, ngl. :D
