Friday, October 26, 2007

Out of comission comic wise



So I've been trying so hard to get comic work done. It's been a real struggle. I have all these other jobs to do, website design, graphic design... I'm not complaining, but I miss drawing panels so badly. Here are some comics I never finished... The second is the beginning of a story I'm going to rehash, about my accident with my knee and surgery and my feelings behind that. (For the uninitiated: another part of what kept me from getting certain types of work done was the fact that I tore my ACL playing Ultimate Frisbee this summer, and subsequently became depressed, un-depressed, had surgery, am in physical therapy, etc...) Now some people would think this would be PRIMO time to get comic work done, but comics are, honestly, the HARDEST art for me. Therefore my most time consuming, and my most passionate. I draw, redraw, sketch, find references, redraw, ink, edit...and then some. I do this for my GD work as well, but the intensity is much different... Plus my comics tend to be deeply personal or intense, so spending hours fixating on them requires me to be in tip-top emotional shape. And to be honest--up until recently, I just haven't been because of my knee and a few other things going on.

But enough about that.

The first comic is the VERY beginning of my reflections on the very first comic class I ever took... Basically, it's just a cartoon version of Katie at age 9. Enjoy.