I have this old external hard drive that contains all my half-ideas, character development rigs, semi-complete comics and … well crap basically. I’m sure lots of people have an equivalent.
Anyway now and then I dig through it, rifling through semi-formed comic concepts, pondering what to do next or just playing around.
Sometimes it’s just an already-used character like Sophie Shitcrack from Skybloom, with a different haircut and plonked in a bathroom …
… and I hit render and I think ah yes, that’s nice.
Goodness knows how many thousands of silly concepts I have dithering about the place …
… perhaps at some point the old hard drive will just fail, and I’ll carry on my life like a normal person.
… and we all know how explosive a single image concept can be.
I created this character/image before I wrote Lithium:
… and look what happened there! FOURTEEN comics, thousands of pages, reams of conversation in that ridiculous comic series! Absurd what happens when we dick about with 3D ideas hehe.
Ridiculous … how? I don’t get it.
Hopefully that hard drive will work for multiple decades … normal is so boring.
I suppose ridiculous in terms of how unusual it is for a comic artist to create such a huge body of work without thought of being paid, or maybe ridiculous how two teenage kids end up embroiled in some scifi plot to take over the galaxy, and fix everything with a wetsuit that charges through friction. Thinking about it, yeah there are a few ways it was ridiculous. And agreed, normal can do one 🙂
Sindy, I see the tests from the backyard comics. You have to give us that one. 😰
Ah yeah that’s definitely on my to-do list. Not sure about ‘have to’ though lol
The human creative process is a fascinating and mysterious phenomenon. It’s a source of never-ending wonder and amazement for me. Surely it makes us all more worthwhile as a species than we would be otherwise. And thanks for your sharing yours with us.
Thank you and yes it certainly is mysterious. Some of us can be concentrating on the thermodynamic properties of silver nitrite to solve various energy crises, whilst others of us could be more focused on … well, boobies. Both equally worthy, in my view. Ahem. Maybe not, but still. I’ll just do my thing.