samgarrett

O: Oooh, look.  Another page. I should get around to drawing the next page - but I keep forgetting.  Look at Simon - all serious and stuff.

The worst thing about being an upstart comic artist is that my comics really never have a home.  Sure, I could use websites like SmackJeeves, but it's so terrible to have to swim about with all the other artists, most of which are just horrible hacks who do sprite comics.  I mean, come on. :(

I've signed up for Rampage Network and I'm waiting for them to get back to me.  If they don't accept my application, I guess it's onto somewhere else.  I'm not nervous about being accepted to one of those sites...I'm just worried about figuring all of that stuff out.  I can't code. At all.

But anyway - back to the comic.  I'm feeling pretty good about it, if only because I have a very firm grasp on the plot for, like, once.  And I think that I could take it far and make it into some grand, epic opus, but if not, it would be another fun experiment. :)

Since it doesn't have an official home (the most official thing it has is a blog where I whine about making it) I feel fine sharing it on livejournal and on sites like SheezyArt.  Yes.  I know.

So here are the first six pages, which is all I have completed so far.






(Note:  I hate this page intensely. lol)


So yes, that's as far as I've gotten so far.  I've happened to notice that all of the pages are slightly crooked.  How annoying.

c:

Imagine you turn around and see that someone's just outside your window, looking in.  This someone could have a wide array of appearances - either benign or horrendous.  Either way, and despite which time of day it is, it would be the most terrifying thing ever - at least to me.  This is my fear.  I would just up and die.

/o\ And if it were something like an alien or el chupacabra?  It would be such a mixture of fear and joy that I would likely die, comic back to life and die again.

Alanna and I were just talking about this, too. O:

Alanna requested I start posted my cryptid comics here so that her friend could view them.  Why not? :)  I'll post a few per journal entry because that's more fun to me.

Well, when it comes down to it, most people are.  What I mean to say is that my real motivation for working on this current comic (and I really have been working on it) is that I miss my boyfriend, and I'm doing things to distract myself from that.  It's working, don't get me wrong, but I'm afraid that once that element is taken out of my life, I'll lose the motivation as well. 

In any case, here are so more pages, and a very hideous title page that I will probably erase one day.

In response to your response to my last post, I would like to say:  "Well, I'm glad you like the page from the comic I'm not continuing."

>:I

Anyway, here's another page of that comic I am continuing. :D

Ahhh, I've been neglecting art.  But I think I found a way to make it not feel like a painful, difficult task for me, and that was my decision to do this as a hobby for the rest of my life.  I'll be going to school to study fun things like history in the fall. :) I'm happy.

Anyway, I have two comic pages for you.  The first is not going to be continued, but the second one very well may be.

Symbiosis
This will probably give you a migraine to look at. :>


Obviously, it's difficult to tell what's going on, and that was my main frustration with this - I realized after finishing that I would have to redo this page, and the idea of that made me just decide to stop being interested. :)

Nearest to Nowhere (working title)
This comic is actually proof that I do not love my bastard children (story ideas), since I skipped over another idea I was working on to do this just last night, since the idea came to me while I was riding back from my hometown.  I thought it would be a neat experiment, so here I am.


 I was originally going to have this in a messy, pencil style, but when I scanned in the first panel I thought, "I don't like this!" so I redid it all digitally in Photoshop.  I haven't used this technique since I did "I'll Take the Night Shift" almost a year ago.  (WOW!)  I think I have the first page of it sitting around somwhere...



Aw...just look at this mess!  :) I didn't even bother color (although I accomodated the lack of color with a heavy, black and white style.  An experiment, yes, that lasted only 18 pages.

Anyway, that's all I have in the way of updates for today. :)

Did you guess?  Did you?  Did the fact that I'm posting give you any sort of clue?  Hmmm?

Well, the play is over, I started a relationship and then broke up with my boyfriend, and now I have a slight internship with a local graphic art studio.  :) It's been a hectic three months.

 

The good news?  I have art for you!  Yes, Sam finally has the time, means and motivation to draw random images again!  The first up?


Yesiree.  Random crap for you from me!

This is obviously different from the version posted on Skeezy art. :)