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why the long page?: thoughts on comic length
🕑 Added 2019-01-22 04:37:08 +0000 UTCi jotted down the first couple of panels august 4th last year. i opened it up to work on it more this week (and some of last) and those were still the only 2 panels drawn (but i had redrawn them at some point to make them smaller). i'd kind of given up on completing this and retired to thinking the basic concept was stupid anyway.
i wasn't happy to learn that a more formal collection of thoughts for a logical script path i'd drafted had been deleted or otherwise disappeared, either, so i ended up taking a walk with my wife and talking myself through it with her as a sounding board. the overall thoughts are a bit more developed than before, because when i was first kicking around the idea, i stopped at explanation 1.
i am pretty happy and kind of surprised i finished it, though. it's nice that getting things done is a novelty to me again, but i'm not going to get too comfy.
my first instinct when i thought about how maybe purely visual art and writing have different information they portray better was that art portrays "emotional" information better... because the experience is kinetic, you can show facial expressions and body language or even completely devoid of a human form just colors and curves that can express so much.
i'm not sure if that's entirely accurate, though, because books have moved me very deeply too, in ways i don't think a comic could, through descriptive wording (maybe even entirely lacking visual sensory descriptions).
i DO think that text is MUCH better for describing actions and more assertive or active sentiments than comics. animation is even better, but comics are different... i don't necessarily mean KICK-PUNCH action, either, but the examples are just active voice sentences (which i gave myself the rule of using no conjunctions for either, because that felt like cheating).
one other note is that this was written in a handwriting font i made to save time. i wouldn't use it for more canonical comics, but for something like these that are definitely an excuse to ramble or analyze, it saves a LOT of time, and evidently, a lot more space than i was expecting. i wrote about half of the comic by hand before deciding to bail and make the font:
anyway, i hope it's insightful, especially if you yourself also draw comics or want to draw a comic one day.
Comments
gray Folie
that's a challenging leap to make! but i think a non-visual (ignoring how visual description exists very much in prose) writer has a better place in comic-making than a largely visual artist, at the same time. i don't think it's just a "you" problem at all, though!
Fetian
Dupe looks really good in this one. Pier Wright mentioned on the last comic that your lines look more bold and confident, and I have to agree. This style looks very refined, here. Interesting thoughts, too. I'm primarily a text-writer, and have tried to branch into comics, and the comic growing past what was expected in the outline is something I've noticed and wondered about, but as I'm still very inexperienced, I wasn't sure how much of it was mistakes that I was making
