Well, it's been a while. Gotta say, there's a LOT that's involved in figuring out what exactly I'm going to do that would not be entertaining to read.
So, I drew a five page comic. It'll be out eventually, it's tied into learning what I'm going to be doing, but that comic taught me something. It taught me that I've got a lot to learn. So here's what I've been doing lately. Once, I've been practicing cartooning over drawing. That's more of a personal discription, I doubt many cartoonists would appreciate it, but when I say cartooning over drawing I mean that I'm doing a bunch of rough sketches with varying poses, expressions, intended to help me learn of these new and exciting things. I've never had a reason to draw someone sitting in a chair before. Well, once, but due to the nature of that particular picture of Emma Frost, I'm not going to delve deeper into it.
Here's the big thing holding me back though. When Ragdoll Psychiatric comes out it will be online, but that opens a few avenues to travel. I could do something like Insufferable (Great online comic about a Batman and Robin like duo, father and son, that had a messy break up years ago, and Robin's kind of a dick), where I push little changes to previous pages to make it a little more animated when you click next page (You click next and one panel changes to have a door that was previously closed be kicked open). I could do it like Looking For Group, where every week I throw up a little piece of the puzzle. Or I could throw in with a crows funding service to see if anyone else is interested in this garbage.
This is the boring stuff. This is the stuff where I have to mull it over, weigh each pro and each con, and come up with a decision on what's best in the long run. I'd much rather just doodle, put it into a graphic novel, and throw it out there, but I have to think of a return for that work. Yeah, the artistic process is fantastic, and having my work be read would be great, but that's also a lot of time thrown in for a free project.
Another aspect is that I just don't want this to bomb. Something is going to go wrong, it's my first project, but I'd like it to be something minor. If it's something that only pisses me off, then I'm golden... That was poor phrasing.
So I'm thinking. And doodling. Mostly doodling.
