Thread "Rant, moan, rave and share - for all your chatter, natter, and wildebeest needs" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 4:02AM, Feb. 4, 2011

(and the whole trip will be around 600$)

Imagine how much you could get from ebay with $600.
Omg *froths at mouth*

speaking of ebay(again) I was thinking of bidding on these cards and reading through the item description, when all the sudden there's this long ass psalm and 'ACCEPT JESUS INTO YOUR HEART TODAY", etc.

What the hell does religion have to do with japanese pokemon cards? Wtf man.

Pikachu died for your sins.

Posted at 4:02AM, Feb. 4, 2011

Didn't you know bout the blatant christian symbolism in pokemon? It's more overt than that of the narnia books.

Posted at 7:02AM, Feb. 4, 2011

i'm about to be old.

The alternative is worse. My birthday's next week. I'm not big on birthdays, but for whatever insane reason, I really like being an Aquarian.

Posted at 7:02AM, Feb. 4, 2011

Ever since I decided to make my comic pages super-gigantic-huge they've taken more time to work on… I just have too much fun making things super detailed that I don't even care about anything else except making funky art. :)

Currently I am rocking the sweat stains on some guys shirts… then I'm going to put some more teeny scratches on the paintwork of my war-mecha and add some more rust around the rivets.
Man, I'd love to do matt paintings for Hollywood films. I would rock at that!

Posted at 10:02AM, Feb. 4, 2011

Ever since I decided to make my comic pages super-gigantic-huge they've taken more time to work on… I just have too much fun making things super detailed that I don't even care about anything else except making funky art. :)

Currently I am rocking the sweat stains on some guys shirts… then I'm going to put some more teeny scratches on the paintwork of my war-mecha and add some more rust around the rivets.
Man, I'd love to do matt paintings for Hollywood films. I would rock at that!

That sounds like my nightmare. I am increasingly anti-detail.

Posted at 11:02AM, Feb. 4, 2011

I am increasingly anti-detail.

So that's why you don't make any comics, you went the whole hog and stopped doing ANY detail.

Posted at 12:02PM, Feb. 4, 2011

but we're not hinting at 1337's age now, ARE WE?

That's a see-crit.

At least until it doesn't make me look dumb.

Don't worry, that's not what makes you look dumb.
Ba-dum tish!

(That was mean, sorry)

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-

-dge for the world.

today sucked.

Posted at 12:02PM, Feb. 4, 2011

oh you gin and tonic. How I've missed you…

Happy news! Now I'm only one book behind my favourite manga. Except the fact that next release is scheduled in March….and there are like 5-7 books left if I'm not being fooled -_-* Stuff is cheaper and more entertaining than heroin though ;)

Posted at 2:02PM, Feb. 4, 2011

i'm about to be old.
The alternative is worse. My birthday's next week. I'm not big on birthdays, but for whatever insane reason, I really like being an Aquarian.

Oh irony. The age topic is the same as "the grass is greener"
I want the best of both worlds, money making without responsibility, drinking without breaking the law, having a house car etc, with no worries.

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so the car is Hydro locked. a tube busted, the oil spilled into the combustion chamber, and then when the pistons couldn't compress, they froze up.

according to wikipedia, since this happened at idle, there shouldn't be too much damage. not as bad as i was preparing for, but more than i want to fix.

Posted at 9:02PM, Feb. 4, 2011

Oh irony. The age topic is the same as "the grass is greener"
I want the best of both worlds, money making without responsibility, drinking without breaking the law, having a house car etc, with no worries.

I dunno, I'm young and I still feel like I have plenty of worries. (But I think that's mostly my personality over things I actually have to worry about.)
Maybe retirement is what you're looking for?

Posted at 10:02PM, Feb. 4, 2011

I joke that I'm retired and living the life I want to. Then I have nights like tonight when, while drinking with a volunteer that helped me start a zine a few years back, I got curious and did some math: based on the average time it took per page for my latest completed project, and how many pages I'd completed, it came to about 240 hours in 6 weeks. So… 40 hours a week? Plus the part time job that actually pays… geez. My retirement has a 60-70 hour work week…

Posted at 1:02AM, Feb. 5, 2011

I'm older than Seventy2, that mean I win. -the contest stops after me though so if you're older I still win. Neyar!!!!!! :P

I have a horrible headache right now >___<

Posted at 3:02AM, Feb. 5, 2011

So that's why you don't make any comics, you went the whole hog and stopped doing ANY detail.

That's not true, I just drew one yesterday.

Posted at 4:02AM, Feb. 5, 2011

I'm older than Seventy2, that mean I win.

So you're Seventy3 then?

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I think I'm crazy. My plan is to do 50 pages of b/w comics within this month while at the same time I color the remaining 6 pages (actually, only 5 to go now, one is done) and I'm attempting to sort out something like fifty conflicting storyline/timeline versions for a huge project I want to finally draw.

Except I don't know whether this one will make its way to DD or not (since it's not that chapter friendly as I'd like it to be. More likely I'll be looking for a solution similar to various manga readers that are/were used on scanlation sites. Perfect for chapter releases!

Posted at 5:02AM, Feb. 5, 2011

I should be asleep, but my room mate forgot to turn his alarm clock off.

Instead, I'm working on a new banner for the mafia game I want to run, that and installing at least 20-30 fonts that I am replacing, getting. wheee.

Posted at 7:02AM, Feb. 5, 2011

So that's why you don't make any comics, you went the whole hog and stopped doing ANY detail.

That's not true, I just drew one yesterday.

It's on;y a matter of time :)

Posted at 10:02AM, Feb. 5, 2011

I'm older than Seventy2, that mean I win.
So you're Seventy3 then?

This joke just made my day. the first depressing day i've had in a while is today, and just seeing that made me laugh.
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So, being young is still full of worries, being old has worries, and being retired you don't have any time to do anything. Where does the grass get green??

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Just a tidbit of information for you all, i think 2003 was my worst year on record. Set my life on track for where i am now, but just so many bad things.

Posted at 1:02PM, Feb. 5, 2011

Glad you had a laugh on an otherwise crappy day. That always cheers me up.

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Wildebeest finding the airspeed velocity of a crocodile covered in chocolate pudding.
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I'm flipping through a tutorial on Python (the language not the snake) and found that the 'else if' is 'elif'. My first thought is that is going to be the name of a character, I don't care how, I'm having a character named Elif.

My second thought was that programming language keywords could make for some interesting character names and puns. Bool is a common one for boolean, a variable that is either true or false. Have a guy named Bool, have him spout off nonsense, boom, a guy that's full of bull (bool is pronounced the same as bull) crap, and is always false (bool Bool_character = false;). Two for one :D.

okay I really need to sleep more. I'm starting to act just plain silly.

Posted at 3:02PM, Feb. 5, 2011

You know what you guys should read?

I AM
It's a fantastical story.

[spoiler](the link does not lead to I am)[/spoiler]

Today I hurt myself trying to get the frozen tarp from the ground and then my dad went out and made me look like an ass.
Am I weak or stupid?

Also I finally got my interview all together with DarkGesen and the two interviews will be up soon.

Posted at 3:02PM, Feb. 5, 2011

trying to win the harkovast compo I see.

Posted at 4:02PM, Feb. 5, 2011

I think I'm crazy. My plan is to do 50 pages of b/w comics within this month while at the same time I color the remaining 6 pages (actually, only 5 to go now, one is done) and I'm attempting to sort out something like fifty conflicting storyline/timeline versions for a huge project I want to finally draw.

The more you do, the more experience you have. The more experience you have, the more opportunities to improve. The more you improve, the better you get. The better you get, the faster you can work. The faster you can work, the more you can do. 50 pages in a month this time. 200 pages in a month five years from now. Just sayin'. Power level.

Posted at 5:02PM, Feb. 5, 2011

I think I'm crazy. My plan is to do 50 pages of b/w comics within this month while at the same time I color the remaining 6 pages (actually, only 5 to go now, one is done) and I'm attempting to sort out something like fifty conflicting storyline/timeline versions for a huge project I want to finally draw.
The more you do, the more experience you have. The more experience you have, the more opportunities to improve. The more you improve, the better you get. The better you get, the faster you can work. The faster you can work, the more you can do. 50 pages in a month this time. 200 pages in a month five years from now. Just sayin'. Power level.

Yeah, I know. Although I've seen artists go in the opposite direction. Rather than produce faster, they just add more detail *looks at a certain admin of ours* and I kinda fell victim to that myself although this is luckily so far contained to shorter comics and random drawings.

The crazy part is more about the scope of the other large project I'm working on and the lenght I expect it to be (basically, I want a bi-weekly title with 20-page long chapters which I aim to start drawing March and build a buffer until Autumn or even the end of the year). So I have to be able to do 2 pages a day without skipping beat.

Posted at 9:02PM, Feb. 5, 2011

It has now been 8 years since indiana had it's first death of the "iraq war"**. He is one of very few people i can name, that had a direct impact on my life. (other people have had minor points here and there, but there is literally a list fewer than five, that i can point out names, and say i am who i am because of this person

**iraq war is in quotes because he died well before the war started, but it counts against that number

Posted at 9:02PM, Feb. 5, 2011

I'm older than Seventy2, that mean I win.
So you're Seventy3 then?

Yes. -_-

Sunday is full of work… Work for DD. Gahhhhh! And it's not fun.
I hate doing writeups on things… Unlike university where I could happily ramble on and on for pages, this sort of writing has to be tightly cogent, coherent, easy to follow and everything has to reference something concrete from collected research.

I hope that sounds mysterious! :)
It's because I'm talking about research for the Quackcast and some other DD stuff that I can't go into detail about.
Ah well, back to work T_T
My Sunday is not mine anymore.
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UGH! Finished the Quackcast write-up/research! Took me fooking ages >_<
I will post it up in the tutorial section when the cast goes live on Tuesday.

Posted at 8:02AM, Feb. 6, 2011

Ever since I decided to make my comic pages super-gigantic-huge they've taken more time to work on… I just have too much fun making things super detailed that I don't even care about anything else except making funky art. :)

I do this. I paint details that I know will never be visible when I reduce the page down, but that doesn't stop me. It must be either immense dedication or immense stupidity - there's a fine line.