Come on Bravo, that's glib and you know it.
You don't have to have any chemical or bio weapons at ALL as long as you make people think you do. That was Iraq's only success during the first Gulf war, They REALLY made the Yanks believe they had the stuff ready to use on them. lol!
And Saddam tried really, really, really hard to make people believe he might still have some secret weapon all the way up until the twits invaded for the second time and found he was playing a silly game all along.
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The 2009 Rant, Vent, and Share thread
Uhg. So:
The good:
-Got all my clothes packed up, and at least organised most of my art stuff what for packing.
-Got the cover for the third chapter done; gonna scan it later today.
-My pageviews have been less than average lately, but my rank's gone up. DD just slow this weekend? Seems to be back today.
The bad:
-4 years worth of my prints have mysteriously vanished. If my professors don't have 'em, I'm going to kill someone.
-Got a stupid parkin' ticket while I was at the university.
But day's better than not. I think the new medicine is working. lol!
So yesterday was day 2 and I did 3 pages, so now I got pages 3-7 ready, yay (comic starts on page 3, I adjusted the pagecount for the printed book already to avoid problems I had before).
Going for three today too, although I wouldn't complain if I managed four pages (I probably will once I get to the conversation in the carriage, it's basically heads/upperbodies floating in the dark, haha).
I remember seeing somewhere that most Mangaka have to create 19 pages of Manga a week. That's approximately 3 or so a day. So you'd be working on Mangaka speed if you did that :P
Don't tell me why I just randomly said that. lol.
That's a nice number… Doing consistently three pages a day, everyday, would give you 90 pages a month… and 1095 pages a year, haha. I could draw Amen City Chronicles in 2 years (if I had all the story worked out and focused on this rather than that other thing I'm doing now).
I'm pondering scanning the first five pages as a preview of sorts…
Just imagine how fast you could get stuff done.
The only thing is, Mangakas have teams of people to help them. Like, assistant inkers, etc. It'd be so nice to have that.
I think I could maybe do a page, maybe 2 a day. That is if I had the Chapter and everything planned out ahead of time and whatnot. But when I'm in school, that'd be a definite no.
I just got done working out, and eating dinner. My arms are gonna be sore tomorrow, so that's a good thing, especially since I skipped yesterday (skipped working out, that is)
I also turned my room around, to where my drawing desk is up against my window so I can look outside when I draw. Not that there's anything to look at, mind you, it's just nice.
AND I finally finished Eternal Darkness earlier. Great game. Highly recommend it, that is, if you don't get scared by it :P
I plan on writing the script to the Prologue in a little bit, and getting my hair cut. Long hair is cool for a while, but it's just starting to get old. I think I may go back to short hair, not sure.
I also hate when I run, my hair gets all curly and stupid. I'd much rather run, and have my hair not be curly and stupid :]
I guess I'll have to play Psychonauts now. Since I didn't finish it, and I need a game to play in between drawing pages.
i think i'm gonna have to get glasses. i'm going to see the doctor on friday. it's wierd. words and far off things have been getting blury. wierd. it's pry my vision going to normal people's vision. i've always been able to read the bottom line, and the doc is gonna be like. "you have 20/20 vision! why the F&() did you come here?" and i'll have no answer, because i'm not used to it, so it seems bad to me.
did sprints both in the pool and on land today.legs are kinda dyin, but i need to get back to the point i was 3 weeks ago. somehow my scores have dropped. grrrr. i failed 3 events this time, instead of the one last time.
PP did they stop replying after you sent them the script? Sometimes the story plans can sound really cool but once they get the script they might see it's not all it's cracked up to be- and feel it's insulting to say 'eh i changed my mind…'.
Doesn't help if you look at any comic collab forum and see how many 'writer seeking artist' for every 'artist seeks writer'- Amateur writers are not in demand so an artist has a huge pool of people to pick from at any given time.
Yes, I'm aware that as a writer seeking artist, I'm a drop in the ocean of writers seeking artists. I don't think my writers skill is horrendous. I'm part of a writers circle where we write and compare stories and give each other hints on how to improve ourselves. Lately I've gotten good marks on the stuff I've been writing. Still need to work on dialog though.
In all three cases, the artist disappeared before we got far enough for me to submit a script. We were still discussing the overall story when *poof* s/he stops replying. Personally I consider that WAY more rude than simply being honest and say that the story is not appealing to him anymore. At least that way I could ask what he thought was wrong with it and consider changing it. There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism in my opinion.
In short: people are cowards. They realise they're not interested or can't devote time to a project, and are afraid of the embarrassment/awkwardness they'll feel in tellin' their potential partner. So since it's the internet, where a body can disappear if they want, they do just that.
One of the problems is that artists can write (albeit not always well) their own comics, and a lot of 'em do. There's more "creators" in webcomics than creative teams, I think.
I'd love to work with someone one day down the line. But I'm one of those aforementioned "artists that trick themselves into thinkin' they're writers" category, and hence have my hands quite full. ;)
One of the problems is that artists can write (albeit not always well) their own comics, and a lot of 'em do. There's more "creators" in webcomics than creative teams, I think.Yeah, that's another problem I'm faced with. High percentage of artists, writing their own comic. I simply don't have the patience to hone my skills as an artist but creating stories has always been easy for me. I really wished I could find a dedicated artist who'd want to work with me on a comic. I can't pay anyone anything due to my financial status but I'm not interested in making money of the comic. I rather want to put my name (and the name of the artist working with me) out there.
I just ate cheese. yum.
speaking of ghost in the shell, I rented the movie from the library but I fell asleep during it.
I need to start doing something. I live the most stagnant, boring life ever.
And I have a prejudice against boys in baseball caps. My eyes glaze over them; it's as if they were never there in the first place.
I read something in the news today about a study of US eighth graders' achievements in the arts, and how it has declined since ten years ago. This kind of depresses me, although my competitive side wants them to do really poorly so I'll have less competition in the future. Is that weird?
So yesterday was day 2 and I did 3 pages, so now I got pages 3-7 ready, yay (comic starts on page 3, I adjusted the pagecount for the printed book already to avoid problems I had before).
Going for three today too, although I wouldn't complain if I managed four pages (I probably will once I get to the conversation in the carriage, it's basically heads/upperbodies floating in the dark, haha).
I remember seeing somewhere that most Mangaka have to create 19 pages of Manga a week. That's approximately 3 or so a day. So you'd be working on Mangaka speed if you did that :P
Don't tell me why I just randomly said that. lol.
That's a nice number… Doing consistently three pages a day, everyday, would give you 90 pages a month… and 1095 pages a year, haha. I could draw Amen City Chronicles in 2 years (if I had all the story worked out and focused on this rather than that other thing I'm doing now).
I'm pondering scanning the first five pages as a preview of sorts…
Just imagine how fast you could get stuff done.
The only thing is, Mangakas have teams of people to help them. Like, assistant inkers, etc. It'd be so nice to have that.
I think I could maybe do a page, maybe 2 a day. That is if I had the Chapter and everything planned out ahead of time and whatnot. But when I'm in school, that'd be a definite no.
Yeah, I could use an assistant :)
Would be fun to have someone do the "dirty work" for me, scanning and filling black areas… I'm about to start my second page tonight (had an annoying panels to draw with things I never drew before so it took time as I don't want these things to ruin the rest of the art).
Overall I think my art is geting better (at least I think so).
I read something in the news today about a study of US eighth graders' achievements in the arts, and how it has declined since ten years ago. This kind of depresses me, although my competitive side wants them to do really poorly so I'll have less competition in the future. Is that weird?That's directly related to the amount of funding American schools get for the arts. Do some research on the decrease of art curriculum in public schools over the past ten years if you wanna get really depressed.
But I'm just the spend-happy, socialist, radical leftist that's ruining this country by givin' handouts to stuff for which the benefits of cannot necessarily be quantified financially.
We need another WPA, if ya ask me.
Man, I can relate to that. My middle school art teacher was total crap. She taught me absolutely nothing except once, when she got mad at us and made us write notes on perspective. So basically she taught me something as a punishment, haha.
I remember the art awards being like "Highest mark" "Most improved" and so on, and thinking shouldn't there be a "Most creative?"
But no, she didn't like creativity very much.
But then again, she also didn't like teaching us technical skill. So…just a bad teacher.
My mark jumped like 10-15% when I start high school art with a really good teacher. :)
I was lucky enough to be encouraged by a good art teacher at school and that contributed a lot to my ending up at art college. There was another art teacher, but if you got him you were more likely to end up selling double glazed windows, not that there's anything wrong with windows, but they don't do much for the soul, unless you're looking out at a great view or something - then windows are the eyes of the soul.
To sum up, good art teachers rock, bad art teachers sssuck.
The art teacher thing…
I had a quite decent art teacher… except then she got pregnant and had to take the last year off and we got this lame guy who's basically given classes whenever some other teacher dropped out for some reason (and of course on the less important subjects). So he was giving "art" lessons, informatics (yeah, right, he barely knew how to turn the pc on) and not sure what's the English equivalent of that, but you get to do stuff (from sandwiches to bird houses to sewing) etc.
As a result I stopped drawing, learnt NOTHING about computers (which is a shame cause otherwise I might have gone studying in that direction) and I can't cook a birdhouse or build a sandwich…
Oh, we also got a DISASTROUS music teacher in the last grade (the old one decided to stop teaching) and suddenly my music grade dropped from very high to "barely made it".
But yeah, art teacher. If it was still her, she'd probably help me out (I think I was one of the three or four kids in class with some actual art skills) and push me in the right direction. As a result, I'm YEARS behind :P
So I just found out that this wildlife rehabilitation centre was looking for people around my age for summer jobs. I would love that job - loving animals and getting paid for it? Yes please! Ha.
But yeah, applications were due May 31st. Grr.
I think I'm just going to try to volunteer and at least that will hopefully get me a foot in the door for next year.
I was at the bar for 6 hours tonight and paid for 2 drinks. Hooray for art. At least you can trade it for somethin', right? And I swear those drunks what bought me beers for prints appreciated it more than some shmuck seeing 'em hung in a gallery. Hilarious, really. Shit that I'd price at $50+ with a frame on a white wall, and the best it gets me is a damn Bud. Eh, I'll take it. And did.
I also got a free beer outta gettin' hit in the eye by some penny this dude flipped across the bar. He was terrified I was gonna kick his ass. Hilarious, as well.
The downside is that I snuck out to the bar while the old ball and chain was sleepin', and now am paranoid that he's gonna small booze on me when I climb into bed. Because I'm not supposed to be goin' to the bars anymore. :(
speaking of ghost in the shell, I rented the movie from the library but I fell asleep during it.Eh, I've done that.
And I have a prejudice against boys in baseball caps. My eyes glaze over them; it's as if they were never there in the first place.They're something people should grow out of.The only ones I have I keep for sentimental value (cap from sail training voyages etc.) they're definitely not for wearing. -_-
-On art:
The trouble is that most people (NOT all) who teach it were the ones who didn't really understand it enough to do much with it as a living.
But then, many artists that can make a living out of it are crap teachers anyway…
-Status update:
There have been positive statements regarding Vegemite. Hyena is no longer a poop person!
Hooray for art. At least you can trade it for somethin', right?Wait, WHAT?
..Are you sure the new meds are working…?
Dammit, I was looking forward to going back on vacation in 2 weeks, but after I booked the holiday time at work they scheduled a couple of meetings that it's strongly suggested I don't miss. On different days. I would be willing to come in on vacation for one day out of 2 weeks, but not 3. So now I have to postpone my holiday time and so it's more than a month away. :[
2 of the meetings are gonna mean more work for me too. I already feel like I'm doing more than my share on the big project we're already on.
I ran across a blog comment arguing that Dc/marvel and the others should move their comics away from print, develop a functional online comic reader that deters piracy, and start formatting their comics in a way that would suit widescreen web-viewing.
I found his idea idealistic but good; especially the widescreen format part. Then i started thinking about how often webcomics use the typical print standard format (myself included). With the web you're basically allowed to have any format you wish- this comic uses only two to three panels at a time in his comic yet look how nicely it works. Your comic could have any type of cool borders or panels you want that could even blend into your web layout- yet i rarely ever see it happen.
I keep saying 'you' yet…i'm the one who's sticking to the 'safe' 10x15 format even though i lay my comic out in photoshop with a giant nest of tools to experiment with :(
I think 'print' style is popular for 3 reasons:
1. Comics have been made in this format for-effing-ever
2. Paper is this shape
3. "if it ain't broke don't fix it"
#3 is true; vertical scrolling on the web works. But it's like having a plain toaster-it works but it's not one of them big toasters that can imprint 6 slices at a time with your initials and those little grill marks. And it seems totally unnecessary until everyone that has toast at your house comments on how awesome those little grill marks and initials are.
……wait that's a horrible example :gem:
And I have a prejudice against boys in baseball caps. My eyes glaze over them; it's as if they were never there in the first place.They're something people should grow out of.The only ones I have I keep for sentimental value (cap from sail training voyages etc.) they're definitely not for wearing. -_-
What? People should grow out of wearing them incorrectly. Bill right over the eyes pulled down so it looks like you're about to put it right over the plate… That is the only way to wear one. Bill two fingers above the nose.
Let's see classic Boston Red Sox, 1939 pinstripe Brooklyn Dodgers, US ARMOR, USS Wisconsin, USS Enterprise (CV-6, the WWII one), USS Missouri… you know the real cool ones that you can only wear bill two fingers over the eyes. hardcore as opposed to doofus. Some of us remember that wearing a baseball cap sideways was the sign of being an idiot like Satch in the East End Kids.
Hey, there are some of us youngin's that still believe the top of a ball cap should actually touch the top of your head! ;)And I have a prejudice against boys in baseball caps. My eyes glaze over them; it's as if they were never there in the first place.They're something people should grow out of.The only ones I have I keep for sentimental value (cap from sail training voyages etc.) they're definitely not for wearing. -_-
What? People should grow out of wearing them incorrectly. Bill right over the eyes pulled down so it looks like you're about to put it right over the plate… That is the only way to wear one. Bill two fingers above the nose.
Let's see classic Boston Red Sox, 1939 pinstripe Brooklyn Dodgers, US ARMOR, USS Wisconsin, USS Enterprise (CV-6, the WWII one), USS Missouri… you know the real cool ones that you can only wear bill two fingers over the eyes. hardcore as opposed to doofus. Some of us remember that wearing a baseball cap sideways was the sign of being an idiot like Satch in the East End Kids.
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