I don't think digital's an option for me for a looooong time, ozoneocean. But I'm way more open to it now than I was even a year ago. I think the first time someone tried to get me to use a tablet, I ran out of the room screaming that it "wasn't real". ;)
But you're right; a lot of the problems I have going from the original page to digital are material and tool related. The paper I used for the first two issues isn't a bright white; and the way I'm achieving certain marks is by using nasty, dried up pens that probably aren't producing a pure black. Plus, as far as making comics goes, I'm used to "original art to xerox", where a lot of this stuff doesn't matter; as opposed to "original art to a computer screen with a better resolution than, like, real life". So I'm kind of learning as I go. :)
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So i've been off the internet most of today and most of yesterday since i owe over, i actually feel way better than i usually do, really like a fog is clearing from my head.
Verizon said they'd cancel the over charges when i called since it's my first time going over, that's cool and all but sounds to good to be true, got to be cautious.
On another note i wake up with dread every morning that i've killed my cat, she sleeps curled in the nook of my arm so i tend to roll over onto while sleeping. i wake up every morning with her half squished beneath me and shake her awake 'L-lay lay D:>?' and she turns around and goes ' NO 1 WILL EVAR LOVE U AS MUCH AS I DOO' or 'mgreow'.
Also some nights i drool in my sleep and when i wake up my shoulder and her… ._.
@ Skullbie:
I wake up in all kinds of contorted, pretzel-like positions on account of my chihuahuas wedging themselves in in inconvenient places against my body.
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I'm totally, completely done with Ch. 2, which is awesome. Unfortunately it means it's time for some serious rewriting, tweaking, and editing of the script for Ch. 3. Grr. But I've got to stay up super-late tonight anyhow, on account of needing to sleep all day tomorrow so I'm fresh when we leave for New Orleans that night. It's somethin' like an 18 hour drive, and I hate night drivin' with a passion. But at least the trip's still on. It was lookin' pretty sketchy there for a couple of days.
lately i've been coming up with these great story ideas, and then i start coming up with plots and everything….but all of them i end up thinking hey this is similar to X movie/comic/series…and then i throw it all out. i think i just want the perfect original story, and i wont settle for anything thats not. the only problem is, i've seen a ton of great movies, read the same amount of books, and spent hours reading online webcomics…so everything i think of has a parallel, which just makes me feel like a cheap plagerizer.
i dont think i'll ever get anything done.
lately i've been coming up with these great story ideas, and then i start coming up with plots and everything….but all of them i end up thinking hey this is similar to X movie/comic/series…and then i throw it all out. i think i just want the perfect original story, and i wont settle for anything thats not. the only problem is, i've seen a ton of great movies, read the same amount of books, and spent hours reading online webcomics…so everything i think of has a parallel, which just makes me feel like a cheap plagerizer.Ever heard the phrase, "There's no such thing as an original thought?" Or seen the "Simpsons did it!" episode of South Park? And there are a lot of literary scholars that believe there is a finite number of plots upon which all stories are based- some say as few as seven. So I wouldn't worry too much about whether an idea has been "done" or not. If you think it's worth doing, you can think of a way to make it your own.
i dont think i'll ever get anything done.
postmodernism is the belief that no new idea can be truly original, so you have to work within that sphere, as it were. there's no shame in doing something even though similar things have come before it, so long as it's not intentionally referencing those things and claiming that it's original to that particular piece. so yeah, I couls go into narrative theories, but you get the picture.
I was so tired today. I also had a stomach ache all day. So when I got home, I took a nap. And now I'm feeling refreshed. Sadly, I have to go to bed in roughly 3 hours. I think I may be able to shade a few more pages. Tomorrow I'll try to finish them up if I can. Then I can finish up Chapter 1 on Friday/Saturday, and get right to Chapter 2 on Saturday, maybe even Friday.
So, with Arizona Lemon Tea in my hand, I prepare to shade my way through as many pages as possible.
Wish me luck!
postmodernism is the belief that no new idea can be truly original, so you have to work within that sphere, as it were.Hmmm… or more like- meaning and significance is determined by the experience and background of the viewer as well as what is in the work itself… it's a dialogue.
Is it normal for an employer to operate under the assumption that if you tell them you were at work on time and just didn't clock in for 15 minutes for whatever reason, you want your time sheet changed? Every employer I've had just said "oh well, it'll just come out of your paycheck, but thanks for telling me." That always seemed the most natural and normal way to me and I thought pretty much everyone operated that way on time sheets.
Ach, my French teacher is so dumb. She gave us less than a week to research, write and memorize a speech. She was also away during this time so we couldn't have any help with it, and we were given no class time and no real rubric or requirements.
I should be practicing mine right now but I just want to draw. :(
Also, I wish my hands didn't shake all the time. It makes so many things a gazillion times harder.
Is it normal for an employer to operate under the assumption that if you tell them you were at work on time and just didn't clock in for 15 minutes for whatever reason, you want your time sheet changed? Every employer I've had just said "oh well, it'll just come out of your paycheck, but thanks for telling me." That always seemed the most natural and normal way to me and I thought pretty much everyone operated that way on time sheets.
no clue, every job i've ever had had a salary….celery…mmmmm….peanut butter…yumm. wait…i dont know.
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well fine, the next idea i get i'll start working on that…i really cant work on the others, cause it is no joke, that as soon as my brain points out the similarities, that i just go "welp, that's usless" poof! gone.
When i was driving home today i passed a wolf dog(it must have been a dog, there are no wolves here…) and shortly after that i passed a black bat on the road.(possibly dead) I'm not superstitious but that stuff freaks me out, yah whata'meen son?
I've been feeling great since being off teh internet, more sociable and less cranky. I'm going to see watchmen with a guy in my class when it comes out^^
Haha holy gods i'm wondering if i'm dyslexic with all the spelling and grammar errors i make in my essays -_- We did peer review and nothing gets past the guy who did mine. He chiseled down every single mistake, three friggin pages of absolute perfection demanded into my essay.
I'm probably going to get a 6 :)
I did his too but i mostly just commented that he drop-quotes and should use more story telling elements, he didn't have a comma out of place.
I did a test last Friday at some specialist clinic. It was to test my brain and such.
I got results two days ago. They said I was in the top 2% of people in my age group when it came to literacy and general intelligence. But I was mediocre (shit-house in my personal opinion) when it came to mathematical problems and holding large amounts of information in my head.
They also did a brainwave test which confirmed that I had Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD).
Now here's the problem:
MY PARENTS AND TEACHERS WONT LEAVE ME ALONE!!!
THEY THINK I'M A F@#%ING RETARD!!!
So there's my rant… Just letting the world know I'm pissed. 8D
If you have any tips on how to tell people to "fuck off" nicely. Please share. I could use your wisdom. lol!
They said I was in the top 2% of people in my age group when it came to literacy and general intelligence.But I was mediocre (shit-house in my personal opinion) when it came to mathematical problemsWow that sounds exactly like me *o* I don't think i'm ADD though.
Tell your parents 80% and possibly all of diagnosed ADD is inherited and it's their fault you have it.
You can also remind them that 95% of all children under the age of 18 display enough symptoms of ADD at some point to be diagnosed, due to the nature of them being children.
And if that fails "You know, I'm not some f**cking retard just because of ADD", usually gets a decent response. Just remember to smile when you say it.
Oh lawwwwd… not this again.. What did people do in the days BEFORE everyone was diagnosing them with ADD?
Those poor, poor people in those dim dark ages, never knowing the perfect golden revelation of being diagnosed with stuff! :(
Thank heavens we live in more enlightened times where ADD people are no longer condemned to labour in our coal mines and cart our faeces down back alleyways!
Rejoice ADDers for you are freeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!! \^_^/
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I sat next to the stinkiest POS guy on the train in the history of stinky POS guys!
He wasn't scruffy or badly dressed or anything, it's just that he smelled as if he'd sweated ALL of his body's water content through his crotch and armpits for the past 2 weeks and never washed or changed his clothes once!
This creature's odour was SO vile I had to grit my teeth and breathe through my mouth for the whole train trip to avoid gagging and vomiting all over myself when I got a whiff of his stench.
…I mean this guy was a human Skunk! I've been around some pretty stinky, sweaty people before who've spent all day working in the sun in 46 Celsius heat, People who just don't shower, homeless people who live rough and smell like urine and garbage, old people who've crapped their pants…
But they're all fine compared to this particular specimen. This guy went beyond that sort of thing. -_-
So there are biazzare coincidences in my life.
1. At work there were some major issues going on (checking on a non-responsive tenent, no hot water, etc) I had to do some major running around and being in multiple places at differing times. Remarkably I was always in the precise right place at the right time. Showing up at the front door at exactly the moment the concerned son showed up to see his unresponsive parent, being at the office at exactly the moment a tenent's friend appeared to collect her mail, checking on a clogged toilet at exactly the moment maintenance arrived to fix it…
2. Then there's a nother strange one. One night I came into work (12AM) and checked the chairs on the covered path into the building. There was nothing on any of the chairs. At around 4AM I went outside to check the temperature. It was raining and 40F and no one had come down since midnight and gone out onto the covered pathway as I would have seen them. Right outside the door on the closest chair was a book. It was the recent (2004) autobiography of my favorite actress. (Maureen O'Hara) No one had gone out, least of all to read outside.
How am I to remain a good atheist when such strange coincidences occur almost as if some controlling authority is twisting things to tweak my disbelief? lol!
I'm not complaining and I am grateful for that angel on my shoulder. lol! ;)
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