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Turtle Soup: Worldbuilding
Apr. 26th, 2011 08:13 pmGuess who's not dead?
So I am this close to having the Turtle Soup minicomic done; I'd meant to have it out a couple of months ago, and in fact, the layout and extras (covers, bio page, etc) are all pretty much good to go. The only trouble is that I wound up having exactly the right number of strips to fill it out ... and then I decided there was one that just would not do. What can I say? The Turtle strips are kind of a big progression in any case; plenty of them are a bit shaky in one way or another (after all, they cover a full two years of development), so I was prepared to deal with that, but ... I was stuck. I had to do one last strip, and it took me a little while to get down to it.
Fortunately, I have some really entertaining friends. I love knowing other creative people; discussing our various processes and concepts is one of the most inspiring and entertaining pastimes I can imagine. It probably won't be the last you see of these two, even though I don't plan to draw Turtle strips with any regularity from here on out; I could probably base an entire series on them, really.
Now that the strip's done ... I have a tiny bit of tweaking to do, and I need to reconsider my printing service options, but I'm hoping to have the mini out by mid-May at the latest. Coming soon to an Etsy near you?
Also, hopefully I'll be making more regular use of this space again. Life does occasionally interrupt art, but as I'm going to have a chance to make art my life, more or less, for a little while (at CCS), I'll really have no excuse not to share my new material.
So I am this close to having the Turtle Soup minicomic done; I'd meant to have it out a couple of months ago, and in fact, the layout and extras (covers, bio page, etc) are all pretty much good to go. The only trouble is that I wound up having exactly the right number of strips to fill it out ... and then I decided there was one that just would not do. What can I say? The Turtle strips are kind of a big progression in any case; plenty of them are a bit shaky in one way or another (after all, they cover a full two years of development), so I was prepared to deal with that, but ... I was stuck. I had to do one last strip, and it took me a little while to get down to it.
Fortunately, I have some really entertaining friends. I love knowing other creative people; discussing our various processes and concepts is one of the most inspiring and entertaining pastimes I can imagine. It probably won't be the last you see of these two, even though I don't plan to draw Turtle strips with any regularity from here on out; I could probably base an entire series on them, really.
Now that the strip's done ... I have a tiny bit of tweaking to do, and I need to reconsider my printing service options, but I'm hoping to have the mini out by mid-May at the latest. Coming soon to an Etsy near you?
Also, hopefully I'll be making more regular use of this space again. Life does occasionally interrupt art, but as I'm going to have a chance to make art my life, more or less, for a little while (at CCS), I'll really have no excuse not to share my new material.