The above is a link to the first part of an experiment I'm trying.
The experiment is aimed at answering this question: can I "do" comics?
I've always had a measure of drawing talent, and truthfully I haven't worked very hard to cultivate it. In my teenage years it was sort of my identity, but I let my ability languish unattended as I grew into adulthood. I look back now and I consider the majority of that time wasted. People less talented and more driven than I am have gone on to spiffy careers in the arts. So have many of the people more talented than I am, and what really chaps my ass about that is that I have the raw talent to be just as good, and I didn't decide to take it to that level.
At any rate, I'm drawing again, and I have to pick up where I've left off, and lots of things have changed. I'm still good. I'm not great. Definitely not employable, yet. Technology has added a whole new dimension to art that I am hardly familiar with; superheroes and '80s pop-culture touchstones -- the stuff I was weaned on -- are exploding (and being exploited); and the medium of comic books are no laughing matter anymore. I've been moved to pick up my pencil, but I look around and I know that what the world of pop, pulp, and comics has become is rapidly growing out of my reach.
It seems like whatever hope my 8 year old self had for his grown-up counterpart to break into comics is becoming even more of a pipe dream.
But, I figure I owe it to the 8 year old me to give it a shot. I'm 32 now and the kid's as persistent as ever.
So, I'm doing this.
Part portfolio, part documentation, part blog. A comicbook junkyard where I dump sketches, scripts, and ideas; where I whine and pay homage; where I may even post a piece of finished art every once in awhile.
We'll see what happens.
-P
(the following are some low res cameraphone pics of some drawings I've been recently working on, completely unrelated to the above script, and in no particular order.)
a redesign concept I was messing with for the Ultra-Humanite
an unabashed Joker rip-off
a dragon, with sharpies
The Black Fly, a Spider-Man/Batman rip off
Zombie feeding frenzy. this is all pencil.
Nick Cave. An attempt to steal his likeness for a character called "Indrid Cold"
A Fantastic Four redesign attempt
"judy"
Mothman, again.
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