"My comic exists to give me something to do. I make my comic just for fun, and as a hobby. That, and I enjoy playing with the program Daz Studio. After using Daz Studio for so long, I decided that I had created a lot of interesting images, so I decided to develop a story to go along with them."
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There's a Civilization on my Fork - Updates Sometimes
NakedElf wrote:...and after several years, you're generally older.
I know you probably meant in terms of maturity or skill or dedication, but that line still made me laugh.
Actually I meant it literally. :)
We're a slightly older crowd because many of us have been doing this for several years--if you polled a crowd of people who'd just started comicing, I think they'd be younger overall.
Sometimes I think I explain myself in too much detail.
NakedElf wrote:...and after several years, you're generally older.
I know you probably meant in terms of maturity or skill or dedication, but that line still made me laugh.
Actually I meant it literally.
We're a slightly older crowd because many of us have been doing this for several years--if you polled a crowd of people who'd just started comicing, I think they'd be younger overall.
Sometimes I think I explain myself in too much detail.
Aah, I get it now. It was still a funny line.
There's a Civilization on my Fork - Updates Sometimes
"My comic exists to give me something to do. I make my comic just for fun, and as a hobby. That, and I enjoy playing with the program Daz Studio. After using Daz Studio for so long, I decided that I had created a lot of interesting images, so I decided to develop a story to go along with them."
Translation complete.
heh you managed to decode it DAMN! ( must invent new code system )
this is what happens when i keep bouncing between working on others computers and reading what i want to read ... heh
only one error .. i make all NEW images Buh hahaah!!
bah my old stuff is crap ..
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
-- R. Heinlein
NakedElf wrote:...we're mostly CGers, and CG actually does take a certain amount of knowledge and know-how to figure out--the HTML and so on, which is going to make it tough for younger artists to join.
Aww, you be strokin' our ego with all that chit-chat!
I'll admit that figuring out CG was a challenge at first. Whether it's intentional or not, the extra obstacles you encounter while signing up for a CG account is a good way to screen out the less-dedicated people. So says I.
For me, I see the typical (web) comic artist as single and male. I dunno, something about geeky guys unable to find dates. Of course, this forum is full of exceptions, but that's still how I see cartoonists.
It didn't really seem all that hard when I joined up, but just hanging around the help forum has taught me that there's a *lot* that can go wrong. And the older people who already have some idea of what they're doing are going to get through that easier.
For a technophobe like myself, I found the sign up process mostly painless, though challenging in a few places, like the whole FTP thing. It's all I can do to have a page with working HTML on it.
Artistic skills and webpage building knowledge seem to go hand-in-hand if you're a webcomic artist, though not everyone is so lucky to be doubly-talented.
orinocou wrote:Artistic skills and webpage building knowledge seem to go hand-in-hand if you're a webcomic artist, though not everyone is so lucky to be doubly-talented.
Honestly, I badgered friends into doing my coding for me for the first year or so...
Trust me, it ain' easy to tell my girlfriend "hey, I won't see you today 'cause I have to draw"... but hey, I have nothing to complain, she's my greatest supporter!
see that's what's great about my comic and my girlfriend.
"honey, i need to work on comics today"
"okay, can i play with legos too?"
"okay"
lucky. every gf/bf I've ever had has the situation like this.
"okay I'm gonna go draw."
*kisses*
"Okay, really I need to work on my comique"
*More kisses*
"this isn't going to work is it?"
<KittyKatBlack> You look deranged. But I mean that in the nicest way possible. ^_^;
Married 13 years; no kids but we are owned by two dogs and a horse. I have a Bachelor's degree and two years of graduate school (never got around to defending my thesis, so no Master's deg.) College was a long time ago for me.
I stumbled onto <a href="http://www.platinumgrit.com/" target="_blank">Platinum Grit</a> via a link on a blog about four years ago, and therein began my interest in web comics (and graphic novels). Thought I'd try to do my own about a year ago. So I'm still new to the medium.
Redtech wrote:I'm the sterotypical "unemployed black dude with a degree in genetics and microbiology".
I mean, in this day and age, isn't there a market for people with an "idiot's guide to germ warfare?"
only if you've got the PhD, the BS doesn't mean anything anymore.
-D. M. Jeftinija Pharm.D., Ph.D. -- Yes, I've got two doctorates and I'm arrogant about it, what have *you* done with *your* life?
"People who don't care about anything will never understand the people who do." "yeah.. but we won't care."
"Legostar's on the first page of the guide. His opinion is worth more than both of yours."--Yeahduff
