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Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Two steps back

Artist's Block. Honestly. I've had a half-done strip rattling around in my bag for over a month now, but until today I hadn't figured out why I didn't want to work on it.

It was all kluged and wrong. I'd forgotten Layla's alchemist glasses, her head was too big, the perspective in the establishing scene was shot, and the whole stimulus/response sequence was too squashed — not to mention that I had a better idea about executing the "response" part halfway through. Too many missteps, too many restarts, meaning a ruined artwork. Now I'm more than a little frugal, and don't like the idea of scrapping precious art paper and starting over. So I'm having to learn that, having fallen off the cartooning wagon last year, it's going to take more than good intentions to get back on that sucker.

So into the bin it goes. I'll just have to restart the whole thing and spread it out over two strips. It'll take longer, but then so has the revamp. I'm starting to get the idea that Greg and Layla's walk home is going to feature Layla rather more prominently than before, and their talk is going to be serious enough that their relationship will make significant advances.

posted by Cardboard at 12:11 AM