Hey, I'm back! That certainly was a month off. I hope you've recovered enough for me to start bombarding you with my requests for attention again, the pressure is building.
So clearly, if I'm going to make cartoons that are watchable, the drawing has to improve. It helped a lot just to learn the basics of flash; it gave me a point of reference for how I can do things, and what kind of work I would need to do ahead of time to prepare. After the two I put up so far, the next step is using frame-by-frame animation, which is not only an imperial bag-load of work, but it would look like total garbage if I didn't first put in another bag-load of work into learning to actually draw better. I know the actual program you use isn't as important as just practicing and developing skills, but I feel like things have gotten better since I started using photoshop. For those of you that have been reading this crap since I started, remember what those drawings were like? It hasn't even been a year yet, and I'm really pleased with the improvement. This, in spite of how lazy I am and how difficult it is to convince myself to actually sit down and do it. You know how turds are basically horrible, and if an unexpected one turns up it can totally ruin your day? That was when I first started. Now, it's more like horse manure. The smell hits you and you're all "Yep, horse shit.", but it's sort of tolerable and you might not even get PTSD from it.
I don't have any issues burning on my mind to talk about right now, so I'll skip spamming your monitor with a bunch of suggestions for cartoons you probably won't watch. I've said my peace about that kind of thing and now it's ON YOU. Since this update is fairly short after having been away from it for so long, I'm hoping I'll get enough done to slap another one together in fairly short order. In the meantime, try your best to enjoy these.
Still not so shit hot at feet. Hands, not too bad? At least the proportions are getting there, no stretch-armstrong bullshit weighing everything down. This final product couldn't be more removed from what I set out to do; I wanted to visualize a character and then actually draw it. For the most part, all the drawings I've done so far have been totally haphazard, I just start scribbling until something starts happening. This one was going to be an attempt at a character for some giant manchild nerd comic idea I've been working on. Think Conan the barbarian adventure-style story, but holy goddam it's all cold and icy and shit. Well, about an hour into it I thought "this is more of a fun-times dancing party girl." and then NOTHING. WAS. THE. SAME.
At this point, you would be completely justified in accusing me of laziness. I used this exact pose very recently, but at least this time it's slightly better. Maybe this woman has some kind of horrible leg-ruining condition that makes one longer than the other and makes her look like a metronome when she walks. Other than that I really like how the hair and face turned out. Son of a bitch, hair and faces are SO HARD. So, let's take stock: hands? hard to draw. feet? hard to draw. faces/hair? super goddam hard to draw. It's almost as if I'm still terrible at this. Look at that middle finger, though. That's what I call artistic expression.
And here we have my depiction of my ideal self. It was down to ninja turtle or ghostbuster. It was a really tough call, because I couldn't decide who I had the bigger childhood crush on; Janine Melnitz or April O'Neil. Honestly ghostbusters almost won because of Janine AND Peter Venkman, but in the end, it was the soothing bass of Uncle "Shredder" Phil that swayed my heart. Godspeed you, Black Emperor! And may the flight of angels assist you in tossing Jazz out of heaven.
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