Goddesses

[secondlina]

Because I was drawing this before I decided to concentrate on original work, I had to finish it. It's a fanart of Emily Carroll's characters. You can see them in the short comic visible here. Seriously. Read this. It's gorgeous and it's only 3 pages. I love how all the characters look like a mix of Celtic and Norse. And Anu-Anulan is an imaginary godess I can only adore because she turns into a CROW. Yes, it's THAT easy to make me happy folks. Truly. Her story really reads like an old fairy tale. I love it.




In other news, portfolio constructing is going well. A friend of mine suggested I should finish one of my short comics, "Jabberwocky" for the portfolio and the TCAF. And I just might. I just need to unblock on the story. I kinda hate how I have good themes and imagery, but then as soon as dialog comes in, I get really discouraged. I don't really have a talent for dialog. Stories, yeah. People talking, no. I guess everybody needs a weakness and that's why I usually get help from friends.

Jabberwocky is generally the story of a girl with a vengeful imaginary friend. I blocked a bit on how the friend should be and how the girl should be. Submissive? Agressive? Classical takeover? Destructive? It's a complicated story to plan out, especially with only 24 pages.

Tonight, i'm going to draw some more. I took the whole week to finish my drawings, work on Namesake, prepare the con stuff and just generally work. It's a busy and kinda antisocial week, but I think I needed the work boost. I'm getting a lot of crap done. FAST. Productive Isa! :D

- Isa

Comments

YAY for productive Isa!

[brendala.livejournal.com]

LOVE the picture. The detail in the feather-cloak is amazing (my hand hurts just THINKING about drawing it!). And the comic that inspired it is great, too.


I have the same issues with story and dialogue. I tried to write an original comic a few years ago and gave up on it because I had a cool concept but no idea how to effectively run with it. Maybe I should do what you did with Namesake and team up with a kickass writer in need of an artist.

Re: YAY for productive Isa!

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Maybe. The teamwork does help a lot. You need to find a good teammate though. The fun thing about Namesake is that the only thing we don't share is drawing (since meg can't do it at all, but she still approves all pages prior to inking). If you get a person that doesn't want to exchange or hear your opinion, it sucks.