Oh gosh finally!
Oct. 19th, 2012 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I finished all the contracts I had to end with October. That includes the Princeless pages. and then I rushed to do my weekly Namesake pages. This week was all about drawing panels. I'm glad to be done so I can relax and party on Halloween (with candy).
Here's a preview of one of the panels of the Princeless comic :
I'm really proud of these pages. I did do a tiny mistake. Princeless is one of those comics that has an official bubble master and letterer. I didn't realize it, and inked my bubbles by hand, like I do for pretty much all my other comics. That may cause them a few issues during lettering. I told them i'd modify troublesome bubbles. I kinda feel dumb for not realizing it. It's true that a lot of comic artists actually ink their bubbles along with the rest (many, like me, aren't fond of the digitalkbubbles), but a lot of others do it digitally. Now, I learned my lesson - for all future contracts, i'll ask whether the bubbles need to be present or absent during inking.
In other news, I really adore Adventure Time. The show is pretty weird, and it's definitely not everyone's cup of tea. But I kinda like how they use the fantasy setting to subtly give out lessons about things that many kid's show don't really talk about. Like gender issues. Unrequited crushes. Sexual harassment (no, really). This week's episode was interesting. It used the characters of Marceline the vampire queen of the crazy Ice King, showing that they actually knew each other younger, during the apocalypse that forged the fantasy world. A lot of the dialogue reminded me of people dealing with family members who have Alzheimers or dementia. So yeah. Powerful episode.
I'm kinda liking how recent cartoons, like Adventure Time, My little Pony, Green Lantern corps, Avatar, etc, really try to give worthy elssons and create strong characters, both female and male. C.S. Lewis once said - "A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." A youth story needs to be potent, strong, true. You can't dumb something down "for kids". You need to tell it a bit different. Dumbing down, and using the language of children is not the same thing.
Isa
I finished all the contracts I had to end with October. That includes the Princeless pages. and then I rushed to do my weekly Namesake pages. This week was all about drawing panels. I'm glad to be done so I can relax and party on Halloween (with candy).
Here's a preview of one of the panels of the Princeless comic :
I'm really proud of these pages. I did do a tiny mistake. Princeless is one of those comics that has an official bubble master and letterer. I didn't realize it, and inked my bubbles by hand, like I do for pretty much all my other comics. That may cause them a few issues during lettering. I told them i'd modify troublesome bubbles. I kinda feel dumb for not realizing it. It's true that a lot of comic artists actually ink their bubbles along with the rest (many, like me, aren't fond of the digitalkbubbles), but a lot of others do it digitally. Now, I learned my lesson - for all future contracts, i'll ask whether the bubbles need to be present or absent during inking.
In other news, I really adore Adventure Time. The show is pretty weird, and it's definitely not everyone's cup of tea. But I kinda like how they use the fantasy setting to subtly give out lessons about things that many kid's show don't really talk about. Like gender issues. Unrequited crushes. Sexual harassment (no, really). This week's episode was interesting. It used the characters of Marceline the vampire queen of the crazy Ice King, showing that they actually knew each other younger, during the apocalypse that forged the fantasy world. A lot of the dialogue reminded me of people dealing with family members who have Alzheimers or dementia. So yeah. Powerful episode.
I'm kinda liking how recent cartoons, like Adventure Time, My little Pony, Green Lantern corps, Avatar, etc, really try to give worthy elssons and create strong characters, both female and male. C.S. Lewis once said - "A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." A youth story needs to be potent, strong, true. You can't dumb something down "for kids". You need to tell it a bit different. Dumbing down, and using the language of children is not the same thing.
Isa
