Sis, sat and ze oser. Sink you!
Sep. 10th, 2003 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talktoolooseI got so many wonderful supportive comments about surviving the process of making my own comic book. I hope I do it; I'm really haunted by the story that's brewing in my head and I have about three other storylines I want to pursue, each about 100 pages long. I also have a longer ongoing story taking shape in my head that would take a decade to tell. I'm still not sure I'm a good enough artist to make it happen.
I always have more ideas than time but I find that things tend to happen that are meant to. For instance, my Vancouver musician friend seems to have taken matters into his hands and started recording songs on his own. I've offered to record with him if he comes to Toronto for the Christmas holidays and so I've done my part and I can let it rest.
I have today and tomorrow out of the office and I just finished inking a new illustration. I had a paper crisis earlier in the week and had to buy new stock because the first stuff was too porous. I won't redo the earlier drawings; they'll just have to stay fuzzy and I'll do better as I go along.
My crisis for the day is that I have a piano player to phone and I'm chicken shit to do it. I went through school from grades 1 to 13 with this guy and we were friendly acquaintances and our parents knew each other. I had vaguely heard that he was a professional jazz pianist now and then my parents bumped into him at a restaurant a few weeks ago. He's playing the Montreal Bistro (a good gig) next week and I'll try to go see him play. I want to phone and ask him about building an act with me but I'm intimidated because HE'S A PROFESSIONAL and I'm just, y'know, li'l me. "Li'l Me" syndrome gets to be a bore after a while and I then get off my ass and do what I have to do after several days of panic.
I'm downloading reference pics of goats now (thank you google image search), then showering, eating lunch while watching special features on my Björk Vespertine Live DVD and then going out to pick up Brilliant Food Tips by David Joachim as a present for Snake, return the Cronenburg movie, Spider, to the vid store and buy this week's comics. That should leave me with a couple of hours to make the illustrations for Chad Gadya.
Blah, blah rambling post. Enjoy the sun, everyone, fall and winter are on the way (this does not apply to readers in Texas and Florida).
I always have more ideas than time but I find that things tend to happen that are meant to. For instance, my Vancouver musician friend seems to have taken matters into his hands and started recording songs on his own. I've offered to record with him if he comes to Toronto for the Christmas holidays and so I've done my part and I can let it rest.
I have today and tomorrow out of the office and I just finished inking a new illustration. I had a paper crisis earlier in the week and had to buy new stock because the first stuff was too porous. I won't redo the earlier drawings; they'll just have to stay fuzzy and I'll do better as I go along.
My crisis for the day is that I have a piano player to phone and I'm chicken shit to do it. I went through school from grades 1 to 13 with this guy and we were friendly acquaintances and our parents knew each other. I had vaguely heard that he was a professional jazz pianist now and then my parents bumped into him at a restaurant a few weeks ago. He's playing the Montreal Bistro (a good gig) next week and I'll try to go see him play. I want to phone and ask him about building an act with me but I'm intimidated because HE'S A PROFESSIONAL and I'm just, y'know, li'l me. "Li'l Me" syndrome gets to be a bore after a while and I then get off my ass and do what I have to do after several days of panic.
I'm downloading reference pics of goats now (thank you google image search), then showering, eating lunch while watching special features on my Björk Vespertine Live DVD and then going out to pick up Brilliant Food Tips by David Joachim as a present for Snake, return the Cronenburg movie, Spider, to the vid store and buy this week's comics. That should leave me with a couple of hours to make the illustrations for Chad Gadya.
Blah, blah rambling post. Enjoy the sun, everyone, fall and winter are on the way (this does not apply to readers in Texas and Florida).
