This week I actually drew Glen a day early! And then forgot to post it until now. I can’t be too organized you know. That might makes something implode. As usual my inspiration was…. chaotic… but I hope it worked out. Enjoy!
The Making of Glen…
I admit I put more effort into this panel than I have been lately but with that being said I think it’s a bit… busy….
I had a bunch of images in my head and I tried to make one panel of it. I experimented with the opacity of the watercolor brush (which gave a cool day glow effect) and handwrote all the wording. I used to feel this makes it look unprofessional but lately… I don’t know, I just like the individual feel of a handwritten comic. As long as it’s legible who cares if every e looks the same?!
I also tried out the ide of not separating the individual scenes into their own boxes… I am honestly not sure how I feel about the outcome. All this and I did very little new in the area of drawing and the robots look intensely crude but hey, it’s not that bad for a first attempt at drawing one I don’t think.
Recently
I watched Interview with a Vampire in it’s entirety and it was hilarious. Don’t get me wrong – I have crazy mad respect for Anne Rice, she’s still
the only author I have ever come across that can make me vomit with her words –
and I mean this as a compliment not a criticism. I was reading William S
Burrough’s in my mid-teens and the visceral descriptions of gangrenous heroin
usage didn’t make me bat and eye but Anne Rice writing about her vampires
feeding? That sent me flying to the bathroom twice. RESPECT.
Maybe
that’s why I find the need to relentlessly make fun of vampires. I don’t
know… but Glen is more than happy to indulge me in this. So here he is all
floofy and fluffed burning shit down just like in the movie (and I presume book?)
Meanwhile
we see Depressed Teddy in the background getting a little mixed up in it all
for that adorably disturbing touch as if having a fire bug in the foreground
wasn’t enough.
I
don’t even know how long I spent on this week’s comic. I lost count of the
hours. Apparently drawing fire with absolutely no experience or instruction is
obscenely difficult. And conflicting because I want it to look real… but this
is a comic and nothing else looks real sooo…. What is my problem? I DON’T KNOW.
Suffice
to say I started out with this little attempt all on my own. It’s cute. And I
think the idea of fire is pretty good here. It’s basically just a “for effect”
pen in different colors. Not bad… but it does sort of also look like crate
paper blowing on a fan…
Then
I looked it up on YouTube and wow – were those tutorials shit. The first one told
me to just do the same thing but add some blurring effects. Somehow it came out
looking weirdly like a big smudgy pastel blob which was super disappointing at I
spent about 300 unnecessary steps making it. Pushed all sorts of weird buttons….
Still don’t know what half of them were supposed to do.
And
then I watched another tutorial – with no sound – which was fun. That one told
me I should draw the flame free hand in vaguely squiggly blobs, overlay different
lighter colors of vaguely squiggly blobs, and blur the crap out of it manually
rather than with a filter as the first suggested. The first time I tried this
it came out PERFECT. And then I wasn’t able to do it again…
Meanwhile I came across additional struggles when I decided to draw Depressed Teddy. I really want to add him to more comics doing a Harold and Maude sort of gag in the background – mocking scenes of suicide for attention… I hope people get the humor in this or at least the reference! Else it comes off as odd. That being said it’s not easy drawing a teddy bear and AGAIN I find myself wanting it to look more realistic…. Whhhhyyyy…. I don’t know. Maybe I am going somewhere with this drawing thing and it isn’t normal comics? God forbid I start drawing everything in 3D. Please send help.
This week’s comic was an absolute joy to draw. This was the first time since I started this website that Glen decided to take me for a ride. This was not at all what I was trying to draw when I started but I must say I am super happy with the results! I feel like I finally reclaimed Glen’s disturbingly cute spirit.
And this is the first comic I have drawn that’s more than one panel! I think I will do that more often now. I am having so much fun working with layers and adding details that now my mind is on fire with the idea of perhaps doing an animation someday.
This comic was supposed to be another joke on a popular song but with the addition of a Kraken that went out the window and I am at a loss as to any songs that do in fact describe such a wonderful beast. So if you happen to know some kick ass death metal song about a giant killer squid, or perhaps some sort of acapella punk ballad about sunken ships, please leave them in the comments! All genres welcome!
Oh and since I was working with layers I was able to quickly jot up this bonus panel which looks like it’d make an awesome meme…
I remember when the Deadpool movie was coming out. I had no idea who or what Deadpool was and only could imagine one of those fish tanks full of deceased guppies at Walmart… you know, a dead pool.
I did however watch with some glee and intrigue as others argued among themselves about it. Would this movie do the original Deadpool justice? Would he be a psychopathic killer who shags anyone and everyone he sees? And then the obvious… nope… he’s been mainstreamed and cuteyfied, like the Ninja Turtles!
But my issue with Deadpool wasn’t any of the above. I’m not enough of a nerd to care that much about him buuuuut I could wonder how the fuck he was breathing without a mouth hole. My issue was with the artist and his general design. WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO SMOTHER HIM?!
Welcome to my mind. It goes off a lot.
PS Glen’s hapless children will always be more subtly disturbing to me than any pansexual serial killer…
