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I realized yesterday that I only have a mere 3 pages left for Quick Step, and then I have no other immediate comic projects running on the site for awhile. I’m thinking this could be a good time to experiment and work on branching out of my comfort zone.
I picked up the second Conversations book today, and something Kochalka said (and has said repeatedly in other places) hit home for me:
My ambition is to create an art so natural and free that it transcends notions of quality. Or at least to draw with such abandon that I cease to worry about the quality of what I’m creating.
The Chief drank all my beer last night, so as I walked down to the store to get some more, I rolled that thought around my dome for awhile. How can I draw in a way that Kochalka is describing? To transcend quality and achieve a bit of an artistic state of grace while doing so? I have a tendency to over-draw most things, and Quick Step is largely an attempt to get me to stop and strip my art to its essence (and to tell an all-ages, non-violent story). At the same time, I was thinking of all my friends and acquaintances who are working on their NaNoWriMo novels as we speak, and it occurred to me that I hadn’t done a 24 Hour Comic in 11 years.
It may be time to do one again…
What about illustrating a NaNoWriMo as it’s written?
Are you on the crack?
Seriously though, I think the 50,000 words are hard enough – no need to muddy the waters. I also feel that NaNo is all about the writing, not about the final product and presentation. Illustrations would fall under that.
Maybe that’s what you need, a different deadline, something else to work at that’s stripped back and that has definite limits.
Not that I don’t have a time frame or a set of goals for these comics, but doing a 24 Hour Comic has a shorter, more intense time frame that would help induce the sort of immediacy to my art where quality would no longer be an issue.
But two 12-hour stretches of doing nothing but comic would be neat.
Don’t be weaksauce. :) 24 pages in 24 hours. You’d be cheating yourself by taking a break.
TopherNov 5, 08:25 AM
24 hours? Easy when you have 6 artists doing 4 pages. Or 4 artists doing 6.
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Nov 3, 07:43 AM
You know buddy, I was thinking about that, too. Not that I’m not otherwise occupied for the next month.
Maybe that’s what you need, a different deadline, something else to work at that’s stripped back and that has definite limits.
Personally, I’d want 48-hours to do a 24-hour comic so that I could get some sleep, eat, etc. But two 12-hour stretches of doing nothing but comic would be neat.