After spending the past week reuniting with the first video game I've ever owned, I've discovered a renewed love for each of the 151 original pokemon. Somewhere in my brain, I've crafted an individual personality for each one. For example, new-big-brother Bulbasaur, growing-up-and-tougher Ivysaur, and ancient-sleeping-giant Venusaur.
My plan is to draw all of them. No real time frame, since now my weekly comic brain is kicking up again, and I still need a job. However, I've already challenged a friend to do the same, and I'm excited to get started on tough-but-oblivious Charmander and all the rest. More to come. I sat down with the goal to complete the first page of my work-in-progress side project - by hand - and this is what came out of it. It feels really great to finally have something completed that I can feel good about. I am still considering colors, but the lines are right where I want them.
I'm still very much in a low spot, but hopefully I'll be getting some money in soon. This is Lilli, a member of an ocean-dwelling humanoid species, and the main character for a short side project that I plan to write, draw, and finish by the end of this month. Lilli lives on a small farm with her sickly father. She is a very curious but ditzy girl, and dreams of venturing into the city.
This project was just conceived two nights ago, and is very much in its infantile stages, but it should provide me with a creative break from the monotony of scripting and panel layouts that have occupied all of my creative efforts these days. Plus, it gives me an opportunity to create a story that works well with how I naturally draw things, and makes me feel like I'm actually getting something done. Still working on color schemes. I want to do much more minimalistic work. Related-but-also-unrelated: I'm actually going to try to write a large portion of this by the end of the week, since I just had a job interview this morning, and I'm hoping to hear back from them by then. Wish me luck! I never liked sharing much as a kid, anyway. I just did it to be nice. I have been doing things. I've just been keeping them to myself these days. Just to prove that I can. See? Here's some stuff I've done in the past 9 or 10 days. I do have something to share with you all, though: a writing exercise I've invented to keep the creativity up.
Start with some non-descript guy (when I say guy, I mean any gender or sex). Sure, you can give him a description if you're feeling creative, but I've been doing this because I don't feel creative, so no descriptions on my end. Put this guy in a place. Let's say the guy's on a mountain. Now think of a different place. I pick the ocean. Now think of some creative way for this guy to get from the mountain to the ocean. Sure, he could climb down. That makes sense. But what if there was a diving board at the top of the mountain? What if there were several diving boards all the way down? Or trampolines! Now that the guy's in the ocean, the guy needs to go somewhere else. Like... space. How does the guy get there? A hole in the bottom of the ocean, maybe. But DON'T USE HOLES. Aside from "don't use the obvious answer," that's the one rule to this game. Holes are boring. You could, however, make it a drain plug. That's legitimate. Or a grate. Either way, the guy gets black-holed into space and rains onto the moon, then rides a flying moon monster back to Earth, where they crash through the ceiling of the Louvre and jump into a painting of a bathroom, where, while the guy is washing his face, the guy washes his whole body down the drain and ends up going through a hose into a college frat boy's waterbed. And you can keep going with this forever. Try it before bed when you're trying to fall asleep, especially if thinking about your life makes you uncontrollably depressed like it has for me the past few days (behold: the reason I haven't been blogging). You're welcome. |
AuthorJade E. Cakes lives with a cat and a wheelchair in a place with far too much snow. She spends her days playing with art supplies, staring at video games, and trying to cram thousands of things into one building. Archives
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