compo2 week 8 revisiting an old image

I confess last week and it’s 7 images in one exhausted me (don’t forget I also do a figure drawing class at the same time!).

So, this week, I decided to  be a smart ass and do something far far less time consuming…. still my mice and bulldozers wacky universe, but less work…….

I suddenly remembered an image I drew the first time I did compo 1&2 (at the time I was lost, unsure I even understood what as expected of me, but Glenn patiently guided me – composition is not an easy topic, it’s so vast).

You can see the original image in this thread is you go back in time, and here is the new version:

Now I keep joking about how crazy I’m, but seriously…. I’m an idiot!

The original drawing was clumsy, the buildings horrible (I remember Glenn saying at the time something about beating a dead horse… about improving the city’s buildings that really were yukky) and there were only two characters –  a man and a woman flying while drawing.

Count the characters in this image….. 13! a “light work thing”? I’m an idiot. Also my pride (which is a bad thing for an artist to have) pushed me to try and a do super city made of super buildings, just to show Glenn how much I had progressed (as if he needed to be “shown”, the man can see your level in the tiniest doodle!)

I spent hours working on the perspective, drawing the building, the windows (I now HATE windows!!!!!), making each building different, all by hand.

As an interesting turn of fate, Glenn thought I had done the city with CGI! (I told him that I did it by hand, and he was impressed… oh sweet feeling :-D)

I am an idiot, because I could have done what every professional does in comic books and elsewhere: build a city in 5 minutes in sketchup pro (free software) and trace it. In war, love and art-with-deadline, everything is fair. Except I am an idiot and exhausted myself again working overtime on that freaking city. I could slap myself! But as Glenn says: doing this work by hand taught me something, I can be sure of it (outside of my hating windows). And he’s probably right – he always is.

He had quite a few things to say about my compo: the mouse on the drone at the right is placed in a way that really says “I had an empty space so I filled it”, the characters with their backs to us are at equal distances again, the paper flows could meet lower that the plank holding our painters in the air – that would help understand what is where, and possibly could point to the top left bird a bit more with one flying paper.

On a lighter touch (or more legal?) I had just completed the registration of this drawing on the online Library of Congress system, when I received a letter containing my trademark certificate: Interstitial Comics is now a publishing name that legally belongs to me, I can add (R) after it, instead of ™  – by the way anyone can add ™, but if you add (r) and are not really registered you are in for biiig  trouble (we talking jail). And as a good news never come alone, I also am now legally Anton Von Flugelhorn, it’s my legal pseudonym.

Back to the compo course: next week I’ll have to do the week’s assignment, as always, plus have correct the picture here above.

I’m considering cloning myself – but knowing myself I guess my clone, instead of doing half the work for me would get in an argument with me and vice-versa and we would slam the door on each other… cloning is no solution!

Back to hard work.

You too! draw! see you next week