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I've been on something of an emotional rollercoaster lately, and while I by no means have it bad-off, they could (as the saying goes) always be better.
This journal is a kind of a in situ look into my current mood and thoughts (basically, a rambling rant), and should be taken as such with a few grains of salt.
I would like to proudly say that RapRex is proceeding along at a good pace. Already I've added to Chapter 4 about 12 fully-sketched pages in the last two weeks (which is a quick pace for me). Though after charting it all out, I'm not even half of the way through it yet.
I do feel like I owe all of you who have been so patiently waiting for the completion of this project an apology. Since it's unexpected inception nearly five years ago, I've been teasing you all with previews, teasers, and for a select few, a full view of the comic as far as it has progressed.
Considering the excruciatingly slow pace I am taking, I can't help but feel that I am being unfair to you all.
The whole project ran away from me very early, and I think in a strange way, I still haven't managed to catch back up with it.
When I first started more-or-less seriously drawing, I could pencil and colour a pic in an instant. Even small three-page comics were conceived, penciled, inked via Pilot pen and coloured with coloured pencil withing a half hour.
I couldn't possibly have done the sort of things in 1995 or 2000 that I can do now. I simply wasn't equipped.
Contrariwise, I'm no longer equipped to create in a single brushstroke the multitude of smaller, quick-wrought sketches and comics that I used to be able to do.
As I've progressed as a sketcher/doodler/perhaps even artist, I've become a bit more refined (if I may apply the term) and perhaps a bit more sophisticated in what I do and how I do it. Naturally I'm going to want to deal in terms of that sophistication and expound more upon it - that's where growth comes from.
Naturally, what satisfies me as a sketcher/doodler/artist now is much more complex then what I could manage then.
I'm no longer satisfied with the sort of pics I could do in grade school, or high school, and as such, I'm more interested in another, more "sophisticated" (and much more time intensive) level of personal satisfaction.
And now that RapRex is poised to possibly be of Magnum Opus stature for me, I'm putting all of that into its layout.
That means each page is 'crafted' rather then simply thrown down on paper. And to keep the integrity and intensity of the comic up, I try to only work on it when I'm in the mood to. If I force myself into adding to it without any inspiration, it will show in the result.
So all this adds up to a long wait yet for something that so many have already been waiting so long for.
So I apologize. Stick with me, and I hope that I can create a product that will be worth all the waiting.
D.O.P.R
This journal is a kind of a in situ look into my current mood and thoughts (basically, a rambling rant), and should be taken as such with a few grains of salt.
I would like to proudly say that RapRex is proceeding along at a good pace. Already I've added to Chapter 4 about 12 fully-sketched pages in the last two weeks (which is a quick pace for me). Though after charting it all out, I'm not even half of the way through it yet.
I do feel like I owe all of you who have been so patiently waiting for the completion of this project an apology. Since it's unexpected inception nearly five years ago, I've been teasing you all with previews, teasers, and for a select few, a full view of the comic as far as it has progressed.
Considering the excruciatingly slow pace I am taking, I can't help but feel that I am being unfair to you all.
The whole project ran away from me very early, and I think in a strange way, I still haven't managed to catch back up with it.
When I first started more-or-less seriously drawing, I could pencil and colour a pic in an instant. Even small three-page comics were conceived, penciled, inked via Pilot pen and coloured with coloured pencil withing a half hour.
I couldn't possibly have done the sort of things in 1995 or 2000 that I can do now. I simply wasn't equipped.
Contrariwise, I'm no longer equipped to create in a single brushstroke the multitude of smaller, quick-wrought sketches and comics that I used to be able to do.
As I've progressed as a sketcher/doodler/perhaps even artist, I've become a bit more refined (if I may apply the term) and perhaps a bit more sophisticated in what I do and how I do it. Naturally I'm going to want to deal in terms of that sophistication and expound more upon it - that's where growth comes from.
Naturally, what satisfies me as a sketcher/doodler/artist now is much more complex then what I could manage then.
I'm no longer satisfied with the sort of pics I could do in grade school, or high school, and as such, I'm more interested in another, more "sophisticated" (and much more time intensive) level of personal satisfaction.
And now that RapRex is poised to possibly be of Magnum Opus stature for me, I'm putting all of that into its layout.
That means each page is 'crafted' rather then simply thrown down on paper. And to keep the integrity and intensity of the comic up, I try to only work on it when I'm in the mood to. If I force myself into adding to it without any inspiration, it will show in the result.
So all this adds up to a long wait yet for something that so many have already been waiting so long for.
So I apologize. Stick with me, and I hope that I can create a product that will be worth all the waiting.
D.O.P.R
Stressig yourself is the last thing we want.