SPQR Blues: CXII

[spqrblues]

Here's the first row. Second row after I do a little more inking and see if I can figure out what's making the computer so sluggish. added.

This comic featuring Things I Find Awkward to Draw: landscapes, horsies, sound effects, and shading.







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Comments

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Edited to be maybe a little less self-denigrating :)

I'll keep working on those horsies :D

[ladyqkat.livejournal.com]

It is just frustrating for me because there are three on-line 'comics' (graphic novels) authors who are also on my f-list - you, ta_creator and ironychan - that are darn good artists and fantastic storytellers.

I can't draw, but I have been around artists most of my life - my mother worked in a silk screen shop before such things were so automated and all artwork was done by in-house artists. (As a matter of fact, she was the first female silk screener in the union on the West Coast.)

sordak went to school with Kara Sherman (and I think I just mangled her name) and we have a lot of her early art.

I know decent art. And, to me, decent art is many times much better that the supposed 'collectable' stuff.

So, I tend to get extremely frustrated when I see what you three draw and then you poke holes in it. I can really understand why you are not satisified with the product, but you are gifting us with the vision you see in your mind. Apologizing for it makes it seem like you don't trust your audience enough to form their own opinions.

Um, getting off the soapbox now. But, thank you for letting us enjoy your story. It makes up for some very shakey times.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Soapbox comments are noted and under consideration :)

I just want to be... PERFECT!!

[ladyqkat.livejournal.com]

But you are perfect. Perfectly you. Anything else and you would be a deity.

I will not quibble with "awkward to draw" because I find some phrasing tasks in my stories very awkward to parse out. But we do the best we can and then go from there.

[droolfangrrl.livejournal.com]

PERFECT IS DEAD.

Gah.