Getting Ideas Across

I decided to start yet another small project beside the current webcomic (skull-collector) and the games (leekgames). Which, by the way (the game), I am having a hard time with at the moment. I'm looking for a good flash programmer and having a hard time. Then again, I'm also picky I should say...

This other project is a tiny comic. Panels even shorter than what I have at the moment and it most likely only will exist as a printed version. I'm very much excited about that project and the idea was so simple. I was also thinking about a short story that I might print or animate I'm not sure yet..

Creating is different from one person to another, there's no limit. When I start a project, it never starts like the last one. Everytime I think I'll have to start making ideas in more of a strategic manner but as it turns out, the more ideas you have and develop, the more they come..  completely natural, without forcing yourself into one of these aweful 'brainstorming' sessions. I never liked brainstorming or talking with other people about my ideas.. Not that I don't want to share them, but it's a bit like a joke. If you tell it wrong only just one time, you don't get the reaction you expected and the experience is ruined.

As you can guess, I pretty much need to isolate myself and sit all alone to draw. Then I let it flow out, if I make tons of mistake and use the wrong pose, or wrong facial expression that's alright. No one's listening to my joke yet (to use that comparison again).. so I can come back and perfect it as many time as I want.

Sometime the idea comes as a sentence or a story-line. That's where it's most complicated to me... When that happens then it becomes very abstract to me. Because I need to imagine the decors and all characters and the interactions, and then the format, and, and... and at some point I start drawing and things are bound to need much more correction. It was the case with the image of the bacon flag and I failed, even though the image is still nice. I was thinking about the olympics, and drew this dude with the flag. Then I thought about athletes and health, and my hands drew the bacon on the flag. Funny to me at the time, but hard to get across...

Time to go now! :)  Stay tuned here or on the skull-collector for the other projects, I'm expecting the next mini project to be ready by december.. (no promises though!!)

Have a good week!