Excuses, Excuses

7. April 2008 by admin.

One of the myriad reasons that I haven’t finished more of this first comic is that my attention is split between comics & music. Way back when, in 1990 or so, I started playing music and really loved the immediate satisfaction it gave: pluck a string, hear a noise. This was awesome! Previously drawing had been my main hobby/addiction/whatever-particularly drawing comic book style stuff. So, the years went by and I neglected my comic drawing, only to wake up one day (with a sore back) and realize I was in my thirties and had totally given up on my old dream of drawing & writing comics. In the meantime, most of my life had come to revolve around music. It still does, to a large extent. A lot of my free time is spent playing and recording music. It is in the recording process that I found a similarity to drawing comics. One has the idea, then “sketches it out”, then records basic tracks of drums, guitar, whatever and proceeds to refine and build up from there. This is not unlike going from thumbnail sketches to pencils, to inks, to colors, lettering, etc. They are both very time consuming as well. I’m sure that I’ll write more about these twin hobbies of mine as time goes on, especially considering that music plays a role in this first full length comci that I’m working on.

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