I'm almost done now with the new transitional page I had to add before moving to the final image... and I'm quite relieved with the results. I'll try to post a few of the panels in the next day or so and see what sort of feedback it garners... if any.
I'm not really sure why I even bother... I suppose that I am a bit starved for reaction from my peers. Lately, I've isolated myself a bit from those whom I once shared an artistic exchange... for many reasons... none of them particularly weighty or significant.
For lack of a better venue, I guess that this place is as good a spot as any to pick up random criticism...
I want to start attending the SVA Alumni Life Drawing classes being offered at my alma mater... but I just feel that I have to at least completely finish the pencils of the story proper before engaging in another potentially distracting aesthetic venture.
At least that's what I keep telling myself...
My God... I'll be 40 in February...
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you're almost 40 years old?? how does it feel??
I'm not really all that sure, to be honest...
I still feel the same as I did during my late 20's and early 30's... so internally I am unafraid. I'm actually in better shape now than I ever was in my late 30's...
But I won't lie to you... I'm terrified of what the next decade will bring. I'm trying to be positive... but I can't help but feel that perhaps my best days might be behind me... and while physically this doesn't bother me overmuch, the thought of a creative decline is quite an unnerving prospect...
Wish me luck...
Looks good.
I'm not sure what's going on with the last panel in the abdominal area of the woman; the shadows on her stomach resemble the shadows of the sheets on the bed... Unless she's bleeding or something?
Yeah, I'll be 40 in a year and a half- it seems like a big year, but I'm trying to remember that it's just a number and that I don't have to necessarily be at a preconceived point in my life by that time. As long as I'm actively working towards something- that's all that matters. Who knows how long we're going to live anyway? Maybe we're not even a third of the way through our life. I feel like I'm doing better work now than I ever have and I know the best is yet to come.
Thanks for the kind words, Dan...
Yup... you have a good eye... the dark marks on her abdomen are the tell-tale signs of internal hemmoraging. The hematoma markings will be more clear in the color process, but I wanted to give a black-line base for the color to follow.
I appreciate your whole take on the "turning 40" thing... you certainly have a very healthy attitude about the whole matter. I've comforted myself with many of the points you brought up at various times to console myself... but for some strange reason, regardless of how logical they may all be, I am still quite terrified of becoming that "weird old guy" that I used to laugh at when I was a young art student...
Looks good...man, I never got the full size of the big guy until that panel with the girl holding his finger. He's friggin' huge!
Hey, I'm already 40! I turned the big 4-oohh in Sept...I feel pretty much the same, except for the morning of, I remember just waking up thinking and feeling...oh shit - I'm 40!...It is pretty crazy when you think of it, but still, like you, I feel like I'm in my 20's or 30's!
I'm still into basically all the same stuff and more...but in terms of being where you want to be in life, I can only live day to day...and try to be happy with it. I'd like more than what I've got but I still have to feel fortunate at times for what I do have.
No use stressing out about it and just go on living life, doing your thing.
Thanks for the sentiments, Justin...
Yeah... the big guy kinda dwarfs the girl in that scene... but if you look carefully, you'll see that his size actually fluctuates throughout the story.
Believe it or not, the fact that he seems to get bigger and more grotesque as the violence escalates is quite intentional. By the end of the story, he's become noticeably more mostrous in his proportions... and the true nature of his character is foreshadowed by this steady transformation. I just hope the visual clues aren't too subtle to notice... but I'm probably simply trying too hard... sigh...
Just wait until you see what he looks like by the end of the last issue... if I EVER get to produce it...
Congrats on making the big "4-O"... you certainly wear it well, buddy!
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