Comics: The Illustrator's Battlefield

Now, who doesn't like comics? You got words, pictures, some slamming action and a good story if it's done right.

Now when it comes to MAKING comics, however, you got yourself one hell of a battlefield, depending oh how you're going about it. I'm only new and still researching the works of how to go about doing these "Pictorial Wonderlands", so there's still plenty of things I don't know yet.

If your in a group, and let's say your the Penciller... You gotta talk to the Writer, Editor, play back and forth, and when the comic moves down the congo line of production, you got some square dancing that happens until the Writer and Editor are satisfied with how the dance came out and stop the music to go and publish it.

If you're working alone, like how I am with my personal project, then (to me) it seems a bit easier in terms of progress and straightforward, except a whole lot of work on one or two people.

But it's nice to know the system. As I read in this one book I found "Comics: from Start to Finish," the author mentions a popular symbology from The Matrix movie, Red Pill or Blue Pill. You take the pill to know more, you ruin the magic. But there's always something beyond that.

Yes you might ruin the illusion, but then you know the truth and can push those limitations.

At least that's how I see it anyway.

Face Paint, Colored Clothes, and My Little Pony....Oh my

Well, today started early enough, waking up at oh...say.... 6:45 and dawdling in bed for an hour.

Dawdling in bed is fun, you have weird thoughts... oh wait nevermind that's dreaming, HA.

Anyway today was festival day! I agreed a month prior to do face painting at this mini-karate carnival, the money going forth to help buy plane tickets for my cousins mother to go over to Sweden with him for this Karate Championship. Seemed a good enough cause~

Well before I could even get a good feeling for the paints (which were total cheap crap btw...) a kid comes up for his face to be painted. The kid to me was adorable, he wanted  a caterpillar or butterfly to match his flower balloon, but you could tell his father disagreed with such a "girly" answer. So instead he wanted his face to be an elephant, and here's where the fun starts...

How the hell do you make a kid's face look like an ELEPHANT?

Well I did my best with the paints in the heat, and tried adding some highlighted wrinkles, etc, when a kid comes up and says he looks like a zombie. We all laugh and then it starts... ELEPHANT ZOMBIE. I run the idea by the kid and he's all for it, so I do him up... and I must say, it was the most unique face paint job I did all day... 

Anywho, So the list dragged on... more kids came up, and even a nice older-ish kid (maybe nearing his 10s or something) and me talked a casual-like while I worked. I must say those conversations were nice, and he also wanted a zombie face-job (to scare his friend, he said). And afterwards the numbers continued to grow. Butterfly, flowers, butterfly, FAIRIES, flower, spiderman, spiderman, strawberry, you get the idea... generic little kid stuff. after maybe say, nearing the 20 little kids area, I started getting tired and sore. I'm sure glad I wore a hat that day cause I would've been hell of toast... and not the delicious kind either...

I tried taking a break when there was no more, but lo and behold, even more showed up. I worked until an older girl came up and wanted to face paint her friend. I let her do so and she started getting into it, so I left to take a break, get me some delicious BBQ Chicken Sammich with Doritos and Dr Pepper. Delish~

Well it's soon after that we leave the carnival, my job of painting the young ones relieved to the other karate kids. So my mother, her boyfriend, my brother and myself go to Wal-mart, since I needed to get some things and look for others (such as getting a new Xbox controller and looking for Zombieland).

It's when we get there that I remember to look for colorful clothes. It's probably just the Spring blooming in me but there is just this new desire to dress in colorful clothing~ No, not the tye dye drab that looks like colors and patterns had some weird affair and had a problem child. Vibrant, pure colors like purple, hot pink, blue, red, yellow, green, you get the idea.

I look for those and find /some/. Some is the keyword. Unless you spend 100 bucks in the Zumba clothes department you can hardly find the type of vibrance in retail stores. I guess looking for vibrant clothing is like trying to find those easter eggs that your Uncle Joe planted in the backyard  that morning... except being bright colors Uncle Joe thought it would be a good idea to paint them camouflage... HORRIBLE idea.

So after two hours of those fun and games (THEY DID NOT HAVE ZOMBIELAND. Displeased very much), We left and went to McDonald. McDonalds? That one fast food place with the immortal food and really good mocha frappes? Yes. THAT McDonalds. But we weren't there for their immortal food...OR their Mocha Frappes (even though I should've bought one)... NOPE. We were there for My Little Pony toys. So me and my mom's boyfriend ask the lady what kinds they had and how much they were... two bucks a pop. But for MLP? Psh done deal yo.

So I got three My Little Pony toys as well, Fluttershy, Rarity, and a character I'm NOT familiar with: Lily Blossom. Like the name though. AND she's purple, that's a plus. So that's my whole day in a nutshell. Maybe tomorrow I can persuade someone to go with me to find MLP toys: 1,3,5, and 7... just four more.... Hmmm~

Being a Character Creator

Trust Me, when I say I'm a Character Creator, I mean it. It's a little problem almost now that I like to call CCD, or "Character Creation Disorder". You'd agree once I tell how many characters I have~

I know how I got to be a Character Creator was in middle school, when I started getting more heavily influenced in the arts. Back then my drawing sucked yes, but it was then I created my written character charts for the first time. It was then I wrote up to 364 character personality profiles, and even then I have even more characters than that.

Why do I do it? Hell if I know, HA~ ;D

But it's something I simply can't stop, it's a strange addiction.
Today, I have up to OVER 500 working characters, and most likely nearing 1000 with the works of my comics and other projects rolling~
And when will I stop? Hopefully never.

Randomocity Makes for Strange Bedfellows....

First post, first post.... makes a person nervous doesn't it?

Especially if you haven't really owned a blog before. Or a diary for that matter.
So for first things first, what is this blog for?
Anything and anything really. As a major introspective person, I usually keep my thoughts to myself or my words to myself and just ponder on them. But if I was to write something that made someone else ponder as well... it'd be a good sure-fire sign they were thinking at least!
Now don't get me wrong, this isn't some COME ALL YE THINKERS type of blog, but just something to just put out there, something to talk about, post random writings and all the such~

So what the hell is this blog then? A stress reliever and a promoter. If you don't wanna read then don't, but you might miss the special moments~ ;D