my webcomic

my webcomic
ok, like i've said before, i'm trying to make a webcomic... BUT EVERYTHING IS AGGRIVATING ME! my new artist can draw furry people, and sonic characters (the old one didn't have the time, so i had to get someone without a life) but not humans, me and my co-writer have plenty of ideas, but in no order, my scanner is still crap, and my computer has more bugs than a motel in the middle of texas! i am about to throw it out of my window! along with my co-writer! I NEED HELP! I CAN FEEL MY BRAIN TRYING TO ESCAPE MY SKULL! so any advice would be appreciated, thanks.

Woah there, dude! I feel your pain with the frustration thing; it quite often seems like the Greater Powers conspire against those of us daring (or, in my case, foolish) enough to undertake creative ventures. But let us move on to possible solutions. First, though I'm hardly the master of organization (I'm merely a wee bit compulsive), might I suggest jotting down as many of these disparate ideas as you can? This way, instead of trying to map out a whole story in your head, you at least have some raw material to look at. Maybe after leaving it be for a little bit (anywhere from between a few hours to a few days, or longer), you can go back and start to draw connections between the various concepts, until something more like a story emerges... As for the artist dilemma... Well, how interested are they in making this webcomic? I mean, if it's a project they have adopted and invested in emotionally, then I suspect they'd be willing to go through the obligatory tedium of practicing enough to become better for the material of the story. Not to mention the fact that just by creating pages consistently (in theory at least), they’ll be improving over time. If they're NOT, however, you could either work out a story that plays to their strengths, or look around again. Either way, it’s a good idea to to gauge your participants’ commitment, before starting something like this. But speaking of co-creators, I've found it's pretty essential to any successful creative project that the various members of it are able to work together. This means that even if people aren't always on the same wavelength, they're at least somewhat capable of communicating their vision of things, otherwise it's pretty asking for a lot of frustration. ADK can at-*test*-('") to having difficulty when our two visions refuse to line up, or clash outright, but fortunately for everyone here, our mutual dedication to TaL keeps us coming back even when we want to strangle each other. Which is TOO often, but y’know... Hm. What else. Oh, computer problems. For that, all I can extend is my sincere sympathies. In fact, technological challenges are something that ADK and I are dealing with right this minute. As Comicgenesis seems to be refusing everyone access to the place to trigger a new update. XP But such is the lot of a webcomic. Aaaanyway. I’ve rambled on enough for now. I have no idea if any of that was what you’re looking for, but at the least, know that you’ve got someone empathizing with you, so there’s that! Good luck, dude.

we do have everything written down, it's just getting the order down is the hard part. and also, our artist more than likely want's to do this, since she is as sadistic as me and my co-writer... here's another aggrivating thing, we have more ideas for filler comics when we ain't there, than we do ideas for the actual comic! ARGH!

Well, that's good. Loyalty to the project is probably the most important component, in my eyes. Actual skill can be developed. :wink: Okay, so you have your ideas written out. I guess the question I should ask now is what manner of comic is this? Is this a sort of joke-of-the-day thing? Or an ongoing story? If the former, I don't imagine it matters TOO much what your order is (unless there's some semblance of story in amongst the jokes, and then you'll need to concern yourselves with character introduction and all that), but if it's the LATTER, I imagine a clear order of things, at least in a general sense, will start to emerge on its own. Right? The fact that you have "filler" ideas, is probably a good one. It means that a basic sense of the characters is starting to form in your brains, among other things, so this might not be too negative. I dunno though. I could be completely off track, but my hope for you is that things will start working themselves out.

this is going to have an actual story, it's about a war between races. the main races are vampires, lycans, kitsunes, and human. there are, however, other races. anything from dragons to the chubracabra. my character is, of course, a werewolf. my co-writer is a kitsune, and the artist is a vampire. that's pretty much all i have without having my co-writers notebook, that's where all the info is.

All right, so this sounds kind of like an RP-turned-comic sort of thing. (I don't mean any disrespect by that, by the way.) That has plenty of potential, but be forewarned that good RP's don't always make good comics, when transferred directly. They need polishing, and a hell of a lot of editing, in order to become a coherent, smoothly-flowing plot. However, that said, it also leaves the door open for plenty of creativity. So, my advice to you would be to start playing things through, so as to get a sense of what sort of interactions work between your characters, not to mention a feel for the world, or how things work out in a logical progression. (And of course the physical realities of the world and so on so forth... Just the limit of how much time it takes to travel from place to place might help narrow things down for you a bit in terms of organization.) I dunno. It hopefully will help clarify what would and wouldn't work about any ideas you might have already generated. Then, when you have a better idea of all that, mabye you can start working on the script... Hahahha! Hahah... hah... T_T I should take my own advice and do some of that... Scripting, that is. *runs off, wailing*

Listen to Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd makes everything better.

i donno, the last time i listened to pink Floyd, i drank 13 bottles of rootbeer and was dancing on my T.V. then i broke the T.V., heh

Psh. Pink Floyd and rootbeer? Try spiking it with some valium next time.

I have a webcomic at tyde07.comicgenesis.com p.s. ( to godhand1514) that bugs in a motel in texas simile is insulting to those who live in texas (aka ME!)

I used to live in Texas, and believe me, I remember what the motels are like.

Ah, Texas. Home of the "Too damn hot" temp.

As well as the always welcoming phrase "We ain't partial to that sort o' thing 'round these parts, boy. Best watch what you say." Amoung others.

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