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Ahem,

Over the past few weeks I have been becoming increasingly frustrated with my comic, World Warp. I don't like the path I've set the plot down, I feel it relies too heavily on clichés and at this point may be irreparable . (I didn't realize how cliché it was when I came up with the idea, but then I came up with the original idea for the plot when I was like 10, and though it has changed a lot since then the core of the story is still based on what a 10-year-old though was cool.) In general, I have just become sort of annoyed at where I am taking everything.

Now before you get any Ideas, I will not be stopping World Warp. I still really enjoy making it and will continue to do so. The story was never intended to be something groundbreaking anyway, just a way to get practice drawing and get my ideas out there at the same time. But I still don't like the lack of creativity it is founded on, so what am I going to do about it you ask?

I've created ivstudios.net, (ivstudios.com was already taken, what are the odds? I just can't come up with anything original it seems ) and will be using it to host a new comic,Inhumation. As of right now, I will not be moving World Warp over to the new site, but continue to host it through Keenspace. I have been wanting to do this new comic for a while and now is as good a time as any to start it. I feel this comic is much more original than my current one (I hope, tomorrow I may find a comic that has already done what I want to do. )

But anyway, from now on I will be concentrating mostly on the new comic, and continue to do World Warp just for fun. (not that I think Inhumation isn't going to be fun, but you know what I mean.) So here I goes, let's hope I can pull it off.

there's only one strip of the new comic so far but it looks interesting

very interesting!

i'm digging the black/white style!!

You're making a more concentrated effort to go somewhere different with this one? I'll be interested to see where it goes, then!

Oh, and don't let originality issues get to you too much; if you study your or anyone else's work from every angle possible, I think you'd eventually find that everything's been done before.

So far, so good. Like the layout too, although, I can see the background colur getting a bit rough on the eyes once you've built up a decent size archive to read through.

ahh, i didn't realize that there were two comics

yeah that dark red background is making my eyes cry dark red tears

Thanks for the support and encouragement!

As for the background, if it gets to be a problem I'll change it, but for now I like it.

QUESTION

im really digging the 'lotsa-black' style of inhumation but im a total art noob so i dunno how to draw like that. what inky-implements do you use to get all that black-blackiness? i asked john thornton of The Man Who Hates Fun what he uses and he said he uses a windsor brush with indian ink and something else, it sounds weird and complex =p so i was wondering what you used or if everyone uses these brushes n stuff

Lesee here,

I use Micron black pens for all the line work and the small areas of black. For medium to large areas of black I use a brush with Indian ink. And the really large areas I just do on the computer. I could probably save myself a lot of time if I did all the medium and large areas on the computer, but that's not as much fun . If I'm feeling really artsy, I whip out my pen and nibset for the line work, but the Microns are a lot faster and cleaner.

And if I'm really lazy, just use a sharpie for the big areas.


The brush and ink isn't really that hard once you get the hang of it. It's just like using a marker accept no nasty fumes and it doesn’t (usually) soak through the paper. Indian ink is really great stuff!

NEAT

First off, World Warp, even if you see it as practice, is an accomplishment in and of itself. Go out in a crowd, and point at somebody; chances are, they don't have a webcomic. I don't know of any webartist who does it right the first time, man.

You sound incredibly excited about your new project, and I think this is a really good thing. If you really like doing something, you'll get better for it, and this'll help you grow. You've got a gut feeling that you can't go forward with WW as much as you'd like. Rather than just being stuck in that path, you took a step back and took another road. I really think it'll help put what you want to do in perspective.

That said... Inhumation on Cornstalker? :3

for some reason that line made me laugh kinda

probably because i envisioned the literal interpretation of it as i read it

ME, THE GREAT ONE: *points at stranger* Hey! You probably don't have a webcomic!
THEM, THE MUNDANE ONE: ...

I've thought about that, but I'm not Agonizingly disappointed in where it's going, just more of a "If I were going to start over, I’d probably do it like this..." type deal. If I were to start over, I'd just find new stuff I wished I'd done differently. I think I'm gonna stick with it as-is for now and just see where it takes me.

As for Inhumation on Cornstalker, I was just planning to use this forum for both comics, as long as it's not a problem with Matt.

Someone already tried to 'inhume' Cornstalker, fortunantly for for us, they didn't contract it through the Ankh-Morpork Assassins Guild and we had Jeff on our side

Y'know, I was just thinking, if you said you're moving away from WW cuz it's too based on cliches, how come you're starting IH off with a typical rebellious teen vs strict dad conversation? Isn't that a cliche as well?

Stop pointing out my ironies!

Yah, I know it's a tad cliché in itself, but it's not central to the plot. Just some quick environment and personality establishment to get things rolling.