I'll probably get the author's feedback when I get home from work today.
Speaking of which. Got to leave in a couple of minutes.
Youtube of all the comics I got for drawing on Free Comics Day
Very generous credit.
Very generous credit.
all relating to finding my groove on Easy-Ellis style.
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Yay! Ellis comic book art!
Thanks Tom. It is me once again floundering as I try to do something I don't do enough to have a personal direction or a methodology that makes me confident to proceed.
I'm putting flimsy tracing paper over blown up thumbnails and drawing. I don't like drawing like that. And I think it shows. I guess I will have to treat the thumbnails as something to punch up through Bristol board and then really dig in and draw on that. Requiring getting the light table out and sweating over that procedure.
I need Marty to Walk me through how he gets his blue line onto board for his freelance illustration work.
Ellis, did you ever get around to listening to that Ray Bradbury speech? These days I play it for inspiration while I sit at my drawing board. I'm hypnotized into a meditative state by his passionate voice urging young writers to adopt a personal approach to writing - one that excites them and draws upon their loves.
Tom M. ...
Post a link to that speech, if there is one.
Tom
Post a link to that speech if there is one. I need inspiration, too.
This is a combo link. It embeds the youtube video but also includes good notes on the lectures.
Tom and Tom. The Bradbury speech is great. Probably should be in heavy rotation as inspiration for creative people.
I should probably only work short form for about a year. 4 page stories. The ultra short. Work it out, experiment at a time.
I have since found and listened to many of Bradbury's speeches on YouTube. He tells more anecdotes about meeting people like W.C. Fields and George Burns, writing the screenplay for Moby Dick for John Huston, meeting Steven Spielberg. The more I listened, the more I saw him as a man of interesting contradictions: deeply romantic about science and what space travel could do for mankind, but frequently contemptuous of logical, analytical thinking. His core message remains the same though. "No matter what anybody says, never stop loving dinosaurs."
Love that.
As a recall, on the occasion of his passing I retold the story right here in this blog of listening to Bradbury speak to a group of jr. high kids. It was late in my high school career or early in my college career. Super-inspirational speaker... the main thrust of his talk was to make your dreams come true, that he was living proof that it's possible. My friends and I were all completely pumped after that talk... our feet didn't touch the ground for hours.
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