YOU ASKED FOR IT.
(9:02:48 PM) Me: Hey
(9:02:52 PM) Me: I want opinion on this
(9:02:58 PM) Me: prepare for copypasta bomb
(9:03:27 PM) Friend A: 'K.
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(8:40:27 PM) Me: hola?
(8:40:37 PM) Friend B: Hey.
(8:40:52 PM) Me: what's up
(8:41:23 PM) Friend B: Working on my DJ skils.
(8:41:55 PM) Friend B: I'm gonna be DJing for my friend's wedding.
(8:42:05 PM) Me: nice
(8:42:32 PM) Me: Have fun
(8:42:42 PM) Friend B: Yep, but I'm pretty damn nervous about it.
(8:42:52 PM) Me: I would be too
(8:43:47 PM) Friend B: Also:
http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/732414/Fingering+A+Minor/(8:44:32 PM) Me: I'm considering trying a webcom- HAHAHAHA
(8:44:54 PM) Friend B: Kewl, what about? The webcomic I mean.
(8:45:49 PM) Me: it's complicated and kind of gimmicky. It'd mainly be for practice and all, but the basic idea is a meta autobiography kind of thing
(8:45:58 PM) Me: I don't know how I'd do it
(8:46:11 PM) Friend B: Sounds like a good concept.
(8:46:14 PM) Me: Well here
(8:46:20 PM) Me: Got any regrets?
(8:46:28 PM) Friend B: Lots.
(8:47:01 PM) Me: the idea is: You get to send your current conciousness back in time, to whatever point in your history you want. all your memories, knowledge, and personality, etc go with you.
(8:47:21 PM) Me: The catch is, you have to stay like that and live your life again,so you can fix any regrets
(8:47:42 PM) Me: I don't have a cause or anything, as it's gimmicky and I wouldn't know how to explain it
(8:48:20 PM) Me: It'd be more "Holy shit, I'm 8 again and what is this."
(8:49:14 PM) Me: I could either come up with a cause, or start it off "You wake up in your past, and you don't know how, but you know you're given a chance to fix any regrets at the cost of havign to relive your life.
(8:49:18 PM) Me: "*
(8:49:37 PM) Me: if I gave it a cause, I could do the don't know how thing and give the cause later
(8:49:52 PM) Me: or I could just goahead and make the cause known fromt he start
(8:50:00 PM) Me: sorry
(8:50:02 PM) Me: rambling
(8:50:06 PM) Me: anyway
(8:50:23 PM) Me: It'd be for practice + theraputic
(8:50:25 PM) Friend B: If you hide the cause it'll give it a bit more mystery, I feel, and could also feel like you could snap back to the present at any moment.
(8:50:40 PM) Me: Yeah (But it won't hurrr)
(8:50:43 PM) Me: I might go with that
(8:50:49 PM) Me: I'm thinking of that
(8:50:54 PM) Me: and never explaining the cause
(8:51:48 PM) Friend B: Or just subtle hints and misdirection.
(8:52:05 PM) Friend B: Let the reader make their guesses, but never actually explain?
(8:52:09 PM) Me: yeah
(8:52:15 PM) Me: leave it mostly ambiguous
(8:52:27 PM) Me: I actually know the first page/prequel image already
(8:53:18 PM) Me: Opened eyes
"You're sure this is what you want?"
"More than anything"
"Alright, just remember. You chose this."
Eyes closed
(8:54:33 PM) Me: I actually worked out the main character/derivative of myself (I can't say that without feeling it seems so narcisistic) at 8 and 12. I don't know if I'd actually bother with showing the entire ageing thing, or picking a single time period.
(8:55:08 PM) Friend B: I like the feel of it.\
(8:55:14 PM) Me: I'm thinking the first chapter will be time skips to relevant points that have to do with the whole 'regret' concept. then bringing it back to either current day, or a year or two ago
(8:55:21 PM) Me: And turning it into a slice of life story
(8:55:35 PM) Me: I wouldn't know how to end it
(8:55:46 PM) Me: I feel there should be an end, somewhere...
(8:55:57 PM) Me: Not continually ongoing forever, you know?
(8:56:28 PM) Me: anyway, I know it feels weird and narcisistic, but I want to try this.
(8:56:45 PM) Me: I'm just not sure of the "how"'s yet
(8:57:01 PM) Me: just pencils?
(8:57:05 PM) Me: or penciled then inked?
(8:57:13 PM) Me: of maybe pencil, ink, and colored?
(8:57:18 PM) Me: Maybe only sorta colored?
(8:57:25 PM) Me: Maybe a mix of black and white and color?
(9:03:49 PM) Me:
(8:59:47 PM) Friend B: It's up to you. But if I could make a suggestion, play around with it. Make the art style reflect the mood of the panel, or page, or something.
(8:59:58 PM) Me: Heh
(9:00:28 PM) Me: Yeah, i know, but I'd like to produce something that while dated, I can look at as whole, or maybe come back and fix when I'm better?
(9:00:41 PM) Me: Or maybe I'll remake the whole thing eventually when I can do it correctly
(9:05:06 PM) Friend A: Shit
(9:05:11 PM) Friend A: I had a dream about that exact concept once
(9:05:18 PM) Friend A: It's a New Game + for your fucking life.
(9:05:22 PM) Me: I've had multiple. when I dream, anyway
(9:05:34 PM) Friend A: I've thought about that one long and hard.
(9:05:39 PM) Friend A: It'd make an interesting comic.
(9:05:47 PM) Friend A: I completely support this, 'fo 'sho.
(9:05:53 PM) Me: I was thinking of little one off concepts to try for practice then it hit me this is something I've wanted to try forever
(9:06:10 PM) Me: Suggestions? Comments? Ideas? Criticism?
(9:06:17 PM) Friend A: I say go for it.
(9:06:23 PM) Friend A: If you need a co-writer, I'm right here.
(9:06:29 PM) Me: haha
(9:06:30 PM) Me: Cool
(9:06:36 PM) Me: But I mean like
(9:06:38 PM) Me: style?
(9:06:44 PM) Me: color or not?
(9:06:45 PM) Me: etc
(9:06:52 PM) Me: I need ideas and details and other stuff
(9:06:59 PM) Friend A: I'm not suuuuuuure.
(9:07:02 PM) Me: I don't need people reading it but it'd be cool
(9:07:13 PM) Friend A: Just something fun to do.
(9:07:14 PM) Friend A: Well
(9:07:15 PM) Friend A: I say
(9:07:21 PM) Friend A: What matters more than what media you use
(9:07:25 PM) Friend A: Is the feeling you put into it.
(9:07:28 PM) Me: Mhmm
(9:07:31 PM) Friend A: Make it as raw as you want
(9:07:40 PM) Friend A: Just make sure it's legible and gets the feeling across.
(9:07:44 PM) Friend A: That's all it takes.
(9:08:18 PM) Friend A: I imagine this being sketchy and raw.
(9:08:22 PM) Friend A: But that's just me.
(9:08:24 PM) Me: what I'm wanting is to make something polished for where i am. Something challenging and new, but polished enough when I get to where I can at least say I'm adequate, but not good enough as an artist, I can come back and touch it up, or remake it
(9:08:57 PM) Friend A: I think you should focus on it as a story first and foremost. Just how I'm seeing it.
(9:09:36 PM) Me: I was thinking of pencils + inking traditional, scanning panels in, arranging in a panel format in photoshop (Gonna be hard as hell) and adding text and bubbles digitally.
(9:09:43 PM) Me: yeah, I know
(9:09:52 PM) Me: If I did it more raw
(9:10:11 PM) Me: I'd want it to be kinda like Becky Cloonan's DEMO
(9:10:16 PM) Me: if you've read the things yet
(9:10:38 PM) Me: Her style changes so much between them, but still is HERS, and it matches each one off story
(9:10:53 PM) Me: it's raw but polished
(9:10:56 PM) Me: I like it a lot
(9:11:08 PM) Friend A: Then do it liek dat?
(9:11:20 PM) Me: I'M NOT SURE THOUGH
(9:11:33 PM) Me: I kind of want to do a mix of black and white and color
(9:11:41 PM) Me: Like the title page thing I explained
(9:11:43 PM) Me: black and white
(9:11:50 PM) Friend A: So just black and white with omne color?
(9:11:56 PM) Friend A: A-la-Nedriod?
(9:12:01 PM) Me: then all other has that sort of white + ink mixed with soft colors
(9:12:01 PM) Friend A: *nedroid
(9:12:03 PM) Me: if you know what I mean
(9:12:09 PM) Me: No no
(9:12:12 PM) Me: uhm
(9:12:13 PM) Friend A: Ah, so pastel it?
(9:12:18 PM) Me: Kind of?
(9:12:23 PM) Friend A: I get what you mean.
(9:12:29 PM) Friend A: I don't quite know the word, but I can see it.
(9:12:31 PM) Friend A: Seems appropriate.
(9:12:33 PM) Me: I wish I had an example
(9:13:01 PM) Me: It's like it's black and white and inked but where there would be grey toning and all it's color
(9:13:22 PM) Friend A: Yeah, I know the style
(9:13:33 PM) Me: color but with lots of ink and white space
(9:14:11 PM) Me: you downloaded DEMO right?
(9:14:12 PM) Me: look at it
(9:14:23 PM) Friend A: I think I did at one point. And I know off the top of my head what you're talking about.
(9:14:44 PM) Me: I have a hard time explaining what I mean
(9:14:47 PM) Me: =/
(9:15:06 PM) Friend A: And I Googal'd demo
(9:15:14 PM) Friend A: It matches about the look I was thinking of.
(9:15:16 PM) Me: also I just rememebered there's a sorta similar time travel story in vol. 2
(9:15:34 PM) Me: btw
(9:15:41 PM) Me: becky cloonan is stabstabstab on da
(9:15:46 PM) Me: if you didn't know
(9:16:16 PM) Friend A: I think that coloring style suits you pretty well.
(9:16:32 PM) Me: the pastel colors where shading and all would be?
(9:16:37 PM) Friend A: Yeah.
(9:16:43 PM) Me: hm
(9:16:46 PM) Friend A: Looks like it'd fit what you do pretty nicely.
(9:16:48 PM) Friend A: I definentlyi approve.
(9:16:57 PM) Me: I dunno if I would know how to do it though
(9:17:01 PM) Friend A: That, and if you want to do it right it will definently teach a lot about lighting.
(9:17:07 PM) Me: lol
(9:17:25 PM) Me: If I do this, I'll probably be buying a drafting table
(9:17:36 PM) Me: maybe a lightbox or something
(9:17:51 PM) Me: I draw too dark, so I would need to retrace then ink