the process of creation......

Something that happens to me A LOT is when I finish drawing something, and then someone else sees what I did, and the first critique is something along the lines of "man, that's crazy" or "that's good, but weird". I got used to this a long time ago. I admit it - I don't draw landscapes, or flowers, or family portraits - I draw whatever I see in my head, which well removed from anything I've ever seen with my eyes. I don't see it as a bad thing, but I can't help it either. 

With that, I often wonder what triggered the urge to draw something? It's not always like that - sometimes, at work for example, I'll just start to sketch around on a paper during a boring ass conference call and 2% of the time something decent comes out. But when I look at other artists' works, I wonder if MY method of getting the juices flowing is anything like theirs. 

As I've mentioned in a previous post, I don't really have any artist friends, so I'm rather isolated in terms of observing other artists methods. Honestly though, I can't really stand artsy folk - they're either complete flakes who have this pretentious outlook on life, or they're complete dorks, introverted and all with no social skills whatsoever. 

To give the impression that this is leading somewhere, I've been asking myself a question for a specific project for SOME time now: how do you make a comic book?

The initial answer I've come to is "with persistence and patience" - I'm only persistent when it comes to being an asshole, and I have no patience whatsoever unless it'll get me somewhere. 

I've had ideas ON ideas about what would make a good comic book - or at least something entertaining if only for the first 5 pages - but i haven't sat down long enough to ever follow through. That is, until now. 

I've been SLOWLY writing a script for a comic book. I've been going back to it for sometime now, but the majority of the story is in my head. It's a short story that's been primarily inspired by things going on in my life write now. What's funny is that the original idea started out as an art piece idea that consisted of 10 lines that were accompanied by illustrations. Well it's come much further since then. Overall, it's just a wacky "autobiography" of what I went through during a coma. I've never actually been in a coma - and you don't actually dream in a coma, so this story wouldn't be suited for anything other than a comic book.

The title, Assumed Civility: the Mad Land Chronicles, is a story based on absurdity, with the central character being the only rational-minded individual in a world of nut jobs - kind of like Alice in Wonderland, but a bit more violent and personal. For my next post, I want to visually portray just how I'm drawing everything, and I hope to be able to track the whole process. But again, that takes persistence and patience.