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summercomfort) wrote2014-05-11 07:50 am
summercomfort) wrote2014-05-11 07:50 am
Aaargh
Went to bed at like 2am last night (dumb, I know), but for some reason woke up at 7am. On a Sunday. =_= (Usually Sundays I wake up around 8:30 or 9am)
Anyways, I continue to have way to many feels about Captain America. Jono isn't around this week so I have plans to go see it a second time. That will either remind me that the movie itself wasn't that great, or plunge me into more feels. Every time I think I'm done, it turns out that I'm not. I think I've gotten to a point where my headcanon is pretty solidified and most of it has either been satisfied from reading some truly excellent fics, or from me drawing/writing stuff.
This trip through fandom has been interesting in that regard -- exploring the way I approach images/text. While I appreciate beautiful artwork, I just don't do artwork only -- it's either a comic, straight up, or, as is more often the case, some pictures/panels accompanied by a ficlet or some sort of explanation. I think that is confusing to most people on Tumblr. (Which is why my most reblogged thing is a pure comic.) But I guess that's how my brain operates on its default setting. Drawing comics takes effort, because layout and pacing. Pure fictional/literary writing is so fiddly and hard. Pure artwork is boring to do. I guess it does speak to the power of the comic as a mature medium that perfectly blends text and image, versus the random crap that I dash out. It's like comics is a perfect meat and veggie stirfry, whereas most of my fandom stuff is like "here's some half-cooked meat, and here's some raw veggies, and they're supposed to go together, but I was too lazy to use the wok.
What's kind of sad, though, is how much Captain America stuff I've done in the last 3 weeks:
- 9 doodles (counting discrete images)
- 15 comic pages
- 7 ficlets and 4 more paragraph-long ... things.
Yeah. In that time, I've managed to do... 5 Tisquantum pages.
FML
Okay, to do list for today:
- read up about possible summer travel options
- Skype with Joanne 10-11am??
- take nap because I fucking need it
- teach Chinese School
- Draw next page of Tisquantum
Anyways, I continue to have way to many feels about Captain America. Jono isn't around this week so I have plans to go see it a second time. That will either remind me that the movie itself wasn't that great, or plunge me into more feels. Every time I think I'm done, it turns out that I'm not. I think I've gotten to a point where my headcanon is pretty solidified and most of it has either been satisfied from reading some truly excellent fics, or from me drawing/writing stuff.
This trip through fandom has been interesting in that regard -- exploring the way I approach images/text. While I appreciate beautiful artwork, I just don't do artwork only -- it's either a comic, straight up, or, as is more often the case, some pictures/panels accompanied by a ficlet or some sort of explanation. I think that is confusing to most people on Tumblr. (Which is why my most reblogged thing is a pure comic.) But I guess that's how my brain operates on its default setting. Drawing comics takes effort, because layout and pacing. Pure fictional/literary writing is so fiddly and hard. Pure artwork is boring to do. I guess it does speak to the power of the comic as a mature medium that perfectly blends text and image, versus the random crap that I dash out. It's like comics is a perfect meat and veggie stirfry, whereas most of my fandom stuff is like "here's some half-cooked meat, and here's some raw veggies, and they're supposed to go together, but I was too lazy to use the wok.
What's kind of sad, though, is how much Captain America stuff I've done in the last 3 weeks:
- 9 doodles (counting discrete images)
- 15 comic pages
- 7 ficlets and 4 more paragraph-long ... things.
Yeah. In that time, I've managed to do... 5 Tisquantum pages.
FML
Okay, to do list for today:
- read up about possible summer travel options
- Skype with Joanne 10-11am??
- take nap because I fucking need it
- teach Chinese School
- Draw next page of Tisquantum