to write the unwriteable wrong

I signed up to do art for C6D Big Bang because I'm good at making commitments for Future Zelempa! As an exercise, ria_oaks is hosting a "mini reverse bang" where artists can post quick drawings and writers can respond, if they are so moved, with drabbles or whatever. I just posted a nerdy little drawing.

Ink wash version of the HCL pic from last time. Some things I like more, some things I like less.



My homework for this week was to pencil a page which I'm then going to have to ink (still in ink wash).

So, the deal with this class is that we have to do comic pages for each of the styles we learn (ink wash, spot black with brush, precise b&w with pen linework a la manga, etc.) So, the pages we do won't add up to a cohesive whole, except perhaps a few multimedia pages at the end. I'm thinking of doing one- to three-page excerpts from several different fics, since it would look weird to keep switching styles in the same comic. The sad part is that I can't commit to working on a nice, long, finished project. Of course, it also frees me up to do teasers from longer fics than I might normally attempt. :)

Fun game: Identify the source material I'm using for this first assignment! Hint: I am now totally, officially this author's creepy internet stalker.



I know a couple of authors who have already indicated to me that I'm free to use their work for comic-ing. If I stray into other authors, though, it would be polite to seek permission before I fan-art their work, right? Or at least before I post it?

So, Hard Core Logo! Pretty depressing, right?

It definitely does a good job of capturing both the coolness and the fucked-up-ness of rock guys. CKR is fantastic in his role (and frequently wet, which is a plus). Billy Tallent and Joe Dick are both convincing characters, total assholes yet strangely likeable, and their complicated, contradiction-filled, canonically sexual (??) love/hate relationship was definitely compelling. But I think I need to go sit alone in a dark room and whimper for awhile.

Definitely not "a hilarious rockumentary in the laugh-packed tradition of This Is Spinal Tap", guy who wrote the copy on the back of the box!!