Plan for Eli McClanahan
by Eli McClanahan · 04/15/2005 (5:31 pm) · 0 comments
I've decided as of late that all of the games I'd love to develop are simply too complex or demand too many resources, both material and immaterial to garner support for, much less complete. So, I decided to focus on doing... nothing. Nothing and doing fan work for Starsiege: 2845. They should have an ATR out by the end of this month, and an accompanying snapshot hopefully.
One thing I've always wanted to do is draw a comic, so I started work on it a few weeks ago. I have five preliminary pages done (they take longer to get right than you'd think), but I'm not sure if I would rather ink them, which most of my concepts have been lately, or use a pencil. My pencil work looks better when I do it right, but usually it just looks messy. The ink looks more comic book-like and a bit more professional, but it's easy to mess up, and it's also harder to do large detailing with. Since I have some shots of large, open spaces, especially the first page which is a shot of a planet's terrain/sky, it would offer some serious complications. I'll just have to wing it as usual.
The comic itself details the course of a few day's events on one of the outer planet's moons as viewed by two Fireborn infantrymen. The main chunk of the story, like most of my fictional works, isn't the action, but the backgrounds of both men, as revealed through the course of the story.
Unfortunately, I started work thinking the thing would end up being 10 pages max, but now I realize that I have so many ideas and so much information to cover that either each panel will be very, very wordy and disjointed from the last panel, or I'll have to make this comic very, very long. So I was thinking about making this a sort of web comic instead. I'm still undecided, especially since I don't work on it a whole lot.
But anyway, it should be interesting. I really don't like the idea of doing any projects right now, especially since I enjoy drawing as a hobby more than drawing hundreds of concepts of boxes and rooms and other uninteresting things as a concept artist for a game that will probably peter out and die.
One thing I've always wanted to do is draw a comic, so I started work on it a few weeks ago. I have five preliminary pages done (they take longer to get right than you'd think), but I'm not sure if I would rather ink them, which most of my concepts have been lately, or use a pencil. My pencil work looks better when I do it right, but usually it just looks messy. The ink looks more comic book-like and a bit more professional, but it's easy to mess up, and it's also harder to do large detailing with. Since I have some shots of large, open spaces, especially the first page which is a shot of a planet's terrain/sky, it would offer some serious complications. I'll just have to wing it as usual.
The comic itself details the course of a few day's events on one of the outer planet's moons as viewed by two Fireborn infantrymen. The main chunk of the story, like most of my fictional works, isn't the action, but the backgrounds of both men, as revealed through the course of the story.
Unfortunately, I started work thinking the thing would end up being 10 pages max, but now I realize that I have so many ideas and so much information to cover that either each panel will be very, very wordy and disjointed from the last panel, or I'll have to make this comic very, very long. So I was thinking about making this a sort of web comic instead. I'm still undecided, especially since I don't work on it a whole lot.
But anyway, it should be interesting. I really don't like the idea of doing any projects right now, especially since I enjoy drawing as a hobby more than drawing hundreds of concepts of boxes and rooms and other uninteresting things as a concept artist for a game that will probably peter out and die.
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