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Maybe this is your problem - you're just not cut out for writing humour, or at least comic-strip humour.
I'm not being gratuitously mean here, comedy is a talent like anything else. For example, I certainly couldn't produce a successful gag-based webcomic. So - I don't try to.
I think you should figure out where your skills actually lie, and redirect your effort into something worthwhile. That hand-drawn strip had some appeal, art-wise. Do what Iruka said, challenge yourself and find what works.
Forum posts as performance art?
Eh, it's been done.
Your first sentence and your second sentence don't seem to be saying the same thing.
When I want to show a couch, I draw a couch. You're saying I don't know how to illustrate a narrative with the correct pacing and flow.
It's like you're getting into fisticuffs with the rescue crews trying to get you off of the sinking ship. Eventually they're going to give up and you can have the last laugh as you drown and are subsequently forgotten.
Scared to make anything that isn't stupid.
iglidante, I guess what I'm asking is can you really not be bothered to draw something completely different for a day? It just strikes me as being idiotically stubborn to only take suggestions that can fit into the format you already have.
Hey iglidante, have you tried making that comic I suggested awhile back? It'd give you a reason to try drawing differently, and still have it be part of your comic.
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Reacting to criticism of being self-indulgent by publishing a comic about the specific origin of the criticism pretty much confirms that the criticism is true. I mean, if I was a stranger visiting your comic, what the fuck would any of it mean? An audience shouldn't have to intimately know the creator of a work to extract meaning from it.
Also here is a picture of me:
In that photo I am trying to emulate your writing process.
really i don't think most of his recent posts have been anything but bait to try and trap people into arguing about/legitimizing his site
i, fletcher fletcherson, do hereby pledge never to read or post in this thread ever again
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That's just me, and not what others have been saying.
Draw something else. Draw a cow as realistically as possible. Draw a guy holding a Dear John letter in his room, looking devastated. Draw a bird wearing a suit of armor. Draw a still life of a stack of books and a wine glass.
Just draw, and draw for real, not digitally.
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Uh...shit, Sporky, that's one thing I'm no good at. I can't blend color and lay down decent lines with graphite. Or pens. Or markers. I really, really need my undos.
There's your problem. It's not that you can't, it's that you can't yet. Nobody should expect to be able to do something straight off, and learning to draw (or paint, or scupt etc...) is especially difficult since it typically can't be described in words and the only way to actually learn is to just do it and pay attention to what works. If you're constrained to drawing digitally now you will always be constrained to drawing digitally - it's not going to magically change. Drawing with real materials is important party because you don't have an undo button - it forces you to stick with an idea and to follow through, and helps you to take risks and realize that they actually sometimes* pay off. It's good to hear you resolving to do something other than this comic - please please follow it through.
Don't be afraid of learning, embrace it and realize that the harder something chances are the more you'll thank yourself once you've done it. Unless, you know, if that thing is snorting marbles.
*not always.
That's exactly why you should do it. Do you think people only ever do things that they were magically good at in the first place? How do you expect to be okay at these things if you NEVER try?
No it fucking isn't.
Most people have to teach themselves art. From square one. It doesn't make "decent artists better." It makes laymen into decent artists. Sometimes, those people are adults before they ever get started.
Instead of coming up with reasons why you cant do it, why don't you give it a few tries and create an art thread?
Honestly, I think we're giving attention where attention is no longer needed. Bad or, well, really bad.
Good luck.....you're gonna need it.
I'm willing to hold the dude to his word, here. Hope you come back with something new and maybe open yourself up to broader directions for your art.
your music is seriously rockin', though