Comic Creators Thread: Ways to Stay Motivated, Creative, and Productive?

DMAC

If you believe in yourself, you can accomplish anything!

I drew some Doctors:

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JyrenB

DMAC, those are amazing and I think you need to stop being so good. That Lizard is too wonderful to not be in a comic right now.

DMAC

Thanks. I was trying to stay pretty "classic" with these and not go too over the top or redesign them. I originally had The Lizard looking more raptor-like but tried to dial it back and put in some iguana and a bit of the original "guy in a lizard costume" look that the character had in his early appearances.

DMAC

Another two Spider-Man villains to complete the Sinister Six:

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The Lovely Bastard

yo dmac

did I tell you how much I still love your juan sketch

Munch

judas

The Lovely Bastard

look you need negative reinforcement, munch

DMAC

If you ever need me to help make someone feel bad about themselves, you know where to find me.

DMAC

And here are the Sinister Six together:

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Munch

DMAC wrote: »

If you ever need me to help make someone feel bad about themselves, you know where to find me.

If TLB knows one thing about me, it's that I need no help feeling bad about myself.

Gank

Nice mix of petty n' bitter and malicious glee in those faces there DMAC.

Damn you art hard.

Antimatter

forum user dichotomy and I had been talking about what a dionysian hero would be like
so i sketched one

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second one's blurrier but shows the foot cut off from the previous one

Munch

I had an idea that, if I ever needed to make a Wonder Woman analogue for something, she'd be a Bacchus/Dionysus descendant.

Mainly so that she could be something of a rabble-rousing shitkicker, in the vein of Marvel's Hercules.

Here's what I've been fiddling with.

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Which turns into something like this.

Antimatter

Bacchus the Batrachian here fights criminals because they prevent people from having a good time
"Help! Thieves!"

"why should I care?"

"they stole my beer!"

"Whooooa I'm on it!"

love the sketches, munch, you always do a damn good job.

Munch

Thanks, Anti. I appreciate that.

Maybe one day we can work on something together.

Gank

Wait for it......

Antimatter

oh goodness. i would love that.

til then, gonna keep enjoying the work you put out!

initiatefailure

so i realized something in artists alley today... all the preexisting characters that I actually would want art of are not the characters that most of the artists bring prints of. oh no i'm a hipster superhero fan!

did get some good stuff, just nothing superhero-ey

The Lovely Bastard

Gank wrote: »

Wait for it......

purposely disappointing you

Delduwath

Munch and Antimatter to write and draw official Juan/Transformers crossover story in 2015.

One of the Maximals transforms into a goat.

Juan attempts to feed on him.

Conflict.

Munch

Hopefully Spectre-X won't mind, but I inked over this rather awesome sketch he put up on Tumblr.

The Lovely Bastard

hi hello

that doesn't even remotely look like chupacomics

munch don't make me put you back in the hole

Munch

I actually worked on the comic today! And I plan to tomorrow, as well.

so nyahhhhhhhhhhhthhhhhpppt

The Lovely Bastard

oh so you finally did some work?

well la-di-frickin'-da

do you want a cookie now?

do you want to be rewarded that it might get done in 2012 instead of 2013?

do you want some sort of medal for your gross incompetence, munch?

IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT????

Munch

That depends entirely on the type of cookie.

A crate of Thin Mints would be a powerful incentive.

The Lovely Bastard

look at this point you're lucky i'm letting you put your name on the book

Munch

And so TLB's transformation into a modern-day Stan Lee comes full circle.

Oh, here's a quick color test I did, while thinking about the possibility of a colored Chupacabra book.

The Lovely Bastard

i mean, it's neat and all

but i never really want to see el chupacabra: ace detective in color

it just wouldn't feel right

also anyone who didn't see me devolving into a power hungry attention starved carnival barker as this got closer to done has never read a post i've made ever

i've always been stan lee 2.0

i just got a thing to huckster now

Munch

Yeah, we've discussed the coloring thing before. Plus, I don't think it's an area I'm very strong in.

But, I was reading through Blacksad and Fatale last week, and it got me thinking about how I'd color a noir/crime comic.

Antimatter

stan lee has charm

The Lovely Bastard

man you ain't see me huckster anti

the charm is thicker than the cholesterol crust around my arteries when i wanna sell a thing

plus i have the jolly gene that activates the second your waistline hits too big

it's like a secondary mutation

of joy

Antimatter

secondary mutations suck

coincidence?

Balefuego

holy shit something Anti and I agree on

Antimatter

odds of that happening again, nil

let's savor it













okay enough savoring that back to appreciating munch's art

The Lovely Bastard

Antimatter wrote: »

secondary mutations suck

coincidence?

really trying to spin this into an emma frost joke

Antimatter

you already mentioned emma frost, you're most of the way there

Hensler

Chupacomics?

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The Lovely Bastard

man stop posting them chumpacomics, hensler

they just pretenders to the throne, baby

right @munch ?

The Geebs That Is A Pony

I dunno that dude has penis in his name, that's a step up already

Munch

The Lovely Bastard wrote: »

man stop posting them chumpacomics, hensler

they just pretenders to the throne, baby

right @munch ?

Is this a bad time to mention I'm going to be doing José Sasquatch: You Know What They Say About Big Feet, for XXXenescope?

Also, that Peniston guy wrote an issue of Blue Beetle, that was actually pretty good. What a strange career trajectory.