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crowdog66 ([personal profile] crowdog66) wrote2008-04-22 02:12 pm
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"How A Comic Is Made" by Tracy J. Butler

How A Comic Is Made: The Boring Version.

This little article also provided me with my new favorite sketch:

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(Image copyright Tracy J. Butler)

Step 4. Agonized Self-scrutiny

As anyone dwelling in the artist's milieu could tell you, this is a vital and, one might say, defining characteristic of the artistic process. There are a number of methods to be utilized here: long brooding walks in the rain, pensive posturing atop cemetery monuments, LiveJournal updates, or simply spending some time crumpled in a heap, face down on the floor. "I'm a creative cipher - a husk empty of meaningful expression!" and "What am I doing? I'm such a hack!" are some of the more popular platitudes for this state of mind.


How perfectly it describes my feelings at this point.