Friday woo hoo!

[aesc]

Yay: New layout! casa_mcshep! SPN 4.13 (boyyyys)! Getting orangey Rodneylike yarn! Surviving yesterday! Aside from a 6-hour power outage yesterday afternoon, life has treated my kindly the past two days.

I think the best part, though, is just finally, finally being able to get things done beyond the bare minimum required to satisfy people. After a year--really longer, but the past year has been notable for its awfulness--of torpor and feeling lousy and chronically exhausted, having some get-up-and-go is such a relief.

To celebrate, a meme! Stolen from telesilla: Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.

[tags are here! And hey, if you have a question about the art, for that matter, ask it! I like talking about teh arts.]

Comments

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Heh, my first thought on "Rocketship" when I looked at it again was "oh my God, why did I make it so small? This might explain my eye problems." This was back in the day when I had a bizarre aversion to images much larger than wallpapers, so I would try to cram everything into this preposterously tiny space. If I were to do this again, I would definitely make the image much, much larger.

That said, this was the first piece of multi-page narrative art I'd ever done, and I really did like the challenge of not only plotting it and doing a rough sort of storyboard, but being able to play with text so much--I think it's probably where I realized how much I love word art, how I could have a bunch of things going on simultaneously within the same space. It's something you really can't do in regular, non-graphic prose, because it's so linear.

"Rocketship" let me get inside Rodney's head a bit, and try to dissect all those layers, which was incredibly fun--not only being able to write his inner monologue (which I find endlessly entertaining), but working in the little tangents his brain goes off on, not only in text but also using my love of background work to slip in little images here and there. I think my favorite bit is on the third page, with the astronauts being confronted by the giant robot... That says so much about Rodney, to me :D

(And seriously, how awesome is steammmpunk's art? Really, the entire piece came together around that photograph.)

[fractalreality.livejournal.com]

I love word art; I never used to, but I think it's because I didn't quite get it when people first mentioned it to me.

Having tried to put one together on numerous occasions, I have more respect than ever for anyone who has managed to do one.

I loved the simplicity of the original art, because it said so much without having to say anything at all.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Word art is a lot of fun--I've become quite addicted to it, even though a word art piece takes a while for me to put together :D The best way I can think of to describe it is trying to conceptualize how a word can reflect its meaning, its context, or the tone of its utterance graphically... Sometimes it has to do with how its letters are arranged on the page, or the colors and materials that go into making each letter.