Failed Cybersix Comic Postmortem
Added 2021-03-01 10:29:45 +0000 UTCOver the last week a bad habit of mine has become, well, very obvious.
It is when I get an inkling of an idea which tricks me into visualizing a possible, fake and frankly improvable finished creation. It gets me high, this idea, and pumps me to rush ahead without having any plan. The problem here is that I as a creator work best through iteration. My best drawings are not a sketch and then a finished drawing, but rather six or even ten versions of the same drawing done over and over and over until I am happy with it. Until it looks like it should look.
So, what happened here was that I planted an idea with last month's poll. And then, instead of analyzing it and coming up with a decent plan, I just went ahead and created a mini narrative. A sequence of events without a story. And that's okay. But even as a transformation sequence it failed. You can see the first panel, how I spent more time than necessary on those black shadows. And take a look at that final panel, this "witch" is... well, who is she? Why did the ghost in panel 01 turn Cybersix into this balloon animal-looking thing?
It was in that moment that I realised I was wasting my energy. That whatever I could turn this page into would take a lot more energy and effort than I could put into starting the process all over again. And this happened because I ignored the way my process works best: write an idea, sketch it, go back to writing, then draw. Iteration.
I am sorry, everybody. I din't mean it to end this way.
I'll make it up to you with some new pin-ups and a transformation sequence.
