AMA — "An idea you didn't want to draw?"
Added 2022-10-02 18:00:05 +0000 UTCQ.: Did you ever have an idea that you just didn’t want to draw?
A.: Quite often, actually! I have strengths and weaknesses as an artist, and I have a very natural tendency to try to avoid my areas of weakness. One example is mechanical stuff. I despise drawing mech. And you may have noticed that there are very few characters who have mech-based character designs.
Of course, every once in a while the story requires it, and I have to buckle down and do the best I can. Like this panel, for example.
Since switching to a drawing software called Clip Studio Paint, I’ve been able to use 3D models that make drawing mech much easier. So I can do it when I need to. But it’s not my favorite thing to do.
Have I ever just changed the idea just because I didn’t want to draw the scene? That depends on how important the scene is. Take bicycles. They’re notoriously difficult to draw well. If the scene I need to draw simply requires a bike, then I draw it. (Like the panel below.) If the scene is just as strong bike-less, then bike-less it shall be! The same goes for horses.
I just hope none of my future story ideas involve a robot racing a horse while riding a bike. I’m not sure what I would do!
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Comments
Yes, and he has used this power exactly one time (two, if you count a pre-reboot panel) 🙂
Brad Guigar
2022-10-03 16:56:03 +0000 UTCRefresh my memory... doesn't Iron Dragon have a mech? (thus the name)
coolraul07
2022-10-03 09:05:38 +0000 UTCShowing my age. Did Quick Draw McDraw / El Kapong every ride a bicycle?
Robert
2022-10-03 00:01:12 +0000 UTCA horse riding a bicycle would be a difficult scene to compose, even without a robot racing it.
Louis Richards
2022-10-02 22:37:59 +0000 UTCI remember having a conversation with Brad where he confessed that he hated drawing the original costume we had for Dr Zapp. It was a contributing factor for why he transitioned out of being the classic mad scientist and into the Mixtape gimmick. I appreciate him floating this kind of honesty out there into the community. If there's something he just doesn't want to do, then I wouldn't want to ask him to do it and cause it to be a point of irritation. Once thing I learned across both our collaborative stories was that usually ideas can be tweaked to work around something and still be true to the original vision.
Caleb Davis
2022-10-02 18:12:15 +0000 UTCDo you count cars as mech? Are you good at drawing cars?
KillaCam7010
2022-10-02 18:02:39 +0000 UTC
