Still Adapting To This

Damn,  Hectic last three weeks,  and it is only two days till one of my bosses Iumei has her baby.  But I have found some time to try to squeeze my ideas out.  Also in the news of my life,  I got the comic book to the printer!  Unfortunately the only person who really Knows is Gen because she helped me scan the originals,  or rather she scanned them while I stood around.  I am sure I mentioned it to my other friends,  but making comics is much more of a personal thing for me,  which is one of my main motivations for wanting to move to Portland.  I work on comics allot,  but I think about them all the time and that becomes this private side of myself that is really why I started this blog.  Back to the issues at hand.  I was going to talk about concealing your lines or flaunting them,  I don't want this to be a strait tutorial,  'cause that's not what I am interested in.  I want it to be more about what it takes to pull a comic book out of yourself.  What thing you have to figure out technically and then the things you go through emotionally.  Because it is an Adventure,  but how do I convey that.  O.K. o.k.,  concealing lines or flaunting them;  One of my all time favorite comics is Akira.  It is a set of massive volume after massive volume,  but if you look at it panel to panel it is never ending action,  So when you sit down with the colored comics or a much larger black and white volume,  you are unlikely to get up,  unless your house is on fire,  and then you probably have time to finish another page,  and another,....    So it has that wonder full absorbing quality.  It also is beautifully rendered,  I mean immaculate and gorgeous.  That would be my definition of concealed lines,  when you look at the panel the image is all you take in,  everything is rendered to the degree that they exist in your mind.  That is your mind doesn't think that's a drawing of a gun,  it just sees a gun.  Now when people,  non professional comic book artists attempt to draw their own comic they are often let down by their inability to render an image to that degree,  ie it reads as what it is.  Don't worry too much about it.  As long as the reader can recognize that it is a gun they can read the comic,  I try to choose what gun I am drawing and draw a recognizable smith and Wesson,  or snub nosed 38.  Smith and Wesson is not a good example,  I should be more specific,  what model and make,  get a picture.  But always remember it doesn't need to be perfect it needs to be recognizable.  I think that might be my most important lesson.  ( I don't know if I have said this already )Your favorite artist drew for a looong time before they did what you love.  My example of this is Frank Miller,  Ronin,  was my fave of his.  Before he got as stylized as Sin City,  or Dark Night.  He was still doing allot of line work. But if you go back to his Daredevil days you can see him still developing,  his human build is correct but it doesn't look nearly as cool as once he really found his style.  And he was still a professional artist with a major title to his name.  I always thought Kirby would draw these weird panels sometimes,  and he was the godfather of the silver age.