Five of Seven.
So it appears this webcomic is transforming from an ink-scribbled semi-true blog type thing into… something else. What, I don’t know. And I’ve realised I don’t care. When I started Some Things… I thought it’d be best to keep to a single style, one that would hopefully improve over the months and years, but ultimately remain consistent.
Turns out that’s no fun.
So now I’m just going to draw (or photoshop) things I feel like producing. Things that ‘just feel nice’ as it were. Sometimes they’ll be meaningless, sometimes they’ll be part of a series. Sometimes I might get bored with a series and return to it at a much later date. Think of it as flipping through random TV channels, only I’m holding the remote.
Outside of this site I’ll continue to stumble between all the other projects I take on. Writing and drawing that graphic novel, taking photos, photoshopping, script-editing a Flash adventure game, and above all writing a novel (I’ve written three unpublished novels, so don’t go thinking I don’t see these things through to completion, even if it involves failure).
It’s a satisfying way of working and I like that this webcomic will reflect that.
I’m liking this:
1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.
[via BoingBoing]
You’ll have noticed that my last two comic posts have been a little different. This is because I’ve started writing and drawing a new comic titled Bifrost. A better-looking plot-driven graphic novelaffair. It’ll be some time before the first story is up, as I’m writing and drawing it myself. In the meantime I’ll be posting preliminary sketches and whatnot in the run up to launching Bifrost.
Hope you like it.
Enjoyed the Christian Bale rant recorded on the set of the new Terminator film?
Loved the dance remix?
Then get the wallpaper! Available in four rage-inducing colours.
I’ve just installed the Wordpress app on my iPhone so now I just have to see if it works.
If you’re reading this then I guess it does. Will that mean I’ll write more blog posts? Probably not, but it’s nice to have the option. Also, there’s no real practical way to post comics via the iPhone (well there kinda is, but they wouldn’t be good quality).
On that note, I just finished the latest strip. It will go up at midnight. I’m going to aim for regular Monday and Thursday postings. Time will tell if I can keep that up.