I draw for my college paper, and I must 'fess up -- I rip you off shamefully. All in the Frankenstein-ian process of creating a style, as you once put it.
I like to think your comic is how mine would look if my pen could match what's happening in my head.
Rip away, Lauren, hope I can provide an arm or a leg to your monster! If I can get down on paper what's in my head like 10% of the time I feel lucky. Looking at this one from about 8 years ago I wish I was drawing the strip so loosely.
I've wondered about this style challenge of the daily strip — the fact that for various practical reasons, I imagine, you can't do the kind of 'loose' work you seem to like most (and that I've always been entirely in awe of).
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Also,can't help wondering what family life is like for the rest of your household, with a dad/spouse whose inner 2-to-5-year old is evidently so accessible to his adult self.
Paul, I have to make sure the daily strips read ok in reduction and I worry about getting so loose the strip slides off the page. And I find drawing in a box and leaving room for the words kinda difficult.
So far, my daughters haven't quite realized maybe daddy's not a "grown up", but it'll happen any day. My wife's just used to it.
I don't think I ever read Goodnight Moon until we read it to my older daughter like ten years ago. I find it kinda spooky, though my daughters don't. And there's that strange reference to Margaret Wise Brown's other children's book about a rabbit; it's a picture on the wall of a rabbit fishing for a rabbit (or something like that). It's spooky! And those odd colors, and the strange perspective! But then, I'm only about 2-5 years old and easily distressed (see above).
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This is a great strip! Thanks a lot for posting it
I draw for my college paper, and I must 'fess up -- I rip you off shamefully. All in the Frankenstein-ian process of creating a style, as you once put it.
I like to think your comic is how mine would look if my pen could match what's happening in my head.
Thanks, David!
Rip away, Lauren, hope I can provide an arm or a leg to your monster! If I can get down on paper what's in my head like 10% of the time I feel lucky. Looking at this one from about 8 years ago I wish I was drawing the strip so loosely.
I've wondered about this style challenge of the daily strip — the fact that for various practical reasons, I imagine, you can't do the kind of 'loose' work you seem to like most (and that I've always been entirely in awe of).
—
Also,can't help wondering what family life is like for the rest of your household, with a dad/spouse whose inner 2-to-5-year old is evidently so accessible to his adult self.
: )
Goodnight Moon made me sad, too. My mom used to read my brother and I a French version as well: "Bonsoir, Lune."
I really like the line quality in these comics, too.
Gosh, I hope Goodnight Moon isn't really a downer for little kids. We still read that one occasionally to my son... Now I'm depressed.
Paul, I have to make sure the daily strips read ok in reduction and I worry about getting so loose the strip slides off the page. And I find drawing in a box and leaving room for the words kinda difficult.
So far, my daughters haven't quite realized maybe daddy's not a "grown up", but it'll happen any day. My wife's just used to it.
I don't think I ever read Goodnight Moon until we read it to my older daughter like ten years ago. I find it kinda spooky, though my daughters don't. And there's that strange reference to Margaret Wise Brown's other children's book about a rabbit; it's a picture on the wall of a rabbit fishing for a rabbit (or something like that). It's spooky! And those odd colors, and the strange perspective! But then, I'm only about 2-5 years old and easily distressed (see above).
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