I like to preserve my comics industry Twitter wisdom (insert guffaws here) for posterity, so why not share it on bluesky too, amirite?
This honestly made me feel really good to hear...I love drawing comics and storytelling & enjoy doing it! But sometimes I feel bad about how I'm not as good of a pinup artist; I dont have a ton of those gorgeous one off pieces! I WISH I excelled at that stuff but my heart lies in the storytelling!
"...a cartoonist has to eat the frog." Now THAT'S philosophy!
This is wonderful advice, and applies superbly to game dev and video production as well!
I can't draw and am always impressed with people that can. But I found this experience/advice very applicable to software development as well. I can't tell you how many times you have to do drudgery work along with the fun stuff.
From a scripting perspective, what can a writer do to make the artist's job easier?
I learned this the hard way when I tried making a comic back in 2016. I rebooted the project twice and never finished. My current webcomic has forced me to draw mountainscapes, clouds, forests and caves, and I chose this story because I knew it was easier for me. still was tough though rewarding
This is why I side-eye at comic artists who refuse to draw backgrounds cuz that’s haaard. Um.. I hate drawing them too but cinematography is IMPORTANT in comics as well!
Oh man, you are not wrong. I’m writing my own comic and yeah, the next story includes a car chase, with a car being torn in half, followed by a massive fight scene with 1 vs. a literal legion of demons. Now I have to draw that nonsense.
From the comments my takeaway is that different artists should draw the different parts of the comic that they like. And the varying styles would be part of the fun.