I'll own up to The Long Month of Creation. Following in the mode of other comments here and as in the WFCs I'll give a brief post-mortem.
I didn't care for the 'result' -- I ran out of time, forgot to actually 'draw' the thing early enough, and it was too dark for any natural light, so I had to photograph near midnight with flash. The 'original' is considerably cleaner, sharper, and more black-and-white.
I somehow got it in my head that I should do something 'narrative' and since I did not want to illustrate text, I decided to go wordless. In addition, by going wordless the images and their arrangement would have to carry the story logic, which I hope was 'clear enough.' Each row is somewhat self-contained, and if I had not decided to stick with 3-square-boxes-per-row, I would have recomposed a number of panels that would have worked better as rectangles, etc.
spacejack wrote, "the drawings seemed to become more and more experimental and ambitious as it progressed," and while those aren't quite the words I would use, I would say that is close enough to the intended 'evolution' of the 'world' depicted.
I'm glad some folks liked it.
Regarding the others -- I figured out spacejack's, TPD's and toxicfur's by style, previous posts, and knowledge that the person in question had just finished and uploaded a file, respectively. I was also quite fond of the 'jail scene' in Lucky Penny.
_"The german quoting guy is a little bit out there." (fleece)
... I wanted to focus more on the Pygmalion/Galatea meets Frankenstein's monster aspect and I had some design ideas there, but due to space/time limitations I cut that and instead decided to go for that figure just developing panel by panel (the content of the penultimate row also came to be a bit because of a need to bridge the row before and the final row, from the much more abstract to the rather concrete). The row of solo 'games' was a late idea, originally planned as one panel, split into three, but then I decided to stick with the 3-squares-per-row grammer, so they each got a box ... otherwise they wouldn't have worked as 'comic relief' the same way.
Anyway, yeah, all at once. I started it on the 31st, but once I was done with the pencils, I realized it wasn't 'due' until the 1st, so I set it aside and came back to it the next afternoon. The idea had been 'fermenting' for a week or so.
Yours I guessed primarily because of the high-contrast b&w ink work and you were organizing it, and toxicfur's because I knew one would be submitted and I knew more or less when it was completed.
_"The german quoting guy is a little bit out there." (fleece)[ Parent ]
http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2006/8/4/800/51967
Your art is really good, I hope you carry on posting it here Rock Hard Abs are just a sw-sw-swivel away![ Parent ]
I mostly 'doodle.'
Long Month is not in my 'usual style' ... stick figures are rarely my 'thing,' but a stick figure was required for that particular story.
I might post a few more doodles, primarily because I like breaking up the long boring stretches of my prose with an image or two, though since I do not have a scanner now ('any more'), it's a matter of using the camera, which doesn't always provide the results I want, and if I keep it up, I'll run out of space in my "User Files" area. Glad you enjoy, though.
