balloons and such ~

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jediwonderboy posted this artwork in comicart. he's playing with the idea of eliminating the balloons and using the words as texture/background.

while i don't think it would really work (for me) for a standard comic ~ especially one with a lot of dialogue, i'm intrigued since lately i've been trying to come up with word balloons for Razi-el and i'd only got as far as something that looked suspicously like Morpheus from The Sandman.

i love this idea of words as texture because then they can be free-range, shaped funny, sporadic, dense, all over the page without boundaries ~ and they can run around in the background of other scenes as a sort of soundtrack (which the reader has the option, of course, of completely ignoring. i think everything Razi-el says is contextual anyway. i'll have to rig up a scene and see if it works.

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i went on a creative bender last night ~ the place looks like a craft store exploded. i also found out what happens when you overcook Sculpey Flex. i wish i had more of a scrapbooker's sensibility. ladyazure does such cool work with paper stuff ( you can see her art here: The Spellbook Studios).

didn't i just ramble on a few entires back about how artists usually pick one thing, stick with it, hone it, etc.? i think i'm honing attention-deficit-disorder and procrastination ~ i'm beginning to think those are my master art forms. hahahaha ~

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gots lots of adr work to do today and don't really feel like doon it (what's new?).

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[ladyazure.livejournal.com]

lately i've been trying to come up with word balloons for Razi-el and i'd only got as far as something that looked suspicously like Morpheus from The Sandman

That is the first image I got in my head too when I read that you were trying to find a good though-bubble design for him. Great minds think alike..;)

And I can relate to the craft store explosion..No matter how hard I try, my stuff ends up everywhere...:P I've been trying to bead recently on some fabric for a cover design, so I've moved away from paper momentarily to explore the wonders of bead and beads. So far, it's not really all that wonderful and I finally broke down last night and bought some gold thread to replace the metal wire. :P

Thanks for the comment. It made me blush...:)