balloons and such ~

[lookingland]

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?).