What Down Time?
Mar03
on 03/03/2016
at 12:01 am
Chapter: You Know What They Say About Chaos
Location: Cypress City, The Crown and Cannon
If you are a creative person, your mind is set to always be looking for things… inspiration is in EVERYthing. There is no down time… there is no off switch. You are always in search/observe/draw mode. Processing the world via stories and pictures is certainly MY world.
So true. And so the “mixed blessing” shows itself again, huh?
But… WOW… when that idea hits and everything becomes so clear! It’s a rush, even at three in the morning.
For me, emptying the contents of my head is all-neccesary. Stuff gets mixed up and jangled inside my noggin. To really know, sometimes, how I feel about something, I have to see my thoughts organized on paper. It is reinforcement as well. Sketchbooks are a strange mix of recording, documentation, ideas in various stages, thoughts in various stages… and all of these things are subject to use later.
Journals, I imagine, for writers, serve the same way… and ideas that show up at three in the morning, need to go somewhere!
Even for those of us for whom the medium is mostly digital, we’re still working out ideas and maybe storyboarding, figuring out models, characters, what kind of hair style to use, etc.
Yes… true! I create this comic entirely on my Wacom and Photoshop. BUT I have to keep the collage-y, calligraphy, color-pencilly, watercolor-y part of myself happy… and I DO start my ideas for this comic with pencil and scratch paper.
Amen! My favorite place to write is on an airplane. I freak out if I can’t find my sketch book. I bring it everywhere. If Linus has his blanket, I’ve got my sketchbook.
I, too, freak out… if I don’t have it with me. It has become an extension of myself… my sketchbook. Jack, do you keep your sketchbooks numbered and on a shelf as I do?
Could not agree more. I wake up in the middle of the night to write down things I thought of all the time, and then I spend half the day editing my nocturnal rambling into some semblance of an idea. Glad I’m not alone!
You must have a bedside journal then. I should, but I don’t.
Seriously, get one. Best idea I was ever given. If nothing else you can enjoy some high comedy at the crazy ideas you come up with when still 3/4ters asleep! I still dunno where ‘Onward, Noble Trout!’ came from, but man did I crack up when I read it aloud!