Early Art pt. 1
Jun 10, 2015
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Of the first and last of these I wasn't actively aware that they were connected to Weaker Sides. Afterwards I realized they depicted Ashley and the beasts that'll feature in the story. And the lady on the left turned out to be a very early version of Kyoko!
The middle two pieces were drawn with Kyoko clearly in mind.
I love how it happens more and more often that fragments of other, castaway stories or scenes seamlessly fit into this narrative without me having aimed for it. It makes for a story that is at once more fragmented, much like real memories, and organic, even surprising. Planning an entire story out step by step doesn't feel natural to me. I do have a script (100 A4 pages and counting), know where the story is heading towards in overarching terms, and I write down exactly what's happening and how it'll happen, but it takes a lot of time, composting and 'mind-brewing' to get there.
What are your experiences with the writing process you'd like to share?
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Your art sometimes reminds me a little bit of Stephen Gammel's. I've always loved his work haha. I know what you mean by random, isolated figments eventually fitting perfectly into a story. Sometimes I'll start associating a certain theme with a certain character and I'm not sure why, and later on it clicks perfectly into place. I've always felt that character development is more like an excavation project and less like an additive process. Rather than starting from a chunk of clay and molding it into something, when I create or develop characters it feels distinctly like the character is already there and completely whole, I just have to dig them out. They really have a mind of their own that I have very little control over!
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