Anonymous asked: Oh, what does pansexual mean?
Anonymous asked: I was talking about your sexual preferences actually. What do you identify as?
I don’t think it’s anyone’s business really, but I identify as pansexual.
Anonymous asked: What do you identify as?
Female.
combatbrodom asked: Thank YOU. For all my love of comics, I don't think I've ever asked an artist, writer or any kinda creator about the financial ins-and-outs of the industry as it is today. Of course, now I'm gonna be a nosey parker and start asking a whole buncha other questions. Questions like, "Have you ever gone to conventions and shown your stuff to talent scouts like CB Cebulski?" If not, what sorta other ways do you go about getting work?
Yeah, comics are rising in popularity again, after the decline around the 1970’s, I wanna say. It’s tough because the audience’s attention shifts so rapidly in such a short period of time, that what I’m growing up knowing as a popular comic style, subject-matter, and mode of publication, isn’t what it’s going to be in the year that I decide to start a graphic novel then actually publish it. The time between starting and finishing, my audience will probably want…I don’t know, a comic about people skydiving, and the thoughts they have while they’re falling, then land. Or some second-person POV comic. Who knows? Artists have gotta keep really up to date and work their asses off to be one step ahead of the game.
…Ramble.
I haven’t gone out to seek talent scouts yet, no. Craig Thompson, Jeremy Tinder, and Laura Park have seen my comics and made critiques on them, though. As for going about getting work, I’m still in school so I can’t really afford to take on an art related job on the side, that’d be NUTS. But when I leave school, I’m hoping one of my professors will recommend me to a hiring place, or a professor will request to collaborate with me, and by word of mouth, I’ll be sought after. At least, that’s the ideal situation. Otherwise, I just have to seek out galleries or draw for the newspaper, seek indie musical artists looking for CD cover artists, etc.
//WALL OF TEXT OH GOD.
combatbrodom asked: Heh. That last message wasn't meant to be private or public; it was just something I needed to say. What did you mean, however, about comics being a commission-based occupation? More to the point, if there was a way that people could support you as a creator, what would it be?
Commission-based as in, a company could request you to ghost for another artist, or request you to write a story for them with x, y, z guidelines, or even give you their story and ask you to narrate/illustrate it. It’s very rare for even accomplished comic artists (such as Alex Ross), to find time to do their own comic, and consistently make money off it. Using him as an example, in the months that Marvel, DC, Dark Horse or whatever indie publisher aren’t asking him to do art, he isn’t making money. I know this because I met the guy at a comic store here, and even he was talking about financial difficulties as a big name comic guy.
Heh.
To your second question, honestly all I could ask from supporters is to spread the word. That goes for all comic artists. Once their name gets around, and people associate a certain style with a name, they look for that name, and BAM, commission.
Help me advertise both myself and my work to as many different audiences as possible, in hopes that they’ll opt for a physical copy or whatever I publish, instead of a free digital one, so they can come back to me and help financially support my work, so I can make more. I could go into a ramble about web comics and the slow demise of paperback comics, but I won’t.
I could care less about how much money I make in my career, I just want to do art for the reason that I need to create it. I only talk about money because, obviously, money is what will keep the supplies coming in so I can continue. Thank you for asking, though! I hadn’t really thought of that.
//long ramble
Stealing this from a friend and thinking, eh, what the hell?
Performance art, to me, has always been such a strange concept. Naturally, it is a very conceptual thing, and requires time for the body to execute. Sometimes, it really is beautiful and aesthetic, other times it just looks like really awkward theatre blocking, leaving a permanent furrowed brow on my face.
There are different ways to do performance art, and the ones that we all know are things like theatre, musical production, concerts, mimes, circus work, live paintings, improv, flash mobs or recitals. Another way to look at the idea of performance art is doing anything outside natural and impulsive action in everyday life, therefore anything premeditated can be considered a performance.
That’s entirely conceptual, though.
Now, this type of performance in this video called Architectural Dialogue, it’s a bit more obscure. Take a look and make up your own opinion about what contemporary artists are calling a standard for performance art.
why I’m beginning to regret rooming with Abby next year
Abby: worst roomie
Abby: watch out for me
Me: hahahahaha nope, that’s me
Me: who eats pretzels at 2am while on the computer when Natalie tries to sleep
Abby: pretzels vs bones hmmmmm
Me: loud crunchy pretzels in a loud bag
Abby: what if i ate pretzels when you were asleep
Abby: what would you do
Abby: what if the pretzels were actually bones
Abby: what if you were asleep
Abby: what if i farted
Abby: there are a lot of what ifs
Abby: you dont know what youre getting into
Hold up.
You still living with Rach and I next year?
(Source: galaxy-hearts, via marshmallownipples)