Catching Up With Cheeba
swoobie on Oct. 5, 2011
As a writer, it's definitely hard to encapsulate an entire lifetime or several years of history into a few dialogue bubbles. That's my constant battle with this project and with films I have written/directed; marrying dialogue and visual aspects to a happy medium so as not to omit or have too much of one or the other, and to effectively tell the story. I have a horrible tendency to “overwrite” characters and not to simply let the visuals tell the story (“Everything doesn't have to be in the dialogue”, I constantly keep telling myself). I have to begin trusting my audience a bit more; that they will understand what I'm going for. You guys are intelligent! You don't need EVERYTHING explained to you! You CAN connect the dots!
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What can I say, it's a flaw that I'm constantly working on. I'm getting there…slowly but surely.
swoobie at 4:49AM, Oct. 20, 2011
Yeah guys, I'm still learning. Gotta let go...can't "cradle" my readers. I'm getting there..hopefully. lol.
Lopriest at 4:05PM, Oct. 8, 2011
I run into that as well, as my comic is an adaptation from illustrated story format. Sometimes you have to let the pictures tell the story, let the reader figure it out.
allanah at 8:02PM, Oct. 6, 2011
I have that problem transfering my novel to my comic. You're doing well though I think. Great art again.