Review: "the road to god knows"

[losttoy]

Comments

[vonandmoggy]

I just wanted to say thanks a bunch for this! A very pleasant thing to come across in my LJ reading. I'm really glad to hear the story worked for you. Yup, it's a rookie work and some of the things I tried didn't work all that well; I definitely tried to "push" some of the poses and, in hindsight, that was not a great idea. One other thing that never worked well is that Marie's small apartment building is slowly collapsing. It's actually based on a real house I lived in that had that exact same effect (I got ze photos to prove it!), but the resulting perspective doesn't work as nearly well in illustration as it did in real life. It was a good lesson for me in terms of what "reads" right visually and what doesn't.

I'm just drawing the last couple of pages for Stargazer Volume 2 so that should be out in the next few months. It's funny since I think I made a new mistake - in hindsight, I probably should have broken the story up in to two parts. Why? Well, the first one raises questions and the second answers them. The first one also has a number of coincidences and the explanations don't show up 'til the second. It's mainly a result of writing a story that's supposed to be one volume. Mind you, some people really love it so I could be mistaken on this front.

Thanks again very much for both reading it and for the very lovely review!

Von

[losttoy]

I tried to express in my review that these things were not rookie mistakes, but a new artist experimenting with style. Whether the experiments worked or not is up to the reader. For me, I understood what you were trying to do. I think the book read very well. However, I had to mention these things and imply that it was not a bad thing. At for first glance (or in a self-critical eye of the artist) these may seem bad. However think these little touches are what the story needed.