Update-y - part 2 or, the never-ending saga of the Atelier project
As they say, "it always rains where it’s already wet", or something like that. I need a course in English sayings :)
Anyway, the meaning is clear: bad news upon bad news.
*sighs*
The story for the Atelier project is almost done. I’ve sketched all six pages (I even sketched three different versions of page 5, to choose the best before I go to phase two: the cleaning up!), and now they’re ready to be cleaned up, inked, framed and have the text added. I was almost DONE, dammit. And most of the other members are half-way through their projects also.
But.
There’s always a but when it comes to Atelier, it seems.
I meet with one of the “Bosses” today. Atelier is a project promoted by my old School, and the man I met today is one of the teachers. Basically he said he’s very displeased with us; he - all the teachers - didn’t expect us to go and develop a magazine with a bunch different comic stories, and where each of us could draw what he/she wanted.
Nooooooooooo.
Not even close!
They wanted us to make a magazine with articles, movie reviews, interviews, etc.
I said, well, Teach, you see, we already planned to put some articles here and there, and reviews and interviews also. So everything’s all right, no?
No.
We have to find a “theme” for the Magazine, and ALL the FEW comics published in each issue will be about THAT theme ONLY.
Which, translated means: you all throw away what you’ve done so far. We are NOT using it. Good day.
He also said he will be to our next meeting, with the hope to convince us to choose “Cinema” as the Theme. Which, he added, means he’d like all the comics to be parodies of blockbusters movies, alternate endings of blockbusters movies, scenes copied from blockbusters movies, etc, etc, etc…
*sighs*
I’m very disheartened right now, and angry as well. Couldn’t they tell us before?! Atelier opened in September 2004. It is July 2005. They had all the time to stop us from doing something they did not want us to do!!
*sighs again* No, I lied. I’m not even angry, just a but… irked. The main feeling is dishearten-ess, anyway (which isn’t even a word! *lol*). I may get lucky, and they’ll choose a different theme from “Cinema”, something that will let me go on with my own story, but I doubt it.
Let me tell you this: I’m NOT giving up the story of Prince(ss) Ery and his Knight. I may have to put it aside for a time, and maybe I’ll never see it published, but I wanna finish it, clean it up, ink it, shade it, and then try to sell it to some magazine. It may not work, and it may remain forever hidden in my desk's drawer, but at least I’ll have finished it and I’ll be happy about it.
I’m starting to think I threw away the money of the inscription. I should have used them to buy something useful, a wacom tablet, maybe.
We’ll see.
I’ll keep you updated.
Anyway, the meaning is clear: bad news upon bad news.
*sighs*
The story for the Atelier project is almost done. I’ve sketched all six pages (I even sketched three different versions of page 5, to choose the best before I go to phase two: the cleaning up!), and now they’re ready to be cleaned up, inked, framed and have the text added. I was almost DONE, dammit. And most of the other members are half-way through their projects also.
But.
There’s always a but when it comes to Atelier, it seems.
I meet with one of the “Bosses” today. Atelier is a project promoted by my old School, and the man I met today is one of the teachers. Basically he said he’s very displeased with us; he - all the teachers - didn’t expect us to go and develop a magazine with a bunch different comic stories, and where each of us could draw what he/she wanted.
Nooooooooooo.
Not even close!
They wanted us to make a magazine with articles, movie reviews, interviews, etc.
I said, well, Teach, you see, we already planned to put some articles here and there, and reviews and interviews also. So everything’s all right, no?
No.
We have to find a “theme” for the Magazine, and ALL the FEW comics published in each issue will be about THAT theme ONLY.
Which, translated means: you all throw away what you’ve done so far. We are NOT using it. Good day.
He also said he will be to our next meeting, with the hope to convince us to choose “Cinema” as the Theme. Which, he added, means he’d like all the comics to be parodies of blockbusters movies, alternate endings of blockbusters movies, scenes copied from blockbusters movies, etc, etc, etc…
*sighs*
I’m very disheartened right now, and angry as well. Couldn’t they tell us before?! Atelier opened in September 2004. It is July 2005. They had all the time to stop us from doing something they did not want us to do!!
*sighs again* No, I lied. I’m not even angry, just a but… irked. The main feeling is dishearten-ess, anyway (which isn’t even a word! *lol*). I may get lucky, and they’ll choose a different theme from “Cinema”, something that will let me go on with my own story, but I doubt it.
Let me tell you this: I’m NOT giving up the story of Prince(ss) Ery and his Knight. I may have to put it aside for a time, and maybe I’ll never see it published, but I wanna finish it, clean it up, ink it, shade it, and then try to sell it to some magazine. It may not work, and it may remain forever hidden in my desk's drawer, but at least I’ll have finished it and I’ll be happy about it.
I’m starting to think I threw away the money of the inscription. I should have used them to buy something useful, a wacom tablet, maybe.
We’ll see.
I’ll keep you updated.