Page 3 form my upcoming comic! (I still got lettering work to do) |
Hi!
Now that I have time I wanted to tell you a little more about me (I haven't said much).
I'm a film student at university, I've always loved telling stories, reading and listening to them.
Since I was 7 I wanted to draw classic superhero comics but as I grew older I started feeling bored of them and I distanced myself from the old batman, spiderman and wolverine comics. After that, I was amazed by animation and my dream changed from working in Marvel to working in Pixar.
Once I finished school I decided to do a major in Computer Science. I did two years of CS and a Harvard online course in which I developed my own horror game, it was a reeeallyy cool experience. Here's my final project if you are curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFYKI1RbAMQ
Then I found out about film school and made the tough decision to change my career to follow what I love.
Last year at university was quite awesome, I got to direct a short film which is being presented in festivals around the world and I learned a lot about framing, telling stories, writing scripts, conveying a message and FINISHING stuff.
Through out last year I started reading comics again (A LOT), and I fell in love all over again. I came to read Sandman, a comic written by the F*kn AWESOME Neil Gaiman. I read a couple of Alan Moore's comics. Then I read Craigh Thomson's Blankets... and cried a bit... who doesn't with that awesome comic?. I read Art Spiegelman's Mouse and it literally blew my mind, it's not the type of story I usually like to read.. BUT now is one of my all time favorite books. I read a lot more comics which I'll share in depth in future posts.
After so much reading I decided this holiday I wanted to finally make that comic book I've always wanted. I was inspired by Jason Brubaker (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfMrl0S6VFZGbu35Yb7v5xw) and Jake Parker (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwJheV30gHVOjBps2DU7k9A), and I finally got the courage to sit down and do it.
Three advises I want to leave you with (taken from this two awesome guys):
- FINISHED! NOT PERFECT
- If you are making good stuff, eventually people will find you, they'll listen and they will give you feedback.
- Any time you do anything of WORTH is going to be HARD.
- SHARE YOUR WORK, and...
JUST. DO. IT.
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