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hey! keep it low!

by Johnny on October 24th, 2011
hey! keep it low!

first off, let me quickly apologize for any confusion last week.  i am indeed still making finn comic strips and just didn’t get around to adding a commentary blog to the strip last week.

for this week, i talk about all the anticipation and excitement associated with going on vacation with friends.  it’s one of the greatest feelings, composed of positive energy and the hype of great memories.  and most of the time, it does go spectacularly well but maybe once in awhile, we hype it up too much and the event wasn’t as fun as we thought.  so, i think Ace has a point when he says to keep the expectations manageable.  perhaps another analogy is like going to the movies, keep the expectations a little lower and you’ll prob walk out of it a bit happier.  (except for the Fast & Furious or Resident Evil movies.)

i admit, this was a last minute job creating this week’s strip.  even then, i’m pretty happy with the front and back perspectives.  compared to some similar shots i did a long time ago on finn, i think this one is better!  now to decide where they’re driving to…

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got something for you

by Johnny on December 27th, 2010
got something for you

so what if friends talk about you and news spreads about what you did.  first of all, they’re your friends so they probably just care so much that they want to know all about you.  secondly, you’ve got to be careful not to do anything dumb.  cause if you do, your friends will have a good laugh.  but in a caring, good way.

this week we do something new – two rows!  i was going to put in more panels to really depict how much words travel, but i needed the space to add some body language.  and i was going to use all the same background colors with slight differences in shading, but i like the diff colors now.  makes it pop a little more.

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be by myself

by Johnny on June 6th, 2010
be by myself

undoubtedly, friends are there to make you feel better.  and it’s great to surround yourself with people who are awesome at what they do, because it’ll act to inspire and hopefully motivate you too.  but every once in awhile it’s good to just separate and get some thoughts to just yourself.  it might the 30 minute drive alone to work or the 15 minutes before you go to bed.  whenever it is, i think it’s important to have that time to kinda center yourself, to just do a self check and make sure everything is going alright.  maybe its always been like this, but there’s a lot of stress these days.  gotta make sure you’re ok, and then let your friends do the rest.

artwork wise, pretty happy how this turned out.  i tried to capture that awesomeness for each character (which, by the way is supposed to be different aspects of everybody).  i may start giving finn more emotion and more reaction to things.  i, myself, don’t get too worked up so i think that’s translating into finn, but perhaps the audience would like to see more ‘emotion’ from finn!

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coordination

by Johnny on October 26th, 2009
coordination

ever feel like when you go out with a group of friends, you spend half your time just making sure everyone is there?  with the advent of cell phones and texting, it’s like half the population is on their phones sometimes, keeping track of one another.  and all this is supposed to make it easier to stay in touch!  i guess my point here is coordinating friends and then making sure everyone is ok is actually a lil tougher and more time consuming than expected.  but you know what, it’s all worth it when it comes down to getting to hang out with good friends.

ok, this strip prob highlights one of my weaker areas, which are backgrounds.  add that to the list of things to improve, more realistic, but also more creative backgrounds.

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