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Jun. 20th, 2005 03:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefnerI should have been in bed hours ago, but upon discovering a box full of comics I had thought lost forever (my Sandman hardcovers! Lobo vs. the Mask! The story where Batman knocks up Ra's al Ghul's daughter! You're all here! This feels like Christmas!), I was hit with a wave of geek joy energy, and so I decided to dedicate the next hour and a half to DDR. So now it's nearly 4 in the morning, but that doesn't really matter since I don't think I'll be calling my father tomorrow. I'll spend tomorrow practicing my Vigil monologue for Leagues (if only I could decide WHICH monologue to choose!), watching DVDs, and writing my comic.
Speaking of the comic, I think I've decided I'm gonna pencil it, and Dave'll ink it. I bought a figure drawing kit from B&N, with one of those mannequin posing thingies to help with my proportions and perspective and stuff. I'll also spend a few hours copying facial expressions from the art of the master of the face, Kevin Maguire of Justice League fame. Gonna try to get back into the groove that I was kinda in back when I actually did draw.
Of course, a problem with doing an autobiographical comic is that I wonder how much like their real life counterparts I should try to draw the characters. I can't really draw them from memory, and with a good number of the more significant ones in several varying degrees of detachment from me, I can't exactly use them as models. So, I've come upon a solution: I will cast celebrities to play my characters, and google pictures of them, study THOSE pictures, and alter them according to my memory of their real-life counterpart. My cast so far:
My Father, Donald Hefner=Paul Newman circa "Road to Perdition", but more emaciated and glazed
My mother, Roberta=a skinnier Kathy Bates from "About Schmidt"
Tammy=Mena Suivari from the film "Loser" (some have also said the girl from "Ginger Snaps," but I'll see the film myself and be the judge of that)
Misty=Meg White (after seeing "Coffee and Cigarettes," wow, it's kinda creepy) with Legolas' hair
Ridgaway=Cary Elwes circa "The Princess Bride"
Dave=Guy Gardner with Tom Waits' hair. Any of the Rudes will be played by themselves, of course.
This is what I do to stave off crushing depression. It works, actually. For a while.
Speaking of the comic, I think I've decided I'm gonna pencil it, and Dave'll ink it. I bought a figure drawing kit from B&N, with one of those mannequin posing thingies to help with my proportions and perspective and stuff. I'll also spend a few hours copying facial expressions from the art of the master of the face, Kevin Maguire of Justice League fame. Gonna try to get back into the groove that I was kinda in back when I actually did draw.
Of course, a problem with doing an autobiographical comic is that I wonder how much like their real life counterparts I should try to draw the characters. I can't really draw them from memory, and with a good number of the more significant ones in several varying degrees of detachment from me, I can't exactly use them as models. So, I've come upon a solution: I will cast celebrities to play my characters, and google pictures of them, study THOSE pictures, and alter them according to my memory of their real-life counterpart. My cast so far:
My Father, Donald Hefner=Paul Newman circa "Road to Perdition", but more emaciated and glazed
My mother, Roberta=a skinnier Kathy Bates from "About Schmidt"
Tammy=Mena Suivari from the film "Loser" (some have also said the girl from "Ginger Snaps," but I'll see the film myself and be the judge of that)
Misty=Meg White (after seeing "Coffee and Cigarettes," wow, it's kinda creepy) with Legolas' hair
Ridgaway=Cary Elwes circa "The Princess Bride"
Dave=Guy Gardner with Tom Waits' hair. Any of the Rudes will be played by themselves, of course.
This is what I do to stave off crushing depression. It works, actually. For a while.
