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AMA — "An idea you didn't want to draw?"
🕑 Added 2022-10-02 18:00:05 +0000 UTCQ.: Did you ever have an idea that you just didn’t want to draw?
A.: Quite often, actually! I have strengths and weaknesses as an artist, and I have a very natural tendency to try to avoid my areas of weakness. One example is mechanical stuff. I despise drawing mech. And you may have noticed that there are very few characters who have mech-based character designs.
Of course, every once in a while the story requires it, and I have to buckle down and do the best I can. Like this panel, for example.
Since switching to a drawing software called Clip Studio Paint, I’ve been able to use 3D models that make drawing mech much easier. So I can do it when I need to. But it’s not my favorite thing to do.
Have I ever just changed the idea just because I didn’t want to draw the scene? That depends on how important the scene is. Take bicycles. They’re notoriously difficult to draw well. If the scene I need to draw simply requires a bike, then I draw it. (Like the panel below.) If the scene is just as strong bike-less, then bike-less it shall be! The same goes for horses.
I just hope none of my future story ideas involve a robot racing a horse while riding a bike. I’m not sure what I would do!
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Comments
Brad Guigar
Yes, and he has used this power exactly one time (two, if you count a pre-reboot panel) 🙂
coolraul07
Refresh my memory... doesn't Iron Dragon have a mech? (thus the name)
Robert
Showing my age. Did Quick Draw McDraw / El Kapong every ride a bicycle?
Louis Richards
A horse riding a bicycle would be a difficult scene to compose, even without a robot racing it.
Caleb Davis
I remember having a conversation with Brad where he confessed that he hated drawing the original costume we had for Dr Zapp. It was a contributing factor for why he transitioned out of being the classic mad scientist and into the Mixtape gimmick. I appreciate him floating this kind of honesty out there into the community. If there's something he just doesn't want to do, then I wouldn't want to ask him to do it and cause it to be a point of irritation. Once thing I learned across both our collaborative stories was that usually ideas can be tweaked to work around something and still be true to the original vision.
KillaCam7010
Do you count cars as mech? Are you good at drawing cars?
