Re: (reflecting on) Reflections #4...
TUE, 6/11/02, 5:03 p.m. - In Response To: Re: (reflecting on) Reflections #4... (RJWPostal)

Wow. That is one thing I have yet to really commit to, completely devoting myself to studying and training my own art. I work full time, and draw every night afterwards, so I do develop, but it's very slow going -- I'd have to save up for a long time before I could try something like that. I'm actually more enamoured with the writing aspect of comics, and I find that's much easier for me, but since finding an artist I can work with is risky, time-consuming, and expensive, I instead opted to learn how to draw, even if I never get as good as someone like Mack. Do you have any samples online; I'd love to have a look. If not, I can understand. Good luck! Hope to see you at a con someday.

I actually did not want to draw Kabuki. I originally planned it as a story that I would only write.

Believe it or not in 1993 I was planning to write it with Brian Bendis doing the art. He did several Kabuki character studies and sample pages. So did a couple other potential artists. It was all good, but the art and the writing still felt seperate. It didn't feel like one complete creature to me. So at Bendis' insistence, I set about trying to draw it myself if only to make the art and the writing indistinguishable from each other. In doing this I felt like the each discipline helped me improve at the other.

Wow! This is great to hear. You have no idea how rewarding it is to hear that my work can in some way be a help or a catalyst to those that read it.

Thanks!

DM

Dear Ryan
I had the same thoughts and I wanted inspiration of my and support in much the same way as david does , I think it is a much better challenge to create and emerge your own work by yourself ,plus you are as an artist pushed into a corner where you have to do or die.......
I was very much inspired by david's work and have been for years so just recently ,and as I am solo I decided to go to south east asia and I am writing and painting every day and hope soon that I will publish a book of my own. I had to set a goal for my work and I spent four years practising my skills first before I started to perform my own style ,it takes alot out of you but once you get past a few stages I felt I knew where I was heading in my work.
It took researching such comic book artist's as well as any kind of art. I have to honestly say I would not have looked at my own work in a different light,nor would I have made a commitment to staying in Korea or Japan for the next three years just to focus on my work if I hadn't of been inspired by the artist's like david mack .
So on a broard scale you could say that reflection's and other work that you see these people do certainly knocked me out of the box, and it is a blessing that they do what they do and are free to show it as it has changed alot of things for me. I hope that one day I might meet david through my own work and supprise him in how I came to be.......! thanks for reading
DILLINJA