This started as drawing Voldy as a drag queen but it turned into a character design for the Dark Lord that I’m pretty pleased with.
- Reed
My buddy Reed drew this. It’s INCREDIBLE! It started out trannytastic and then just became totally fabulous. Check it out (and check out the rest of Drawed Goods as well)!
I’ve been answering many recent “asks” privately lately (thank you for that feature Tumblr, it’s about damn time) but this one I want to answer publicly.
I have had an online presence for 7-and-a-half years now. I started my webcomic a week ago. Now, all of that time spent building an audience and getting exposure has helped the launch of the comic go really smoothly, but can you imagine what it would be if I had started it (or ANYTHING) 5 or 6 years ago? What it would be by now?
Don’t sit on ideas for too long or you’ll start to hate them, and don’t fear for whether or not they are original. NOTHING is original, but anything that you do will always be different from the way anyone else would approach it. Hand the same synopsis to someone else and it would come out completely unique from your version, and yours to theirs. “The Super-Gay Adventures of Ross Boston,” for instance, is not really that original. Break it down to its parts (as best as you can 10 pages in) and you have a pretty basic superhero story: troubled guy gets interesting superpower, has adventures, fights villains, makes super friends, learns stuff about himself and others, rinse and repeat. It’s the way I do it, the way that no one else would do it, that keeps people coming back and reading it.
Do whichever idea makes you happy. Whichever one you can see yourself drawing every single week and putting a lot of work into without it feeling miserable to work on, and don’t worry if it’s original or if it’s even really any good. I can’t tell you which idea is better or more suitable for a webcomic because it doesn’t matter what I think. It’s all up to you.
Good luck!
Hey folks!
I have a lot of new watchers, which is super exciting! I’d be interested in hearing a little about you. Send me a message in my Ask box! I can’t guarantee I’ll get back to you (busy busy busy with the comic) but it’ll be nice nonetheless. ;)
~Drew
Hey folks!
“Are you gay?”
I get this question a little more often than I ever expected. I would think that creating a webcomic entitled “The Super-Gay Adventures of Ross Boston” about a gay ex-pizza boy and his adventures with some awfully gay characters would be a pretty clear indication of the answer. Also, that kind of content created by a straight person - even if executed in the same exact manner and with the same intentions - would probably not be well-received. It would be looked at as insincere because it wouldn’t be coming from a place of complete understanding (or at least, that’s how it would be perceived by the gay audience, and I would probably agree with that - but that’s all hypothetical so whatever).
So to answer the question and be totally clear from here on out: Yes I am gay. Stop asking.
Later,
~Drew
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