Deviations

[ultranos]

While moving all my stuff into my new apartment (oh god, my life has turned into a webcomic), I rediscovered all my old "Deviants from the Norm" comics. I seem to be missing some of the originals (*sadface*), and I realized that my homedir doesn't have all of them. Nor does Erebus, because apparently I was an idiot and never moved them from Kyr. This makes me sad, and I really should fix it.

Because "Deviants" wasn't bad. I've been asked if I'm planning on continuing it when I get back a few times. Oh god, it's a lot of work, because I'm almost OCD about it. I sketch each comic, then reink it with Copics, and that actually takes a certain amount of time. And let's not get into when I get an email from the editor saying "hey, can we have this in color?"...at 11:00PM, because then I have to scan it and vector-trace it and color it in Photoshop. Yes, I may be insane.

But I honestly enjoyed doing it, when it wasn't driving me batshit insane. I've been playing with the idea of making it less MIT-centric and more general science/engineering/gamer/sci-fi based. I don't know. So, yes, I think I will continue. I just don't know if I'll put it in the campus newspaper. I've been talking for years about turning it into an actual webcomic. The real excuse I have is that I don't know CSS or whatever to make it easy. The last time I made a study of HTML was roughly seven years ago. (Then I discovered Dreamweaver...)

Comments

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

I might take you up on that. Really, I'd like to get myself competent at that sort of thing, including backend stuff. I was proud of knowing HTML well enough to teach it when I was 12. I wish I had the same relative skill now.

[kihou.livejournal.com]

CSS isn't really that bad for most common uses, though like HTML a lot of people use it poorly. Used properly, it makes making cool web pages a lot easier. Of course, if you want to go the whole AJAX/Web 2.0 route, you can spend arbitrary amounts of time/complexity on it.