Ask Meme answers pt. 5!
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lb_leeRogan: More ask meme stuff, this time from acorn_squash!
Least favourite things to draw/write?
To draw: linear fucking perspective. To write: complex plots, because there's so much to keep track of.
Anything you haven't drawn/written yet but want to?
Writing? Man, I feel like just about everything I WANT to write, I've at least STARTED. I've got Infinity Smashed, I've got that romance novel, I've got Reverend Alpert and House of Resilient Children and all the rest. I'm golden!
Comics-wise, I have been unable to hardly even START the comic about how I met Bob and Grey and became the equivalent of the feral cat hiding under their porch. There's just so much complicated stuff that I haven't figured out how to sort. (How can I easily visually let the reader know what world they're in--this world, headspace, Infinity Smashed Vago--at any given time? How do I avoid it becoming grimdark soulcrushery? Do I write it in chronological order, and if so, from whose perspective?) Four years in, all I have are a few sketches like this:
Drawing-wise, there's a LOT of porny stuff I want to draw and have been trapped in self-consciousness and Internet puritan hell over. To help fight it, here's a fuck pic from the forever-defunct Princess and Monster story. Live on in porno, Tobiach and Gad!
And also, because PaM isn't complete without her, this very dumb little pixel art of Princess Judith expressing her opinions of the above, because I drew it in MSpaint a million years ago (2012?) and it still makes me laugh.
Favorite comment you've ever received on your work?
Oh jeez. It's hard to pick because a lot of people have said really nice things to me over the years! There's Abraham Riesman's article on us for Vulture. There was the random girl on tumblr who blundered into getting one of my comics (Cracks of Sunshine 1, before it became the Homeless Year) and posted about how it saved her life. The random person on LiveJournal from another country who apparently realized they were trans and transitioned and found happiness due to a very silly trans superhero fanfic I tossed off for an anon meme over a decade ago, which they told me about like, last year. The multi who, somewhere on Discord, wrote "Me, flirting: let's read LB Lee together." Seriously, I have saved digital copies of all the nicest emails and comments I've gotten over the years. I keep them on my hard drive for a bad day.
Still, though, there's one that has a special place in my heart, because it was the FIRST. See, twenty years ago(!) on DeviantArt, Infinity Smashed had ONE fan, an art student in Minnesota. For her 2006 Illustration class final, she needed to do two big watercolor spreads from a book she had read, and she improbably chose the 2003-era Infinity Smashed book, which maybe ten people ever read.
She traded me those watercolor illustrations for one of the three hard copies of Infinity Smashed 2003 in existence. I got them framed and to this very day, they hang on my bedroom wall, forever inspiring me.
(The artist, Francesca Oaksford, does greeting cards and stuff now. She's very good!)
Seriously, fanart is basically always a delight to me. There's a reason I have a post collating it all.
What's the most daunting part of your process? ex. planning, sketching, lineart, rendering, etc.
The answer depends on my level of debility. Some days, I'm up to research and nothing else. Other days, I just want to pencil, or ink, or edit, or whatever. Some years are writing years, others are comics years. There's no part that I regularly resent or like most.
Well, maybe the donkey labor of formatting for print. That's tedious. But I don't HATE it, nor do I find it daunting.
Weirdest thing you've ever written/drawn?
*looks at my body of work* How do I answer this question?
acorn_squash!Least favourite things to draw/write?
To draw: linear fucking perspective. To write: complex plots, because there's so much to keep track of.
Anything you haven't drawn/written yet but want to?
Writing? Man, I feel like just about everything I WANT to write, I've at least STARTED. I've got Infinity Smashed, I've got that romance novel, I've got Reverend Alpert and House of Resilient Children and all the rest. I'm golden!
Comics-wise, I have been unable to hardly even START the comic about how I met Bob and Grey and became the equivalent of the feral cat hiding under their porch. There's just so much complicated stuff that I haven't figured out how to sort. (How can I easily visually let the reader know what world they're in--this world, headspace, Infinity Smashed Vago--at any given time? How do I avoid it becoming grimdark soulcrushery? Do I write it in chronological order, and if so, from whose perspective?) Four years in, all I have are a few sketches like this:
Drawing-wise, there's a LOT of porny stuff I want to draw and have been trapped in self-consciousness and Internet puritan hell over. To help fight it, here's a fuck pic from the forever-defunct Princess and Monster story. Live on in porno, Tobiach and Gad!
And also, because PaM isn't complete without her, this very dumb little pixel art of Princess Judith expressing her opinions of the above, because I drew it in MSpaint a million years ago (2012?) and it still makes me laugh.
Favorite comment you've ever received on your work?
Oh jeez. It's hard to pick because a lot of people have said really nice things to me over the years! There's Abraham Riesman's article on us for Vulture. There was the random girl on tumblr who blundered into getting one of my comics (Cracks of Sunshine 1, before it became the Homeless Year) and posted about how it saved her life. The random person on LiveJournal from another country who apparently realized they were trans and transitioned and found happiness due to a very silly trans superhero fanfic I tossed off for an anon meme over a decade ago, which they told me about like, last year. The multi who, somewhere on Discord, wrote "Me, flirting: let's read LB Lee together." Seriously, I have saved digital copies of all the nicest emails and comments I've gotten over the years. I keep them on my hard drive for a bad day.
Still, though, there's one that has a special place in my heart, because it was the FIRST. See, twenty years ago(!) on DeviantArt, Infinity Smashed had ONE fan, an art student in Minnesota. For her 2006 Illustration class final, she needed to do two big watercolor spreads from a book she had read, and she improbably chose the 2003-era Infinity Smashed book, which maybe ten people ever read.
She traded me those watercolor illustrations for one of the three hard copies of Infinity Smashed 2003 in existence. I got them framed and to this very day, they hang on my bedroom wall, forever inspiring me.
(The artist, Francesca Oaksford, does greeting cards and stuff now. She's very good!)
Seriously, fanart is basically always a delight to me. There's a reason I have a post collating it all.
What's the most daunting part of your process? ex. planning, sketching, lineart, rendering, etc.
The answer depends on my level of debility. Some days, I'm up to research and nothing else. Other days, I just want to pencil, or ink, or edit, or whatever. Some years are writing years, others are comics years. There's no part that I regularly resent or like most.
Well, maybe the donkey labor of formatting for print. That's tedious. But I don't HATE it, nor do I find it daunting.
Weirdest thing you've ever written/drawn?
*looks at my body of work* How do I answer this question?
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Date: 2024-03-19 11:26 am (UTC)Still one of the favorite things you’ve told me about your readers.
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