The Official GOOD OMENS GRAPHIC NOVEL Adaptation. Two weeks left on Kickstarter! And now...a thread. kickstarter.com/projects/dunma… Yes, it's an adaptation of the novel.
No, it will not be 100% accurate to the novel because it would be impossible to fit 400 pages of text into a 200 page graphic novel.

Weird how so many people say they want to be an artist without having to actually work at art. AI is about people wanting all the things, and praise and status of material success in art without effort. But there's a world full of artists who work at art & get no status or money. People have long been duped into believing that professional art is a life of recreation. Art is working class. If you do art as a leisure activity, then it's your recreation, but if you play basketball at the pro level, it's work, and if you play for fun, it's recreation.

Respectfully, more than a decade ago when I was doing hard core time as a creator rights advocate, I warned & warned & warned people that tech looks at the arts as content they should have free access to to monetize, and not as a human accomplishment or experience. I got absolutely hammered for my stance, and I finally left advocacy work exhausted. And those of us who raised the issue were relentlessly trolled by tech dudes. The devaluation of art is the devaluation of humanity. Monetizing art without returning value to the artist.

THREAD: I remember getting a bit peevish whenever Neil Gaiman would write "Make Good Art".
Not everyone has the same art making experiences, environment, skills, opportunities, and innate abilities. They just don't. There's nothing equitable about material success in art. There is only the reality that everyone is entitled to make art. You can make a picture, hum a tune, think up a story. You can do that. You can even do that without tools you need to buy

I'm seeing another one of those threads bemoaning the fact that creative people can only excel in the arts if they come from money: here is a friendly reminder that most people of my generation and back in the comics biz did not come from money, were actually poor/marginalized - and back in the day, comics was not a glamorous profession, but the lowest of the low in the arts, poor paying, no respect, you only went into comics if you were absolutely obsessed, and unlikely to make more than $30,000 a year at best. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

One of the things that is really hard for people trying to get into comics to understand is you don't just get to draw what you want to draw. You have to draw what the story requires. Things you don't like. Things you're not good at. Your portfolio may show lots of cute pinups of hot chicks, but you are going to get a story with a car chase in it, tons of gritty city backgrounds, and a crowd scene in a restaurant, and the fun's over, man.

Arguably, the most famous of all the Pre-Raphaelite painters was Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English 1828-1882,) painter, poet and guy known for digging up his dead wife to retrieve poems he buried with her when she died. Like you do. Rossetti's sensual, lush, dreamy paintings of iconic women are synonymous with Pre-Raphaelitism now, but they strayed from the original intent of the movement, which started out as return to realism and fidelity to ideas and intent.

My drawing board today. Realizing with a shallow thrill I'm closing in on 40,000 followers. That count isn't just about ego, my beloveds...I want you to hear all about my work. And art I love. Thanks for being here. Everyone always asks about the lamp. It is this lamp. amzn.to/31i8cFy

One of the things a lot of people don't get about process is the paradoxical nature of time cost. It can actually be FASTER to do a full page in full color by yourself than it is for a team of three artists to do full pencils, then inks, then color in mainstream style. I say this to people and they act like I'm crazy, they think it is easier to do pencils on a book for Marvel than it is to do a full color page of a comic all by myself. But it isn't. Digital color is a big reason why line art is less complex these days.