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			| sylvae | 12-04-2010 11:37 AM |  
 
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					Originally Posted by rtothel
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				 The artwork IS the project. It takes a good writer an hour or two to come up with a good storyline. How many hours do you think it takes to draw it?? 30 - 50 at the LEAST. Anyone could write about someone being naked. It takes a LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT to draw and ink it. Thumbnails, storyboard, pencil, color, ink and supplies. And what's the compensation? Your name printed behind his? Are you kidding me? People who don't make art have NO IDEA how difficult and time consuming it is. It's never easy. We just do it so often, we make it look easy. There NEEDS to be compensation for any artwork. Children's books, graphic novels, a mural on your bathroom wall. It takes a lot of time to make quality art. 
 |  I do comic strips as a hobby, and do both the drawing and the scripting.  IMO if you want a good strip, both are important.  Since I script partly "on the fly", I can't comment as to the actual percentage of time that I allocate to the artwork vs the storyline, and I do take your point that good art takes a lot of time.  However, I do know that coming up with a good story isn't all that easy, and just as there are people around who can write great stories but have no artistic talent, so there are also people who can draw brilliantly but aren't so good telling a story.  The guy who posted here may be one of the former.  
 
And let's face it - the world isn't exactly overloaded with great ENF/EUF/Fetish strips, is it?  I have the greatest of admiration for Jenny, Miss Truth, Cyberhell and others, but the field is hardly so crowded that we don't need any more people working in it.  Anything that adds to the canon would be good news.  
 
Personally, I'd want him to do more of the work than he's done so far before I'd even think about getting involved - maybe a proper storyboard rather than just a single paragraph, with a bit more detail, and a firm agreement to share the costs of materials, but hey, he admits it's only in the planning stage.  Myself, I prefer writing my own stories, but there may be someone who'd love to do an ENF strip but is stuck for original ideas.  Who knows?  I think his post is a reasonable request.  If the only artists who read it aren't interested, well fair enough.
 
Incidentally, is there any rule that the artist's name HAS to be after the writer's name?  I thought the order was by arrangement between the collaborators... |