|
About the TutorialsImagine there's a rock on the ground. Clearly, a rock on the ground is an irrelevance, a minor obstacle. You wouldn't spare it a second thought. You wouldn't even spare it a first. But... if you did, if this rock caught your eye and you bent down to pick it up, then as soon as its weight is resting in your hand you would start to consider it. You can immediately feel its potential as a missile or as a tool. You begin to understand it and what it can do for you. But you have to notice it first. You won't. Like I said, you'd never even give it a first thought, let alone a second. You'll step right over it, considering it to be entirely insignificant. There are a lot of things people tend to take for granted without either understanding them or even considering there should be something to understand. And you don't need to for the most part. You already understand it in a subconscious, background sort of way. You can catch a ball without knowing how gravity works, can't you? You can get along with people without knowing psychology, yes? But if you do understand these things then they, like the rock, cease to be background and become a tool. Something to be manipulated consciously and taken advantage of. To be used. These tutorials are for the most part intended to explain some of the things that the web's mass of amateur writers, comicers and graphic designers already know somewhere in the back of their mind but perhaps don't fully understand in the way that makes them useful as tools. It's quite likely stuff they already do but possibly without knowing it. I hope they'll find themselves nodding and thinking "Oh, yes. Of course," or "So that's why" as they read. I'm a college lecturer here in Australia and I therefore know about "right to train". This is basically blowing your own trumpet so the students are convinced that they have a teacher who knows his stuff. So, then... I write short stories and, so far, two novel length works and a third in progress. I also write a comic called "Like the Wind" about the formative years of a young female "gentleman" thief and have also got a completed Phantasy Star fan comic online called "The Conversations Within Elsydeon". My art is not the best, which is why there are no tutorials on drawing here. Anyway, lots of people do them. I'm also a graphic designer. Most of my work is in Australia, naturally enough, but I'm the person behind the Comic Genesis logo and website, as well as all my own little websites like this one. - Joel Fagin |
