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[00:00:00] How did Batman become Batman? He started out rich. That's how most artists become artists. Well, okay, so how did Green Arrow become Green Arrow? I don't know. He's exactly, exactly the same as Batman. But he crashed on an island and figured out how to make a bow and arrow. Welcome to Cloudtown Tuesday, the day where I share a page from my graphic novel, Cloudtown, and um, tell you about the process of making it.

It's like a editor's commentary on a DVD. Here it is. Let's go. Let's do it. Let's do it. If you want to be a famous artist, starting out rich seems helpful. But what's the point? Talk to your parents about that. Yeah. You know, ask them, why are you poor? You know, what is this? This is the reason I can't draw.

Yeah, this is the reason I can't have an art career. Dad! I know, I do think I want to have a series where I just take some time and Um, I think about what I would like to have known earlier. One thing I would like to have known earlier is [00:01:00] just like a lot of the, the concepts of how to move toward getting a book deal and getting a following and getting, um, you know, a career.

closer to a career or a really nice robust hobby if that's where your heart lies like honestly both are fine part of that is just Not as bombastic and crazy as it sounds part of it is really just like having a schedule being Consistent making goals for improvement doing small projects showing up places Letting people see you some cartoonists that have new book deals out that I have met and talked with Went to cons regularly, had a new product every con, sometimes they were just illustrations or a little zine, and kept doing that until people wanted their stuff.

And once people want your stuff, editors, agents, all those people notice, because they want people to want their stuff. It's all about persistency. It's, it's partially about [00:02:00] it. Persistence is important. Persistence is real important, I think. We talk about it. Quality is important. It's unclear what qualities.

Because different qualities are important to different people. Probably like, you said it depends on your style and what you're aiming for. Yeah. With the different qualities. And what the fickle fans in the world would be interested in. Yeah, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it.

They are the water you're swimming in. If you want to be read, it's about the feelings of other people. It should be like some of what you want in your work and what other people want. Like a mix of both if you're trying to publish. I always have a problem writing with the concept of a target audience.

Um, but, you know, you just write, you just write for me now. You just write to make me happy, right? Yeah, that's pretty much Well, I don't know. No, you don't. That might be actually the opposite. Yeah, poop emoji. I like the, um, black hair contrast shading. Thank you. You're welcome. Sometimes I like these pages before I shade them because they're just easier to read.

Um, [00:03:00] and that's something that like they talk about in Bakuman when people add too much gray tones. Yeah It becomes a mush, you know, the the creator of One Piece doesn't use tones like at all. Wow That's like that's amazing. He's such a good cartoonist. So good just black and white and occasionally He'll use a tone for like a night scene, but it looks real out of place He's just like, you know with deadlines once you start putting gray down its all over You need a team to, like, He has a team and he's still, you know, like, If you don't, if you can cut that out, cut it out.

But, He's all detailed, too, actually. So you can pull off, um, detail in comics. So, in those studio setups, it's usually, like, the main artist just draws the characters and the layouts, and then they have, uh, assistants do the backgrounds? It really depends, but I certainly am interested in, we've talked about this, exploring doing that.

Um, partially because that's just the [00:04:00] way I'd like to live. I'd like to be drawing with people more. And when you make me happier, I think, uh, for the most part. I do like this technique I started doing where I just had the background characters and stuff just be in the blue tones. Yeah, I like that. Oh, yeah.

Cause it, it It creates that atmospheric Yeah, I don't know what I started doing there. Or just the beat didn't feel right. Because the no talking came after and I wanted it to come before, so I had them go to behind them in the classroom. Oh, did you switch it? Yeah, here, I'll go back a little bit. Oh, I see it.

So it starts over here. Because Oh yeah, that works a lot better. Yeah, it just got confusing, like, I wanted you to understand that they were typing in their goggles. They were like shutting up after that. Well, I wanted you to know that Penn and Olive were typing in their goggles and this was like the lesson they were working on.

Oh. But if you went from them typing to this to that, it was just like a little less clear. A weird skit. I guess I think you're doing good.