Yesterday I had a funny, yet frustrating, experience regarding my tasks as an inker in some current projects. It's always kind of hard to explain what does an inter do to someone that is completely unaware of the creative process of a comic... I was showing this guy the brochure that we were giving out at the comicon it has several samples of our work, several pages, and stuff like that... the funny part begun when he asked something like,
he: so... what is it that you did?
me: I did the inking, it's done after the pencils and before the colors, I correct some stuff, and give a sense of dept and texture to the composition.
(I think I lost him here).
at this time he kept turning the pages around... and then again.
he: so... you didn't do anything here?
me: well, I am the writer of one of the stories, and I do the inking... see here?, this is my work (as I showed him a black a white page that has some of my inks).
-now he was perplexed and confused... he couldn't make things work since those drawings weren't done by me, yet I was claiming that was my work.
After a long talk... and some trying from my part, we both gave up and at the end he just said well, good luck to you!.
I think I should get used to this... right?
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What does it says?????? ^_^
Why don't you explain your work as this:
I'm a tracer. I draw lines over someone's else drawings. I sometimes can't follow the lines, but don't worry, people say that it makes our drawings more alive. I don't work with colors (I think people would discover that I would fill out of the figure...).
The truth is, that I'm so nice a guy that this people let me be part of the comic process even though I don't do anything real for the comic. I don't write, or place panels, nor do I choose colors or draw.
My friends say that if I behave really good, one day I'll write down what the screenwriter typed, so whenever you see a balloon you'll see my work.
ha ha ha ha ha ha...
it's almost too funny... "screenwriter" riiiight...
ohh... humanity, you never cease to amuse me.
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