#documentative comics

[lucianbarbu]

November Log

This month I finally got to finish my square(ish) sketchbook. Stared a new one. Thinking of going back to drawing more studies as well.

At the beginning of November, time was of essence in finishing drawing on the four pillars that help keep the Politechnical University Library of Timișoara standing. I was invited by Campus Creativ UPT to make an intervention on the pillars, marking the end of their 2023 project. I tried to approach the campus (which is the oldest campus in town, celebrating 100 years from its first building this year), from two different directions: one in which it is the sum of all buildings, bricks, concrete, wood, installation, pluming, trees and benches, and one that is made out of the people who inhabit them. On the pillar's I compiled the campus residents' first ever drawings, as a homage to the first creation of the physical campus being built a century ago.

Between drawing sessions outside, I walked through the town to paste the Timișoara part of the comics for my project for Simultan's exhibition. So glad I managed to finish this on time, since it was a very complex project to work on. I was slowly preparing for the show's opening on the 16th.

Roger invited me to submit on of my dreams in their Dream Journal, in comic form. This is my submission, it's a dream about a recurring horror house that I keep progressing further down into, with each dream that finds myself there. II chose this one as an excuse to draw the polly pockets that I had to build in order to find the code to escape the area that I was stuck in.

Livia brought the mug that I drew on on Gruni's 4th year birthday ceramics painting workshop. Couldn't be happier with how the lines turned out.

On the weekend of the 17th, the Work Academy opened, a show that is part of Progress: Paradigm Shifts #5, organised by Simultan, curated by Ștefan Tiron and Arne Hendriks. The project provided me with the opportunity to explore installations for the first time. I was stoked to share the exhibition hall with other great local artists such as the guys from Kosmos DIY and their miniature exhibition boxes, Vlad Cadar and his raft and with C4Company's punk improvised set.

Before the month ended, the annual Balamuc Studio Fair took place. This year, Gavril and I joined Ana, Livia and Răzvan as permanent studio members.

[gnomewithalaptop]

Thinking about Tim and Cassie as narrative reflections of each other -- about how they both started out as normal kids with no obligation to their mentors, good kids who just wanted to help, and how gradually, bit by bit, that choice they made as thirteen-year-olds lowkey ruined any chance they had for a normal life

[pandadrake]

Shots fired by the Spider-man sequels.

Was ruminating on how Miles and Miguel are technically both 'Spider-man 2' in their respective universes. Got me thinking about the other Spider-successors in the cast, and also what if they all got matching T-shirts or something.

[etheriankid]

"i wanna see the bubble bath!" me too adora, me too

[shittalkerxox]

I think a really fun idea to explore with Tim would be the idea of him having Hyperthymesia.

Hyperthymesia is an ability that allows people to recall almost every event of their life in great detail. It's extremely rare and honestly doesn't have that much research done on it, but recent studies have suggested that people with this ability are limited to autobiographical memories, people with HSAM sometime tend to show symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and may demonstrate obsessive tendencies.

I think it would be an interesting way to explain why Tim was able to recall his first meeting with Dick Grayson and connect the dots to seeing Robin. Tim does display a lot of obsessive behaviours, and while he doesn't really physically display compulsion (like someone with OCD would typically display) there certainly is a strong case to be made for him potentially having it.

But also, can you imagine how fucking horrible it would be for Tim to remember each and every traumatic thing that ever happens to him as a hero and those memories just never fading. Yes, it would make him a better detective and allow him to be arguably smarter than your average joe, but at what cost?

[kryptonbabe]

"Leave me alone you psycho-pup"

From Superboy #18 (1995) by Karl Kesel & Tom Grummet

[navree]

i wanted what any father wants for his son ... hope. happiness. a future of never wanting or regretting something he could never have again ...

[grumpyghostdoodles]

I love your Asriel design, he is very handsome, he and Clover is very cutesy 💛💛💛

They are so stupid

[drawingdisaster]

Superman✨

[juniper-clan]

I somehow ended up having a dream about JuniperClan, that the next moon was Shiningpaw's warrior ceremony, but you were using longer, more old-timey sentences that were using a lot of metaphors and a tad confusing to read. As it went on, multiple panels would show Amberbranch in a panic/shock, and then it was slowly revealed that a snake had snuck into camp during the ceremony. Nobody besides Amberbranch noticed it, and he leapt to protect Shiningpaw from being bit, and ended up dying from the venom. And I vividly remember my last thoughts before waking up being "oh this isn't gonna be good for Heronstar".

So I deeply hope my dream doesn't come true haha

[littlefankingdom]

As much as it is funny to imagine Bruce with a father's capacity to forget half your friends, I think he actually has a file on any classmate his kids have ever mentioned to him.

He is an over-prepared and paranoid man who had two of his friends (Thomas Elliot and Harvey Dent) turned into rogue, with one of them really obsessed with him, he is not risking his kids' safety.

And also, when he got Dick, he was brand-new at this "being a parent" thing, so he did things in his own way, like it's a mission. Children need to feel listen to, even if their problems are so small in the grand scheme of things. That means he needed to make sure he listened to Dick's ramblings about school and remembered informations to show he listened. To be sure he remembered anything Dick told him, because he couldn't forgive himself if he did, he made files about each of the people he brought up, and reports about Dick's day at school and the gossips. And, as he grew up, it's the same with Dick's colleagues and friends, always keeping up report of anything his son tells. And, of course, he does the same for all of his kids in the end.

Anyway, there's like a fourth of the batcomputer's files that are just civilians his kids have met and reports about normal days at school.

[trix1erose]

silly little dead girl doodle- dead lesbians get distracted from solving crime

((GO SIGN PETITIONS! GO SEND LETTERS! AND EMAILS! FIGHT FOR THIS SHOW!!! i really want to send actual mail but i live in the uk so thats not an option as far as im aware, but ive been sending a lot of requests on their ‘request a show’ thing and my mum’s helping me draft an email. it might not be likely, but if we don’t try there’s no point right?))

[onethousxndvoices]

took a break from my main projects to do some visdev practice. have a line up for a layton fic that'll probably never see the light of day

[raccoon-coded]

I need to know more

[ratislatis]

The Normal AU comic tester (1/2)

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[0xeyedaisy]

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