State obviously differs, but in contrast to xkcd comics those examples don’t give me the impulse “this is share-worthy content, there should be more of it”. It isn’t that it’s bad or objectionable but it’s still not in the class of the webcomics I find valuable.
Given the success of xkcd and the artistic complexity of xkcd I don’t think that being “good at art” is the core skill of Randall.
Given the success of xkcd and the artistic complexity of xkcd I don’t think that being “good at art” is the core skill of Randall.
I don’t doubt this either.
To be honest, I’m unsure of my ability to sorta approximate the sort of in-group humor that comics like SMBC/xkcd do, but I’d parsed your original statement as one of general “being not-terrible at artsiness”.
Happy to spend some time trying some prototype ideas in the coming weeks, though.
The best way to convince people (I include myself here) to fund something like this would be to start doing it first. Does not seem like an undue burden.
I would expect that you would need to demonstrate skill at either to convince someone to fund you to do it. Do you have published webcomics?
This is perfectly reasonable, and I can link to some things below.
To be clear, I don’t have published webcomics, but I have done art for many years, and have what could generally be termed “skill”.
Links to things below:
Series of infographics on the planning fallacy
Drawn on paper comic series
Bad EA meme comics
Happy to link to more things if people want more evidence.
State obviously differs, but in contrast to xkcd comics those examples don’t give me the impulse “this is share-worthy content, there should be more of it”. It isn’t that it’s bad or objectionable but it’s still not in the class of the webcomics I find valuable.
Given the success of xkcd and the artistic complexity of xkcd I don’t think that being “good at art” is the core skill of Randall.
I don’t doubt this either.
To be honest, I’m unsure of my ability to sorta approximate the sort of in-group humor that comics like SMBC/xkcd do, but I’d parsed your original statement as one of general “being not-terrible at artsiness”.
Happy to spend some time trying some prototype ideas in the coming weeks, though.
The best way to convince people (I include myself here) to fund something like this would be to start doing it first. Does not seem like an undue burden.