I know a lot about writing.
& I know a lot about drawing
But can I combine the 2 Fields?
But do I know how to balance and inter-mingle the two pursuits?
I’m 50% Left-Brain (Writer), 50% Right Brain (Artist)
I don’t write and draw at the same time. That’s impossible to do. You can only do writing and drawing at separate times. It’s impossible to write while you draw, at the same time.
Being a Creator-Writer-Artist is the task of a multi-talent, a polymath.
Working in mediums like comics and animation is one big excuse to indulge my multi-talent approach to narration, narrative, story, and storytelling.
What about the internet? How much of it is Right-Brained, and how much is Left-Brained?
When you’re doing two separate lines of work (art and literature), you’re actually doing the work of integrating the workload of 2 separate people, which in many ways is more difficult, other than maybe the fact that the 50/50 split of creativity takes place on two separate side, and takes up less time for each side, as a psychological response to the increased workload.
I’ve done good art and good writing.
I’ve filled books, and I’ve filled sketchbooks. I’m not lacking in productivity. I’m lacking in the other 50% of my talent spectrum, the raw drafting, and compositional chops of my artwork.
I’ve published books of my art, and I’ve published books of my writing, but I have yet to publish a successful meeting of the two. The true power of my Caetextia.
I’m aware creators like Jhonen Vasquez, Rob Schrab, Frank Miller, Todd McFarlane, Tezuka Osamu, Katsuhiro Otomo, Moebius, and Aaron McGruder have all told stories tied together with art and words, and some have even done projects with nothing but words on their behalf, in a collaboration with artists.
But I’m pretty certain I’m one of the first to divide the two aspects of my creative mind so extensively, doing thousands of pages of both, for each side (drawing and writing), but always keeping them segregated for the most part, which isn’t too different than how Hollywood or the literary publishing industry works. Other than magazines and comics, the two forms of expression, art and writing, often are segregated out of a paranoid fear of confusing the reading and viewing public. (please see: Scott McCloud’s book, Understanding Comics, for further explanation of Right-Left Brain Divisiveness in print, film, and broadcast media.)
