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By: Coaching4Lesbians » Alison Bechdel Visits Philadelphia with Fun HomeInspiring Lesbian Business Owners and Professionals to Achieve Success without Burnout and Compromise

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:54:12 +0000

[...] (You can catch a snippet of one stage of the creative process via video on her blog here ) . [...]

By: Vicky

Vicky — Tue, 16 May 2006 14:38:36 +0000

Can someone help me out and tell me where the link to the video clip is? I must be losing my mind.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 May 2006 19:17:00 +0000

Wow! Thank you So much for posting that video.. It gives me so much hope.. I guess it’s sounds kind of dumb, but I always thought that comic artists were just naturally good at remembering all those poses. I used to do figure drawing and painting, and I would always think “darn, this is so hard.. but without the model!? forget about it.” So, thanks, now anything seems possible!

-lauren
ps – were you in Sylvester’s in that pic? I hope so, they have nice breakfast there.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 02:31:00 +0000

Alison:

Wonderful little bit. I’m a painter and I too wouldn’t last a day without references. You can certainly tell in my work where I was looking at something and when I was just “fudging it!” I used to use catalogs too before digital camera. Isn’t it great! Thanks for the video – I loved it!

Lauren Zito

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:04:00 +0000

That was fascinating — I’m an artist and I also teach drawing/painting/etc. I show a video of how William Kentridge works (for those who don’t know, he’s an artist to makes animations from drawings, except that each animation is only a few drawings constantly redrawn and erased over and over) that reminds me a little of this. Except he always seems to be runnign into his bathroom which has a big mirror while he tries hard to draw in his little sketchbook, and then redraw for his videos. I too think the laptop solution would be easier to see, but I can understand not wanting to take the trouble to download.

By: e_journeys

e_journeys — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 01:31:00 +0000

Wonderful process — using the camera is a fabulous idea! Thanks for the glimpse.

Re the first comment here — I’m still on dial-up, so for anyone else who is also broadband-challenged, I just started Play, then hit Pause, and then found something else to do while the video downloaded, so that I could have it play without the hiccups.

Looking forward to the June release!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 03:32:00 +0000

Fascinating! Thank you.

By: Jaibe

Jaibe — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:03:00 +0000

How did you guys ever notice the cat? I was riveted by the artist

By: raffi

raffi — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:59:00 +0000

I can’t wait to see the entire ‘making of’ documentary! (hint hint)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:25:00 +0000

Thanks for posting this. Like others said, it was neat to watch the artist in her element. Thanks to Amy, the camera-person, too.

An Anonymous Suzanne