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“HK Argyle Street Kowlon City Section.” - via Wikimedia Commons
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HEY YOUR BLOG IS RLLY COOLYOU SEEM REALLY AWESOME
IF YOU WANNA DO YOU HAVE ANY TIPS OR THINGS TO CONSIDER WITH MAKING COMICS?
OK it's been long enough. It's time to answer this. It's looooong so here's a cut:
The absolute first thing I do when I'm making a comic is doodle the stupidest worst thumbnails with a fat sharpie on a sticky note. I try to keep in mind the dialogue and where that goes (about 1-2 sentences per balloon, and I try to keep the balloons to a minimum. this is a personal preference to keep things readable online. you'll see profesh comics with more dialogue all the time.)
Something to keep in mind while doodling these is the line of action that the boxes will flow through! You'll want to read (unless its a manga) from left to right, top to bottom. That means you'll want the boxes to draw the eye that way. Here's an example of what I mean that I pulled from google.
You'll also want to keep in mind where your characters are in the boxes as well! Comics follow the same principle as movies/film when it comes to crossing the 180. (aka, you'll want to keep your characters on the same side of the "screen" for every "shot") Here's a great tutorial from someone way more qualified than me!
And here's an example from Adventure Time:
In fact a LOT of comic knowledge is improved by knowledge of storyboarding and shot composition! They're really similar in a lot of ways, but comics have the freedom to switch up the size of the "shot" which is a lot of fun. I spend a ton of time looking at animation frames, movie shots, and other professional comics to see how they frame their characters and move between scenes/shots.
Here's some tips for Head Framing (something I do a lot of because i cant be assed to draw full bodies lol)
and I've DEFINITELY used this for thinking about different panels!
Lastly: READ COMICS AND SAVE YOUR FAVORITE COMIC ART! I have sooooo many references/allusions to my favorite comic art and artists in my art (if any batman fans read my comics, see if you can spot some homages to my fave ever batman panels!) Nothing replaces seeing and saving what the industry professionals are doing.
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me, trying to sing along with the conlang lyrics of the Coral Shrine BGM:
(the BGM in question)
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do you read all of the fics you post to your feed blog? do you have any favorites?
I can't really say I read any of them! I don't have much time for fanfiction these days, and when I do read SxF fic, usually I'm reading stuff that's focused on Fiona Frost. For fic recommendations I always recommend looking through my AO3 bookmarks; you can search through those like you would any fic on AO3 (filter by fandom, character, ship, etc) and I do mark the ones I think are genuinely standout as "Rec."
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I say this in the most loving way possible, how the fuck can you write the most expressive and magical tags ever?? How do you have the mental energy to form words? 50% I can only say "nice post op". You inspire me to spread positivity to everyone but I literally can't be this positive and kind all the time. Just want to send you love and know that I appreciate you <3
HKJGH AW RED!! :'] <3 it does take a lot of energy, i understand :'0 i keep a lot of cool art in my tumblr drafts. the art stays in there until i have energy to type all my thoughts out. a lot of things stay stuck in there… i try to make sure art from my friends get out soon though :0 don't feel bad if you can't type a lot!! anything you can manage is okay! no one can be positive and kind all the time, and that's normal! just do what you can. i promise it's enough. (<- these are things i need to remind myself too <3)
a lot of it is literally just me needing to scream hkjfh, i have a lot of thoughts and i love sharing them always. i love rambling, can you tell? (<- joke) also i have a lot of love to give and i love artists and their creations. like WOW someone made a thing!! and they wanted to share it with the world!! AND I GET TO SEE IT!!! i GOTTA tell them i enjoy it!!!!!
it's also my empathy acting up because im also an artist!! and he's like "hey!! you love people writing nice tags on *your* art!! imagine if you were this artist, wouldn't you be happy to see someone tagging it with nice things? :)!" and im like yeah!! if this makes me happy, i should make other people happy too :3
ANYWAY I APPRECIATE YOU TOO RED YOU'RE DEAR TO ME!! SENDING LOVE BACK!!!! <33
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two of my OCs, i'll probably change how they look in the future but this is the gist of it
i haven't decided on a name yet but not-Gumi got stabbed and the weeb cowboy got revenge
not-Gumi is a conscious robot while the weeb is a sapient one, the weeb is infatuated with not-Gumi while not-Gumi just thinks he's her owner, the difference in level of sapience here is due to a past war they had nothing to do with
also due to a fantasy virus they can both use magic that's vaguely based on playing card suits
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