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Quilla Bung - a folk tale turned into learning lesson for two sapphics to not fuck with geese.
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assignment for my comics class, might redo this but without the constraints we had sometime
Izutsumi in a traditional persian dress!! Her ears poking from under the veil is so cute to me
Sort of talked about this in my last post but ! I really want to see more persian representation in media, specifically animation. Really disheartening when most of the "popular" animated movies taking place in west asia are about war, revolution or just generally orientalist D: Hopefully one day that'll change !!
But till that happens >:) ill make my own representation
hi hello I checked out Laika's Comet a while back and man it's stunning! it's been a bit of a driving inspection for me to potentially make my own comics/stories but I don't know where to begin... what's your writing process like? do you write the story out as if it were a novel first then develop it into a visual medium or is it something entirely different? I've been interested in comics and the like since middle school and I've always wanted to hear someone's process for making them and I hope this ask finds you well
before drawing them, i script my comics the same way you would write out a screenplay! i've written screenplays for a film and a few short TV-episode-length shorts for school, as well as a play. the structure of it just so happens to work really well for comics too.
in screenplays (the way i was taught at least) you cannot write what a character silently thinks or feels - you can only write how they act. anyone who reads the screenplay should be able to interpret that character's unspoken thoughts/feelings/motives from the subtleties of their actions, because in the real world, there are rarely voice-over narratives or thought bubbles.
this also creates a little more tension within the narrative itself... if the character's silent intentions were all revealed to us as the audience, we'd have very little to be curious about. if there's something that you need to show that they wouldn't say outloud (either because its out of character or just not something a normal person would ever do) its your job as the writer to create instances in which that information can be revealed naturally.
i write comics the same way. i DO think narratives or thought bubbles are a useful tool unique to the medium of comics (so i would say dont wave them off by any means) BUT if you learn to write like you would for TV/movies then you can write comics in a way that builds intrigue/tension LIKE would be built in the moving picture... and you will cut any reliance on 'easy' answers behind the knees. basically, you'll train yourself to be a better writer.
also, the way screenplays are organized is soooo much easier to figure out how many pages your comics (page length) are going to be. if one page of written script is one minute of on-screen time, then one pages of script for a COMIC is usually (for me) equal to one page of actual DRAWN comic. i appreciate the efficiency and straight forwardness of the structure.
you know what’s crazy. you can do just about anything
My fave genre is pink girlies who can cause chaos with a hammer
when i got my wisdom teeth removed and was feeling loopy from anasthesia i didn't do anything stupid the only weird thing was that i came up with a new type of themed playthrough for pokemon sun/moon
basically you only use pokemon that are based off of species native to hawaii and play through the game as a rogue conservationist
they/it/she 🏳️⚧️ • telugu desi 🇮🇳 • resident of turtle island • comic artist, illustrator, and occasional writer, i put my work here • i love fish and bugs :3
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