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Here we are with 91-96 of my 100 character sketches. This week I was in the mood to revisit some of my oldest characters that I'm still fond of.
As I'm nearing the end of this little project I'm inevitably getting more reflective. What will the last set be? Who will be the last characters? Am I trying to make a statement with this?
Instead, I think I'll try my best to just keep having fun with it and going with my instinct. It seems to have served me well so far. And it's given me an opportunity to revisit some old friends.
Flavor text goes as follows:
1: "And can we stop by the Bean?"
2: "In the time it takes me to pull off my helm, I could be killed. I don’t care. I just want to breathe."
3: Echo was always mad when the other guys would mess with their connections. They would always bring up the same anecdote, "You cross the wrong wires and flip the wrong switch and you get a feedback loop and blow out the speakers AND your ears."
4: Roj was about 15 minutes into her Game Awards watch along stream before she noticed that her "tab of unspeakable fanfics" was visible on camera.
5: Ashley had one thought in her head when she felt the rip in the shopping bag, "Please tell me that wasn't the iPad."
Visual development for Tangled (2010) by Paul Felix
How to Comics Tips & Tricks, and Deep Dive Sneak Peek!
The new How to Comics reward levels debut this month! Both will cover how to make and create comics and all the little stuff that goes into going that! They’ll each be like a little monthly class.
Here’s a sneak peek at what you can expect from these levels! For more on this month’s topic, become a patron!
You can find more information on my patreon blog post here
And next month, we’ll be tackling chibis, if you’ve never wanted to learn how I do them ^_-
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How to make Good Characters for Dummies
So, you don't know how to make good characters? Well this might not be the most accurate guide but it's how I do it and the thing most people like best about my writing style is my characters.
Step 1 - Personality
You need to know what kind of person your characters is, which will determine how they act and speak for the rest of the story. You should find at least 5 good traits and 4 bad traits for every character, including villains. Always have the amount of weaknesses be at most 2 less than the amount of strengths.
Step 2 - Goal
What does your character want? Why do they want it? What will they do to get it? All of these should tie into your character's personality. Desperate character? They will do literally anything to achieve their goal. Kind character, they will ask for help to achieve their goal. Ect.
Step 3 - Who
Who is your character fundamentally? Gender, age, job, ect.
Step 4 - Story role
What do they do. Why?
Step 5 - Design
What do they look like? Use pinterest for this or just the internet in general for inspiration. Or just draw it out if you can.
Step 6 - Actions
Make sure their actions always align with their personality and goal. Draw upon real life people to figure stuff out
Step 7 - Relationships
Draw upon real life for this too. Determine the relationship between the two to one or a few words. Then insert the personalities and goals
the post about fanfic writers updating despite wild life circumstances is funny and great, but to all the slow writers, the writers who can’t focus when life is happening a lot, or who simply like taking time off from writing: you’re doing amazing, fandom is not an obligation, and there are many people who prefer short fics, or who read slowly and are in no rush for updates.
if you’re white and wanna write a poc character and feel awkward about it i implore you to ignore any twitblr stuff treating it as a massive ethical burden and instead come in more with the same mindset you’d have if you wanted to write about idk firefighters but didn’t know anything about firefighters so you do... research. Like fuck off with the weird kinda creepy calls for spiritual introspection you’re not writing about god damn space aliens you’re writing about humans and if you think you need more perspective of different life experiences just read?
a comic about different types of storytellers
Voices of the Dark Masterlist
My ‘Din’s Haunted’ comic series.
Summary: Din has had the Darksaber for a few months now after rescuing his son. With Grogu gone to train as a Jedi, he continues bounty hunting under Boba’s rule on Tatooine but there’s something more that’s tormenting him.
Setting/timeline: A few months after season 2
Length: 92 pages
Warnings: Violence, blood, gore, mental anguish, ANGST, fighting, rage, manipulation, man pain??
PDF of the full comic HERE
Note: I did not come up with the concept of the Dark Saber being haunted. The original concept for ‘Din’s Haunted’ is from the lovely @kyberpistol and @keldabekush. Either way I fell in love with their concept and made my own story from it as well!
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
Thank you to everyone who read and shared this story. It means the world to me!
it’s never too early to teach children about the devaluation of labor!
(from an American Girls book)
U say to urself "i dont need notches, ill know how to orient the pieces when sewing bc i made the pattern" this is the devil speaking. Put notches in ur pattern and cut them into ur fabric. Youll be glad for it
twitter cooked me for this one
The road to forgiveness is paved with miles of bullying
I haven’t been on tumblr for quite as long as a lot of people but over several years I’ve noticed this interesting gradual sorta,, shift in the general culture? that it went from this mostly depressed, nihilistic outlook where people would regularly joke about hating themselves and being hopeless and depressed, to a wave of vehemence of “STOP hating everything actually the world is Good and you deserve love!!!” type posts, to now, where those aggressive ‘PSAs’ have faded away and instead I regularly see people romanticizing simple things like stars and hot tea and rainy mornings, and waxing poetic about their friends, and just trying to put love out there. and I don’t know exactly what that means (someone who knows more than me could probably say something smart about generational expression and trauma or popular perception of mental health and whatnot), but I do know that it makes my heart very full to see people learn to love the world and themselves by extension, and a whole userbase adopting healthier coping mechanisms, and therefore teaching the younger users to do so as well. I might just be following different people, but I really do think we’ve grown. everyone has grown. five years ago it wasn’t unusual for the next post on my dash to be a scathing commentary on why nothing matters or an anon ripping into someone they barely knew or someone complaining about how pathetic their interests are. now I have mutuals who get excited and spam reblog art of cows and friends I see tagging each other in pictures of frogs and strangers writing paragraphs about how much I matter. it makes me happy. idk. just an observation I wanted to make. I think people are good and everyone’s just trying their best at the end of the day
(my old hamilton fanart lol) death doesn’t discriminate😭😭
Want to learn something new in 2022??
Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)
40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)
Excellent basic crochet video series
Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)
Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)
How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)
Another drawing character faces video
Literally my favorite art pose hack
Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??
Introduction to flying small aircrafts
French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding
Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)
Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)
Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)
Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:
Calculus 1 (full semester class)
Learn basic statistics (free textbook)
Introduction to college physics (free textbook)
Introduction to accounting (free textbook)
Learn a language:
Ancient Greek
Latin
Spanish
German
Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)
French
Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)
Any phrase that's 4 words, each with 2 syllables, can be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
~ CAN THIS BE FAMILY? ~ ANGSTY FOUND FAMILY PROMPTS
requested by: @20-crows-in-a-trenchcoat
Feel free to use and reblog!
being torn between opening up and shutting everyone out
needing help but being unable to ask for it
keeping things to themselves even though they know they shouldn't
falling back into old patterns
not being ready to trust anyone new
saying the opposite of what they're feeling
not feeling seen as they had hoped
only taking care of everyone else but not themselves
not wanting to be 'fixed'
being extremely grateful for their found family but feeling bad for not being able to show their gratitude
still having to sort their feelings out on their own because they can't stand to be seen in an emotional state
crying when someone shows them love
thinking they're too sensitive/too broken to be a part of the found family
holding back from truly being themselves
not knowing how to handle being accepted by someone for the first time
being stressed out about possibly doing something wrong because they're terrified to lose what they finally have
being unable to believe that the support in the found family is really unconditional
'Will they leave me? Will they leave me? Will they leave?' as the constant background noise in their head
being unable to tell the truth
not getting better despite the perfect circumstances in their new found family
Writing advice from my uni teachers:
If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.
Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.
Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.
Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.
it’s time to trace~!
heads up. the charts in the middle are very rough guides. everything about copying is super grey, you need to use your own judgement…also I have more notes
Keep reading
how it feels "trusting the process" as a writer/artist
lil art dump cuz i haven’t posted here in a lil bit
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The younger siblings have passed judgement.
a brozone blast from the past (also sorry for making it emo at the end😇)
Sparklemuffins.. you will hear me out