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渡鸦之翼

Wings of The Ravens

    Okay, I finally decide to introduce my project "渡鸦之翼" here on Tumblr as well. If you have talked to/discussed with me about it or if you've seen my works on other platforms, you probably know some info already. I also include some simple info of "how I think/work" when working on the project in this blog. 

     And I am sorry for the grammar mistakes and sorts of problems here! 😂

     渡鸦之翼, the current English translation to it is Wings of The Ravens (WOTR for short). It's not really the name of the AU, instead, it's the title of the graphic novel / project. But regarding the title as the name of the AU is more convenient for me to mention and talk about it. 

     It's inspired by TUE, but definitely NOT about TUE. DP is a PG-13(FV) show, and what I'm writing is a graphic novel (probably PG-13 or PG-14), so there're lots of differences between the AU and the origin in many aspects. I am doing my best to make the AU reasonable, with a set of rules that make sense (hopefully😂) in some ways. In addition, I don't follow every rule and don't use many of the concepts from DP. I tend to make WOTR feels more… original, but still recognizable, which really requires a lot of effort and devotion. 😂

     Apart from expressing my love towards DP, I also want to learn and take a deeper look at drawing, fiction writing (story telling), translation, as well as practising the skills related. I will convey my opinions on many things, discuss problems/ topics about life, nature and so on. And this is a good chance for me to communicate with various people… Another important thing is that working on WOTR helps me learn how to work on my completely original projects. 

Basic Info of The AU Where WOTR Takes Place: 

     It's kind of peaceful, compared to the original. People live normal/regular lives and nobody is too powerful. Anything like the damages to the worlds showed in TUE (or things like that) aren't possible to happen. 

     No Reign Storm. 

     Characters wouldn't be completely good/ evil. Villains are called villains usually because there are conflicts of interests between them and the main characters. 

     Danny is separated into two, and the  situation is similar to that in TUE. But the "human" lives, he's one of the narrators. I call him Daniel in order to differ him from the halfa Danny and the ghost "created" by Danny and Vlad… 

     Most canon characters are OOC, compared to their origins. It's an AU and I don't bother making characters act exactly like the original. 

     Ghost Zone is a world, and a "transfer station" (similar to some concepts from my other projects). It's not regarded as a dimension and is not as chaotic as the original. 

     Ghosts aren't one "species". They don't follow one set of rules particularly despite of the basic rules of the world (they're from/in). Like, Walker's rules don't work for everyone. And he only takes care of the special ones who're in his range of power, and doesn't look for others' troubles. 

     Are ghosts dead people's souls here? I don't really care. They are more like creatures/ aliens here, and sometimes, can even be machines and a freaking island/ mountain. "Ghost" is just a name anyway… (But the so-called living ones can be the ones who are actually, dead. ☺)

     "Ghosts are evil" is nonsense! ?😒

     Creatures/ objects from the Earth are aliens (or probably "ghosts") to GZ, and earth creatures can be very dangerous to ghosts sometimes. 

     There're other "worlds" as well. And there are other fantasy creatures. 

Time for the more detailed info about WOTR! 

     The most important rule of fiction writing doesn't allow me to talk much about characters (not to mention the plots!), so there's only some pretty simple (shallow) stuff here. 

     I often redesign the canon characters. The redesigns for many of the canon characters is basically changing their outfits and only a bit of their physical appearances, since I want them to be pretty recognizable. Some important characters are reset in some ways. For some characters who aren't really noticeable in DP, they might be changed a lot or even be completely reset. 

     There are more than one narrator, which is really hard to handle. But it provides reliable views to readers to know/ understand situations, considering that some narrators aren't being honest all the time, or sometimes being too subjective and emotional. Though I don't switch the narrators all the time of course! 

     The major stories are about Danny's (and his "counterpart"'s) freaking (daily?) life(s).  

（↑Sketchy stuff🙄）

    Daniel represents Danny's "human half". In early concepts, I said that "He's a human!", but now, I have to correct that. He REPRESENTS the human half, (and he is regarded as the human) which means he doesn't have to be an actual one. He looks basically the same to Danny, except for some little details. There's another design for Daniel, which is an symbolic image. The obvious difference is that he now has a pair of "wings", which are technically NOT wings, and I call them 类翼体 ("Wing-like things" is the closest translation I can think of). The wing-like things serve as a symbol/ symbols, meaning that they don't have to be sth "real". Though I still designed a functional structure for them. When Daniel's winged, he acts a bit… different. So it's okay if you say he's another (another?) counterpart of Danny.

【One of the most important thing is that he is fun to draw. Pretty much explains why there's sth so weird here】

     Jazz, Sam and Tucker are alive and well. (I don't see why they should be dead…) Their characters in the show are sometimes… weird… I want them to have some better reasons for most of their actions and have some actual developments. And the designs… Sam's outfit just can't look that similar to that of Danny! And, there's Valerie! There's got to be Valerie! Another kiddo who is really fun to draw—— the ghost "created" by Danny and Vlad. Let's just call him Dan. This wonderful child is absolutely OOC (but I have no regret and I can explain anyway). The original design (and concepts/ settings) is awesome, but it isn't suitable for WOTR.

(I haven't really posted drawings of all the characters who are mentioned here🙄)

The Art and Story Telling

     WOTR is a graphic novel, so I use storyboads to show events and scenes. I try to use the ways of fiction writing (literary novels and sorts) to tell stories and I also learn and use methods of story telling from movies/films, TV series, news, comics, illustration books and many other forms of stories. Of course I read graphic novels, and they are really inspiring! 

     As for the drawings, I always try my best to make okay/fine stuff. My basic is not good. But I am learning and working to get better!

Art style isn't one of the most important things when actually drawing, so I usually don't bother to worry about it. Although, in my opinion, art styles can be really helpful to story telling. So I will switch the style obviously if the plot needs (or when I want to). But anyway, my art will still be my art, the same goes to my writing.

     I don't usually stick to DP style completely. When I imitate sth that's because I think that sth looks nice and it can be handled. In addition, the ways I design characters (including OCs) might look a bit similar to DP's… 

     The main stories are always digital art. 

     Dialogues are particularly difficult to write. They play an really important role… The good thing is that I don't have to tell everything (not literally) through dialogues like the original show (and most movies/ TV series), so in this case, it will be more like literary fictions, which means it has the advantage of letting readers to discover/ think more by themselves. 

     Less dialogues (telling) is difficult for me to write and organise the storyboads, but it reduce the pressure of translation, which is a big problem I have to face.

Languages and Translation

     For most phans who writes fics and/ or makes comics, translation isn't even sth they would need to consider. However, it is a real thing here.

     WOTR(the main stories!) will originally be in Chinese (Mandarin), and now I'm certain that I will make (at least) TWO language versions for WOTR (the main stories), one in Chinese and another one in English. You know, sometimes I have to make THREE versions (usually the conceptual contents and stuff aside from the main stories…) (okay, I now sometimes prefer to write in Cantonese… But it's so hard to translate… ). 

     I will try my best to translate contents into English when some certain part is finished writing. And I need actual help indeed. 

     Not all dialogues will be translated. 

😐

     I think the concept of ghost speak is interesting. It would be fun if there were ghost speak in WOTR, but that would take too much time for me to figure it out (I'm not too interested in it anyway). So there isn't ghost speak. Still, I want to use sth that has a similar effect. You see, I prefer not to write/ draw some pretty but meaningless/random scribbles, so I will use actual language(s) (or to be exact, actual writing systems and fonts). Honestly, I can just use my native language as well as using some strange fonts. The words look just like little drawings/ scribbles. And there're codes! The simple ones of course! And don't worry, the dialogues that won't be translated shouldn't be a big problem while reading! Because they only take up a very small part of the textual contents and aren't very very important info… (They are usually spoken by my OCs… Besides, using codes is fun…)

     Alright, this is basically some simple info about WOTR. 

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     I want to post WOTR to Deviant Art once I have finished the pages of first two or three chapters. I haven't finished writing (/drawing) WOTR, and I find that I cannot access DA without a VPN now! Don't understand why it is also blocked, which really bothers me.

     There's another platform called Lofter, to which I will certainly post WOTR. On Lof, DP isn't as well-known as it is here, but at least the situation isn't that bad. But I think the platform isn't friendly to browsers who don't use its APP. 

     I will try to post more info and concepts about WOTR as well as my other projects and stuff. If possible, I might post the graphic novel here, too. I really would love to share my works and be more active here, but it really really depends. 

     I've heard that the fire wall will update soon, and when it's done, most VPNs won't work anymore, which means it will be extremely difficult for me to access many international media platforms/ websites like Tumblr and Instagram (and please not DA! ). I don't know when will that happen…  But you can still find me on other platforms anyway… 

     Oh, and if you'd like to see/ know more about my works (like freaking concept art of WOTR), you can find me on Deviant Art, Art Station, Lofter, Weibo, and Instagram! Links provided in my profile! 

——————Christina Leung (/C. Rexy L.)

——————2019.05.01.