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May 2019

Hey Embassy and welcome back. :slight_smile:
Don't worry about "dumb tones" at least I wouldn't have noticed (though I am tired too lol).

As for your question: I am probably 50/50.
For me writing is important, but at least trying to show the writing with the art is important too.
Now I am not a taught professional but a self taught "whatever". But with every new page and every new day I learn new things. Whether it be in writing or drawing. And while in the process of drawing I often even change little things like dialogue which in the end helps me improving later parts of writing.
Though I see the improvising part as some kind of "director's cut" or "actor's improv". ^^

Welcome! I used to be about 50/50, but I'm coming back from a very long stint away from much creativity in general, so I hear you. I'm like 90% art and 10% writing now. I'm trying to work on a comic and writing is hard. D;
There's no dumb tone, you're good.

Hello!

Hubby draws

I write

We proof each others stuff and make suggestions.

So... I guess we are both 80/20 of our respective stuff?

I love both, and I've always been passionate about storytelling, but in practice I'm more capable on the art side. So 60/40 or 65/35??

(and NNNMMMM)

Your tone was fine, but now I want cat pictures! =P

Almost like I've seen a thread like this before about 50 times.

HMMMmmMMMMmmmm

I'm like 70% shit art and 30% shit writing. Sorry I mean trash.

I am both!
50/50 Even Stevens, and I like to do them both equally, hehe.
I might even plan to post an anthology of short stories (once I finish MDV and get OU's season 2 started).

Community wide, there is a slight majority of artists, I think. This is a lingering effect of Tapas being a site for webcomics for years before novels were introduced. The audience for comics still outnumbers novels by about ten to one (rough guestimation).

I consider myself an editor. After that, I am more of a writer. I've knocked out a couple of short books. I'm currently refining my roleplaying game and card game based on my series, and I count game design as writing. My visual art works have been limited to a couple of memes, novel cover art, and a minor hand in a group-created crossover comic.

Im about 60/40 on the Writing/Art. I have so many graphic novel story ideas that I never get to because I don't have the commitment for drawing it lol. I think that comes across in my work too because the comics I do make are more like illustrated novels.
I also do coding, so maybe making a visual novel might be the next thing Im up for.

I'm 90% writing and 10% art. I've always wanted to be a novelist, so this is what I've trained myself to be (self-taught, but I still studied it a lot) and I don't usually draw unless I need a cover for one of my books. I have considered making comics, and I have a few pages of thumbnails and character designs in the notebook where I keep my story ideas for future novels, but I've never actually started work on a comic.

I'm a 100% artist. Writing for me seems impossible, mainly because of my lingual limitations. I can understand English very well but am no good speaking/writing it. However, I like focusing on art, so it's all fine. Most of the time, I'm lurking on Wattpad looking for stories I can may turn into a comic with the author's permission but one day I'd like to hop on the collab wagon and work with a writer partner (I'm just not ready yet).

I'm an artist, but then the right song comes on and I can't stop writing. Honestly, I feel more like a film director with 0 budget and no interest in working with anyone else. I love to tell a story, even if it's with one picture. I can't write without doing it visually.

Wow, things are way more evenly spread than I expected! That's really cool! And what's this about Tapas now doing both comics and novels, I didn't hear about that?

Anyway, for those who are much more artists and are looking for someone to write stuff for them, do pm me! My current project (Embassy of Time, I know creative with the names) is about writing stuff that people can use for free in their creative work. I am creating an expansive universe and currently writing what is set to be the world's longest (real) novel, with the idea that others can pretty freely publish their own work based on it, like doing comics versions, or an illustrated version, or audio version, etc. of one ormore chapters or whatever. The first 5 chapters (looong chapters, about 200-250K words in total!) are at the website, embassyoftime.com (still totally WIP).

I am not a fan of Wattpad's forum structure, so learning how active the writing community is here makes me really want to engage with that aspect of Tapas. I'm gonna prowl the forums now for anything I overlooked, but if writers want to discuss writing, let me know, okay??

As for the worry about tone, I've had a bad run this last... decade... and I'm a bit uneasy about... everything. Thanks for the nice words!