For your series, what are you studying/researching now?

[vapidink]

Not for anything I'm posting, but something I'll post next year. I was just looking up 1930's New York and learned some interesting things about speakeasies, the prohibition, and Radio City Music Hall. Apparently, the opening night show was a disaster, with people walking out during the show, and the reviews were basically "all five people at the show thought it was awful, but the place was nice!" lol. And then they just turned it into a movie theater.

[Drippy]

I'm reading books on how to publish or write because if I'm being honest I don't really know what I'm doing.

[river121693]

I've been looking at Vietnamese myths/history for character inspirations. I moved to the US when I was in elementary school, so I'd forgotten a lot. Recently read about Lady Trieu who rode elephants and was generally pretty badass:

"I'd like to ride storms, kill orcas in the open sea, drive out the aggressors, reconquer the country, undo the ties of serfdom, and never bend my back to be the concubine of whatever man."

Lady Triệu

[CleverGoat]

Interesting. I am researching a couple of things for a new story but I am mainly researching what requirements are there to be a nutritionist and dietitian since that is the potential MC is aspiring to be.

[thepenmonster]

I've been studying vegetables. I've been bouncing between Alien Plant Lady and Alien Plant Alien for a design and trying to find a way to get something in between

[VersusVII]

I'm studing a bit of marketing to find a better way to promote my comic.
I bought some manga manuals where they explain the correct way to place balloons and elements in the panels to convey the emotions and the mood of the situation.

[pilot-obvious]

I've been studying a bit of Chicago scenery so I can include some familiar places in my webcomic backgrounds! It's been a lot of fun going through old photos I took as well as stuff other people have shared online.

Aside from that, I'm also doing research for a prequel I'm writing! I've done a little research about what classes an undergraduate in a computer science major would be taking.

[allenT]

While watching a wuxia classic such as Jin Ying's Return of Condor Heroes, I suddenly had to look for the origin of 'wuxia'武俠 for no reason.

But upon watching the video, I noticed something I didn't realized before:
At the roots, my works has some Wuxia elements all along!!

I should've known better! As chinese I was exposed to Wuxia from very young age and didn't have a deeper thought about it. I always thought some of my worldbuilding like magic system was based from the battle shounen power system from Japan-- such as the grand daddy Dragon ball series, but it was the mangaka Toriyama who brought the elements of wuxia(and xianxia too) into his works

[morganicfoods]

I kept week and month as used (technically translated) words. I just let the audience know that an Agalatian "month" is not the same as a usual month. I've already thrown a whole bunch of made up words at my audience, don't want to overwhelm them with more.

As for my studying... I've been studying my own conlang in order to write a bunch of lyrics in it. It's been tough since I'm not a lyric writer in any language at all. But it's important to know a lot of words in order to come up with usable lyrics.

[allenT]

Didn't realize there's a pagoda that looks similar to my story's version (i haven't found out this pagoda before.) So I gave it a watch, it may helps.

[SpookyLocker]

researching medieval tools and buildings because I can't draw, for my series the last elf

Read THE LAST ELF | Tapas Web Comics

[feuersichel]

I've been studying how buildings collapse and how the debris looks like for a scene, where my charas find an ancient ruin. But I tend to dig myself deep into such stuff. Resulting in NOT working on my comic xD

Here an example of a WIP I'm currently working on.

[abigaillmartin]

What kind of sandwiches they ate in the Victorian era because there will be a scene where Roy and Ernest are eating sandwiches. Annnnnd

Peanut Butter hasn’t been invented yet! I looked it up and saw these.

Tomato and horseradish sandwich

Sardine sandwiches

Baked bean and lettuce

Ham and olive

Potato sandwich?

Jelly and cheese

So in the scene Roy and Ernest will be eating sardine sandwiches as well as jam and cheese sandwiches.

Keep in mind the bread would’ve had to be freshly made for the sandwiches to be eatable too so there’s that. 🤣

[llobucervallince]

researched chinese and korean names, have a PDF of everything about huli jings (chinese version of the kitsunes), also made research of things like selkies, forges, kitchens, oriental dressing, different kinds of food (have to make a board for pinterest about it), different kinds of weapons and so on

[thepenmonster]

Guitars, mics, amps, speakers, stands, drum kits, and the relative proportions of them compared to the human using them.

A good example is the drum kit. I've grown used to the idea of the drummer buried behind a wall of toms and cymbals like Neal Peart, but..

Ringo begs to differ and Ringo was/ is a king.

[abigaillmartin]

I love you Ringo! You go Ringo!

[allenT]

Bumping it.
(I see there's no 30-day expiry for this thread,great!)

[SereinChoo]

Chinese culture - writing about Chinese Fantasy but hoping to make it closely true to the culture as possible.

[abigaillmartin]

At the very moment I’m trying to look for Irish lullabies. But there is none pre-1980s

Like none from Elsie’s time.

However there is a buttload of English ones. I think I know why, but it’s still frustrating.

I want there to be a scene where Ernest’s mother sings or something. I don’t know.

[Lensing]

I just finished a christmas story, I know a lot about christmas because I´m german and we love christmas
but I did some research about traditions to get inspiration