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Latest page of "The Drowning". [image] [image]

Jul 20, '20

Looking for an artist. Paid/Unpaid *Before you run away, Please read*

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I'm pretty sure I threw up in my mouth a little bit when I read the word "Katizen".

Jul 16, '20

Latest page of "The Drowning". [image]

Jul 10, '20

Fonts for Comic Creators

I use Wild Words and its various iterations: http://fontsgeek.com/fonts/cc-wild-words [image]

Jul 10, '20

Do you resemble your protagonist?

How many times have you used this image as a punchline? Never stop with the rock.

Jul 10, '20

Do you resemble your protagonist?

Oh absolutely. This is my first comic, I work professionally as an artist but have never really written anything in my adult life, so ultimately I ended up gravitating towards writing what I know (myself and my own experiences). It is through the filter of a weird horror story, but yeah, it is catha…

Jul 10, '20

Do you resemble your protagonist?

My main protagonist has all of the worst qualities of my personality/behaviours, while a supporting character actually ended up physically looking like me unintentionally (and he's supposed to be sketchy). I don't love myself.

Jul 10, '20

How Many Layers?

Questions

I don't practice good file hygiene (from the latest page of my comic). [image]

Jul 10, '20

What are some of your biggest unexpected challenges?

How much detail to include in characters at certain points of distance from the "camera". I work as a concept artist for my day job so I have a tendency to over-render characters. I think the most recent page of my comic struck a decent balance, but I really had to force myself to take away detail a…

Jul 9, '20

What kind of zone do you go in when you’re creating?

I tend to brainstorm while I'm exercising and don't like being interrupted. When I'm actually drawing, I will put on hours and hours of "Unsolved Mysteries" episodes that play in the background and kind of vanish into my own private little mind hole where I oscillate between feeling really excited a…

Jul 9, '20

Latest page of "The Drowning". [image]

Jul 7, '20

Comic’s preforming better than novel?

I follow a few novels here, but Tapas certainly feels like first and foremost a comic platform, so I could understand why novels wouldn't get a lot of attention. I wouldn't blame someone for avoiding novels here entirely, their inclusion feels like a bit of an afterthought. I imagine creators would …

Jul 4, '20

Latest page of "The Drowning". [image]

Jun 28, '20

Latest page of "The Drowning". [image]

Jun 24, '20

Latest page of "The Drowning". [image]

Jun 18, '20

Latest page of "The Drowning". [image]

Jun 15, '20

For people following The True You

Making comics is fucking hard. You're not pathetic for being unhappy with your work at times, it kind of means you're human. Give yourself a break. Do something that makes you happy.

Jun 13, '20

Will events of 2020 affect your comic's future direction?

I incorporated the pandemic/quarantine into my comic in a small way. The comic was always set slightly in the future with a past event that took place in early 2020, so I included masks in the flashback as well as a quarantine joke at another point to show that the characters had lived through it an…

Jun 12, '20

Latest page of "The Drowning". [image]

Jun 10, '20

Want to share my Paper of world building for my comic Open Flame but don't want to spoil

I think the reality is that your world building will never be as interesting to other people as it is to you. World building is great when it happens in the background and compliments a good story and compelling characters.

Jun 10, '20

How to avoid writing the next The Eye of Argon?

I actually don't think The Eye of Argon is all that much worse than most of the Forgotten Realms novels (which I was obsessed with in Junior High and I can now recognize as being pretty badly written). I'd say the worst fantasy novel I've ever read is easily Eragon by ‎Christopher Paolini. That was …

Jun 8, '20

Let's talk about booze

I'm a recovering alcoholic/drug addict, I spent most of my late 20's/early 30's in and out of treatment facilities and rehabs (I'm sober now). As a consequence I know more about alcohol and what it does to the brain than most people do. For something so socially acceptable, it sure can kill you in a…

Jun 8, '20

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