Llyrel

Llyrel

emergencycoven.com/

Ginseng coffee addict, metalhead in plainclothes, writer and artist (or so I like to think).
I make a supernatural comic called The Emergency Coven.

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Having the same issue with Firefox on desktop. Not even the old trick of holding Ctrl while clicking on "mark all read" works anymore. ...However, it's also true that the site seems to be having problems loading pages in general. I tried clicking on one of the premium comics to see if the notific…

Hi @ZINA11111111, thanks for taking the time to reply, but I feel like my earlier questions still haven't been answered. Namely: -Can you clarify whether or not you're actually working with publishers such as Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics and 20th Century Fox, since their logos used to be on th…

I'm not planning to leave as of now, but it does feel a lot like the creator community is being left behind and it saddens me greatly [:sweat_01:]

I have... mixed feelings about this, actually. Don't get me wrong, I'm GLAD they gave more space to community comics in the home page of the desktop website. However... ...This also seems to come at the price of community comics almost completely disappearing from the app. I mean, the comics…

I also have more than one part I'm really looking forward to :smiley: A few of them are already out: the scene with Adrian's dream, the part where Adrian's powers are finally revealed and the vision caused by his retrocognition skills. I loved making those scenes because they allowed me to get creative w…

Because that's how I always envisioned my story [:tapa_pop:]

LOL! No worries, I think it's perfectly normal for a creator to want some attention on their comic! And I also have similar worries sometimes, so I have a similar litmus test for myself, lol [:sweat_02:] Tbh, when referring to "creators can tell when you're just using them" I'm mostly talking a…

Started to make my first comics as a kid in the nineties using pen and paper. Most of my comics where made on squared paper notebooks, but I also loved to make little comic book "issues", complete with articles, puzzles and games, just like the printed comics I had at home [:sweat_02:] I wanted to …

It's definitely a mix of both, at least in my opinion. WARNING: I write WAY too much [:cry_01:] On the one hand, I think that, for long-term success, there needs to be at least a certain degree of quality. Money, connections, being in the right place at the right time can bring a lot of eyes to…

I have way too much time in my hands and decided to put them together in nice little collections [:sweat_02:] Allow me to introduce... Adrian "Ray of Sunshine" Webster: [image] Aaron "what do you mean, magic is real?" Challis: [image] Tyler & Regan "We're not possessed!" Seas (aka Tyresias): …

I like to make playlists for my story and characters, though I never listen to them while writing, because most of the songs have lyrics and I find them too distracting :'D I do listen to them while drawing, tho! I have a bunch of different playlists for different things, btw, such as "songs that…

-cough- I mean, considering that my illustration teacher DID make sure I wouldn't get the job when a rather famous local company expressed the intention to hire me, you may have a point there... [:sweat_02:] -cough- Also, the second part of your post, LMAO! :'D Glad you found them useful! I…

Yeah, of course it's important to learn the basics before using shortcuts and that one shouldn't overdo it, but in this case my advice wasn't really targeted at "complete beginners who have never drawn anything ever", but mostly at "people who already know how to draw and are looking for ways to s…

Can relate. I struggled with perfectionism for a very long time. I still struggle to this day, I tend to be overly critical of my art to the point that sometimes I even lack the courage to post promo pics on my social media. BUT! I've also been posting my comic for 3 years at this point, so ho…

I either include the info in dialogues or show it in panels rather than explicitly mentioning it :smiley: Some examples: -In Chapter 1, Adrian and a friend investigate on crime scene involving a vampire and a shapeshifter. His friend is not as familiar with the supernatural as he is, so she asks a few q…

I write the script for The Emergency Coven directly in English. This is for a few reasons: -Sentence structure in my native language, Italian, is very different. A direct translation can often result in clunky and unnecessarily long sentences that feel too "literary" and not realistic at all. To…

Welcome back to the forums! That cover is so cool, aaaah :heart_eyes: So, about making my comic work for an audience. I think @darthmongoose summed it up perfectly with this sentence here: Write for yourself, present for the audience. A lot of The Emergency Coven features self-indulgent stuff. The story…

Yusss, using a laundromat is how I imagined my character would solve the laundry problem when it's too cold, haha! :smiley: Also, YES to Google Street View. Absolute life saver, especially when it comes to drawing comic panels. As for setting the comic in a different country... yeah, it IS a bit daunti…

Lately I'm pretty much only using Procreate on my iPad Pro for drawing. Comic editing is done in Photoshop and the lettering is done in CSP, while the vertical version is done in Affinity Design. For 3D references, I alternatively use CSP models, The Sims or Blender. I still have all my tradi…

For me it has to be... drying clothes in the USA [:sweat_02:] See, there is this one teeny-tiny sentence in my comic, in which a character says that he picked a pair of boxer shorts from the "clothing line outside". When I wrote it, I didn't really think much of it. You wash your clothes, you put …

Thanks for the tip, just tried it and it worked! [:tapa_pop:] No need to deactivate uBlock Origin either. One additional thing I noticed: it only seems to work with clicking + holding the CTRL button to open a new tab. Clicking with your mouse wheel (which also opens a new tab) won't do the trick…

Just tested again. Clicked 22 times with no result. Then I tried to temporarily deactivate uBlock Origin and clicked on "mark all read" again. The notifications disappeared. Not sure if there's an issue with uBlock Origin or if it was just a coincidence, tho [:sweat_02:] will have to try again with …

Unfortunately, "mark all read" doesn't seem to be working on Firefox [:cry_swag:] been trying multiple times since yesterday, could get rid of a grand total of one (1) notification... out of 78 [:cry_01:] marking everything as read from the phone app doesn't seem to do anything for desktop either, d…

Gotta love those guys! Not to mention the ones paying in :sparkles: exposure :sparkles: :'D (bonus point when they get angry at your refusal and keep insisting that they're actually "really famous" with "a lot of followers" and tbh YOU should be the one paying them for the honor of working with them [:cry_swag:])

Haven't worked on comics commissions, but I did illustrations and book covers in the past, so here are my personal red flags: Lots of work, little pay: some people apparently do not realize that asking for a single character portrait on a flat background is VERY different from, say, requesting …

Yeah, I have the same problem re: working full time as I already have a job. So far they haven't told me anything about what they're planning to do, we exchanged like 3 messages and pretty much all of them were along the lines of "we're interested in your work and would like to offer you a paid job"…

Hey everyone! So, I was recently contacted on Instagram by someone who told me that they're working for Legend HQ comics, a platform where they're apparently planning to release "audio comics" in multiple languages. Basically, from what I could understand, there'd be voice actors reading the dial…

I take notes, draw sketches and work on outlines for my other ideas, but avoid jumping into the full thing. I tried working on multiple projects at once, but it never worked: I'd either up working on just one thing and scrapping the other or ended up scrapping both to do something else entirely [:sw…

Hello there, fellow Italian! :smiley: I haven't made a localized version of my comic yet, but from what I've noticed, the general consesus re: comics in languages other than English seems to be "it's very difficult to market a non-English comic on English speaking platforms" [:cry_swag:] Sadly, platfo…

I got my social media pages... [image] ...But for some reason Google keeps thinking that I'm searching for something else XD up until now, it'd suggest the name of a construction company with a spelling similar to my own nickname, now it switched to a medicine for some reason? :'D Google Images…