shazzbaa

Shazzbaa

runewriters.com

Hello friends!! I'm very wordy but I promise I am friendly! :>
My comic is Runewriters. :>

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TECHNICALLY my first fanfiction was about the Super Mario world; I made an OC who worked for Bowser and trained piranha plants to attack and had a whole story I wrote on notebook paper about her interactions with Bowser & co. She started out as Basically Me but then I ended up making her more cool & …

I agree with @DiegoPalacios -- I think a Magic System doesn't do a lot of good unless it has a reason to exist. And that reason can be plot-relevance, rules of how magic works that will affect the characters lives and affect how the story plays out; or it can be symbolic, magic that works a certain …

A lot of my "chapters" end up with a small scene at the beginning or end -- like, at the end of chapter one, after the main characters' scene is wrapped up, there's a quick 5 page interlude of a couple of the main villains meeting elsewhere up to discuss what they've learned. I do a lot of little sc…

Man, I don't feel like there's an across-the-board Best Answer honestly? Even in terms of what I want to happen -- like, it depends on what's been established before, or what kind of series it is. If My Little Pony, a series where Friendship canonically manifests as powerful magic, were to require t…

What makes dialogue cheesy? I partially ask because I genuinely don't know! But also partially because this sounds like the kind of word people might use differently? Like, one person's cheese is another person's goofy-but-sincere; one person calls a thing "cheesy" affectionately because they lov…

Something that could be described as "talent" exists, but it's not what people think. I don't think you start with a talent for Drawing. or a talent for Calculus or a talent for Writing. You may have an intuitive sense of colour, you may have a good grasp of motion, you might have an affinity for …

Yeah, I think it's tough to make that judgement call on who's "obviously faking." You can do your absolute best and still feel like the people out there who are Really Good At This are going to judge you, so you make a lot of excuses. I do think it's a bad practice -- not because it's "faked modes…

Technically, you can do it too! It took me about 12 years of constant practice before I really drew something that looked the way I wanted it to. But for most of those years I was a little kid, so like, you could probably get there even faster than me. My comic's discord server has a couple of f…

I don't really look to predict plots or figure out what's going to happen. I'm sorta along for the ride. But like, sometimes knowing what's gonna happen is half the fun. If it's a set of tropes I enjoy, then seeing it play out with characters I grow to care about can still be a lot of fun for me. …

Tagging is what I think should happen too! I don't think we're confused about terminology, I think we're just missing each other in intent -- the intent of my last post was to say "Oh, heavens no, I don't want all curated content -- here's what I meant by that comment about sorting content! P.S., re…

Nope! That wasn't a direct reference to anything that you said -- it's more relevant to the discussion of "how to get smaller creators on the front page" in general. Because that's always the tricky thing! You wanna hilight comics that aren't as easily noticed, but also figure out how to do that w…

I think the comment on groups is a good thought! That's also the reason I keep advocating for a more robust tagging system here on Tapas. Giving creators the power to make their own categories would make a system where it's much easier for readers to find "more stuff like this," and easier for creat…

Here's thoughts from an intellectual property lawyer on the matter! The basic gist: So if it's a casual mention, you can call your McDonald's a McDonald's. If you're going to treat a company as a character in the story, like for example, if Wendy's is giving away a free tour of the burger fact…

It's not useful advice. If someone asks "how do I get more subs" the only true answer is "keep creating." There are also some things you can do to get more eyes on your work, but ultimately this is a difficult question to answer, because it's the wrong question. There isn't an answer. Fixing your …

I've mostly seen negative responses to this practice in a general sense. Like, you're not often going to get someone responding to this with GET OFF MY WALL but you do see people muttering about it on the forums or in other places, talking about how it feels weird and desperate to target individua…

I don't like...... Make Official Looking Reference Sheets most times but I do draw the character a whole bunch outside the comic to get a good idea of how they're put together.

Nah! Like, I listed a few places in my post about stuff I've done for fun! In fact, that's one of the big reasons I gave for potentially wanting to work with someone collaboratively! I'm following you now though, I think! I do think you're right that context is playing a role here -- the context…

(I'm also gonna caution real quick because there's a tiny bit of a motte and bailey happening here, and I suspect it's probably unintentional!! First post: Most recent post: The first post continuously asserts that hey, it's okay to not want to do free work and you shouldn't feel like yo…

Here's the thing though -- and the place where a lot of Rodimus' issues come from -- you take that job for free, as a hobbyist or someone without a business, and suddenly that job is A Job That Can Be Done For Free. If a company says "hey, can u make us a poster, if we use it u get exposure" -- t…

I mean, it doesn't have to be a binary. Some writing is complex and some is simple. Some people are gonna be quicker in one subject than another. Some people are very skilled and write a lot but also recognise the amount of complexity and challenge in what they're doing. Like, writing isn't all…

HAHA THIS IS JUST A CAVALCADE OF NIGHTMARES as mentioned, their algorithms for detecting NSFW are hilariously bad. I had probably around.... 10-15ish posts flagged? None were actually NSFW and we all had a good laugh looking at which of my drawings were Too Hot For Tumblr you have to just.... scr…

I agree with this. Like, yeah, there's all these different elements you need to bring a human character to life, but honestly? If you're not putting love into your environments to bring the environment to life outside of just, understanding how perspective works, then you haven't quite mastered th…

Here's mine!! Tips?????: post art! post about stuff you like! fanart is one of the quickest ways to get eyes on your work, but like anywhere else, building an actual following takes time. If you make a blog that ONLY posts about your comic, though, then often the only people likely to foll…

"Raj postulates access to higher spatial dimensions, but that's his answer to everything" got a chuckle out of me. I think this bit works pretty well! Though I haven't read the rest of the story, it's obvious that this is information that ties into elements of the story that we would already care …

imo Cucumber Quest is a great example of this -- gigi is EXTREMELY skilled but if you look through a few pages, you can see she goes all out in some panels and just gives a quick idea of expressions in other panels, and it doesn't hurt her storytelling. I think, you don't want any panel to be uncl…

I've never gotten into the adoptables market/community, but it'd probably be a good idea to keep up with folks who do? See what price they're selling their adoptables for, what kinds of things they do that make their adoptables desirable. I know I've seen Making A Good Custom Species tutorials on de…

This is honestly my favourite description. I agree a lot with folks that it varies from person to person -- different people get different things out of a relationship, so its loss will obviously impact them differently. I felt like I had lost my whole future. We were building a life together, a…

I don't want to discourage anyone from giving advice, as long as you keep in mind that your way of doing things is just your way of doing things. You might have advice on drawing hands that one person would consider bad advice, but another person, who isn't as good at it as you are, would really be …

REALLY like dawgofdawgness's advice here The point about specificity is really good -- I think in scenes like it can really help if the villain hits a nerve. Like, if your character has no doubts about doing the right thing, and then the villain comes in like "AHH, BUT WHAT IF YOU AREN'T DOING THE…

How does your comic begin and what genre are you writing in? Genre is fantasy! It starts with the two main characters, best friends, chatting about the cool idea one of them had to cast magic directly off his body (this turns out to be a terrible idea). In a broader sense, the story kicks off when …