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Hide the eyes. [image] [image] It’s well established in comics and anime that hiding the eyes indicates hiding one’s motivations. Your readers will instantly be distrustful of dialogue coming from a character whose eyes are hidden, even if they have no prior experiences with the format.

The Real Enemy is the algorithm and the predatory way this website is set up — the popularization of infinite scroll, the very niche category divisions... Webtoon and Tapas are deliberately farming you and your readers for clicks. As many clicks as possible, as fast as possible. You are being cons…

Laughing because uhhh. Toxic boyfriend romance tropes are a product of straight culture. It’s normal and acceptable and even encouraged to marry someone you’ll be miserable with if they bring home the bread. My mom went through one failed marriage and is now with some awful shithead because he’s wea…

These are two topics that I would honestly say that if you haven’t experienced them... don’t. Some things are better written by people who have had the experience of bigotry or being near suicidal, hence the creation of the #ownvoices movement. If you still want to though, as others have said, inc…

[image] Pretty proud of this one, actually!

Not only is voting not mandatory, but our politicians try to stop us from voting as many ways as they can, from telling us that it's useless and not worth anything, or by just actually tearing all the drop-boxes out of the ground and forcing you to travel hours to get to the only one left.

Not offensive at all!!! It's actually extremely refreshing to see someone with this viewpoint. A lot of roleplayers try to co-opt DID and claim that you can actually make it voluntarily, and it's extremely harmful and toxic. If your characters talk to you genuinely autonomously, I recommend seei…

LOL im friends w Bees actually!!! they're really nice, and my icon on most of my platforms is by their partner Sean! Woven has done really well and I'm happy for Bees - it's just kind of an example of "assimilate or die". Woven was struggling on Patreon and DA before getting a random feature on Webt…

You're not writing about recovery. You're literally killing him off to retcon a disability and give him a "better life".

This is a slur, so honestly please stop using it, full stop. This mindset is based in ableism that disability is a prison. We're tired of seeing people in fiction that are trapped and suffering and unable to live because of their disability or illness. When was the last time you saw a hero who…

You won't change it - it's going to change you. Look at amazing content like Woven and Countdown to Countdown. Eaten by the system. Either you assimilate or you disappear.

Roughly 3 hours from start to finish :'D but that's also because in my years as an artist I have developed a LOT of shortcuts, tricks, and tips to move as quickly as possible without sacrificing quality. You'll get faster as you go and learn the tricks to the trade!!!

Truthfully... scrap the first idea. Throw it out the window and forget it. Disabled people are real, and we live fine lives, and we are so, so, so sick and tired of stories where a hero can only be the hero after being "fixed". We're tired of fakeouts of "look, a disabled character!" where it's im…

[image] I use this one for my thumbnail and as the icon for my discord server! And here's the comic:

There is no such thing as "too far". Often, doing a literal 1:1 representation of your story gives the wrong idea, and you have to do some exaggeration in the form of imagery. Imagery is important! Try to add harsh cast shadows, or fog, or whatever else helps set the mood! Don't be shy when adding…

A WIP... and an almost-final, I guess? ^^ Just to show off that yummy start-to finish. Yes, my sketches do really look like that, and I go straight to painting on top of those and don't clean them up more! [image] [image] Bottom panel isn't rendered here, since that's Patreon-exclusive!

AO3 is far from perfect and also not a 1:1 comparison, yes. AO3 also is the only site I could really think of off the top of my head that doesn't purposefully make it's site layout force the reader to scroll through content as fast as they possibly can, and doesn't rely on ad revenue and instead o…

This reply made me laugh, because... yeah. I used to think that characters having their own "will" and "voice" was normal! ....... And then I got diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder.

At a glance... none of them. The font, the color choice, the stock photo... it looks like something a Christian Facebook mom made for the fall - not at all like it's your fantasy series or supposed to be at all spooky. The vibes are very "Live, Laugh, Love", not Time Out. I would recommend toying …

Tapas and Webtoon are both, as platforms, pushing an agenda to read as much content as you can as quickly as you can. The rapidity of the cycled-out "new" sections, the constant new "originals", the endless deluge of content - fuck, even the endless scroll. YES, the endless scroll instead of paginat…

Omg, that struggle XD I'm super interested in this story!!! You did a really good job of setting the scene and of setting up the characters we can expect to see, the stakes, and the conflict. And man, fear of horses caught me off guard and made me VERY curious to see how this story goes!

HEY THERE! I'm a MESS of a person, but I have a lot of experience with... a lot of things! A lot of topics that people often don't think about, and a lot of topics people want to handle in their stories... and often do badly. So I'm making a little AMA thread. AMA means... Ask Me Anything! Thi…

Oh good lord no Just a lot of peasants wearing cotton... >_>

Dear fellow medieval writers: THEYRE WEARING LINEN!!!! LINEN DAMMIT!!!!!

[image] nasty mans antagonist from my comic

My opinion? Overwhelmingly they're bad. Not because I find them lazy or low-effort, but because they take away the need for any stylization. Part of the joy and the appeal of webcomics is the style they're drawn in. Are the lines sharp? Are they gritty? Are there no lines? How is the lighting do…

literally just don't draw the other eye if you don't want to. or the mouth or the nose literally no one will question it if you just genuinely start leaving facial features off of the page. it's amazing. you don't even have to shadow it. just don't draw it.

We've all been there. Submitting a new webcomic (or even editing a current one), when suddenly you arrive at... [image] And it occurs to you that you've never really known how to describe your story. This is what writers call "the elevator pitch," and don't worry... it gets everyone. The premise…