Conflict!
It's the essential building block of drama. You don't have a story without the basics of “someone wants something, and something's in the way of getting it.”
Screenwriting books - books I really love and have given me a lot - will often say that amping up the ...
Conflict
Banes at 12:00AM, March 23, 2023'Good' People Do Nothing
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 11, 2023
Wrapping up this series of character designs for antagonists, villains, and even protagonists with toxicity as their flaw, I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about the toxicity of inactivity.
The motto is well known- all that is required for evil to triumph is for good people to ...
A Round of Upcoming Milestones for NeverLore by InkyMoondrop and The KAMics by KAM!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 6, 2023
Photo: “NeverLore: Cover” by InkyMoondrop. (February 2023)
InkyMoondrop writes:
Hi!
NeverLore doesn't seem to have an especially great launch yet, but Chapter 2 is about 70% done, will dive into an actual fantasy environment and I think I'll let it return to a Weekly update schedule with publishing ...
Panel By Panel: Let Me Ask You Something
hpkomic at 12:53PM, Feb. 24, 2023
Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week I wanted to try something different. I'd like to ask you all some questions. I have plenty more panel analysis articles, but I also want to mix things up.
I ...
Overworking in webcomics
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Feb. 4, 2023
With the ever expanding influence of Webtoons, more and more people are flocking to webcomic sites to read comics. I say read, but really it is “consume”. In this day and age where content is being inhaled at an unprecedented rate, creators are being pushed further to create more. Longer ...
The New Duck Webcomics Anthology Project
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 2, 2023
Hello everyone, Genejoke here to talk about the second drunkduck anthology.
Things have been ticking away slowly in the background and we have four complete stories and a number in the works, however things have gone a little quiet since the holidays so it's time to get things moving ...
Altarland, or how I learned to stop tinkering and love the AU
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Jan. 29, 2023
So it is Sunday again and the first month of the new year is nearing its close. I still haven’t finished my work on the short story I’m making for the new DD Anthology, but I am coming back from my updating hiatus next week anyway. During my ...
Character trait: Toxic Positivity, Toxic Acceptance (Part 1)
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 28, 2023
Usually, antagonists or villains are emo and gloomy, angry and aggressive, suave and sly, or any combination of that. They are not generally associated with positive traits in their personality, or at least positively-associated traits.
And that's a shame, because real life sure does have a lot of variety ...
The Challenge of Part Three
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 19, 2023
And a One and a Two and a–
The third and possibly final volume of the Guardians of the Galaxy films is coming out later this year. Or next year. Or whatever.
I liked the first two a lot, and in an interview snippet, James Gunn mentioned how the third ...
Nostalgic inspiration
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Jan. 7, 2023
I’ve been taking a break from drawing for a few months now, particularly as 2022 was coming to an end and I was really feeling the strain. I fell out of the habit of drawing however I am feeling the itch to go back and resume it. Despite the ...