Last time I started talking about religion as a great umbrella term for a lot of facets of worldbuilding you can take into consideration when constructing the world of your story, be it webcomic, novel, series, or anything else.
This type of worldbuilding is especially prevalent in fantasy worlds, but ...
Religion (part 2)
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 30, 2023Trying to accept a slow creative process
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Sept. 24, 2023
I’m gonna be honest with you guys here today. I’ve been a bit frustrated lately, and it has to do with my own creative process. This a struggle that I think many of us here can relate to. We have this story, or even a number of stories ...
Religion
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 23, 2023
No, no. I promise this is not a post that will go like this:
Nor like this:
Also nothing I say here, is to be religiously followed. (I got that out of my chest, cringing is allowed)
This post is entirely on the issue of worldbuilding religion into your webcomic ...
Panel By Panel: 'Dude in Distress' and Depth of Field
hpkomic at 2:57PM, Sept. 22, 2023
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. One fun thing about doing comics digitally is that it opens up all sorts of helpful tools you may not have in traditional artwork. For example, blurring things to imply a depth of ...
Backstage Stuff
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 16, 2023
ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY GENEJOKE!
For context, see the DD Awards 2023!
The annual Drunk Duck Awards are already underway!
Each year, this amazing event that is wrangled by the Award Goddess Niccea draws upon the collective power of A TON of DDuckers who contribute their time, art, and creativity ...
Subtly Subjective
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 14, 2023
On a recent Quackcast episode here on the duck, Ozoneocean made an interesting point about some older raunchy comedies.
The point was that in some of these movies, the female characters were presented a certain way, maybe not as three-dimensional as the male characters, or maybe came across more sexual ...
Leading the New Generation
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 11, 2023
Photo: “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” Paul Gauguin. Oil on Canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (1897-98)
A somber recollection carries me back twenty-two years ago on this day when I walked into a class where an inconsolable history teacher delivered a line ...
Strong and Powerful... Together
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 9, 2023
The sheer power of a good team is so defining that it's a trope. Some of the most iconic characters and beloved personalities have emerged from stories featuring teams of main characters.
Each of them are vital to the story, each of them contribute both in terms of the ...
Imitation and The Content Avalanche Ahead?
Banes at 12:00AM, Aug. 31, 2023
During the filming of Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock was unable to be on set one day. His crew filmed the scene for that day (I believe it was where Arbogast, the detective, goes up the stairs where he encounters Mrs. Bates). Hitchcock saw the footage, and said he had to reshoot ...