Backgrounds, part 2: Familiar Locations

HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 26, 2016



Last week, I wrote about my attempts to put more effort into drawing backgrounds. A few people in the comments brought up the settings that they draw repeatedly for their comics.

Planning

My main character is a wanderer, so there aren’t a ton of repeat locations in my comic ...





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Drawing Backgrounds

HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 18, 2016



Earlier this week, I completed the prologue for my new comic. It's been several years since I completed a full issue of a comic, and I'm putting in a conscious effort to improve on something I've been lazy about in the past: backgrounds.

With earlier comics, I ...



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QUACKCAST 284 - Writing Dialogue pt2

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 16, 2016

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Well this is the SECOND part of our Quackcast on Dialogue! As with last week, this Quackcast is based on a thread in the DD forums discussing different approaches to creating Dialogue in webcomics. This time we have an additional guest though: the mighty Pitface joins ...


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"What is Essential is Invisible to the Eye"

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 15, 2016


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince (2015)

When I was very young, my mom had placed a series of book collections on the headboard of my bed before I learned how to read or developed any interest in books. Among the titles, nestled between C.S. Lewis' Narnia series ...


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DD Radio Play 2016 – Call For Scripts

HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 12, 2016



If you missed last week’s announcement, the big news is that we’re going to do another radio play! Or I’m going to try my darndest to make it happen, anyways.

The first thing we’ll need is a script. I’m going to allow four weeks for ...



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QUACKCAST 283 - Writing Dialogue pt1

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 9, 2016

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Dialogue is a key part of any comic, it pushes the story along, keys the reader in on things that would be otherwise ambiguous, hints and foreshadows at future happenings, creates humour… well, it's just a big part of comics, that's all! And that ...


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DD Round Up!

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 4, 2016



Hello my Duckies and Duckers! This is Ozoneocean taking over the Thursday newspost because Bane was eaten by a polar bear (what he does in the privacy of his igloo is his own business, and the bear's, but not when it starts to affect his work…). Aaaaanway,I thought ...

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FEATURED COMIC --> to the galaxy and back

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 3, 2016



Zoey is completely caught off guard and bewildered when her father pushes her into an escape capsule located in his old lab the minute the aliens arrive. In a single moment, everything she has ever known is taken away from her and she is left stranded on a barren planet ...

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QUACKCAST 282 - MOOD

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 2, 2016

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The topic of THIS particular Quackcast is MOOD! And for no particular reason I dressed as the Mad Hatter, as typified by Tom Petty in the film clip to Don't Come Around here No More… So that was the mood of this Quackast… We based ...


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Land of Yeld Kickstarter, and Vote in the DD Awards!

HippieVan at 12:00AM, July 29, 2016



JakeRichmond, creator of Modest Medusa, is launching a kickstarter today for his tabletop RPG The Magical Land of Yeld. Yeld is based in the Modest Medusa universe!


As someone who was only recently introduced into the particular geekdom of tabletop RPGs, this game looks super fun! You can check out ...




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