HAPPY THURSDAY!
The comedic premise is very much the same idea as a premise in any other genre. It's got the same elements…Character, goals, themes, conflict…
Plus laughs.
One way to look at or create a comedic premise is that it has some kind of separation from reality ...
COMEDY - part one - The Premise
Banes at 12:00AM, April 13, 2017Quackcast 318 - Maintaining the enthusiasm!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 11, 2017 LISTEN!
The most important thing when doing your comic is to maintain your enthusiasm- THIS is what helps you keep working, not feedback, not praise, not fans, but your own internal passion. Feedback is great, but you can become addicted to it and when it's not there or there ...
Traveling Back to the Beginning
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 10, 2017
Paris Street; Rainy Day, Gustave Caillebotte, The Art Institute of Chicago
In less than twenty-four hours I am going to board a plane and end up in the city of my childhood. I am returning to the Windy City because it is Spring Break and because I yearn to have ...
World Building Is Ubiquitous
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 8, 2017
image from The Art of Veiling, by yours truly
There have been posts before (I think) about how to go about creating a world, especially when it comes to fantasy settings. You’re supposed, if you want to do it right, to build everything that makes up the world in ...
Quackcast 317 - Hannagrid Wright Interview!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 4, 2017 LISTEN!
Today we interview Hannagrid Wright aka 5thezombie! She's the creator of the great Sci-Fi webcomic To The Galaxy And BACK! -featured by Kawaii last year. To the Galaxy and back features Kat and Zoey, two girls that have been drawn together by fate, across the universe, to have ...
The Use of Shadows
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 1, 2017
There are some comics where shadows don’t really exist- like Tintin where nothing casts a shadow at all. In other comics, shadows play a huge part, like Sin City. And yet in others they are just part of the natural environment of the comic and nothing more.
All are ...
Kopy Kats
HyenaHell at 12:00AM, March 31, 2017
Aight! It's that time again, ain't it? Now we been talking a lot about rules and limitations and discipline and approaches to making your comics and making them better. This week we're gonna step away from all that for a spell and talk about how not making ...
Quackcast 316 - The Quirkcast!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 28, 2017 LISTEN!
For this Quackcast we decided to chat about quirks- the things that stand out about a character, help you remember them, get interested in them, traits that pick them out as individuals and can ALSO be used to point at deeper character traits! These are so useful in so ...
Character Quirks
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 25, 2017
So last time I talked about the little extras that can go into dialogue and how that dialogue can be presented on the page of your comic, so I was thinking today might be good to continue in that general trajectory and talk about little extras in your character design ...