How a "Starving Artist" Mentality has Helped Me Dodge the Money-Centric Bandwagon

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 27, 2016


-Art by Edvard Munch (cover for Hunger by Knut Hamsun)

It is a common phrase that has been repeated time and time again: “(The love of) money is the root of all evil”. At least for me, it was one of the few words to live by that my Latin ...


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DD Electric Meetup THIS SATURDAY, and Blue Strawberry Animation

HippieVan at 12:00AM, June 24, 2016



Tomorrow is our second monthly DD skype chat!

If you weren't there for our last one, this is how you participate:

1. Download Skype (and create and account) if you don't already have it
2. Add “ozoneocean” as a contact, and be online any time after 11am New ...






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Wounded

Banes at 12:00AM, June 23, 2016



I was just watching Midnight Run.

Actually, I haven't watched it in almost a year, if I'm being honest. But I was just THINKING about it. One of the all time great movies. A perfect movie.

I sometimes wondered if there would ever be a sequel to it ...





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Quackcast 276 - Time management, Deadlines and Organisation

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 21, 2016

LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean

For Quackcast 276 we had a discussion about the topics of time management, organisation and deadlines- all things essential to the practitioners of webcomics, and even more-so to people involved in webcomic collaborations! This is tricky stuff to handle, you have to balance your webcomicing with ...


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My favourite parts of comic making

HippieVan at 12:00AM, June 17, 2016



I’ve written newsposts before about how much I hate inking. Since Lazy Nezumi was suggested to me by the wonderful Amelius that headache has abated somewhat, and I thought I’d talk today about the parts that I really enjoy.



Character Design

The bit before you have to start ...







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Quackcast 275 - Layouts, what to do and what not

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 14, 2016

LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean

The topic this week was ALL Banes' idea! We talk about page layout: techniques to make a good, readable layout, and stuff to avoid. We have Tantz Aerine (greetings), Banes, and myself, Ozoneocean, chatting about how best to do page layouts, at least from our own ...


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VOTING OPEN FOR DD AWARDS DESIGN THE AWARD CONTEST

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 13, 2016



It is now time to vote for the trophy design that will be used for the Drunk Duck Awards this year. Please visit the trophy design thread to vote, or you can send Niccea a PQ. VOTING ENDS ON TUESDAY, JUNE 14th!

Vote here:

http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic ...





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2016 DD Awards TROPHY DESIGN CONTEST

HippieVan at 12:00AM, June 10, 2016


some of awsome owl's super cool submissions!

It's coming up on awards season once again! And to kick it off, Niccea is running a contest for this year's trophy design.

The rules are simple:
Keep it G-rated
Use a blank or transparent background

Entries are due TOMORROW ...








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FEATURED COMIC --> Pluto Bear

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 8, 2016



A lonely bunny girl woke up on the wrong side of the bed because she is having one hellish day. First, she gets fired from her job at Starbutts and later starts getting followed around town by a dude that looks like Death (well he does!). When all attempts to ...

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Weirdos, Loners, and Mutants: How the Uncanny X-Men Taught Me How to Embrace the Outsider

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 6, 2016


-Art by Trico

Like any other backpack-toting American kid in the nineteen-nineties, the one thing I looked forward to each week (well, after TGIF) was Saturday morning cartoons. My absolute favorite show was X-Men The Animated Series which led to frequent trips to old, dusty comic shops to buy Series ...


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