The Businessman, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
I have a certain level of disdain for people who believe that comics and art in general are merely hobbies. When I was much younger and on the receiving end of advice from many well-meaning grown-ups, the word “practical” and the phrase ...
The Impracticality of Being Practical
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 13, 2017Dialogue is a Paintbrush
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 11, 2017
In any work of art where storytelling is concerned, dialogue (should) play a central part. The relatability of the characters hinges on how they behave, and a lot of that behavior is verbal, especially in movies, theatre and comics (but also books. And everything else.)
So how do we create ...
PHOTOCOMICS
Banes at 12:00AM, March 9, 2017
Image by Gunwallace, from Utterly Rucked, found here on the Utterly Drunk Duck!
Photocomics
My somewhat undisciplined, regularly wandering mind went, awhile back, to the possibility of doing photocomics instead of drawn ones.
Of course, my fanciful thoughts hit a wall after realizing the amount of WORK that goes into ...
Quackcast 313 - Technical techniques
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 7, 2017 LISTEN!
Carrying on from last week's Quackcast discussion on tips and tricks for drawing and artwork, we jump again into the topic and THIS time we have Tantz Aerine on board to lend her perspective and tell us about even MORE little techniques to use to draw better. It ...
Buck the System Imagery
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 4, 2017
So I suppose it is no secret I like activism, standing up for a cause and giving it your all no matter what. From my comics to my actual life I have been doing so.
But what about the imagery that gets such a thing across to an audience in ...
Them's the rules, bub.
HyenaHell at 12:00AM, March 3, 2017
Well last week we had chaos and disruption, so reckon it's high time we reestablished some order around here. And to do that ya need rules, right?
Rules. Yeah… Oh boy.
Well fine, we ain't got to call it “rules”; we can think of it as a set ...
Quackcast 312 - happy little trees
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 28, 2017 LISTEN!
In THIS particular Quackcast it's just Banes and I chatting about tips and tricks for artwork. Hopefully some of the stuff we mention is helpful to someone, I tried to illustrate some of that in the cover pic. Banes drew the image of Penny crashing through a scene ...
Show Us Where You Live
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 27, 2017
In a recent forum topic discussion, moizmad invited everyone on the forums to share a photograph of home. This has opened up interesting topic of discussion in that Drunk Duck has a pretty diverse international user base (at least in the English speaking countries). It amazes me how randomly some ...
When the Hero Fails
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 25, 2017
Failure is the stepping stone to success. That’s what I teach my students and my clients, and it is true, right up there with “whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”: If you learn why you failed, you won’t fail again the same way- and that brings ...
A river in Egypt
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 23, 2017
A character will stay stuck in their ways if they can, just like a real person tends to. It takes effort to move forward and achieve things. And we resist.
In the beginning of a story, a character might feel comfortable where they are, but they are usually incomplete in ...