Quackcast 728 - Skinship

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 25, 2025

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Today we're going into another aspect of creating artwork for webcomics! This time it's painting skin, a topic that Tantz suggested. How do you render skin? It's a super common thing in ...


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Preventable Deaths

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 18, 2025




There's nothing more frustrating when a character dies from a situation that had no reason occuring except perhaps that the writers wanted to be edgy and make the story have more gravitas with a random death that's forced into the plot.

I've talked often over the years ...




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Character Deep Dive: Vladimir Chekhov

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 28, 2024




It’s time for another Character Deep Dive, this within the amazing political war thriller The Second Crimean War by the awesome and proliferate The Doodler!

The Second Crimean War is an alternate history webcomic, of a different 1995 where, after the collapse of the USSR, the emerging, independent Ukraine ...




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I May Not Know Art But i Know What I Like. Except When I Don't

Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 21, 2024



I've been VERY slowly working on new comics ideas…way too many of them…for several years now. One of the decisions for me is what kind of STYLE the comic should be.

To be clear, I'm not a phenomenal artist, to say the least. So i don ...



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Front and Back

Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 14, 2024


I'm not sure if I've written a post about this already, but an interesting thing we have to think about sometimes with comics is how to make the characters, the foreground, stand out from the background.

Here are my notions on that:


- using human natural ability and instinct ...





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Character Deep Dive: Robin Sinclair

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 2, 2024




Today’s character deep dive is on Robin Sinclair, the main catalyst of everything taking place in the supernatural comedy drama that is Blessed Days by Inky Moondrop!

Blessed Days is the story of a young woman that unexpectedly becomes a mom and must handle raising a child- that’s ...




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Revisiting Hayao Miyazaki’s Film, The Wind Rises, Ten Years Later

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 23, 2024


Photo: “End of Summer 2024”. Photograph taken by kawaiidaigakusei. (September 2024)

Ten years before Miyazaki’s latest animated film, The Boy and the Heron (2023), was released last year, The Wind Rises (2013/2014) was announced to be Miyazaki’s final film.

In a Drunk Duck forum post dated February ...




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So Many Paths

Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 12, 2024



I was thinking about different filmmakers and how varied their processes can be. Stanley Kubrick was famous for doing multiple takes - sometimes dozens of takes and sometimes much more (!)

Meanwhile, Clint Eastwood will do one or two takes and that's it.

On the show Seinfeld, there were two takes ...





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M.Organ Art Reached Its 800th Page; InkyMoondrop Releases Premier Chapter of Imago, Nebraska, AND 1200th Page Milestone for Blessed Days!!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 2, 2024


Photo: “M.Organ Milestone (Adults Only)”. M.Organ Art by MOrgan. (August 2024)

M.ORGAN ART MILESTONE

MOrgan writes:

Hi



M.Organ Art reached 800 pages on Sunday, August 25.



Since the update probably isn't safe for the front page, I've made up a hopefully safe image.



Have ...












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Character Deep Dive: Nicodemus Blacroft

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Aug. 31, 2024




August ends today, and we pick things right back up with another character deep dive, this time of the fascinating Nicodemus Blacroft from the comic Devil’s Blood by the amazing Dragonsong12!


Devil’s Blood is the story of a city in crisis and the people that are trying to ...





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