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This Quackcast was based on an idea from Banes. We chat about designing a group of characters with complementary temperaments. In Banes' own words:
“I like the idea of the line between a logical, left brained person and a creative, right brained person, crossed with a spectrum of a ...
Quackast 391 - personality mix group dynamics
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 11, 2018FEATURED COMIC --> Ink LaRue
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 5, 2018
Sexy Cinnamon girl, cool Bodhisattva, rampaging Rumpzilla, and weird Ink LaRue are part of the cast of this crazy, cheeky comedy comic strip. The adventures they get into are really quite saucy and not for innocent eyes. Cinnamon girl is a buxom, incorrigible wild-thing, barely restrained by Bodhisattva who's ...
Quackast 390 - Imprinting on your characters
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 4, 2018 LISTEN!
We nicked the idea for this Quackcast from a newspost by Emma Clare. What we chat about is the unintentional process of giving your characters you own traits or even traits of people you know without realising it: Every time you draw an expression for your character you're ...
Casting Characters in Comics - Larger casts, personality and temperament
Banes at 12:00AM, Aug. 9, 2018
Last week there was a post about smaller regular casts in a series - The Loner series, the Duo, and the Trio. Here's that post:
https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/aug/01/casting-characters-in-comics-123/
With a larger cast, things start to get more complicated - but with more possibilities for different ...
Casting Characters in Comics - 123
Banes at 12:00AM, Aug. 2, 2018
Creating a Cast - in 1-2-3
One of the challenges…and maybe one of the greatest pleasures…of creating a series is populating it with a cast of heroes. I know I spend many weeks or months tinkering with characters and deciding who they're going to be. …And how many ...
How Does a Comic Get Featured Revisited
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 25, 2018
I have been helping with the featured comic section for the last five years. A while back, a comic creator on The Duck asked how a comic gets featured, and this was the explanation:
In order for a comic to get featured on The Duck, it must pass through a ...
Studies
Banes at 12:00AM, June 14, 2018STUDIES
Recently I began two training programs: one for writing and one for drawing. Both have teachers that are very impressive.
The art program in particular is cool, because I've done almost no study of art or drawing other than some lessons in elementary and high school classes.
I ...
Quackcast 378 - Your best work, Comicsgate, Mark Wade, Tantz comic spotlight, Twitter
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 12, 2018 LISTEN!
We have community contributions for this Quackcast! Many DDers told us about their best work and we read that out and chat about in on the Quackcast. We talking about promoting comics through DD's Twitter account. The DD awards have begun, get in on them and get nominated ...