For this month’s theme and the very first competition of VinoMas’ DD fashion show, I’ll be taking the helm and presiding over a historical fashion contest! From now until the end of May, submit your historical designs to this thread: http://theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/176867/
For those ...
May Fashion Design Challenge: the Fashions of Yore
HippieVan at 12:00AM, May 1, 2015Avoiding the Mary Sue (+ a contest!)
HippieVan at 12:00AM, March 6, 2015
This newspost was inspired by this week's Quackcast on testing your writing and knowing your characters. In the comments, KimLuster posted a Mary Sue test and discussed her annoyance in finding that one of her characters scored highly.
So what is a Mary Sue? Everyone sort of knows one ...
Love Triangles
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Feb. 13, 2015
I hope that all you lovely DDers are celebrating this Valentine's Day in happy, stable relationships - or happy, stable singledom! As for me, I love a good (fictional) love triangle. What's the point of a love story if it's not unnecessarily complicated, right? Here are some of ...
The Importance of a Muse
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 19, 2015
In Ancient Greece, the Muses were goddesses responsible for the formation of knowledge, namely creativity in the arts, literature, and poetry. They are shown depicted on the side of red-figure pottery and high-relief sculptures. Overtime, the muses have been shown more discretely through various forms of media such as a ...
Drawing from Life
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 5, 2015
Around Spring of last year, in an attempt to keep my pen moving, I signed up for a life drawing class. It was the first time since high school art class that I was going to draw human models in real life. Over the last decade, most of the human ...
Handmade versus Store-Bought Gifts
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Dec. 15, 2014
The tradition of creating handmade gifts began sometime in elementary school when it was not only appropriate, but expected, to give our parents original creations. Eventually, a handmade knick-knack has a difficult time competing with the latest smart phone or drawing tablet and is pushed aside to make room for ...
Searching for Printed Comics
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 24, 2014
Sometime after the events of 9/11, my family signed up for our first printed newspaper subscription to keep up with the world headlines. I was a high school sophomore at the time and in order to take my mind off of the United State's imminent involvement in an ...
Halloween 2014 Masquerade Mash! An Original Comic Character and Costume Challenge
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 6, 2014
It is finally October which means the smell of maple spice, burning firewood, and pumpkin pie fill the air. After having grown up with the Peanuts' “It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” and Ray Bradbury's book “The October Country”, I understand how much this month is cherished. Fall ...