You’ve got your story, your drawn your buffers and you are ready to set your child free and loose in the world. But wait? What name do you put on it’s tag so people know who it ultimately belongs to? Naming a work can be incredibly frustrating and ...

Naming your Child (and by child I mean comic)
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, July 13, 2018Week Two: The 2018 Drunk Duck Award Ballots are Still Open!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, July 9, 2018What's in a theme
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, July 6, 2018
A narrative theme is, in essence, the meaning behind your story. It also serves to tell your audience what your story is about. Establishing it’s core early on enables you to keep it grounded and focused as you begin to unfold your characters and plots.
Despite a longer piece ...
Yes! We can take shortcuts!
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, June 29, 2018
Did you know as an comic creator you are more than allowed to take a shortcut here and there? It’s true! You want to know something else? Everyone does it! So this week I want to share some shortcuts I have found immensely helpful when trying to speed up ...
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 ...
Speed Vs Detail
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, June 22, 2018
Balancing detail and speed is one hell of a trick for a webcomic creator. It is common pitfall for many of us starting our webcomic. Unfortunately one cannot always have both of these qualities in the work. We go ham on all the intricacies early on and then wonder why ...
The KAMics Reaches 1,775 Pages!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 18, 2018Voting for the 2018 Drunk Duck Award Trophy design is now closed.
MILESTONE
http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_KAMics/
Hello
The KAMics will reach 1,775 pages this Friday.
Have a nice day,
KAM
http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_KAMics/
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Finding your style
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, June 15, 2018
When you look at a developed artist you can recognise their work straight away. Maybe it is in the way that they do their lineart, or it could be the facial expressions that characters have, (think the Dreamworks Smirk), or maybe it is the tropes that they use in their ...