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Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 25, 2018Organizing For Comic Making
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 20, 2018
Procrastinating is an art. I know it well for the past 7 years or so of making Without Moonlight, I have updated extremely sporadically. Some updates had months spanning between them. But this last year I've been producing steadily two pages a month. I know, I know, it's ...
Having a chat - Planning good dialogue
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Oct. 19, 2018
If there is one thing about your comic you will want to nail it is the manner in which the character’s speak to one another. When it comes to creating good and effective conversation you have to keep in mind two things.
1) Does the dialogue progress the story ...
Beginning your plan!
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Oct. 12, 2018
When it comes to creating stories or comics you get one piece of advice that is now standard and that is, when it comes to making a story, you’ve got to plan it out. This means creating an outline, doing thumbnails, correcting and editing dialogue and creating pages in ...
Shaking the Pillars part 1
Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 11, 2018
Shaking the Pillars part 1 - Losing the Lead
The Walking Dead is apparently killing off its main character this season - this is the guy who's been the main guy since episode 1 about 8 years ago. This is not a spoiler - it's all over the Internet, the promos ...
Quackast 395 - Fighting ladies
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 9, 2018 LISTEN!
Fighting ladies, female bad-ass characters… There are a lot more of them around now, but once upon a time they were pretty thin on the ground. I love a good badarse lady, my own comic character Pinky TA exemplifies that character type. There's something about a tough lady ...
After the End
Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 4, 2018
After the End …and the Duck is on Patreon!
All stories must come to an end somewhere - whether it's a “just another day” ending, an “everybody dies” denouement, or the always wonderful “it was all a dream”. Or maybe it's just the end of this adventure, with another ...
White Swan, Black Swan
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 29, 2018
In Swan Lake, the black swan Odile is transformed by her warlock father into the white swan, Odette, and posing as Odette she tricks the prince into breaking his oath to the white swan- because clearly making life-binding oaths to a woman you know so little you can mistake her ...
The slow grind that is webcomics and how to combat it
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Sept. 28, 2018
Once the honeymoon sheen of releasing your new project wears you can easily find yourself burnt out by the concept of having to muster the energy to continue working on it. Sometimes you might have written yourself into a corner or maybe you feel like you are not liking the ...
Quackast 393 - Set the scene!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 25, 2018 LISTEN!
In THIS Quackcast we chat about shots! The kind you get from a camera… Long short, bird's eye view, worm's eye view, high angle, low angle, wide angle, fish eye, close up, ultra close up… You can use them to set the pace of the narrative, increase ...