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In less than one week, voting will open for the 2017 Drunk Duck Awards. In the past, the initial voting comes in the form of a Google Doc where you fill in nominations for comics that are the best fit for each category. Once ...
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kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 26, 2017The Comedy Plot, Toolbox Edition (part four)
Banes at 12:00AM, June 1, 2017THE LAST PART!
Part One:
http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/may/10/the-comedy-plot-toolbox-edition-part-one/
Part Two:
http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/may/17/the-comedy-plot-toolbox-edition-part-two/
Part Three:
http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/may/17/the-comedy-plot-toolbox-edition-part-three/
This is it! Part Four of the “Comic Toolbox” approach to comedic story structure ...
Yin and Yang – Creation and Deluge: Archetypal Motifs part 3
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, May 6, 2017
Who hasn’t seen this ubiquitous symbol? It’s one of the most typical motifs signifying the balance between opposing forces in the world- but also the ever alternating phases of destruction and creation, of overwhelming overturning of the status quo so the new can be created.
And that is ...
Archetypal Motifs (Carl Jung, part 2): Apocalypse
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 29, 2017
Starting with Jung’s archetypal motifs, I think it’s best to remind why they’re called ‘archetypal’ first:
Archetypal motifs replicate themselves in stories across time and culture, in all human endeavors to create.
Motifs in general are tokens in a story that appear several times and symbolize something ...
Quackcast 320 - Making the reader believe
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 25, 2017 LISTEN!
In this Quackcast I wanted to talk about the magic of authorship: how the creator of a story sets up the whole situation so that they can convince the reader of anything. You can write a story about the smartest man in the world, and the reader will believe ...
Quackcast 318 - Maintaining the enthusiasm!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 11, 2017 LISTEN!
The most important thing when doing your comic is to maintain your enthusiasm- THIS is what helps you keep working, not feedback, not praise, not fans, but your own internal passion. Feedback is great, but you can become addicted to it and when it's not there or there ...
World Building Is Ubiquitous
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 8, 2017
image from The Art of Veiling, by yours truly
There have been posts before (I think) about how to go about creating a world, especially when it comes to fantasy settings. You’re supposed, if you want to do it right, to build everything that makes up the world in ...
Kopy Kats
HyenaHell at 12:00AM, March 31, 2017
Aight! It's that time again, ain't it? Now we been talking a lot about rules and limitations and discipline and approaches to making your comics and making them better. This week we're gonna step away from all that for a spell and talk about how not making ...
Quackcast 313 - Technical techniques
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 7, 2017 LISTEN!
Carrying on from last week's Quackcast discussion on tips and tricks for drawing and artwork, we jump again into the topic and THIS time we have Tantz Aerine on board to lend her perspective and tell us about even MORE little techniques to use to draw better. It ...