So 2023 is almost over! In just a few days we'll all be correcting every document we date for a month or so.
As is tradition, as the year ends we look at the crop, so to speak: everything that happened, what changed us, what helped us, what undermined ...
The Final Countdown
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 30, 2023Character Deep Dive: Polly from Bottomless Waitress
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 21, 2023
Today’s deep dive is with Polly, from Bottomless Waitress! Bottomless Waitress is the joint creation of Banes and Ozoneocean, with Banes writing the script and Ozoneocean doing the artwork.
It's a teasing, raunchy and somewhat absurd slice-of-life comedy. It’s a masterful balancing act, dancing carefree on the ...
Silences Echo by Hykarige Makes Maiden Milestone
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 14, 2022
Photo: “Prologue_3” drawn by Hykarige. Silences Echo. (November 2022)
Milestone Announcement for “Silences Echo” by Hykarige (2022)
This week, we have a special welcome to Hykarige who has joined The Duck within the last month and has already surpassed the twenty-five page milestone.
“Hello, I'm Hykarige and recently began ...
Being Confident in Your Work
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 8, 2022
Hah. Easier said than done, right?
Ask any artist about how much they like the stuff they make, and chances are you'll get a mixed bag of answers where most will be saying how they wish they'd done the stuff better. The anatomy isn't quite right, the ...
Fantastic Bestiary 6: The Oni
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, May 15, 2022
And we’re back with Fantastic Bestiary number 6. Being the number 6 in this series of articles I thought I’d bring up a mythic creature of a particularly devilish kind of aestethic. And as this week’s featured comic, featured by our beloved Ozoneocean, happened to be about ...
Not even Dora is exploring this.
damehelsing at 12:00AM, Oct. 10, 2021
So, I found a horror movie recently and even though it’s not serial killer horror or Halloween type of horror, it’s definitely scary.
The movie I will be talking about today: “The Ruins” (2008) – there will be spoilers, so please be warned. The following movie is for mature ...
The dance of chemistry
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Feb. 12, 2021
When it comes to characters and their arcs, their relationships, or more specifically, their chemistry, has a large role to play in how they develop. From day to day we absorb and reflect the behaviours, views and values of those we interact with, be that at work or school or ...
You
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 24, 2020
They talk about ‘writing what you know’ and we've talked about it around here, too.
Does that mean the characters you write and draw have to match all the surface details of your identity, sharing your gender, race, and hobbies?
Of course not.
The characters and stories you create ...
Dusting off the Past
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 29, 2020
There used to be an unbreakable connection between myself and my desktop computer during my college days. My computer was an extension of me, a mech of sorts and as I started getting better at creating and using programs like Photoshop, SketchUp, AutoCAD, and Revit, I needed to constantly upgrade ...