Catching Up!

Turns out this became a super-interest and influenced my entire life! I think it was a good thing. I still love that game.

I am suddenly starting to really The Stanley Parable a lot more than I did before, is this a good thing or a bad thing?

I've been thinking about redesigning one of my characters, so I made a concept!!

tips for getting people to like your ocs

*disclaimer: this is based on what’s worked for me, aka an artist that likes to make comics/storyboards. so this advice is directed at people who do that

you can do things like this:

but frankly, I don’t think most people engage with this (at least I personally don’t).

My main piece of advice is: get better at writing.

That might sound harsh, but let me explain what I mean!

What I tend to do is just throw characters into situations with as little handholding as I can. Give enough context that readers can follow along, but don’t feel like they’re being explained to.

what can you learn about the characters through their designs alone? (age, personality, economic status, occupation, etc)

what can you learn about the characters’ relationship though their interactions alone? (are they close? familial? romantic? is there hostility? are they tense/relaxed?)

what are the characters currently doing? what were they doing previously (how long have they been talking)? what are they going to do next? can you convey this without dialogue?

how do they feel about what they are doing? are they content? focused? over/understimulated? would they rather be doing something else?

where are they? does it matter? would establishing a setting in at least one panel clarify the scene? is there anything in the enviroment that could tell some of the story?

what time of day is it? what time of year is it? what is the weather like?

Now, with all this in mind, I'm going to give you another example. I'm going to use completely brand new characters for the sake of the experiment, so you won't have any bias.

Did this get more of an emotional response from you than the first example? Why do you think so? Who are these characters? How do they know each other? What else can you infer about them? What happened? Who is "she"?

Now, you don't have to actually answer all those questions. But think about them! You can tell people a whole lot about your characters without ever showing them a list of their likes and dislikes.

Obviously, comics aren't the only way to get people invested in your original characters! But regardless, easily digestible formats will grab people's attention faster than huge blocks of text, and comics are a lot less work than doing wholeass storyboards.

Now go and share your ocs with the world!!!

Jashtober day 26!!! Icarus is real, guys!

Jashtober day 19!! This is a bit lazy, but I wanted to go a bit harder on day 20 and still be on time!

The silliest guys ever!!

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Happy Mother's Day!! Remember to love your mothers!!! [If they're cool.]

i started thinking too hard about hms again last night (like 6am because what the fuck is sleep) and for some reason i started trying to connect them to the like... hear no evil, speak no evil, see how evil? and then went onto like... blind, deaf, and mute hms...

so. hear me and my 6am sleep deprived brain logic out.

heart is blind (obviously) meaning he can hear what's being said but never has the context of facial expressions or body mannerisms of others. he hears mind say "i hate you" and completely misses the fact that for once he's saying it jokingly.

mind is deaf, unable to hear his own tone, voice, and words, and also unable to do the same with the others. he has to make his own assumptions based on his own logic and the things he can see and feel. after all, logic is subjective and not fact. maybe he doesn't even know that he sounds like a robot, something cold and calculating and callous when he tries to explain his logic and thoughts behind an action.

soul is mute. see, i always saw soul as chonny kinda putting himself or his conscience into the situation like giving himself a seat at this table. yet he is doomed to simply watch in silence as his two sides struggle, never quite able to get through to them. when the three work together soul is able to communicate with mind who is able to think through things and explain it to heart. they work. they make one whole being, one system that works in tandem with eachother.

thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Day 7 of Jashtober!!!

Gonna start posting things separately. :)

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Day 7 of Goretober!!

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