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hi!!! i came here to say that i’ve been a fan of nevermore for forever (poe is my favorite author and you somehow managed to incorporate like all of my favorite works into it?!?! and make it sapphic??? what more could i ever ask for in a webtoon???) ‼️

as for anything to ask, i wanted to know a little bit of how your process is for creating the webtoon, as someone who wants to get into it but isn’t exactly sure where to start. would you suggest planning out the story, making a script, and then drafting the drawings and then finalizing?? or do you have a different system that you would recommend??

my apologies if you’ve answered such a question before, i don’t mean to waste your time!! you are a huge inspiration to me and i aspire to be even half as good as you are someday!!!

thank you so much for your time, it is greatly appreciated!! :) 🖤🖤

I'm so glad you're enjoying it!! And thank you, please don't apologize, you're so sweet and I love this question! I could blab about comics all day. So for making a series, the first place you need to start is with a process many people call "pre-production." This is where you refine the concept (or "elevator pitch"), nail down the setting, art style, and themes, work on the main characters, do design concepts, nail down how you want the paneling to look, what color the gutters (spaces in between panels) should be, how you want to do visual things like speech bubbles and flashback sequences, and most importantly: loosely how you want to start and end the series. The rest you can find along the way. You should really aim to figure most of this out before you start on your first episode or else it can be very overwhelming trying to make it up as you go! Pre-production is really fun! Keep lots of sketches and sticky notes and outlines. This is the phase where everything is open and you get to play around a lot. But one thing I do caution against is getting into pre-production limbo. I'd say give yourself a time window, where at the end, you start on your episodes. This is because SINCE pre-production is so fun, I think a lot of series stay there forever. Your concept doesn't have to be polished and perfect. You'll learn so much along the way. Don't aim for perfection. Think of it like building a road. What you're doing is clearing out the trees and leveling the land, that's all. Just so that building the road is easier for you later. Don't try to build the road while you're still in pre-production. Once you're done with your outlines and sketches and all manner of scheming, then you can start on a script. And even then, I wouldn't start on it until you do a real quick outline for both the arc you're starting on and then for the ep you're working on. Outlines are your biggest friend! Then go crazy with the script, and from there you can get into storyboarding (also called thumbnailing), and once you're satisfied with that, inking, flatting, and rendering. Your first few eps will probably take you WEEKS, even if they're not very long. Our first five eps for Nevermore took us a few months, because we scrapped and restarted like, twice? I think? And we have been working on webcomics for YEARS. Be kind to yourself, and try to have fun with it. Don't burn yourself out too early, and just know that it WILL get faster as you settle into a story and learn the characters, both in design and in their voices/motivations. Try not to feel discouraged early on because it's NOT EASY to start a new series, no matter who you are or how many times you've done it before. Good luck!! ✨

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"YOU'RE ACTUALLY DOGWATER BRUH"

"HAHAHA GET LAZERED"

theyre playing fortnite

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"Noooo, it's not supposed to go into the square hole."

Also the random house was for the Nightmare prompt. I always envision such a little folklore/fairytale house as the start of a nightmare.

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Nevermore memes again ✨✨ (with a lot of Annabel

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I have created a goober

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. . . I kinda want create a real life nevermore academy

Of course kids and adults, boys, girls, transgender, and nonbinary all separated

Near the ocean, foggy, also near woods

Just no one has to die

And it's not an actual school more like a hotel experience type thing. With special made uniforms and mysteries

Food requests, and a cool pamphlet

Like Disneyland and a escape room at the same time

You team up with friends, plot ways to get out. Get hints and there are several ways to escape too.

You arrive with a suitcase they send you, filled with stuff you hold dear.

And who are "they"? the deans of course, I think it would be funny if Red and Finn were the deans hehe

If you take a misstep in some games, you disappear. (You get some souvenirs and leave the premise descretly).

Real life tests like the maze with the Scopophobia part, and there are animatronics to play the watching eyes. and actors to play the moving monsters.

And there are refrences to the webtoon and whatever you find like eulalies doll you can turn in, like a scavenger hunt. You get hints from the raven but it's an animatronic

IM BUBBLING WITH IDEAS FOR THIS

Btw, what would be your last meal

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sharing the podium or, well. (not doing a very good job at) sharing the podium. thank you again to everyone who voted for Lenore and Montresor as the Fan Favorite Hero and Villain at the Ringo Awards this year!!

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Made some charm/sticker designs for the shop. 👻

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annabel lee cannot afford to be here (i can only put 10 images on mobile)

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I thought it would be an hour of listening to screaming and looking at pictures of draculas, but it was so much for frightening than fathomed

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u actually can make amvs for media properties with no visual component if ur insane enough by typing out the lyrics of a song in ur friends dms and painstakingly explaining what scene you would put line by line. not that i have done this

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I think Lenore should’ve had her cane in the academy only so her and Pluto can sword fight with that crowbar he had

Battle of the century

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"craving a food means your body needs something that food can offer" now what the fuck does my body need with an ice cream

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PSA: if your raven visitor isn’t quothing “Nevermore” as much as you might expect, please double check to see if your bust of Pallas is pallid enough. It’s important to ensure your raven is receiving sufficient enrichment on the night’s Plutonian shore. Hope this helps!

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homophobes are not allowed to use computers because the inventor of the computer was gay

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