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I really love your comic!!! 😝😝

Anyways, here's some fanart of Maki 🌚

I'll draw Kai sooner or later 🙃. Super excited for Season 2!!

#webcomic #mbnssb

Ooooh Maki fanart!!!! This is some genuinely lovely coloring, thank you so much!!!

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Found the doodles!!!! :D

MBNSSB doodles! @overlymetaromantic

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hi! im not quite sure my question will make sense, but how do you determine which scene to draw in correlation with the dialogue? For example, if there are multiple text bubbles on a page with only one accompanied drawing which dialogue to do choose to represent the characters saying?

I hope that makes sense, I am currently working on my own comic which is pretty dialogue heavy and noticed your comic flows very smoothly with the dialogue! Just looking for some advice^^

Oooh that's a fun question!! I can definitely try to give some advice—I can fully admit I'm by no means a professional and make a lot of my own mistakes, but I'm happy to hear that my dialogue usually flows well, especially considering how wordy I can get!! 😂

I have to admit, a lot of my choices in scenes relies heavily on instinct, but my primary goal with everything is to be as economical as possible. There are SEVERAL instances where I could have drawn more panels per dialogue, but since my personal priority is keeping my panel counts under control, I end up with more dialogue per panel instead. Based on that, I tend to look for compositions or expressions that can match with multiple lines of dialogue; so for instance, if there's a conversation in which a character's emotional state remains steady throughout, I don't need as many panels to show their face, since there's no new information to be gained.

It might be helpful to remember that people are specifically reading your drawings in a comic! It's therefore similar advice to writing in that sense—if something is redundant or unnecessary in that it doesn't add anything to the text, cut it. Otherwise, it tends to be a matter of answering the question of what's most important for the reader to see. Does the character's expression matter, or does just the dialogue convey enough? Who is the most important character or detail in this scene? Can the reader tell who's speaking without a new panel to show the speaker? What needs to be conveyed so that the reader isn't confused? Or the flip side—what can be cut without disrupting the reader's comprehension of the scene?

Aside from that, my biggest piece of advice is page flow! I can freely admit I cram a LOT per page for MBNSSB, and I know it doesn't always flow as well as I hoped it would, but I promise page flow is always at the forefront of my mind 😂 The idea is to lay out your art/dialogue in a way that naturally draws the reader's eye in the direction you want them to read the page—in Western comics, that's usually left to right, in manga it's right to left, and in Webtoons it's top to bottom, etc. I usually rely on the height of the speech bubbles and the direction of the tails to help guide the flow of the page, but there's a lot of fiddling that can be done with this. Here are a couple of different comic pages I've drawn and my intended reading flow of them, if the visual examples helps at all!

In each instance, the goal is the use both the art and the speech bubbles to guide how the reader is looking at the page—a speech bubble leads to the art, which leads to the next speech bubble, which moves back to the art, etc. There are a lot more theories that have to do with composition that I am NOT qualified to lecture about lol, but for me it's a similar instinct to deciding what needs to be drawn in the first place. Every panel is doing double duty in that sense: first, it's answering the questions of who/what/where/why/how, aka information the reader needs to know for the story; and second, it's pointing them in the direction of where to read next through visual cues, like a character looking in that direction, a speech bubble placed so that you look at it right after the art, the flow of the lines in your art that curve your eye towards the next panel, etc.

I hope that rambling made sense and at least answered part of your question! And sorry if I misunderstood anything you were asking for—I can admit I get very excited about these kind of technical details and am definitely prone to spiraling off into them as seen here lolol 😂

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⚠️DUNGEON MESHI MANGA SPOILERS

The demon

Song: LUNCH by Billie Eilish

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Could we get the pfp for mbnssb in square format?

Sure thing!

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You know, I realized that I can also link to the Discord a very kind person set up after I replied to this message here in addition to just linking in my comic like two weeks ago WHOOPS

Anyway, there's a fan Discord for MBNSSB! I won't personally be present on it because as mentioned it's not a platform personally for me, but if you'd like to join, please feel free to give it a look! :D

Have you ever thought about making a discord?

Honestly Discord lowkey overwhelms me, so I've never actually figured out how it works beyond the two times I tried joining a server and then IMMEDIATELY bounced back out ahahahaha 😂 So I probably wouldn't set one up myself, but I'm happy to give permission if someone ever wanted to make their own Discord for MBNSSB!

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THE POSE HA I would say that is very much doing them justice, yes lololol 😂😂😂

for @overlymetaromantic ... I hope you like it, I dunno if you know about Twisted Wonderland, but I wanted two of my favorite brainrots in one drawing.

I was bored and I decided to draw Maki and Kaito in Twisted Wonderland outfits (if they were sorted into a dorm). They've been my favorite mlm gay Webtoon couple for a while. Hopefully I did them justice.

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jealous maki is something i need to see i think

Eheheheheh I do have to admit that jealousy isn't typically a favorite trope/character trait of mine, but I do like to think that Maki has a bit of a jealous streak 😂 In my mind, he mostly acts pouty if he isn't getting the attention he wants ahaha, but for some reason I can also see him having the same energy as the "NO TAKE ONLY THROW" dog meme 😂😂😂

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Have you ever thought about making a discord?

Honestly Discord lowkey overwhelms me, so I've never actually figured out how it works beyond the two times I tried joining a server and then IMMEDIATELY bounced back out ahahahaha 😂 So I probably wouldn't set one up myself, but I'm happy to give permission if someone ever wanted to make their own Discord for MBNSSB!

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In the spirit of this being asks, I'll ask a question,

What could Maki-nii have done to deserve this?!

(A quick fan art submission from me)

HA OH NO POOR MAKI, I feel like he would either have to have done something truly, astronomically stupid like break Kaito's heart (which he would NEVER do, not on Karin's watch 😂), or he did something ultimately (heh) small that just happened to unfortunately be the straw that broke Karin's back ahahahahaha 😂😂😂

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refraining from a lot of election joke posting and instead I just donated $55 USD to gaza soup kitchen and i encourage anyone else to consider donating even a couple of dollars to the people who will be affected the most from whatever outcome happens

you can also donate to care for gaza here

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Have you ever thought about making one of those ship dynamic chats for kaito and maki?

I did make one! It was suuuuuuper early on though lol so if there are other templates floating around out there, it could be fun to do another one!

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Over the Garden Wall 10th Anniversary stop motion short by creator Patrick McHale and Aardman Animations

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New ep got me frantic to draw them thank u 🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏

l;kajsdflkad okay but this is also legitimately SO GOOD like the expressions and the hands oh my GOD??? Thank YOU!!! 🙏🙏🙏

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Actually cannot stop watching this

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Thank you for the kind words, your drawing of the boys is so sweet!!

@overlymetaromantic I've been obsessed with your webtoon since it started and I finally got the motivation to draw these two loverboys. Thank you for such an amazing story with such crazy amazing characters.

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"where's my Maki" I SEE YOU KAITO

A small fan art doodle for @overlymetaromantic!!! Characters r from their series on webtoons

(title: My Brother's (Not So) Secret boyfriend)

if u can't read my writing that good I understand