#comic edition

[honest-hearts-rosy]

Sonic 06 in a Nutshell

Mephiles: Peanut butter is good smeared on a steak

Silver: Is that true?

Blaze: No, Silver.

(I'm thinking of having this on the whiteboard in the Honesty club clubroom in the background of one of the chapters in the future)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

License to Kitty.

[itsaspectrumcomic]

A 2pm appointment can take all day when you're autistic

[sabertoothwalrus]

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:

Which is fun! Character sheets like this are great, especially for personal reference! But frankly, I don’t think most people engage with this (at least I personally don’t). You could have the coolest character in the world, but it will be harder for most people to feel invested when they’re presented so neutrally like this.

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

That might sound harsh when said like that, but let me explain what I mean! (Not trying to imply you’re bad at writing either!)

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 (aka I can’t use Protagonist from above, since you already know all about him).

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!!!

[hoshioyoo]

let me tell you a story…

[shyjusticewarrior]

[batbunker]

Dick and Damian graffiting on each other's stuff!

Batman & Robin #10 & Nightwing #108

[ashoss]

little brother duo supremacy

edit: sorry to disappoint yall but this isnt dick or virgil 😭😭 its duke in a nightwing sweater,,,,

more apron jason

[starspilli]

resting & fixing. click for better quality!!

now available as a print

[sui-imi]

Funeral, right

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been seeing some discussion about canon/fanon sans re: papyrus' death, and then i thought, unrelatedly, "hey i wonder what he did with the dust"

[bixels]

me too, luna.

[honest-hearts-rosy]

Miscellaneous Chapter Ideas

Yes, I have memorized the spelling of miscellaneous. So what?

I don't think I've ever used any of these.

Chapter Ideas:

All the villains get together to discuss why everyone is drawn to Sonic. They decide that it's the fact that he's blue. They all get matching blue t-shirts, thinking that wearing blue will make them more likeable or help them to defeat Sonic.

Knuckles gets glasses. He'll get contacts at the end, though, so I can forget about them except for when he's seen wearing them.

Guided tours in Eggman's base - Shadow wanders off and sees Eggman's portal creating device - Shadow Eggman is in the darkness and pretends to be Eggman and tells Shadow to log in to the computer and extract sensitive documents on a flash drive that looks strange. - "Where did you get this technology?" Shadow - "I got it from a Black Alien burial ground." - Shadow Eggman has the ability to read people's minds. That's how he knew to use the Black Aliens to convince him. - His voice sounds off and Shadow can't place what it is.

Shadow shows Scourge his record collection and gets him into 50s music.

[itsaspectrumcomic]

It's not that I don't want to visit, it just wasn't on the list I made in my head

[cozylittleartblog]

@staff if you [change] the [design] of the fucking [dashboard] i will kill you

edit. i want it on the actual post that i am not actually making a de-th threat against the staff. that's shitty. the caption quotes the fucking costco hot dog meme, which i originally said in the tags. if any staff member sees this please do Not take it personally

[theartlockerlocked]

[charowon]

Throwback to the Circe Saga