#sorry we are back to my ugly writing n ugly formats n drawing

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NAME  ›  noh joowon ALIAS  › n / a AGE  ›  12 / 11 / 1997, 22 YEAR  ›  junior

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MAJOR  ›  animation MINOR  ›  art HOUSING  ›  lim village, yi hall, 35 with hwang yideun CLUBS  ›  cooking, art, paranormal SPORTS  ›  n / a

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›  ›  ›  Q & A SESSION WITH BYUNGARI, AUTHOR OF STRIKE OUT!! AND LITTLE STARS

now that little stars is completed, i thought it would be fun to do a q&a on my blog. this time, the main character of all these answers is me ~ (if you’re thinking “you bastard, nobody wants to read this sh#t,” i did a q&a in the epilogue for LS, so just go there if you want to know more about youngjun and sang). all questions were collected from ask.fm submissions, so thank you to everyone who sent something. and as always, thanks for all your support ✨

Q. WHAT DOES YOUR USERNAME SIGNIFY? A. nothing deep. my siblings used to call me 병아리 when i was a kid because i reminded them of a baby chick, so when i had to come up with a pen name, my mind naturally went to that. my editor thought the mascot i sketched to go along with the name was really cute, so she insisted on keeping it like this 🐣

Q. WHAT TOOLS / SETTINGS DO YOU USE FOR YOUR WORK? A. i can’t tell you. it’s not a secret or anything—i just don’t really know off the top of my head and i’m too lazy to check. i’ll let my assistant edit in an answer later ❤️

Q. HOW DO YOU COME UP WITH YOUR IDEAS / HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHAT TO WORK ON NEXT? A. i don’t know? i get inspired by tv/games/animation or things i see happening in real life. sometimes it’s a mix. aside from that, i work on the kinds of stories i want to read specifically. sometimes they don’t exist so i’ll feel obligated to create content for them immediately, or sometimes they do exist but i know i can do it better (LOL). i have an ugly competitive streak. typically it’s a combination of random inspiration + pretty people i see on the street (for character design) + desperation/spite.

Q. WHAT IS YOUR PROCESS FROM BEGINNING TO END? A. usually, i’ll work on the script first because it takes me the longest. i’m not good at writing, so i have to redo lines and dialogue pretty often. but once i have that done, it’s a standard process. i work on figuring out the layout and rough typesetting first, then it’s pretty much sketching > lining > colouring > post-correction. after i edit all the panels into a webtoon format, i finish up the typesetting. actually, i have an assistant helping me out these days, so they sometimes take over some of the more boring jobs!! or if we cut it too close to a deadline we’ll split the jobs fifty-fifty… ha… that doesn’t happen a lot, though.

Q. IS THERE ANY REAL LIFE INSPIRATION BEHIND YOUR CHARACTERS / PLOTS? A. i’m supposed to say that all characters and situations in my comics are FICTIONAL and don’t have any resemblance to living persons/events but that’s… not true. surprise! i end up borrowing from real life a lot; most of my characters are (loosely) based off people i know. and since i write in slice-of-life settings, if something funny or interesting happens around me, i can usually slip that into an episode. shockingly, i haven’t gotten called out for this habit yet!!

Q. WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING? A. make comics… i want to answer with something like that, but i’m actually a student in the arts department at seongnam university!

Q. WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO START MAKING COMICS? A. i don’t mind talking about this even if it’s probably not a fun story. i must’ve been in my first year of middle school when i started? somewhere around then. anyway, my parents got a divorce. i decided to live with my mother, but she worked a lot. both my older siblings also have a large age gap with me, so they weren’t living at home back then. i wasn’t in any clubs or sports, so i would spend a lot of time alone at home after school ended. tv and games got boring after a while, and somehow i ended up drawing comics to pass the time. honestly, it was really fun!! i felt like i was able to tell my own cool stories this way.

but i didn’t do anything serious with them until high school, when my friend found a dumb little series i was working on (i think it was about a gumiho and a human who team up to solve crimes). they loved it, and they encouraged me to work on more comics seriously and post them online. their support really touched me; it was the first time someone thought i was good at something. it’s thanks to my circumstances that i started making comics, but it’s thanks to that friend i decided to share them with the world!! that’s about it, haha. sorry for the serious story all of a sudden >.>

Q. WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO DRAW BL COMICS? A. it’s not like i set out to make bl comics in particular. i just had an idea of a story i wanted to draw, and it ended up being about a relationship between two men. when the plot started coming together, i just happened to envision it that way. it’s really that simple!

Q. WILL YOU EVER RELEASE AN ADULT COMIC? A. adult? like about taxes? (…) i’m joking. probably not; i don’t have any interest in it.

Q. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU DON’T LIKE TO DRAW? A. i hate backgrounds!!! i force my assistant to do them when i can. i also can’t really draw animals except for my own cat. the anatomy always ends up looking weird. oh, and i don’t like drawing rated stuff either (sorry :P). like, i can do it if i have to, but you would have to hold a gun to my head.

Q. WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE FOODS / DRINKS? A. i like sweet things ^^ stuff like chocolate rolls, milk bread, etc. i don’t like strong coffee but i need to drink it to survive so i guess it kind of counts as a favorite? aside from that, i like meat! beef! i’m still young, so i need to eat lots.

Q. WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES BESIDES DRAWING? A. sleeping…? i like playing video games (but i only play on the easy setting). i like going to watch movies with my friends too. i think this is just normal stuff, right?

Q. YOUR WAY OF SPEAKING IS PRETTY MASCULINE SOMETIMES. ARE YOU A MAN? A. i’m a worm ㅋㅋㅋ (i don’t know what gender has to do with making a comic. don’t ask me questions like this, please).

Q. CAN WE MEET UP IN REAL LIFE? A. haha, no.