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I mostly did this page as a test: Whether or not I would have the patience to do every page in color, or if I should stick to monochrome.
The Result:
I AM IN NO WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM PATIENT ENOUGH TO DO EACH PAGE IN COLOR.
So there we go.
To be special, I'll probably do the first page of every chapter in color, or something. Because color is good. Every page in color = my back resembling a large, painful ROCK. D:
Another reason I shant be doing each page in color is because it's hard to get all the panels to coordinate. Blearch.
Poor May. It's only the first page, and she's already being abused. I think a CERTAIN SOMEONE is rubbing off on me. *You know who you are*
Anyways, I finished the entire story outline last night. Which led to massive celebrations and motivation to start drawing pages. *WHOOO*
So far:
Entire Story Ouline - Finished Capters written: 4 Pages done: ....This one. 
Don't ask me when more pages will be done. I think I'll go the more stable route by drawing out the entire chapter, then uploading it a page at a time while I work on the next one. Give a sense of stability to my otherwise crazy schedule of death.
If this is the case, I probably won't start uploading the rest of chapter 1 for a while, yet.Art and characters (c) Me
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Huh, thought it would be involving the Mother series judging by the title.
Nice concept though anyways.
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thts happend to me, only without the dodge ball... life! and no psychic powers!!
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I like it, good pacing and already a likable character that we already seem to have learned a lot about in just a few panels! Interesting touch to make sure to hide her face too, builds suspense. I'm also a general fan of self-dialogue, so this looks promising.
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Griatch
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The obvious answer: The name of my webcomic. 8D
The real answer: It's a title I came up with for a comic about psychic people. The characters have PSYchic powers, they go to PSY class....Along with various other things that haven't happened in the story yet. ;D
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Makes sense 
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how do you make comics? i really want to know cuz i have a good one in mind.can u tell me how to make comics
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Well, I'm sure if you look around dA you can find several tutorials that can explain better than I can. <:] But here's what I do:
Writing the script comes first. Then revise said script until you're satisfied with it.
After the script is set in stone, then I decide how I want to divide up dialog on the page. IE, I print out the script and draw lines where I want page breaks. The idea behind this is to not have too much dialog on one page, which can usually lead to confusion and cramped drawings.
Next come thumbnails. Everyone does this differently, but I typically type out the dialog (I do everything in Photoshop), sketch out panels, and decide where I want the dialog to go. It's important that the dialog and panels flow naturally to get a sense of continuity.
After that I sketch in really rough drawings to get an idea of where the character's should be on the page. This step and the one before it usually take a while, because I tend to move stuff around a lot. It saves time later, though, if you get everything settled before drawing out the real stuff.
After that, I go over my thumbnails with better sketches and inked in panels. After that, I draw in the dialog boxes, ink the drawings, color, and add in backgrounds.
It's a long process, but it's very satisfying when you have a finished product. :3
But yeah, definitely look up some tutorials, there's definitely some good ones around here. And if you need any elaboration just ask. :3
I wish you luck.
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Huh, we haven't seen her face yet. Are you planning a cool reveal? You should totally give her an interesting physical defect, like a harelip!
And aw, no color? I would totally offer to color it for you if I knew anything at all about art.
I like the black-to-grey-to-white fade in as the recap of May's day catches up to current time. I also like how you used yellow for the narration boxes instead of eye-gouging white.
What can I say? Abused characters are interesting characters.
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It'd be a lot more dramatic of an entrance if I could get these supid screentones to work. *currently fighting with Photoshop*
I'm thinking about doing just flat colors, rather than shading...My biggest issue is backgrounds. With black and white, it's really easy to get away with no backgrounds, but if it's in color it's quite a bit more noticable. However, I've had success with simple gradient BGs in the past....I'll see how I can get it to work. Because Photoshop is being stupid and I don't really want to screw with screentones. D:<
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I've seen page two, and the flat tones look fine with your style. Good luck getting photoshop to work! And hey, you're going to art school this fall, so you'll be able to take classes on it.
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Hehe, this it true. And besides, flat tones actually take less time than screentones (Because screentones HATE me), and it's what I'm used to doing for comics, so it all works out. :3
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It looks pretty good too. I wish I could talk art intelligently with you, but since I haven't "done art" since one semester of mandatory art class six years ago...
Mauri's hispanic? Never knew that. I like the Mauri and Tara cameos, and they've been such good supporting characters.
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Heh, thanks. Always good to know that what I'm doing works.
And Mauri became Hispanic when I decided that an entire cast of caucasion characters was going to bother me. The US is not 100% white people, despite what some people think. Also, Xavier's asian, Kai is from a magic country I made up that is similar to China, and a few other people I can't think of off the top of my head.
And I stuck them in as supporting characters because a) I was too lazy to make up new characters, b) I love these two and don't use them enough, and c) May needed more girl friends.
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All good reasons! It would've been weird if May just inexplicably had no female friends. I like to do the whole Politically Correct, Ethnically Diverse Cast thing, but sometimes I overdo it. But I can use my other major writing problem of killing people off to fix that.
Sorry for dropping off the face of the earth this weekend. I was super busy. And technically I'm supposed to be cleaning my room right now...
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At first she had no female friends, remember? It was just her Lucas, Xavier, and sometimes Kai. But I figured the weird an harem wasn't really fitting to her character, so...
And apology accepted. I washed an RV today. A really big RV. Then hemmed my neighbors curtains. :/ Hence the no uploads.
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I knew that she didn't hang out with them while on her Journey of Self Discovery, but I didn't know that they didn't used to exist. And I am amused by May's male harem. The story is kinda like a shonen manga with a male protagonist.
Haha, yay productivity! And I just cleaned my room! Sort of. I really just moved the mess from my floor to the top of my bookcases. And I still can't find my glasses. I last saw them when I left them at Jo's before going to the graduation party. She returned a bag of my stuff to me, but I didn't dump it out until a day later and then I didn't see if my glasses were in there. I think she probably still has then, but I don't want to accuse her of that when they could just as easily be in any one of the massive piles of crud in my room. I figure that I'll clean up in here and see if I don't find them. Never did fall into the habit of using them anyway, so it's not like I'm hurting for them.
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I think you mean a shounen manga with a female protagonist. May is female. Last time I checked. >.>
But the weird thing is, I've never really thought of it as shounen...But it's definitely not shojo, despite the romance...Hrm.
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Yes, female protagonist. Sorry, my stepmum actually came in and asked me if I'd found my glasses yet so I got all distracted and didn't bother to edit that message. She also wants me to write some essays for scholarships (as if I'll have time in between all the babysitting I'm doing for her).
Well, from what I've heard of the story I can say that it seems to fit the heroic cycle pretty well. Was that on purpose or did the plot just turn out that way?
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It's ok, I forgive you. It's happened to all of us at some point.
And don't worry- one day your sister will grow up and think of you as her mother. Then you'll have your own little minion person to do your laundry. jk.
And it pretty much just happened. My writing style, I guess. XD I didn't really think of it that way until I finished it.
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I do so want a minion! And it's not like she doesn't owe me. So yes, I believe my labors will bear fruit after all... Muahaha
Interesting though, isn't it? Hey, do you suppose that when you finish this comic you'll be tempted to go back and redo art for the earlier pages? I see that happen a lot with comics, because art styles kinda naturally evolve over time as the artist learns new tricks. Sounds like a lot of work to me.
Hm, I accidentally clicked on an emoticon off to the side. Wonder what that's for. I should probably figure out how to use more of this website's features. Like maybe the one where you actually upload stuff you make so other people can see it.
Okay, my gaming friend are harassing me to go shoot zombies with them over the internet. I think I might skitter off and go do that for a while.
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Minions are wonderful. *Yells at Bucky* Boy! Make me a sammich!
Meh...I might. One of the reasons I'm doing this is to help evolve my style more. It forced me to draw stuff I normally try to stay away from...Like backgrounds. And hands.
Yes. Yes you should.
Go kill something for me. ;D
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Fffffff. Now I actually ahve to get off my ass and draw DIYD. But not before I do another mini comic that i'm sure you will find amusing.
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Yes. Yes you do. *Waves around a hot pink crowbar* GET TO WUUUUUURK!!
And you've captured my interest. Especially since you haven't uploaded anything in, like, 2 months. *Guilt trip*
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D: It shall be up by this evening. Because I have been Tarver'd.
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Indeed you have.
Speaking of which, did you ever get her those pics?
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Yup. She did this weird happy dance and hugged me, then ran off muttering about how she was going to win the competition.
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Hehe. Same here. Except without the hugging. XD
I think we left on a good note with her, huh?
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I would have to agree. : D In fact,I am going to see her again today. I am heading up to school to get my final transcript mailed, and I am going to pick up my flashdrive from her. I wonder how it went.
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I need to go get mine, too. What time are you going up? Maybe we could go together and be fabulous. I want to know how it went, too.
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I emailed Tarver about 10 minutes ago, so I am waiting so see what time she is likely in her room. No sense in drving out for her to not be there.
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