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Description A drawing of Kiki derping about on a computer. A request of my friend.
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Soul-Blade22 [2014-05-19 15:49:57 +0000 UTC]

I love how Portal 2 is in the background XD
perhaps that is what she is playing...?

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GiftedLion In reply to Soul-Blade22 [2014-05-19 16:16:01 +0000 UTC]

My friend whose writing the comic declared that Kiki is a huge nerd (since we all are anyways) so Kiki will be consistently playing video games or watching nerdy TV. I'm drawing one of my writer and Kiki playing Pokemon as we speak! As far as what she's doing I'd say funny cat pictures. You can't play Portal without a mouse!

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Soul-Blade22 In reply to GiftedLion [2014-05-19 16:24:44 +0000 UTC]

...funny cat pictures...i see what you did there
A few friends and i are trying to make a comic series or something related to one as well...any tips??

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GiftedLion In reply to Soul-Blade22 [2014-05-19 16:40:25 +0000 UTC]

My writer told me once: Draw and write what you would enjoy reading and seeing. The biggest mistake is trying to appeal to an audience, make it for you and no one else! If they come across it and like it, great! Welcome aboard! If they don't? Awesome! Best of luck to them!
My advice to actual content is to make sure your characters personality is well thought out. I have PAGES and PAGES of character bio's for my characters. No detail is to small, come up with their past, parents, likes, dislikes, favorite food, speech patterns everything. The more history you give them the more believable they become. To many good webcomics are ruined by Mary-sue characters, cliche stereotypes (the nerd, the tsundere, the shy love interest) or copy and pasted personalities. Make your characters REAL!!! When you have realistic character personalities writing the actual plots come easy. You just write a situation and say "how would he/she react to this?" and then how does that reaction affect everyone else?
Sorry if this is all common knowledge but it something i see a lot of good writers forget. 

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Soul-Blade22 In reply to GiftedLion [2014-05-20 20:21:01 +0000 UTC]

oh trust me I do all that work XD
my friend draws and I think of the ideas haha Thank you though i'll take the info to heart
(psst...im making a web comic that's similar to kingdom hearts but with anime/games/anything I want tied in...i'm working on the first page or so right now...what's the average page length for a comic??)

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GiftedLion In reply to Soul-Blade22 [2014-05-21 01:36:22 +0000 UTC]

What exactly by page length do you mean? Panels? Script length? For a web comic its really however much you wanna fit to a page.

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Soul-Blade22 In reply to GiftedLion [2014-05-21 07:17:50 +0000 UTC]

both specs would be nice for future reference (panels/script length)

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GiftedLion In reply to Soul-Blade22 [2014-05-21 12:06:22 +0000 UTC]

ok. well a script can be insanely long depending on the content of the page. One of mine is like a page and a half of writing in Word with just explaining the setting a dialogue. Panel length though is entirely up to you. Jolly Jack's Sequential Art webcomic is always 4 panels per page, Las Lindas page length changes dramatically depending on content, and The Meek is a standard style (like youd find in manga or a comic book). Really there's no rule to how many panels you can use, its however many you need just as long as your eye flows neatly across the page. I try to keep to 4-6 panels and i draw on 11x14 paper. It keeps the page from getting to busy and clustered with content.

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Soul-Blade22 In reply to GiftedLion [2014-05-21 18:45:38 +0000 UTC]

ok...thanks for the tips! Im gonna try and start it this weekend if I have time

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GiftedLion In reply to Soul-Blade22 [2014-05-21 19:19:56 +0000 UTC]

I'm just starting out as well so I dont have the best advice, sorry! But best of luck to you! I look forward to seeing it!

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