Emma Clare posted about avoiding burnout on Friday and we thought we'd steal that subject to chat about it. Burnout is something that can affect all of us, most especially when you're stuck at home with lots of time to create, funnily enough. When there's a lot of pressure on you to create it often makes you STOP creating. But there are a lot of ways to void burn out and when it actually does happen to you there are a lot of ways to come back from it and rekindle those exhausted flames of creation. How do YOU come back after being burnt out? What was your longest burnout?
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This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Grayling: Wonder through the still, dark, cold forrest. It’s damp and cold. Wind whistles through the trees, rattling bare branches and shedding the hanging drops of water like little flurries of rain. In the distance there are unwelcome hints and glimpses of lights and the sounds of technology…
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Featured comic:
Abejitas - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2020/jun/07/featured-comic-abejitas/
Featured music:
Grayling - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Grayling/, by Arborwin, rated M.
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Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com
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Tue, 30 June 2020
Do you make work that no one will ever see? Do you do that so you can mess around and experiment without consequences, for practice, for testing out an idea that you MIGHT show later, or just so you can have fun? This was inspired by a newspost from Banes who used to draw figures on chalkboard and erase them as the story progressed.
Direct download: QUACKCAST_485_-_For_your_eyes_only.mp3
Category:Webcomics -- posted at: 12:00am PST
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Tue, 23 June 2020
Backgrounds are part of a choice you make about to best show off your characters and how to present your comic. Plain white backgrounds aren't a very good choice for most comics but they are for some. Random, sketchy lines, pixel art tiles, fully drawn highly detailed landscapes, copy and pasted photos, halftone dots, speedlines etc, the choices are endless but it's important to know what works for you own particular comic! That's what we're talking about this week. Yes, an actual ART based subject on a webcomic site, who'd a guessed?
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Tue, 16 June 2020
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Tue, 9 June 2020
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Tue, 2 June 2020
Today we're chatting about using historical stuff in your story and knowing how to use it right! Sometimes it's good to change stuff and sometimes it's not. The thing is that you should ONLY change it if you know what you're doing and why you're doing it. A good example is A Knight's Tale- It has a historical setting and there are a lot of deliberate historical anachronisms in it, and they're all very obvious, they do not pretend to be anything but what they are.
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