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Quackast 385 - Drawing the line

Ozoneocean at July 31, 2018, midnight
tags: Banes, Drawing the line, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, Ink LaRue, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 385, Savannah Cat Adventures, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

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In this Quackcast we talk about where the line is for YOU in your work about what subjects and imagery are too far for you. What is too horrible, too controversial, too extreme for you to approach? Is it blood and gore, something controversial and political, swearing, religious, sexual? …

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Drunk Drunk Awards 2018 Tiebreakers

kawaiidaigakusei at July 30, 2018, midnight



There actually will not be any tiebreakers this year. The comics fit nicely into their categories without them. However, the finalists will not be announced until some time next week. This is to give me the time to do my final checks to make sure all the finalists are eligible …

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Your Character's Hobbies

Tantz_Aerine at July 28, 2018, midnight



We all talk about the sheer necessity to create characters that don't appear cardboard, that are fleshed out, that generally feel like real flesh-and-blood, living, breathing people (regardless of your character's species or nature) with personalities that ring true to the audience.

There are several elements that contribute to that, …

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Tools of the Trade

Emma_Clare at July 27, 2018, midnight
tags: creation, DrunkDuck, narrative, stories, webcomic



Webcomics can take many forms and with every story comes a unique and creative style. We have talked about naming your comics, the themes one can incorporate and how you developed your own style over time. This week, we’re getting technical. This week we break out the tools!

Back in …

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Rule of Thirds

Banes at July 26, 2018, midnight
tags: art, composition, drawing, of, rule, ruleofthirds, thirds



When most people take a picture or draw a picture, the natural thing to do is to photograph or draw the subject in the center of the frame.

But one of the big tenets of visual composition is the RULE of THIRDS.

So pretty much, the frame is divided into…well, …

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Quackast 384 - Brandcast, PR

Ozoneocean at July 24, 2018, midnight
tags: Banes, Brandcast, Electricity is her Element, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, PR, Quackcast 384, Stop Watchers, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

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You may have read about how a conspiracy theorist dug up some 10 year old tweeted jokes by director James Gunn and got him fired from Disney… Well that incident inspired this Quackcast, which is a re-take on the whole personal brand idea that we discussed in Quackcast 289. …

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Art and Propaganda

Tantz_Aerine at July 21, 2018, midnight


Soviet poster advocating atheism and science over religion

From the most ancient times, art has always been used by the ruling classes for purposes of propaganda, to propagate certain ideas about those commissioning it and their purposes: that kings are mighty, that regimes are for ever, that the enemy is …

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Politics in Fiction

Banes at July 19, 2018, midnight
tags: banes, politics, starwars, thursday

There was recently a Provincial Election in the part of Canada where I live, and there's a Federal Election coming up in about a year.

With the brouhaha going on in the world these days about politics and the divisions between many people that are resulting from it, I figured …

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