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If I could just die tonight then this hurt would end.
SHORT STORY/ONE-SHOT/ONE CHAPTER/COMICS 101 CRASH COURSE RAPIDPUNCHES’ STYLE
I’m NOT an expert but I have some working experience I can share. You need experience to become great. Here is my set of instructions, tips, and notes towards making a 12-page comic.
My method is to work backwards. Personally I work “backwards” because the end is the only wholly necessary page or set of panels in the story. Everything in between is open to editing and hacking as the most important moments are emphasized and chosen.
I even plan/draw the end page first. The end is the last page a reader sees- so spend your freshest energies on making it as epic, memorable, poignant, and beautiful as #$%^&.
If you draw the pages from 1 to 12 sequentially you run the risk of fresh to burnt out- an uneven distribution of drawing skill. (treat the first page and the 2-page splash as you would the last).
Roughly… the steps to making your comic is
WRITE
PLAN THUMBNAILS
DRAW
…BEGIN THE WRITING (DO NOT SKIP NO MATTER WHAT) like this, in this order:
How does it end?
Does the protag succeed or fail?
What is the turning point of their story?
What the protag do that led them there?
Where does it start?
Who is this protag?
EXAMPLE:
Guy gets mauled by a bear.
This is a fail on the guy’s half.
The bear must eat something or he’ll starve to death.
It’s the guy’s fault the bear can’t find other food. He caused the avalanche that buried all the cabins.
The guy is yodeling in an avalanche zone.
The guy is some guy.
CREATING “THE BEAT SHEET” Take the above stuff and reorder it to make sense.
This guy yodels.
Echoes roll.
Snow slides down.
Avalanche buries the mountain.
Cabins are engulfed.
This bear has no access to cabin food and garbage.
Bear eats this guy.
Expand. Blow up important beats for emphasis. Keep less important beats brief.
This guy is hiking in the snowy mountains.
He comes across an avalanche warning sign.
There is nobody around but him.
A dumb expression forms over his face and he yodels.
Echoes roll but nothing nearby is moved.
At the top of the mountain the snow drifts twitch.
Guy, satisfied, hikes away from there still yodeling.
Frozen snow cracks.
Snow puffs billow and great slabs of ice crash down the mountain side.
Guy sees this and hightails it to safer ground.
Animals, people, are all panicking and getting pushed over by the rushing snow.
Cabins are destroyed.
The guy takes cover by an outcropping of rocks, fastens himself securely to the rock face, and waits for the avalanche to die down.
Avalanche dies down.
A lone bear shambles over from the other side of the mountain.
The bear goes to where a cabin used to be (only roof tiles are left). Bear sniffs a dish satellite.
Bear forlornly eats a food wrapper.
Bear tries to dig.
Guy comes down from the rocks he as climbing and sees bear.
Bear stops digging and sees him.
Guy runs.
Bear chases him down.
Bear eats the guy.
BEAT SHEET COMPLETED!!!
After the beat sheet, write up all the sound effects and speech bubbles and conversation/dialogue you want to be in your comic.
Since comics are a visual medium, highest priority is given to the beats. If a story can’t be told with the art without the dialogue– you messed up and it’s time to rethink your life choices.
Try to keep all your text chunks as short as a tweet. Professionally you don’t want more than 25 words per speech bubble and no more than 250 words per page.
Next is translating the beats to pages…
STRUCTURE OVERVIEW:
[1] point of entry, in media res, hero intro
[2][3] conflict. establish conflict, setting, and mood by the third page. [4][5] rising action/false resolution to conflict/investigation
[6][7] turning point/plot twist/epiphany (this one epic image, to page spread is pivotal, spend a lot of effort into creating this)
[8][9] aftermath/“darkness before dawn”/struggle [10][11] recovery/“rise and conquer”/“fall”
[12] resolution/final end/cliffhanger
[front cover][interior] [interior][back cover]
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My maximum per page is nine panels but I’ve seen pages that have way more. I like to have about 3 to 4 panels per row or less but I’ve seen the “rules” broken before. Advanced comic book artists manipulate time with the number of panels and the size of each panel.
remember, DIAGONALS!!! open up an issue of batman, superman, spider man, deadpool or whatever youre reading theyre everywhere.
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…DRAW IN THIS ORDER:
Page 12,
Page 6 and 7 (this is typically one large image that takes up the space of two pages),
Page 1,
and then the rest.
ONLY “DEVIATION” ALLOWED:
Page 12 and 1*
Page 6 and 7,
and then the rest.
*Draw the first and last page as a spread in situations where the beginning of the story mirrors the end of the story.
Cover is dead last.
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(If at the very end you find out you need more pages and it’s absolutely unavoidable and totally necessary you have to add them in fours. Try to stick to 12 pages for this crash course.)
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QUICK TIPS ON PAGE LAYOUT, PANELS, AND BACKGROUNDS
I’ve seen them done all sorts of ways– it actually really depends on the artist and the art. Word and image have to work together. Speech bubbles work just like the art does– moves the reader’s eyes through to the next page AND slows the reader down.
Moments with the least importance have the least dialogue (or none) and lesser detail.
Objects, items, (subjects), the main focus has the most detail and the largest panel size (space) on the page. Makes sense right? Don’t spend two hours drawing a car tire unless it’s murder evidence.
Unless the background is establishing the setting (mood, theme, time, new place, you know) or there’s something significant about it that needs to be reflected on– then give more attention to the character by fading out the background. Just draw it “subtly”.
FURTHER NOTES:
Plan and draw the pages in spreads (the twos) since this is how it will appear in print and when you submit them to an editor for review guess what, the pages with an exception to the first and last will be reviewed as spreads.
You at most only need one establishing panel of the setting and environment (scene) per page.
Forget “true to life” perspective outside of the establishing panel). Practice diagonal composition of objects and subjects within panels. For dynamism.
You don’t have to present the text all in one go (one paragraph or bubble). You can and should break up paragraphs, sentences, and if you need to single out words– to make smaller, more easily managed bubbles to scatter through the panel.
Less important moments have smaller panels and or lesser detail. More details (or more word bubbles) slow down time. More drawn detail also creates a concentration of values (it’s darker and sometimes combines together as one shape or mass)
Know your light sources. Control the blacks. Control the values.
TIPS | COFFEE? :3 | dA | IG | ♡ | ❤ | ⋆
(more coming soon 11/22/2016)
oops i accidentally deleted the original post lol so i cant edit this later to put in the link for part two!
some good tips!
I'm out with people.. why am I lonely?
I'm broken and hideously ugly. I'm in a weird place. I obviously blend in but when I look at myself I can't help but see that ugly dude.
Sitting at my Dr appointment selfie. Today was much better than most appointments go. I'm still getting jerked around as far as HRT is concerned but I may be able to influence that after the new year. Right now I'm taking whatever little positives I can even if they're this tiny.
2016 will be when I lost everything.. I don't think I'll make it out of 2017 alive.
Do you have something against drag queens?
no of course not why would i have anything against cis gay men dressing up as women and illegitimizing my identity? Its not like because of them my mom can’t see me as anything other than one of them because their presence overshadows actual trans women’s lives. Its not like they actively erase trans women’s identities like that of Marsha P Johnson and claim they were drag queens. its not like they get to wear my identity as a dress when they want to and not experience any of the struggles of trans women, again illegitimizing my identity.
I fucking hate drag queens lmao.
it’s not like they get more support from pride parades than actual trans women. It’s not like the media glorifies them because they treat femininity as an act that needs to be performed and said media can capitalize off of it, while trans women who literally made history have their parts erased and are starving and homeless. I legit dont fuck with drag.
I really don’t like them. They draw attention to themselves and then go around calling themselves ‘trannies’ causing no end of trouble for those of us who hate that term. They play up stereotypes without any thought to the damage they are causing to trans women and girls. They make our lives harder form their own gain.
It’s not like drag isn’t fundamentally based on the idea that ‘men’ who ‘dress up’ as women are ridiculous and that this is an acceptable source of amusement. It’s not as if pantomiming a group of marginalized people, such as women, over whom you maintain institutional power is problematic and disgusting. It’s not as if this mockery doesn’t extend, specifically, to transgender women, effectively making drag culture a de facto public ‘education’ movement directed at teaching people that being transgender is disgusting.
Fuck drag queens, fuck drag culture, and fuck the mainstream, cisgay, male culture that protects them.
There’s no fucking reason at all to like drag queens
I know I whine here quite often and y'all are sick of me bitching about how my world had gone to shit. Well this ain't one of those posts. You see I got a story idea tonight while I was working in my shop on a shipment for tomorrow and now I need to record the idea someplace so that I don't forget. So here comes there elevator pitch: The story is basically a retelling of around the world in 80 days. Same time period. The same shitty imperialist culture.. The big difference and it's huge because it changes the whole story. Instead of Fogg being a man our main character is a woman. A very wealthy woman who doesn't give a shit about the social norms expected of her. It needs some work but I don't want to forget this and I feel i need to write this story.
I've been taken out to dinner 3 nights in a row. While I don't have many friends who can understand what I'm going through, I do have people who want to help me out in some ways.
Over on twitter there has been asked lawyers willing to help trans people update their documents before Trump takes office in January. Their shipping this under the assumption that it'll be impossible to change gender markers during his presidency. I would love to take advantage of this but I'm not in position to do this. Plus none of the lawyers offering help can practice in Michigan. My ID has outted me way to many times than I'd like. I want to change not only my gender marker but even if I could just get my name changed right now would be really nice.
This is my, "I refuse to live in fear" face... Yeah I'm not convinced either.
Why can't my hair look this thick all day long? After my shower it looks awesome.. if not a mess.
an update..
So yesterday I was experiencing some really severe depression and anxiety over my world falling apart. This morning during my therapy session I expressed how I was feeling. This afternoon I have hope. We're going to begin working on a plan to get me the medical help i need to get my transition going in the right direction. I know things will take time and I'll often feel as though nothing is improving but for now I'm hopeful.
I have to be awake early in the morning and I am unable to sleep. It's too warm and my mind won't turn off. I'm having suicidal thoughts. Today was the last day of my Spiro, there is no more. My primary physician has decided she can't help me with my transition. My primary physician thinks encouraging me to continue with transition is enough. My primary physician refuses to prescribe HRT. My primary physician refuses to prescribe anything that will help with the anxiety of watching my body become uglier the longer I'm prevented from transitioning. My primary physician refuses to prescribe anything to help combat the immense depression I'm facing. I seriously believe that my physician wishes to see me dead. I'm feeling suicidal tonight and I cannot sleep. I hope my therapist in the morning can save me somehow.
I've noticed that when my dysphoria gets out of control I tend to stop taking care of myself which only makes the dysphoria worse. I've allowed myself to feel like crap for over a week now. So today when I was invited over to a friend's house I decided to try and make myself acceptable.
I really wish I had some local friends. I really need somebody.
Yesterday I was told I'm probably never going to get HRT and that what little I was getting (just Spiro no Estrogen) will definitely go away sooner than later... I'm devastated and numb today. I have a therapy appointment in ten minutes and all I want to do is give up and die.