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the world isn’t simple enough to explain in words

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"Miranda is a Botticelli angel."

Based on the 1975 movie Miranda from Picnic at Hanging Rock. Been wanting to paint this for a while  :P

#picnicathangingrock #hangingrock #miranda #animeart #mangaart #fanart

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Been re-watching Poldark season one, and I love Demelza’s colours - a simple yellow dress with a blue headband that matches her eyes <3 Just wanted to paint her for fun.

#poldark #demelza #eleanor tomlinson #aidan turner #period drama #fanart

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Doing some last minute background designs for Malleus Maleficarum 😂😅 https://www.instagram.com/p/BnKZv68n2Wr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7lk4yfag8e4t

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I'm back in the home land of Penang, and I always go through my stash of old drawings. This is one of my very first attempts at drawing a "proper" comic with inking and consideration to panelling. Or at least I tried to 😁 Can't remember what year this was done but it's so ooooold. Featuring some of my old OCs and an original fantasy story, though I never got further than these few pages 😅 (at Penang Island)

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More painting! OC from my webcomic Malleus Maleficarum.

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You can read Malleus Maleficarum here: Tapastic Smackjeeves

#malleus maleficarum #webcomic #webmanga #tapastic #manga #alice

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I’ve barely painted at all this year cause I’ve been focusing on my webcomic. Not to mention work getting in the way most of the time... So here’s me trying to remember how to paint digitally. What is painting? Can I eats it?

Featuring my OC Alice from my webcomic. You can read my webcomic Malleus Maleficarum here.

#malleus maleficarum #webcomic #tapastic #webmanga #mangaka #alice #doodle

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Doing some more redrawing for Malleus Maleficarum. Slowly but surely! I think...

You can read my webcomic Malleus Maleficarum here.

#malleus maleficarum #webcomic #webmanga #tapastic #mangaka #wip #alice

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Another BATB fanart. This one is probably my favourite costume of Belle’s. Emma Watson looked lovely during the library scene!

More BATB fanart: [x]

#beauty and the beast #emma watson #dan stevens #belle #evermore #fanart

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And for once it might be grand To have someone understand I want so much more than they've got planned...

I’ve been wanting to do a BATB live action fanart for a while but only just got around to it, so here’s a quick one :) I’m working on another one like this which I will post later.

#beauty and the beast #emma watson #dan stevens #belle #disney princess #fanart

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I’ve been working on some redrawing for my webcomic Malleus Maleficarum. I’m hoping to upload them sometime in the next month or so :) You can read my webcomic here.

#malleus maleficarum #webcomic #webmanga #tapastic #mangaka #wip

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There’s something about Studio Ghibli’s Water physics that I love

While it is a liquid, it tends to behave more gelatinously

It’s so beautiful while almost being awkward *bloop*

Gravity? Surface tension? No? Well, just let me hug her!!

Not even seeming to make skin or cloth wet

It looks so satisfyingly bouncy

Tell me what you guys think and what’s your fav movie thing about Ghibli

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5 ways to increase/decrease suspense in your writing

Suspense is one of the trickier parts of writing to manage effectively because, as the author, you can’t experience your story the way a reader does. If you don’t have enough suspense, it can be difficult to keep your readers interested. If you have too much, frustrated and stressed-out readers might throw your book against the wall. Too much suspense can even backfire - if you try to keep your readers constantly on edge, they can stop taking things seriously and the end result is as though you never included any suspense at all.

So how can you tell if you’ve reached the right balance? Unfortunately, I can’t answer that for you. Some things really do require feedback from honest and insightful readers. Once you have that feedback, however, there are easy tricks to adjusting the level of suspense without a drastic re-write. Here are my five favorite methods.

Promises and Payoffs

INCREASE SUSPENSE by promising something huge and then giving your reader something unexpected. To borrow an example from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, imagine a teenage boy and girl sneaking into an empty building. Everything from the costumes to the lighting is designed to make you uneasy about the girl’s safety but, in the end, she’s the vampire. Give the audience something sensational and they won’t be disappointed that you didn’t deliver on what you originally promised.

DECREASE SUSPENSE by promising less than you plan to deliver. For example, if you plan to kill off a character as they walk through a dark alley, let them worry about being mugged rather than murdered. Not only is it less suspenseful, the payoff is more shocking.

Characters are Crucial

INCREASE SUSPENSE by shifting the focus to a character who’s more involved in the action or one who has more at stake. Even if you have a single POV character, another can come in and demand that character’s attention, along with the readers’.

DECREASE SUSPENSE by focusing on a character who’s more concerned with a secondary goal. Subplots are a fantastic way to give your readers some room to breathe.

Calm vs. Chaos

INCREASE SUSPENSE by cutting back on the action. Suspense flourishes in the quiet moments when your characters have time to think and to anticipate what may be in store for them.

DECREASE SUSPENSE by giving your characters a big, exciting mess to deal with. Even when that mess causes more problems and puts more pressure on your characters in the long run, you’ve still created an oasis where both they and the readers are too distracted to worry about how the big picture will pan out.

Devil’s in the Details

INCREASE SUSPENSE by concentrating on the details of the setting. Horror movies are great at this - every creak of a door, every shadow across a wall keeps the audience immersed in the experience and tense with anticipation.

DECREASE SUSPENSE by breaking the “show, don’t tell” rule and allow exposition to help you move things along. You don’t need to take readers through every aspect of your story in excruciating detail. It’s okay to gloss over some things and it helps readers relax because they know you’re not going to be springing any surprises on them just yet.

Ticking Time-Bomb

INCREASE SUSPENSE by imposing a deadline that your characters struggle to meet. It’s one of the oldest and most obvious tricks in the book, but very effective.

DECREASE SUSPENSE by allowing your characters to believe that the deadline has been met or pushed back. If they (and the readers) believe that they’ve accomplished their goal or bought themselves more time, it relieves pressure and allows everyone to relax until the truth’s revealed.

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#Inktober Day 25: Meredith from my webcomic Malleus Maleficarum.

#inktober #malleus maleficarum #webcomic #webmanga #tapastic

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#Inktober Day 24: Aurora

#inktober #sleeping beauty #aurora #disney princess #once upon a dream #fan art

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#Inktober Day 23: Ariel

#inktober #disney #the little mermaid #ariel #disney princess #fan art

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#Inktober Day 22: Belle

I said I’d attempt Belle again, so I did! I’m much happier with this version.

#inktober #belle #beauty and the beast #disney #disney renaissance #fanart