#i have a graphic novel to write

[dandelion-jester]

I would like the first year creative writing students in my university writing room to shut the fuck up, some of us are third years and trying to get work done and this is supposed to be a quiet space

#why are you discussing the reading so loudly #you've said the same thing like the times #i have a graphic novel to write #a novel to plan #and so much reading to do #uni #university #uni life #student #third year student #creative writing

[pdalicedraws]

And there was much rejoicing (until they notice they hate each other)

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[index]

#nimona #nimona movie #nimona netflix #nimona comic #nimona graphic novel #nimona webcomic #ambrosius goldenloin #ballister boldheart #ballister blackheart #dr meredith blitzmeyer #nimona nimona #nimonaverse #Pd alice draws #w h y did I have these characters go for lunch I have to draw SO MUCH FOOD #also for the past like three pages I’ve been going ‘‘ok when I finish this one I’ll start scheduling them for a twice a week post date’’ #but then I finish it and I’m so excited about it I just schedule it to post the next morning #SOON I will start having a regular update schedule and building a buffer lmao #in other news we all already know Ambrosius Goldenloin is a fucking awful name but you know what really rubs that in? #HAND WRITING IT.

[arcadechan]

a collection of recent wips: vis dev and character design for the interactive vn I'm starting up, and a halloween pic :- )

oc stuff under the cut (*｀・ω-)ノ

so if you've been following me for a bit, you've maybe seen me talk about it before, or noticed my tags, or w/e, but I've been in the process of developing a story for the last few years.

I've been calling it hell&highwater.

it's about a witch turned saintkiller turned bartender turned bodyguard, and the saint-to-be who falls in love with her. it has a tarot-based world and magic system, a culture centered around witchcraft and magic, people who can turn into dragons, Arcane Saints, lots of action, and i've made over 300 characters for it so far. most of the characters have three different names (magic !!). and just this last week, I started writing up the script and drawing out thumbnails as I...get ready to actually make the thing.

the wips above are some of designs I've been developing !!

The Magician Supreme, the Mindpalace Witch, Brandy Alexander

The High Priestess Supreme, Riddlewitch, Pantherpulse

The Empress Supreme, the Witched Twilight, Titan Fuego

The Emperor Supreme, Burn the Witch, Kiliman Torre

(and...a Halloween drawing of the protagonists as frankenstein and frankenstein's monster hohho)

i'm definitely going to be posting stuff about it here still, but if you want to see more or ALL i share about it; i'll be doing lots of h&h updates on my patreon (which IS 18+, h&h is going to be for mature audiences. also i'm trying to draw more smut). I've already posted lots of worldbuilding stuff there, and will be doing more as I go !! I rarely show wips but i'm pretty excited about...where all this is going, tbh.

wahoo :- )

#chan says #wip #art wip #artists on tumblr #oc stuff #hell&highwater #i've been working on this non-stop for the last like. two years. #writing and planning for a good 4+ before that #and it's just exciting to have the little monster where i want it. i want to make this thing #and i think i finally know how so i'm gonna TRY #it'll be an interactive VN...a point n click with more story... #a graphic novel with gameplay

[a2zillustration]

Your Croissant Comics every day give me life, I love them sooo much and i dread the day they'll stop! <3

Thank you!! Me too :')

#I try not to think about when I finish the game and subsequently run out of story to illustrate :'))))))))) #It'll be nice to have room in my schedule for other projects again #but tbh I might do some post-game comics too (I've already scripted a handful of breadweave things that weren't in-game events) #I'm also considering collaborating with a friend who can write to make some sort of short fantasy graphic novel #I've been bitten by the sequential art bug lol #asks

[jeanne-de-valois]

late night posting because I’m up to some incredibly silly shit again 

reminding myself how to write and draw a comic again with a short little 6-pager, coming probably next week

#wtnv #wip #wipvale #comics #welcome to night vale #I have another graphic novel pitch to work on and I have to like. remember how to write comics again #it's been a while

[giantkillerjack]

One of the things I love about Glass Onion is the way that the camera and music work together to tell nonverbal jokes.

Like when Benoit basically has to hold Miles' hand to get him to the conclusion that someone reset the puzzle box Benoit lies about receiving:

Benoit asks if it's possible that someone reset the box, and Miles then declares that someone must have reset the box like it is this huge reveal - and the camera zooms out while the music subtly swells as though he really has figured out something smart, when actually he literally restated what Benoit just said.

#original #I love the reveal that he's not even a smart con artist he's just a piece of shit #he's just a shameless copycat that people keep enabling to do bad things bc they assume he knows what he's talking about bc he's rich #like that line in Fiddler on the Roof - 'it won't matter if I'm wrong or if I'm right cuz you're rich they think you really know!' #glass onion #knives out glass onion #benoit blanc #Daniel Craig #ed norton #I hope the YouTuber sideways does a video about this because he does incredible music theory videos about movie scores #and I bet there are a bunch of hidden meanings within the music that I have no idea how to pick out #that man is like a wizard to me I don't understand how someone can understand music that much! #So cool! #I started this movie like 2 hours ago and I'm barely half an hour in cuz I keep stopping to write film theory essays on Tumblr #oh Adderall you cad! #I have no regrets I feel like this is helping me understand film better. i care a lot about the language of Storytelling #and I must say my favorite medium is film. I am writing a graphic novel right now but if I knew I could just skip that part and make it #into a show. I would do that. I don't wanna draw that much! I like drawing! but I want to see it as a show!! #this is too many drawings!!!!! #but for various reasons the film industry is not really a great place for me - or even possible as a physically disabled person #hard to work yourself up to the director's chair when all the entry positions involve standing for 14 hours at a time #I hope that if I ever do manage to make my graphic novel into a TV show that I will maintain enough control over the project to ensure #accessible hiring practices and workplaces #but in the meantime I guess I have to make waaaay too many drawings #no I can't shorten the story I don't have that kind of control it is an epic saga and the world's longest Slow Burn and that is that

[chi-the-idiot]

Started reading Waverider.

Dropped it immediately because its bad.

My disappointment is unmeasurable and my day is ruined.

#amulet #amulet graphic novel #amulet book series #never expected to add amulet to my list of rewrites but OH WELL #TRELLIS SHOULD'VE BEEN KING #NAVIN DESERVES MORE DEVELOPMENT #KAREN DESERVES MORE DEVELOPMENT #SILAS' ROBOTS DESERVE MORE DEVELOPMENT #WHY IS TRELLIS' FATHER NOT THE FINAL ENEMY #THE STORY SHOULD'VE FOCUSED ON GRIEF AND FINDING COMFORT IN FOUND FAMILY #WHY ARE THERE SO MANY NEW CHARACTERS #WHEN WRITING A BOOK SERIES YOU STOP INTRODUCING RECURRING CHARACTERS IN THE CONFLICT PORTION #AND WHY IS EMILY SO OVERPOWERED??????????? #i cannot take away from the fact that Kazu Kibuishi wrote 9 entire novels and drew pages upon pages of panels for them for the last 20 year #he deserves a ton of praise for that #but I don't need to be happy about the end result #(also Trellis and Emily should have been endgame but that is just according to me you don't have to agree) #I COULD GO ON AND ON

[feypocalypse-graphic-novel]

#this is so stupid #and for the record i have nothing against YA fairies #i just want some variety #meme #writing meme #wip meme #wip #graphic novel #knightcore #medieval #medieval fantasy #feypocalypse #feypocalypse graphic novel #apocalypse #fairies #fantasy #horror #fae #fey #comic #indie comics #horror comic #webcomic #web comic

[prodigaldaughteralice]

Comic-universe Nimona oneshot, 2.8k.

When Ballister’s father sold him to the institution, their legal relationship was severed. When he dies, ten years later, it doesn’t make much of a difference. That man’s not his father anymore, after all. Ambrosius accompanies him to his grave anyway.

#nimona #nimona webcomic #nimona comic #nimona graphic novel #ballister blackheart #ambrosius goldenloin #nimona fanfic #pd alice writes #when this posts I will already be in the car driving 6 hours to my grandfather’s house #happy thanksgiving y’all #time for my yearly ritual of reminding myself #I may not have a Hollywood career but I still got the best hair here #:p

[13eyond13]

one of the lesser talked about fun things about intentionally reading more books is finding new stuff to be a bit of a hater about tbh

#and i know sometimes im probably just not properly picking up whatever the writer is putting down but whatever it's still fun #to actually know what you think about stuff like the highly regarded classics and extremely popular hyped up things #here are a few writers im a bit of a hater about w my opinions now btw #neil gaiman: does not do it for me at alllll #have read the graveyard book and american gods and hated almost every minute of both #in american gods i just found the aesthetic ideas and characters completely unappealing and in the graveyard book #i thought it was dreary and not well described enough... kept feeling like it was too bare bones in some way to picture things properly #i was like 'hmm i wish this was one of his graphic novels instead bc i'd like to be able to see what's going on here a bit better...' #also his humour just never lands for me and i do not often get his references either #ray bradbury annoys me in a similar way to neil gaiman but also somewhat oppositely like where #the way they write characters and plots and ideas and the stuff they care about gets on my nerves in an almost identical way #that i don't know how to define except to say i had a bit of a 'same energy' experience reading Something Wicked This Way Comes #and some of neil gaiman's stuff #but unlike neil gaiman i think that ray bradbury attempts to describe things unusually so much and TOO much #to the point that it takes me out of the story in a different yet similar way #to how the lack of description in neil gaiman's stuff does #what else have i become a bit of a hater about or did not get the appeal of lately? hmmm #oh hp lovecraft hahahaha #least scary stories ever god everything he's scared of is so dumb #like even aside from his extremely racist takes and fear of the 'exotic other' his fears about being cosmically insignificant are just like #yeah and? whats so scary about that hahaha i literally just dont get it #also the amount he writes dialogue in heavy accents annoys the shit out of me #p

[dahldahlbills]

Gonna talk about my writing project but in typical ‘dahl talks about their wip’ fashion it’ll be extremely vague and won’t make any sense lol I just really need to say this, especially now that I'm so close to the end and it’s been something I’ve been feeling for a while too

so the further I get into the project, the more I feel like I've ventured so far from the original inspiration of this story and it makes me a little bit sad.

I wrote the original version in 2021 and looking back at it, it’s a completely different story than what I’m writing now. it was silly and lighthearted which… is not at all what its current state is like. I’m not entirely upset about it, because this new version has so much more substance and I'm extremely proud of it. I feel like I'm finally saying something and the message overall is really meaningful to me.

last night, I realized how I should title the story. Usually that’s a great feeling. Titling is one of the hardest things after all. But honestly it just left me even more conflicted. For the longest time I thought I knew what the title would be: something very similar to the original title (cryptlandia, the reason why i often refer to it as ‘cryptids wip’, which is extremely ironic bc the story doesn’t even focus on cryptids much anymore). That plan won’t work anymore though, because it no longer fits the tone of the story. Another reminder of the story’s evolution. I’m debating something different now, something more sincere, which has me feeling like I’ve completely lost the heart of the story.

Idk on one hand I’m really happy and proud of how this story’s evolved, but ngl it also hurts to see it shift so far from what i originally wrote.

#Don’t mind me i’m just… mourning my killed darlings #The original version of cryptlandia was so fun. #It was set in a fictional world. I created original cryptids #It was going to be a graphic novel!! #I know that version wasn’t good it just sucks looking back and wondering what could’ve been #like i didn’t abandon every idea from the original story #I took parts i liked and parts i knew would work #But there’s still sections that just no longer fit the story anymore #At the end of the day the story i’m telling now is far superior and much more important than what i had previously and i don’t regret it #I /like/ my story. I like how it’s grounded in reality more than the last #It’s just a little sad that’s all. But its a natural part of the writing process I just have to accept it. #anyway that’s all 👍 #blahblahbills

[seaquestions]

the washing machine spins (and the tiger stays fed)

#niksartstuffs #personal art #tiger #illustration #artists on tumblr #sketching out covers for graphic novels i dont have the ability to write/illustrate forreal..............

[heyitsphoenixx]

once I have a single thought in my head it’s over for y’all

#me wanting to write and illustrate a graphic novel but having zero ideas lmao #also prob once I’m on meds bc there’s no way I could do that without quickly burning out #but I really want to eventually

[cassmouse]

I think I might want to write a 40 page essay comparing the representation of female characters in the Scott Pilgrim graphic novels vs the film

#it's just so interesting to me #like in many many ways it's much better in the graphic novels?? #Ramona quite literally gets to fight her own battles #redeem herself #all of that yk?? #as well as that people like envy adams are much more human #she gets such an interesting and sad arc in the final comic it's amazing #and KNIVES I don't even have to start with knives but the film did her so dirty #AND ROXIE??? SHE WAS. SHE WAS SO OVERLY SEXUALISED HELP IT WAS AWFUL?? #and her being my favourite evil ex and favourite character in the animated series I absolutely have to say something here #anyway I find it interesting because the film was literally made in a BETTER socio political climate than the books #it was 2005 for fucks sake #the film was 2010 #anyway it's really interesting to me and I think I genuinely will write this??? #maybe I'll email it to my media studies teacher lmao #scott pilgrim #scott pilgrims finest hour #Scott pilgrim graphic novels #graphic novel #scott pilgrims precious little life #Ramona Flowers #knives chau #roxie richter #envy adams #scott pilgram vs the world

[see-arcane-scribbles]

Barking Harker: Halloween Teaser Week

A brief summary of last week:

Me: Oh, thank God. This last 60+ page mega chapter is done. I’m done with the first chunk of the first draft. My carpal tunnel has carpal tunnel, but now I can finally take a break before hitting the next chapter—

Dracula, bat-smacking himself against the window: In October.

Me: What?

Dracula: It’s October.

Me: Yes? And?

Dracula: You are writing a horror novel with barely any promotion. A horror novel based off my story. Which is currently riding the last of its climactic high into the start of November with Dracula Daily. And Halloween is only a week away.

Me: …

Dracula: :)

Me: No—

Dracula, chucking a wolf through the window: Yes. :)

Yes.

I am putting on my very small and ill-fitting Promotional Cap and officially announcing a small Halloween teaser glimpse of Barking Harker. For those not in the know, Barking Harker is a horror novel I’ve been tinkering with since halfway through the Dracula Daily fun kicked off. What was originally going to be a one-shot bit of public domain fanfiction has recently passed the 200 page mark and I can’t tell if that’s meant to be the first third or the first quarter of this doorstopper. So. A book is happening, apparently. 

A brief synopsis:

The climax in Transylvania takes a perilous turn.

The surreal shifts in Jonathan Harker’s person are revealed as only the beginning of a far stranger metamorphosis.

The promise of Mina Harker’s life becomes the crux of an unthinkable bargain.

The dead travel fast, but are far from the only roaming children of the night—and far from the only threat.

The past is exhumed, the present brims with monsters new and old, and the future yawns open like the swinging lid of a coffin as plans further, deeper, and far more nightmarish than Dracula’s English holiday come to light.

Fun times abound.

The teaser chapter I mean to show is the entirety of Chapter 1 for the WIP rough draft, titled, “Preludes and Interludes I: Nights in Asylum.” It involves a few unrecorded scenes that slipped between the journal entries of Budapest and the early stay under Seward’s roof. It will drop October 31st. But there’s more!

In the time leading up to the big day, October 24—30th, I’ll be dishing out character sketches for a few of the central characters in the cast. Some faces you’ll know, but might not recognize. Some faces will be entirely new…though odds are you might find some clues hanging out in certain other supernatural horror classics. All of them will have a role in the story to come. 

Some grimmer than others.

Should have watched your words, Mr. Harker.

"I care for nothing now," he answered hotly, "except to wipe out this brute from the face of creation. I would sell my soul to do it!"

Happy Halloween. 👁🎃🧛‍♂️

 As an addendum, I will now be juggling two accounts.

@see-arcane, my general blog where Barking Harker bits will pop up intermittently, and @see-arcane-scribbles (formerly @see-arcane-the-livid), which I’ll be dedicating more exclusively to anything to do with the book or future scribbles. Keeps things tidier that way. Feel free to send questions to either!

#on the topic of the future character pics #it should be said that while Barking Harker is NOT going to be a graphic novel #I will endeavor to have a better book cover than my cartoony doodles #your eyes deserve that #anyway #barking harker #jonathan harker #monster jonathan harker #dracula #dracula bad ending #my writing #dracula daily #horror #halloween

[garlic-sauc3]

I want to see a fic called something like "barney and the effects of post mortem" which goes over his grief and trauma of dying twice, as well as the effects of the more extended death the second time(and being zombified) including rigor mortis, a looser jaw, sharp teeth, etc etc

#the rigor mortis would give him pain(maybe even chronic pain hehe) and the looser jaw would cause a lot of pain #hed probably have skin problems to #maybe some heart problems or other health issues #think deadendia 2 norma where she kept dying and stuff #feel free to write this btw #dead end paranormal park #i am so normal about this show #even normaler about the graphic novels