#this was honestly a pretty rough comic to script and draw but it helped me process some things
.:From story to thumbnail (SwapOut):.
@eaudecrow @chatxkilluaxnoir
I’m so sorry I’m getting to these so late, my brain wanted to organize the thoughts regarding to this topic first, but I decided to start typing it out and will try my best to explain my process to you!
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I had an idea one day which was something like “US!Pap dressing up as UT!Pap” that became “A skelebro impersonating the other”, which resulted in this phone doodle in April 2016 (and then later considered a sans version)
Then I wanted to make it into a story, so I began to think of some sort of a beginning, and an end, which are kinda easier to think of than the middle part. In fact I’m probably still thinking of how to make the middle better haha
I knew from the start that I wanted to do a crossover between Underswap and Undertale, and have a skelebro from one universe impersonate the other. And for trippy, inter-universal travel to happen, I had to think of a reason for Swap to activate his time machine, which is usually a last resort.
So here I figured out and established a setting that I wanted to start off in:
Starts in Genocide route in UnderSwap/Undertale where Frisk/Chara doesn’t return.
US!Papyrus lost his US!Sans to Frisk. He killed them but now he's moping around, waiting for them to RESET... but nobody came.
(Well... he did say if Frisk truly was their friend, they wouldn't come back.)
There's no RESET.
US!Sans never comes back home.
No one does.
Which left me with this summary for the story:
“US!Papyrus snaps in his timeline and accidentally travels to UT where he ______.”
At this point I didn’t know how I’d end it, but I knew I’d loosely follow a route in Undertale where he’d end up [REDACTED], so it wasn’t like I was working completely from scratch in the first place for this story. I was never good at making things up from scratch, so working off of something that already exists i.e. doing fanart makes it easier. At the same time, I didn’t want to be unoriginal, which is hard haha ;;
Since he was going to the classic UT universe, I knew he’d have to interact with the characters there along the way before he finally reached the end.
So while keeping all that in mind, I finished typing a first draft of the entire story.
Yes, I typed the ENTIRE script for the comic before I started drawing anything.
Which, honestly? ...I think you’re supposed to do??
But when you’re young and just starting off comics, it’s easy to be impatient and to want to just work off the top of your head as you draw your comic...
I literally can’t do that though, as proven by my old comics that I never got around to drawing more than 2 pages of before I didn’t know where I was going. It’s also why I’m terrified of attempting the kinds of tumblr comics that swerve based on asks from people haha! I really admire the people who are able to do so.
I actually typed all these early thoughts here when I posted the first SwapOut page
Anyway after typing the first draft of the script, I finally let myself start the thumbnails. My script was divided into how much I thought would fit in a comic page as I typed, so I drew a thumbnail based on each divided section.
For example :
(these thumbnails are usually posted in the $2 tier on my patreon!)
The way I type my scripts is not standard at all, so if I know how I’ll draw them, I type their actions with their dialogue mashed together x’D But usually I’ll just type the dialogue by itself and keep going, spacing them out for each page. Also it’s good to arrange them so it helps the page flow naturally reading from left to right. (same with drawing as well!)
After that, I kinda use the thumbnail directly as a sketch nowadays (cos i’m a lazybones) and go straight into doing lines (or a more detailed sketch if the thumbnail is too rough/vague)
And that’s pretty much it!
It took me a while to choose a page for an example haha but I think this is one of my favourites
As for Chapter 5, all the new pages were actually the scenes with Swap blasting his blaster! They weren’t originally planned in the script but I wanted to add more to the comic rather than him just enter the void and get out haha
I think a page probably takes me two days if I already have the thumbnail ready and I’m working on it straight without breaks, but I’ve been doing more of those which honestly makes my life on this a little easier (less grumpy and more relaxed yes please)
Again sorry this took so long to reply to! I’m also thinking of doing a more detailed tutorial thing for my Patreon but I feel like I already explained most of it here haha ;; Maybe more red flow line examples of my pages? idk
Asks are always welcome! I just suck at replying to them aha ;;
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Hello @kanexan ! I was your Undertale Secret Santa this year! Or last year, techinically. It's New Year's now. Anyway, I still have the fic part of this to finish, but in the meantime, here is a drawing of your third prompt, Frisk trying to pass Flowey off as a science fair project! I kinda talked to you a lot about this without giving all the details (and then you turned out to be MY Santa and I was like :OOOO) so you probably know what I originally wanted to do was a comic. I've had to compromise with time though, so I've reworked the pieces of the comic I had into a drawing and the script I had into fic. I'll get that up when I can. I hope you enjoy this for now!
I didn't want to seem super narcisistic so my usual "this is how I made the thing" stuff is under a cut.
Ok, so, this drawing was a LOT of firsts for me. First of all, I sketched this 100% with my Wacom tablet! That was honestly kinda interesting. When sketching mouse-only I've always used different colored lines and blobs in order to tell everything apart and make it easier to see exactly what I was looking at. For the most part, I actually stuck with the colored sketches! Another new thing was using snap guides a lot more often. I used the straight line one a lot, and for the background, the 3D perspective snap helped me add the floor. I used the curve snap a TON for the lineart, but no more than usual, TBH. The big new techinique though was the actual coloring. I've done rough coloring with the watercolor brush before, but because of how tablets work versus how mobile devices and mice work, I never tried adding shadows and highlights and blending it and all of that. My usual process takes me forever (although I'm guessing that it will get a lot faster once I start using the tablet to do it instead of the mouse) so I decided to try something new but probably quicker. And I really liked it! I'll probably use this process regularly from now on, especially on simple drawings with just one character or something like that. I colored everything for the most part in one layer, which it wild - you normally could never catch me doing that. It was harder to do the background, mainly because I didn't plan for a background, but I felt it needed one. I made a huge effort to keep the color palette limited, because this is the kind of scene that very easily gets out of hand when it comes to this stuff. I actually added a pink gradient to it because I couldn't find a place to reuse the pink of the stripes on Frisk's shirt, and it was sticking out a lot. Because I based a TON of the colors off of the judge character, the palette was kinda dark and desaturated looking? I'm not sure if that bothers me or not since the scene is supposed to be pretty lighthearted and the colors don't exactly reflect that, but the colors in generel look super nice with the painted watercolor style. The judge, by the way, is one of Snowdin Libraby NPCs. Anyway, that's all I wanted to say about this piece. Have a nice 2019!
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Hey you haven't updated us about your undertale thing whats goin on with that?
Oof I’ve been meaning to talk about this prepare for this to get long XD
I’ve been pretty busy working on both of my comic scripts, actually! It’s just not something I can post or update much about haha.
Full disclosure I recently discovered with the Undertale one (Window of Reality) that an event that is coming up very soon needs to have a heavy face-lift from its initial draft before I draw it. Unfortunately this means scrapping a lot of work I did on the writing portion, but I realized that the story as a whole wouldn’t work the way it was initially built. It doesn’t help that this story has so many different timeline and dimension and perspective type concepts to keep track of why did I do this to myself LOL
I’ve felt like this the entire time making this thing.
Matpat be damned.
I already need to revise the first 1-6ish pages of the UT comic because the perspective of the story was pretty unclear for a lot of people at the start when I released them and I discovered a direction that makes this much more transparent. Plus, man do I hate how rough the first couple pages look XD; They need to be fully redrawn
WoR was my first experience in creating comics, and I’ve learned a lot of things since I first started. Comic writing is a lot different than your average writing.
I’ve always been the “gardener” type of writer, if you will. XD
But comic writing I’ve found is pretty much impossible without being an “architect”, especially when you can’t backspace out panels you’ve completely drawn. Its a foreign way of writing for me that I’m still getting used to, but I wouldn’t have learned that without experiencing it haha And honestly it may not have ever got started at all had I not approached it the way I did
Because of this, I’m taking a little more time to make sure the script is exactly the way I want it before it gets drawn. It’ll be better for it, I promise. It’s definitely not abandoned like I’ve had some people be concerned about, there’s just a lot of backstage stuff going on XD I’m too far into this I’d be pretty mad at myself for quitting on it now LOL
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Hello! I was lucky enough to have more interest in webcomic features than I thought. Today’s interview is with Merriam Hayden. Read it after the cut!
Me: Hello! Would you share a little bit about yourself as a creator?
Merriam: Sure! My name is Merriam Hayden. I went to college to study animation and did comics during that time because making a comic by myself was more feasible than pumping out animated shorts by myself.
Merriam: I'm a Lesbian in the Midwest as well.
Me: Could you give a short summary of Wrong Hand?
Merriam: Wrong Hand is the story of Lefty, who in a world where your Soulmate is determined by woman having marks on their left hand and men have matching marks on their right hands, has his own hand mark on the "wrong" hand. After meeting his Soulmate, Miles Write, Lefty learns more about "wrong handedness" and how there's many different ways of being "wrong" handed. The Wrong Hand is also the name of the bar where Miles works.
Me: Could you introduce the readers to your characters?
Merriam: Lionel "Lefty" Rogers is the main character. He's a soon-to-be college grad who majored in accounting. He likes to play the Ukulele, but has no interest in pursuing music as a career.
Merriam: Miles Write is his Soulmate. He works nights at the Wrong Hand bar and days at the coffee shop called the Sun Dollar. Unlike Lefty, he's much more outgoing and open about his "wrong" handedness (even though he passes as "right" handed) .
Merriam: Sunni Syde is Miles' coworker at the Sun Dollar and a photographer. She dated guys in her early college days, but found the experience unsatisfying. She started dating women instead and found it much better. She's known to hang out at another bar called the Blue Cherry.
Merriam: Aura Easy is Sunni's soulmate and a detective. She had previously dated a girl when she was a teen, but they had a falling out. Aura is the one with the "correct" hand mark on her hand, but is much more butch than Sunni.
Merriam: Melanie Blanc is a blank handed woman who runs the Wrong Hand. She's not interested in dating or sex herself, but is always supportive of other Wrong Handed people who dream of meeting their Soulmates.
Merriam: Teresa Slater (deadname Theodore Slater) is a transwoman who realized she was trans much later in life and is roommates with Melanie.
Merriam: Sam Uno is a nonbinary comedian who always wears gloves and treats everything like a joke.
Merriam: Those are the main recurring characters.
Me: Who is your favorite character—and why?
Merriam: Ah man picking a favorite of my own characters is like picking my favorite child. if I have to choose I think I'll choose Sunni. She's very cute and very passionate about what she wants to do with her life, which is to be a photographer even if she has to work half between a coffee shop and sometimes weekends at her father's restaurant (Eggbert's, it's a breakfast place).
Me: Who is your least favorite character—and why?
Merriam: Chad Prickson. This character is not the most evil villain in the world or anything, but he's engineered to be an absolute jerk to everyone. He's Miles' previous ex, rich and self-centered, who treats people like garbage.
Me: Can you offer insight into how you’ve developed your story and your creative process over the years?
Merriam: Okay. Wrong Hand actually started off as a thing I vaguely kicked around in college a few years ago. A good friend of mine were talking about the concept of Soulmate stories and how'd we do them. She took a more fantasy/serious route with it and I wanted to go for a more lighthearted comedic thing. However, I didn't give it too much thought beyond three characters: Lefty, Miles, and Ms. Blanc. Miles originally worked at the Wrong Hand and ran a hot dog stand. However, my senior year of college I did an independent study. So, I decided to revisit this idea as an animated short. My teacher at the time suggested I change the hot dog stand to a coffee shop and of course I had to come up with more characters to flesh out the world. Sunni and Teresa and Sam wouldn't exist in this world without the short being made. It's not the best in the world, but it took me a year and I had to do it by myself. And I kicked the idea around with a good friend of mine (different one) and he helped me beef up the characters and come up with backstory. We even decided to have the setting be a fictional version of Minneapolis with Lefty growing up in Duluth. Having someone I can bounce ideas off of actually helps me a lot, too.
Me: What is your favorite part of the creative process? The least favorite part?
Merriam: Honestly, I really love planning and world building and writing stories--dialogue especially because I am really funny so I'm great at coming up with dialogue. My least favorite is thumbnailing because it's very tedious and slow and sometimes I can breeze through a page and know exactly how to lay it out and sometimes I get stumped by things. I do depend on thumbnailing because I would be lost while making pages without them, but making them can feel like a chore sometimes
Me: The idea of soulmates being determined by their hand marks is really intriguing. Are you going to go into the concept in more detail? Or are you going to focus more on the “slice of life” experiences?
Merriam: Slice of Life is the main focus of Wrong Hand, but I do also want to explore the idea in detail. Love and Free Will are major themes in a lot of the stories too because it's not like people haven't been falling in love or marrying people who aren't their Soulmate. And sometimes people actively do seek out their Soulmate and sometimes they don't.
Me: Is there a significance to each of the character’s colors?
Merriam: Not particularly, no. I just decided that if this was going to be a mundane world I wanted to give it a visual style that stood out. Part of me wishes I had put more thought into it, but not really. Lefty and Miles are blue and red. Sunni and her family are pink. There are two characters, Jacques Trooper and Zelda Worm, who are blue and pink and are kinda the token straight couple who are friends with Lefty, but other than that I didn't put much thought into the characters being a particular color.
Me: How have readers reacted to your characters and story thus far? Are there any challenges that you’ve had to overcome when working on Wrong Hand?
Merriam: Mostly I had more challenges with technical stuff while working on the short. Though as far as content is concerned the overall response has been super positive and people relate to Lefty and get a lot of the little snap shot comics that revolve around him having problems with his identity as a "wrong" handed male because his hand mark is on the "girl" hand. I haven't gotten into a lot of other characters backstories or hangups yet though, so we'll see how people respond in the future.
Me: What do you want readers to take away from your story?
Merriam: I want them to take away that love may be complicated and life may complicate love, but it's definitely something worth seeking out and cultivating. Not just romantic or sexual pursuits, but friendships and familial relationships as well.
Me: You mention being lesbian. How has your sexual identity influenced your story?
Merriam: Well Wrong Hand is basically a not-so-subtle metaphor for being some kind of queer. some wrong handed characters are gay, some bi, some trans, some nonbinary. All my work has some kind of LGBT slant to it because so much media made about or for people like me is either super obscure or really depressing and I want to create hopeful and happy stories even if I do touch about the less savory aspects of things (have plans to touch upon things like how conversion therapy and things like that work in this world, but I do want people to come away from my work feeling good about themselves).
Me: Who is your “intended” audience?
Merriam: My intended audience is anyone who wants to find LGBT content that's hopeful.
Me: Do you plan to pursue other mediums for your story (like print or podcast)?
Merriam: I hadn't considered a podcast. I would love to print a physical copy of the comics someday and, of course, something animated. Like a feature film or even a series! I think an animated series would be awesome.
Me: Do you have any advice you want to share with other artists and writers?
Merriam: Lists are useful for planning a script and having a specific notebook/journal with comic stuff is a good idea.
Me: What are your tools of the trade? Any special software?
Merriam: I mostly use Clip Studio Paint because I can animate with it as well as do illustration. I don't have a specific kind of pen or paper I use for roughing out pages though. I usually draw the pages out traditionally first and then scan the pages to pretty up in Clip Studio Paint.
Me: When does Wrong Hand update?
Merriam: I like to update it at least twice a month, but right now my current day job makes updating on the regular hard. I've worked out getting a more regular schedule though so I'm hopeful that I'll get back to updating more frequently.
Me: Where can readers access your comic?
Merriam: Tapastic and Comic Fury. I have a longer story planned that I'm currently working on and I'll probably start posting the single pages on Comic Fury before Tapastic.
Me: Anything else you want to share? Shout outs?
Merriam: I love my friends and I love all the people who read my comic.
Follow Merriam for more art and life updates on her Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram. She’ll also be attending Planet ComicCon, Smallville ComicCon, and TopCon. Merriam may also be at Kansas City Comic Con, but is not sure yet.
Be sure to also check out yesterday’s interview with Micah, webcomic artist for Roommate from Hell, if you haven’t already! And if you’re interested in being interviewed or sharing your thoughts on comics or related media, be sure to comment on this post, send an ask, or send me a message!
Have a great Sunday night!
(This post was adapted from a Twitter interview.)
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Hi! So for the prompt thing, I recently just watched raiders of the lost ark and I could definitely see bellamy as an adventuring archaeologist/professor OR doing like a type of the mummy au except where bellamy is the librarian and clarke is his guide....or something? idk up to you completely if you feel like writing something along those lines. Thanks!
A|N: I decided to go with archaeologist!Bellamy, or to be more accurate, palentologist!Bellamy because I’m such a sucker for Jurassic Park.
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Generally, Bellamy’s job description doesn’t involve dealing with billionaires and their hotshot lawyers, and yet here they are.
“For the last time,” he huffs, his arm curling instinctively around her waist to haul her away from the excavation site, “I’m really not interested in advocating some theme park for extinct animals, okay?”
“Dinosaurs,” the girl- Clarke, he reminds himself- tells him, her mouth twisting into a frown. “And why wouldn’t you? Look, I don’t know what you’ve been told, but Jurassic Park is going to be a revolutionary experience. Thelonious Jaha has—”
“Jurassic Park?” he manages, a derisive laugh escaping. “Yeah, that’s the final nail in the coffin. I’m not advocating anything that sounds as if they sell brachiosaurus shaped churros out front.”
The crinkle between her brows deepens at that, and he tries not to appear too smug at having gotten to her. “It’s actually triceratops shaped, and they’re marshmallows.”
“So you guys couldn’t even get churros? That’s rough.”
She spins on her heel, stepping cleanly into his path and forcing him to stop short. “Look, Dr. Blake. You’re leaving this site in about two weeks, right?”
He stares, biding his time as he weighs the possible ways in which she could twist his answer into a less than ideal situation for him. Fucking lawyers.
“Yeah,” he says with exaggerated slowness, bracing himself for a fight. “So what?”
“So,” she goes, mimicking his tone, “tie up your loose ends, and I’ll personally escort you down to Isla Nublar after, where I’m sure Thelonious will be more than happy to discuss the possibility of funding your paleontological dig for the next three years.”
It’s hard to conceal his shock at that, though he does try his damn hardest. Dusting his hands off on his pants, he pretends to consider it for all about three seconds before he bites out, “It’ll be about two weeks.”
The obnoxious tilt of her chin makes him feel as if she’s the one issuing the challenge, instead. “Fine.”
“It means you’re going to have to stay here on site for two weeks, Princess.” He sneers, deliberately running his gaze from the office blouse she has tucked into her pencil skirt down to the delicate heels strapped around her ankles. “Sure you can handle it?”
Her smile is saccharine sweet; practiced. “I don’t think I’m going to be much of a problem, Dr. Blake.”
It’s impossible to miss the little jibe she made there, but Bellamy decides to let it slip anyway. “If you’re sure, Ms. Griffin.” He smirks, accompanying it with a mocking bow. “Make yourself at home.”
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He catches her trying (valiantly) to pitch a tent a few hours after; heels sinking in the sand and immaculate updo a mess on the top of her head.
“Shouldn’t someone tell her,” Miller interjects, mild, “that we have trailers to stay in?”
“Nah,” he grins, watching as the unsecured poles sway and clatter back to the ground, her frustrated half-shout lost in the wind. “I think she’s having fun. Maybe it’ll help dislodge the stick up her butt.”
The look Miller shoots his way is pointed. “You do realize that this is the girl that’s supposed to assist us with getting funded for the next couple of years, right?”
“Uh huh.”
“So shouldn’t we be making sure that she gets out of this alive?” he goes, exasperated. “And like, make her experience here as pleasant as possible? Considering she’s the one with the connections to Jaha?”
He can’t help the snort that escapes at that, directing his attention back to the chisel in his hand. “She’s just a messenger. Plus, I’m pretty sure he’ll give us the funding as long as I give their stupid theme park five stars on Yelp, or something.”
“Right,” Miller nods, thoughtful. Then in a voice that’s way too innocent for his liking, “So, it’s not likely that she’ll rescind the invitation at all, right?”
“Not when they need me.” He snaps, though he can’t help sneaking a quick peek over at her. She’s gotten the poles secured this time, at least, though she seems to be struggling to get it upright with the howling of the wind. The look of grim determination on her face would be comical, if he didn’t already know how brutal the winds could get at this time of the year.
Scowling, Bellamy rubs at his face, gets to his feet. “Don’t start,” he mutters darkly, stomping over to her and flipping Miller off when he begins to laugh.
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Surprisingly enough, she doesn’t stay cooped up in her trailer like he expects her to.
It’s not like he wants to notice her, really, but she tends to be a conspicuous presence; all infectious, lilting laugh and bright hair gleaming under the sunlight. It takes her a matter of days to charm almost everyone else on site, which annoys him for reasons that he can’t really fathom. Even Raven has taken to her, for fuck’s sake, and she hates about ninety eight percent of the entire human population.
(Fine, maybe he’ll admit that it’s a little unnerving that she’s turned this supposed charm on for everyone else but him. Not that he’s keeping track, or anything, but considering the way she glared at him when he helped himself to second servings this morning? Yeah. Nothing’s changed on that front.)
He’s dusting off what possibly might be a velociraptor skull when she plops down next to him, drawing her knees up to her chest. “Dr. Blake.”
“Griffin,” he says tightly, sparing her a quick glance before getting back to work. “To what do I owe the pleasure?”
“Not much,” she shrugs, running her fingers idly over the series of brushes he has lined up next to him. “I just came over to see what you’re working on.”
Arching a brow over at her, he sets his brush down on his knee. “I didn’t think you were interested in fossils.”
“I’m a lawyer for someone who’s opening up a dinosaur-themed amusement park,” she says, in a voice that suggests the statement be followed up with a pointed duh. “You’d think I’ll do that if I had no interest in dinosaurs whatsoever?”
“Honestly?” he snorts, raking his gaze over her once more. She’s changed, though he’s pretty sure the clothes aren’t hers from the way they hug to her every curve. Her skin is pink from the sun, a splattering of freckles evident against the side of her jaw, and he tries not to think about how nice she looks with her hair loose. “Yeah, probably. I don’t have a very high opinion of lawyers.”
That pulls a disgruntled noise from her. “Oh, yeah. You definitely kept that under wraps. Couldn’t tell at all.”
“Shut up,” he grouses, bumping his elbow against hers. “Besides, it’s not like you made the best first impression. You came down in a copter, which disrupted our work for an whole hour. You started off your pitch by telling me how lucky I was to be hand-picked by Jaha.”
Clarke makes a noise of mock-outrage at that, slapping at his arm lightly. “Please. I had a script to follow, okay? I didn’t think you’d take it that personally.”
“Well, I’m really in touch with my feelings.”
“Duly noted,” she deadpans, rolling her eyes at him. “Though to be entirely honest, Jaha wasn’t the one who picked you. I did.”
He frowns, turning over to look at her. “You did?”
“Yeah.” She says briskly, averting her gaze. “I looked at a bunch of files, and I thought you were the best candidate. I mean, you weren’t under consideration before, but I added you in because of the paper you wrote, and—”
“You read my papers?” he laughs, grinning when her cheeks pink in response.
“Fine, I did.” She mumbles, folding her hands in her lap. “So, uhm. Maybe your paper on viewing dinosaurs as cultural icons is what made me decide to approach Jaha in the first place.”
It’s a little hard to keep his smile from showing at this point, and he finds himself trying to catch her eye despite her sudden shyness at being caught out. “Wow. I can’t believe my own impact, sometimes.”
“It was a really well-written paper,” she argues, crossing her arms over her chest. Then, a little dramatically, “Too bad the author is kind of a dick.”
Whistling, he picks the brush up once more, twirling it between his fingers cockily. “You’re just mad because you revealed yourself to be one of my groupies.”
“You wish, Bellamy Blake.”
The rest of the afternoon passes exactly like this; bickering and talking and maybe a little flirting, too, and by the end of it, he’ll willingly admit that maybe he can see the appeal that Clarke Griffin has going for her.
(Okay fine, he definitely gets the appeal now.)
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He doesn’t object when she starts joining them during digs, snapping photos or dusting off fossils right alongside him; her brows furrowed in concentration and tongue poking out from between teeth. Besides, she’s pretty helpful, and it’s nice for him to be able to talk about his discoveries at length without worrying about boring her. She starts joining him during mealtimes, too, always settling in next to him like she belongs there; to the point where he starts looking for her when she doesn’t show up.
If he was being totally and entirely honest with himself, he’d admit that they’re sort of- kind of- friends, now. Or fun work colleagues, at least.
It’s probably why he can’t help feeling a little excited about the whole Jurassic Park venture, even though he’s willingly spending hours stranded in a tiny, cramped helicopter. Swallowing, he adjusts at his seatbelt; his pulse skipping erratically when she reaches over to adjust the headphones clamped over his ears, grinning.
“Ready for this, Dr. Blake?”
He’s not sure what possesses him to say it, really, but he finds himself telling her, “It’s Bellamy, okay? Just— stop being all formal, already.”
Her grin is fucking blinding under the light of the rapidly setting sun, and he’s not sure if the swoop he feels in his stomach is in reaction to her or the jerk of the copter as it begins to ascend in the sky.
“Clarke,” she says, mock-solemn, a small smile playing on her lips as she offers her hand out to shake. “And now we have that out of the way— you ready to go?”
He can’t help squeezing at her palm when he slides his fingers against hers; warm and reassuring and filled with some sort of possibility that makes him grin stupidly at her. “Bombs away, Clarke.”
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* // MYSNU DATABASE —————— STUDENT ID # : 311211
// LOADING STUDENT INFORMATION ▪ ▪ ▪
NAME › noh joowon
ALIAS › n / a
AGE › 12 / 11 / 1997, 22
YEAR › junior
// LOADING STUDENT RECORDS ▪ ▪ ▪
MAJOR › animation
MINOR › art
HOUSING › lim village, yi hall, 35 with hwang yideun
CLUBS › cooking, art, paranormal
SPORTS › n / a
// LOADING STUDENT ANALYSIS ▪ ▪ ▪
› › › Q & A SESSION WITH BYUNGARI, AUTHOR OF STRIKE OUT!! AND LITTLE STARS
now that little stars is completed, i thought it would be fun to do a q&a on my blog. this time, the main character of all these answers is me ~ (if you’re thinking “you bastard, nobody wants to read this sh#t,” i did a q&a in the epilogue for LS, so just go there if you want to know more about youngjun and sang). all questions were collected from ask.fm submissions, so thank you to everyone who sent something. and as always, thanks for all your support ✨
Q. WHAT DOES YOUR USERNAME SIGNIFY?
A. nothing deep. my siblings used to call me 병아리 when i was a kid because i reminded them of a baby chick, so when i had to come up with a pen name, my mind naturally went to that. my editor thought the mascot i sketched to go along with the name was really cute, so she insisted on keeping it like this 🐣
Q. WHAT TOOLS / SETTINGS DO YOU USE FOR YOUR WORK?
A. i can’t tell you. it’s not a secret or anything—i just don’t really know off the top of my head and i’m too lazy to check. i’ll let my assistant edit in an answer later ❤️
Q. HOW DO YOU COME UP WITH YOUR IDEAS / HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHAT TO WORK ON NEXT?
A. i don’t know? i get inspired by tv/games/animation or things i see happening in real life. sometimes it’s a mix. aside from that, i work on the kinds of stories i want to read specifically. sometimes they don’t exist so i’ll feel obligated to create content for them immediately, or sometimes they do exist but i know i can do it better (LOL). i have an ugly competitive streak. typically it’s a combination of random inspiration + pretty people i see on the street (for character design) + desperation/spite.
Q. WHAT IS YOUR PROCESS FROM BEGINNING TO END?
A. usually, i’ll work on the script first because it takes me the longest. i’m not good at writing, so i have to redo lines and dialogue pretty often. but once i have that done, it’s a standard process. i work on figuring out the layout and rough typesetting first, then it’s pretty much sketching > lining > colouring > post-correction. after i edit all the panels into a webtoon format, i finish up the typesetting. actually, i have an assistant helping me out these days, so they sometimes take over some of the more boring jobs!! or if we cut it too close to a deadline we’ll split the jobs fifty-fifty… ha… that doesn’t happen a lot, though.
Q. IS THERE ANY REAL LIFE INSPIRATION BEHIND YOUR CHARACTERS / PLOTS?
A. i’m supposed to say that all characters and situations in my comics are FICTIONAL and don’t have any resemblance to living persons/events but that’s… not true. surprise! i end up borrowing from real life a lot; most of my characters are (loosely) based off people i know. and since i write in slice-of-life settings, if something funny or interesting happens around me, i can usually slip that into an episode. shockingly, i haven’t gotten called out for this habit yet!!
Q. WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING?
A. make comics… i want to answer with something like that, but i’m actually a student in the arts department at seongnam university!
Q. WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO START MAKING COMICS?
A. i don’t mind talking about this even if it’s probably not a fun story. i must’ve been in my first year of middle school when i started? somewhere around then. anyway, my parents got a divorce. i decided to live with my mother, but she worked a lot. both my older siblings also have a large age gap with me, so they weren��t living at home back then. i wasn’t in any clubs or sports, so i would spend a lot of time alone at home after school ended. tv and games got boring after a while, and somehow i ended up drawing comics to pass the time. honestly, it was really fun!! i felt like i was able to tell my own cool stories this way.
but i didn’t do anything serious with them until high school, when my friend found a dumb little series i was working on (i think it was about a gumiho and a human who team up to solve crimes). they loved it, and they encouraged me to work on more comics seriously and post them online. their support really touched me; it was the first time someone thought i was good at something. it’s thanks to my circumstances that i started making comics, but it’s thanks to that friend i decided to share them with the world!! that’s about it, haha. sorry for the serious story all of a sudden >.>
Q. WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO DRAW BL COMICS?
A. it’s not like i set out to make bl comics in particular. i just had an idea of a story i wanted to draw, and it ended up being about a relationship between two men. when the plot started coming together, i just happened to envision it that way. it’s really that simple!
Q. WILL YOU EVER RELEASE AN ADULT COMIC?
A. adult? like about taxes? (…) i’m joking. probably not; i don’t have any interest in it.
Q. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU DON’T LIKE TO DRAW?
A. i hate backgrounds!!! i force my assistant to do them when i can. i also can’t really draw animals except for my own cat. the anatomy always ends up looking weird. oh, and i don’t like drawing rated stuff either (sorry :P). like, i can do it if i have to, but you would have to hold a gun to my head.
Q. WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE FOODS / DRINKS?
A. i like sweet things ^^ stuff like chocolate rolls, milk bread, etc. i don’t like strong coffee but i need to drink it to survive so i guess it kind of counts as a favorite? aside from that, i like meat! beef! i’m still young, so i need to eat lots.
Q. WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES BESIDES DRAWING?
A. sleeping…? i like playing video games (but i only play on the easy setting). i like going to watch movies with my friends too. i think this is just normal stuff, right?
Q. YOUR WAY OF SPEAKING IS PRETTY MASCULINE SOMETIMES. ARE YOU A MAN?
A. i’m a worm ㅋㅋㅋ (i don’t know what gender has to do with making a comic. don’t ask me questions like this, please).
Q. CAN WE MEET UP IN REAL LIFE?
A. haha, no.
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