November 29, 2016   76,483 notes

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rapidpunches:

SHORT STORY/ONE-SHOT/ONE CHAPTER/COMICS 101 CRASH COURSE RAPIDPUNCHES’ STYLE

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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).

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Roughly… the steps to making your comic is

  1. WRITE
  2. PLAN THUMBNAILS
  3. 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.

  1. This guy yodels.
  2. Echoes roll.
  3. Snow slides down.
  4. Avalanche buries the mountain.
  5. Cabins are engulfed.
  6. This bear has no access to cabin food and garbage.
  7. Bear eats this guy.

Expand. Blow up important beats for emphasis. Keep less important beats brief.

  1. This guy is hiking in the snowy mountains.
  2. He comes across an avalanche warning sign.
  3. There is nobody around but him.
  4. A dumb expression forms over his face and he yodels.
  5. Echoes roll but nothing nearby is moved.
  6. At the top of the mountain the snow drifts twitch.
  7. Guy, satisfied, hikes away from there still yodeling.
  8. Frozen snow cracks.
  9. Snow puffs billow and great slabs of ice crash down the mountain side.
  10. Guy sees this and hightails it to safer ground.
  11. Animals, people, are all panicking and getting pushed over by the rushing snow.
  12. Cabins are destroyed.
  13. The guy takes cover by an outcropping of rocks, fastens himself securely to the rock face, and waits for the avalanche to die down.
  14. Avalanche dies down.
  15. A lone bear shambles over from the other side of the mountain.
  16. The bear goes to where a cabin used to be (only roof tiles are left). Bear sniffs a dish satellite.
  17. Bear forlornly eats a food wrapper.
  18. Bear tries to dig.
  19. Guy comes down from the rocks he as climbing and sees bear.
  20. Bear stops digging and sees him.
  21. Guy runs.
  22. Bear chases him down.
  23. 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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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)

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November 10, 2016   94 notes

A sequel to an older commission for Comicslaughterer!

Our fresh bimbo is feeling more comfortable in her new body.

November 1, 2016   2 notes

Anonymous asked: What are your favorite sort of commissions?

That’s an interesting question!

While I value the creative freedom of working on my own projects, I can honestly say I’ve enjoyed every single commission I’ve worked on.

I’ve never made an open call for commissions, I’ve only drawn them when a fan wanted me to create something specifically for them. As a result, they tend to be fun opportunities to explore concepts and ideas I wouldn’t have drawn, otherwise.

If you’re thinking about commissioning me, feel free to contact me at srtimid@gmail.com

November 1, 2016   130 notes
starshiftstudios:
“  Halloween Special | Spankenstein
Hey everyone. I wanted to share with you my latest free animation. It’s a retro Fleischer Brothers/Ren and Stimpy inspired comedic TG transformation piece, just in time for Halloween! If you are...

starshiftstudios:

Halloween Special | Spankenstein

Hey everyone. I wanted to share with you my latest free animation. It’s a retro Fleischer Brothers/Ren and Stimpy inspired comedic TG transformation piece, just in time for Halloween! If you are 18+, you can view it over on TG Comics, where most of my new work is being posted (you’ll need to make a free account).

https://tgcomics.com/tgc/spankenstien-blog/

Have an awesome Halloween!! <3

October 30, 2016   40 notes

October 27, 2016

bucksbimbos:

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[Larger version at http://imgur.com/a/2N4XF]

So, I need to get Steph into the apartment. I think it’s the moral thing to do, and also, so hot. I can hardly ditch Steph after, you know, making her a cum guzzler, and also that box is so tight. I’ve been having all these images of three-ways in my head. And there’s the financial factor. It’s an easy decision, except, I sort of have to get my wife to buy into it.

I’ve been having trouble with that.

ME: So hey, idea, what if we get a roommate? To help with the rent?
CANDACE: What? Why?
ME: You know. Three-way expenses. Three-way… other things.
CANDACE: We only have one bedroom, right? Hold on.

She went through the apartment and counted.

CANDACE: Yeah we only have one bedroom silly.
ME: We can have her cook.
CANDACE: Oh wait… her? A girl?
ME: Yeah, my, uh, co-worker? Steph? Do you remember me talking about Steph?
CANDACE: I think so. The fat one who couldn’t keep a guy?
ME: Yeah… yeah. That one.

There’s another problem here, which is that I never mentioned that I’m sort of cheating on her with another woman, who I also made over into a big-titted slut. I’m not sure how to have that conversation.

But eventually I realized that I’m going about this all wrong. I’m thinking like sad accountant Trevor with frigid wife Candace. I need to think like big-dick Trevor with extremely horny wife Candace. So I fired up a threesome porno, I sat Candace on my lap, which is where she normally sits anyway, and we watched.

CANDACE: Ooh.
ME: Damn, that’s hot. Look at that, the blonde is getting her pussy licked, too. AND her titties stroked. Wow, what a lucky girl, to have a wet and willing other girl around. And the other girl is asian! What are the odds.
CANDACE: Damn.

I started to fuck her slowly.

ME: Damn I only wish I could also play with your ass and titties at the same time but I only have these two hands.
CANDACE: Uh… huh…
ME: Damn damn damn.

Candace got a sly look.

CANDACE: Hey… your birthday is coming up. Maybe we could have a girl over.
ME: Uh, sure! Hey, I have someone in mind!
CANDACE: [Eyes slightly narrow]. Who?
ME: Steph.
CANDACE: Oh. Is she still a little fat?
ME: In, uh, parts.

A long pause.

CANDACE: Okay.

Then she slipped down to between my legs. I had just cum but was still sort of hard, and she started to stroke me back to full-mast.

CANDACE: While we’re… like… talking with our mouths and stuff.
ME: Yeah?
CANDACE: I’ve been thinking how I’m getting soooo bored with condoms… and it’s not like I’m doing school or work or anything.
ME: Ahhhhh. Yeah?
CANDACE: So maybe you might as well start cumming in me, honey. Over and over and over. I’ll take care of the rest.

Crap. I’m sure she noticed how my dick surged at the thought.

ME: I’ll think about it?
CANDACE: Okay cool, and I’ll think about threesomes and stuff.

Then she started to suck me off.

So there it is. It’s like she’s got a kind of… bimbo-craftiness. She wants me to cum in her. That’s what my little asian mistress is going to cost me.

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Is this… coincidence?

October 29, 2016   1 note

Anonymous asked: Have you ever thought about putting your books on the apple book store

Doesn’t Apple frown on pornographic content?

The only alternative publishing option I have ever attempted is Amazon Kindle Publishing. I think I uploaded one of my first paid sequences there…? Six Secrets to Looking Younger and maybe Riiing! as well? All I remember was that I had to fill out a bunch of looong forms, Amazon’s cut was insane and I still haven’t made a single sale through them.

I never felt like I tapped into a wider audience, instead it felt like yelling to an empty room.

I wouldn’t be surprised if I blundered somehow. After all, plenty of erotica authors seem to be doing quite well for themselves on Amazon.

October 26, 2016   66 notes

I’m not personally a huge fan of body swap (no process…!) but I enjoyed drawing this! Visually interpreting what a person would look like in a different body was a fascinating challenge.

Anonymous commission.

October 13, 2016   32 notes

Saw one of these mirrored selfies and thought “hm…”

October 4, 2016   69 notes

A sweet little commission for sorry55

October 2, 2016   4 notes
A couple is reluctant to celebrate Halloween, until a mischievous spirit overhears them.
Tags: Transgender, Anthro Transformation (to Catgirl), Breast Expansion, Multiple Transformations, Clothing Transformation, Multiple Breasts, Use of Toys, High...

A couple is reluctant to celebrate Halloween, until a mischievous spirit overhears them.

Tags: Transgender, Anthro Transformation (to Catgirl), Breast Expansion, Multiple Transformations, Clothing Transformation, Multiple Breasts, Use of Toys, High Heels

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