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Originally a pencil sketch with adapted digital treatment.Comments very much welcome
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This is a cool unique style. Have you thought about developing it further?
Really like the look of this =^^=
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Hey thanks
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That would be way cool! You should do the graphic novel. It would be a good experience for sure =^^=
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I feel like I would benefit from a writers craft course. Do you have any experience with like writing or comics? any advice would rock heh
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Sorry I haven't gotten back to you yet. I've honestly been thinking about this one so please don't think i forgot about you! =^^=
Ug it's been busy heh
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That's really cool of you to get back to me about it
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Oh boy sorry for the really late reply.
When it comes to writing I'd say make sure that you are first writing for your own sensibilities. In other words, write about the places you'd like to visit (SF, fantasy, historical, and the like), people you'd want to meet, or villains you'd want to battle, etc.
Study grammar, always have a dictionary and thesaurus available. One of the great things about the English language (no matter which primary dialect you are using)is that we have multiple ways to verbally describe an event, character, action, and whatnot.
Make it a point to avoid auto correct, if you spelled a word incorrectly go back, erase it, learn it's correct spelling, and rewrite it.
Study your favorite authors and learn from them, remember every artist, no matter their art discipline is a persistent student of their craft.
Practice everyday. Just write, then go back and judge your work. Look at it and see the good along with the bad. Then take the mistakes and go discover how to correct them so that you learn from them and can mature your art discipline beyond those mistakes. Always be willing to learn =^^=
When you write, tell the stories you love to tell but also practice impromptu writing. IE pick a subject and start writing and don't stop for five minutes.
Have a small notebook (digital or practical) with you. Where ever you are at a given moment, sitting in the city, riding the bus, or waiting for friends at the theater, start to describe the situation around you. Say you are at a coffee shop. How would you describe the steam coming off of the top of a cup of coffee or relay to people how a cold smoothie feels when you drink it on a hot day. Those kind of things.
Listen to the commentaries and panels featuring writers. Not only is this encouraging and inspiring but you'll gain some insight into how and why they write.
Every city usually has writing cons or comic cons and those are really great for a wealth of information.
There is a wonderful little book called "Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White. It's a great little book that gives writers a good foundation for grammar structure in a very focused manner.
Remember, you'll get a ton of opinions, but you must write for your own sensibilities because you can't please everyone and if you tried it would just fail. Think about your favorite stories or worlds that writers have created. You like to visit those places because they are unique and the writer is writing about the places they would want to visit. Do the same, create a universe or worlds that you would find interesting and then find others who want to come along the for the journey into your world. If they are willing to step through the wardrobe or leap down the rabbit hole then those are the people who will become fans of your work because you are a fan of it first.
Whatever you do, don't give up. Recognize you aren't perfect and you don't know everything and you will fall down but falling down isn't what is important...getting back up is. Learning is about seeing what you do not know, trying, making mistakes, and trying again until you learn so that you can overcome those mistakes and accomplish your goal. If you are willing to learn and go through the process of learning then you are willing to mature your craft no matter now long it takes and no matter how many mistakes you make. As long as you are willing to learn from your mistakes, then you are learning and maturing =^^=
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I haven't done any formal writing but let me think about an answer to your question =^^=
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Basically it's a family in the bottom right corner just barely escaping this damaged mech, it may be too damaged to fire on them but it's baring down quickly. I maybe drew the family too small, but pretty much the mother is in the sewer entrance, while the son is passing his baby sister up to the mom. I like to often include on foot people in my mech concepts to lay on the drama a bit thicker. Ultimately tho I never thought of a story to surround this illustration, just a visual I liked.
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pretty much. Just minor details changed up a bit.
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it is. This ones fairly small compared to the usual chassis I work with. I would enjoy illustrating the Fafnir. Do you have a favorite mech? My personal choice would be the madcat.
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yeah same here. Almost for me a tie between Timber Wolf and Mad Dog. That picture makes me shutter a bit remembering Battletech on the Sega Genesis, which kicked my ass forever on just the first level lol
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Don't the Timby and the Mady have the same legs?
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yeah the chicken legs. Not sure why but thats gotta be my fav. design aspect of mechs, like it makes them slightly more menacing somehow.
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Makes them seem more, predatory, and advanced. And when I meant the same legs, I meant the EXACT same legs. In many pictures I've seen, they're no different to a Timby's.
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Took me a minute to fully grasp the situation. woah dude, awesome digital treatment!!
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