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here have 10 pieces of writing advice that have stuck with me over the years
every character’s first line should be an introduction to who they are as a person
even if you only wrote one sentence on a really bad day, that’s still one sentence more than you had yesterday
exercise restraint when using swear words and extra punctuation in order for them to pack a punch when you do use them
if your characters have to kiss to show they’re in love, then they’re not in love
make every scene interesting (or make every scene your favorite scene), otherwise your readers will be just as bored as you
if you’re stuck on a scene, delete the last line you wrote and go in a different direction, or leave in brackets as placeholders
don’t compare your first draft to published books that could be anywhere from 3rd to 103rd drafts
i promise you the story you want to tell can fit into 100k words or less
sometimes the book isn’t working because it’s not ready to be written or you’re not ready to write it yet; let it marinate for a bit so the idea can develop as you become a better writer
a story written in chronological order takes a lot more discipline and is usually easier to understand than a story written with flashbacks
CrossXDream family doodles.
A few months ago I posted the first ideas for Celestial Star and Luna Light my cream twins. I drew this around the same time and wanted to post it for a while. So here is finally is. These two started off bumpy, like most ship kids, they were not made on purpose. But Cross and Dream took it in stride.
1) When they were only about 3 days old, they were kidnapped by Nightmare. He wanted to use them as blackmail to get his brother alone. Dream of cause confronted his brother. it was quite emotional as he pleaded that they were only babys and that Nightmare couldn’t really stoop that low right. During this something started to happen to Celest. She was just and energy blob at the time and was very fragile. Because of being held in Nightmare’s tendrils she un-knowingly started to absorb his negative energy. It wasn’t long until it started to hurt her. She started to cry. Nightmare then saw what was happening to her. Now normally he wouldn’t care. But he was suddenly brought back to the day of his own corruption. Remembering the true pain and fear. That was something he wouldn’t wish on his worst enemy. So quickly he returned both children to Dream and told him to leave before he changed his mind. He regretted being so emotionally weak later on.
2) When Dream got the two back safely. Him and Cross shared an emotional moment. Dream felt guilty, and also scared for them, particularly Celest, whose energy at blackened slightly. No one was able to reverse the corruption and no one knew how it would effect Celest in the long run.
3) Over protective Dad Dream. Lucky at first it didn’t seem like Celest was going to be badly effected. She was still able to form a skeleton body much like Lux did. But out of guilt and fear, Dream insisted in carrying her around for a few months. Just in case something bad happened. He even started to neglect his duty’s slightly.
But after help from Cross and his friends, he was finally able to let go and leave both the twins with an AU Sans (i don’t know which yet, i would love suggestions) who had offered to look after them when the AU travellers couldn’t.
4) Drawing of the twins together.
5) Just as they had feared, the corruption had a lasting effect. One day strange black marks began to appear on Celest. mostly on her legs. These marks seemed to cause her pain since she would cry when they were touched. After a few days they were gone. But this was not the last they would see them.
6) something to lighten the mood. This is a ship kid called Essence created by @thebluescreenofdespair
here is meeting his new half sister for the first time. Hes a natural!
hope you like it
Static. Because i need practice drawing him, his head is hard to do. Also because i needed to figure out what his arms looked like. I did hand practice as well using some of the diffrent characters from static’s story to make then less ..plain? i guess.
Y'know, I’m really loving the return to a “tropes are good” mindset. Embrace the cliché. Use the overused. If it makes you feel good to read and write, don’t stress if it’s not completely original. It’s so much more fun to not agonize over having to make every aspect of a piece revolutionary
Translating comic characters into something animation ready for the Lackadaisy Animated Short Film!
These designs - which underwent a lot of back and forth revisions among the director, character designer and me - are where we landed for some of the primary cast. We’ll show some of the other characters appearing in the film soon! Art here by the marvelous @corvidmonster
Hatred in something i’ve ended up calling his ‘Omega Form’. Seriously, being a Elemental can have it’s advantages.
closeups of that last drawing.....snails with legs and their rhino beetle
So a while ago @imaginationstudios321 posted a conpect for a character which is going to be in one of my stories. And i finally decided to sketch out some of the concepts for the characters. i’m hopefully going to have a digtial desgin for all of the Main characters by the end of the next two weeks.
These two are Beauty and Static. I’ll give an actaul description of all the characters and some proper lore, but for now, here’s the concepts.
AlphysXUndyne for Valentine's Day!
Happy Valentine's Day all of you! take the most famous lesbians in the undertale fandom.
Character consept: Jackie Ripper
One of the many victims of Jack the Ripper.
She's a tormented soul. Forever in physical and emotional pain. She is part of a universe in which, it seems, that people who died of a particularly horrible or traumatic death get reincarnated or reborn into a new form, which takes on features that resemble or mirror in some way the how they died.
Jackie's form pays homage to red riding hood and the wolf, since she leant never to trust strangers.
She doesn't know her real name and has almost no memories of her life other then the events leading to her death.
For those of you who don't know of Jack the Rippers victims (gore warning) this is how she died...
She was a prostitute in the Victorian era who ended up having her womb and ovaries ripped out.
She has a snappy personality. The best word to describe her would be bitch. But if you befriend her she will be fiercely loyal.
She aims to teach people about the danger of strangers and how to properly judge character.
So here she is. Mind you this is just the first consept. There will be more when I get round to it. Hope you like her.
I created Jackie to be a secondary character in a story that @thebluescreenofdespair is creating so if you want the full story check it out there.
Nightberry
Sorry for the lack of art of late. Ive been working solidly on Fransweek.
But then i remembered this stupid sansest drawing and thought i would post it here.
Do i ship this? no not really….i just felt a compulsion to draw it.
sorry not sorry
XBerry by @thebluescreenofdespair
i feel like such shipper trash right now
And here it is! TA Da! The Anti Sans!
this is a re draw of one of my favourite drawings from last year (i think it was last year)
I did change up the order they are stood in though and added in a new member.
So we have the Infamous Killer and Dust. With the even more Infamous Nightmare. AKA squid boy in the middle.
To the right we have Hate Sans (who i cant remember the creator of, Dam scatter brain)
and to the left We have the broken boi Twitchtale Sans created by me! And X berry who created by @thebluescreenofdespair and looks like he is the last person in the world who wants to be there.
I hope you all like this because It took FOREVER AHH
P.S about where sans’ like Horror or fell or cross. Ive never really viewed them as being members.so this is just my interruption.
This is Essence, he’s a ship kid i have, and recently i decided he’d paly the violin, so i drew it! I might change some parts of his desgin in the future as its still in the works, but for now, im happy with it.
So i was trying to decide whether to redraw one of my old pictures or not, and @imaginationstudios321 metioned this picture, which is my first digital one, so i thought why not redraw it? 15 hours later i finshed the new version, and needless to say, there is definetly a diffrence.
Edvard Munch quote
Torvus having a post study snooze in his room. This started as a doodle and that was all I had planned it to be but then I kept adding to it and adding to it… pfft I clowned on myself.