Anonymous asked: Hi! Since your characters have the most beautiful and well-defined personalities, I wanted to ask: how do you do that? How can you create such a wonderful and astonishingly realistic thing? What's on your mind while creating and then developing new characters? P.S.: I'm sorry - I apologise for any grammatical errors... I'm Italian :)
yikes, hard question- because I’m not sure, because I let the characters do all the work for me! I guess I’ve always observed people, how they talk and act when they’re feeling certain ways, and I’ve always been very empathetic- meaning that I often don’t just correctly observe how people are feeling, but I actually end up feeling the same way as they do (which can be exhausting and I have to be careful with!). Basically I just create a thought experiment: create a scenario and put characters into it, and see how they react. I can only do this with characters I feel I understand very well, obviously, but really I just sit back and let it play out in my head and my heart. When I think I have enough of a grip on it in my mind, then I start roughing out the comic.
Much of the framing and layout stuff has come just by doing it for a lot of years (working as a storyboarder certainly helped), so the best way to pick that stuff up is to read lots of comics, watch lots of visual media, and draw draw draw. For the acting out of personalities, I can only assume the same, but if I can’t feel or ‘naturally’ feel what a character would do in response to a situation then I have to reconsider things, or simply just wait, or backtrack- is there something else that happened before this that does not flow naturally? Is there someone else who did something that feels ‘out of character’? Is this the way this character REALLY wants to react, or have they got another angle?
In terms of creating characters with personalities, again I feel I cheat, because I usually am partly ‘approached’ by them rather than making them up from start to finish. Time’s rather abrupt and stark, panel abusing personality just appeared as a consequence of what he is and how he exists, mixed in with the behaviour of his acquaintances the Mad March Hare and the Mad Hatter. The fact that he has an Aussie accent in my head is a total surprise to me.
Uhhhh basically SIT AND THINK. THINK THINK. BUT NOT TOO HARD because the character is the one who thinks. You listen. Writing people is about listening to the people in your head. Yeah.
sometimes I get commissioned things and I’m like well. that’s sure something I’d never come up with by myself BUT YOU KNOW WHAT OKAY
anon commissioner wanted some good old shameless cheesey vampire duck stuff based off Quacklight. Yes. That is the official duck comic parody of Twilight. Yes, these two are both vampires, and yes, the whole thing is self-insert fanfic written by Daisy and Brigitta. It’s perfect.
servuscallidus asked: Thanks to your sick!Wonder comic I started watching the series and it's really nice and relaxing and I'm enjoying it a lot, so thank you for your wonderful comics!!
THIS MAKES ME VERY HAPPY yes please everyone go appreciate and enjoy Wander Over Yonder it is such a good show such such a good show and where the hell is my third season it’s a CRIME
Anonymous asked: god please make dated-for-like-one-week-when-in-highschool Glarioca a thing
I KIND OF HEADCANON IT NOW TBH but I also now have to like. figure out where and how they could meet bc I still feel like Jose and Donald only meet much later like in the cartoons they’re both their regular lookin’ selves? maybe a few years earlier than the ‘comic dad Donald’ age (bc in The Three Caballeros Ride Again it’s a reunion after a few years of being apart and the kids don’t know about them/haven’t met them before)… so like yeah now I have this ‘did Gladstone meet and know Jose way before Donald ever did’ angle to potentially work with which is hilarious in itself. Also I’m 100% on the theory that Gladstone did and does travel a huge lot so it’s plausible that he met Jose in Brazil on a trip which makes them meeting up on home turf EVEN WEIRDER and look there’s. there’s a lot to play with here
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the next duck comic is heavy so i used some old sketches to doodle an incomplete fluffy thing (Gladstone had to go work in Magica’s garden bc he messed up one of her potions or some such and then they both fell asleep on the couch or something don’t ask me man)
the-teeth-collector asked: Mod could you please tell us litterally anything, even the smallest and meaningless thing about Click bc I've been thinking about that boy a lot and I think he deserves love
/sticks hand in the random facts about OCs bin and rummages about
he hated broccoli and one time got dumped bc his gf saw him push his little brother into a mud puddle :Tb
Anonymous asked: Pardon my asking, but how old are Goosetave and Daphne when they meet in The White Balloon? Asking for reasons
good question! I think they are about 16/17- young enough for Goostave to be deeply under the thumb of his parents but on the verge of going to college and really starting to be able to break away and be independent. I imagine they met, then went their separate ways, but kept touch as pen pals for all the time they were apart and eventually met back up in their twenties.
