Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

TOO MUCH LOVE TO DEAL WITH thank you all so much and bloody hell of course you can cosplay RGB good luck with wearing a box on your head though that’s going to be a lark

the t-shirts are a WIP but yes they will be happening eventually! I’ve just been a bit bogged down with being ill and talking to banks so that got put on the back burner for a while, sorry!

as for him having a hot ass; he runs a lot

Yes! They are all mass media and storytelling terms. The ‘hook’ is the thing that you use to grab someone’s attention; a splashy headline or a cryptic advertisement, something to make the audience pay attention and follow you. Rushes, also called dailies, are collections of raw, unedited footage. Soft Focus is a variety of technical flaw but can be used to blur an image on purpose, and Diegesis is a method of exposition. Obviously they all have double meanings and can be interpreted in different ways, and the contents and context of each chapter also affects and reflects the titles (I hope).

Yes it is, and yes there is ;)

FLASH NO LIKE ME. ME NO LIKE FLASH. PENCIL GOOD. MOD SMASH PUNY CRASHY PROGRAM okay well not really but yes I infinitely prefer using traditional pencil animation to any other form, but you can do paperless animation in Flash so I don’t mind doing that once in a while (except I don’t have flash on this computer so…)

I sketch the characters (and often the backgrounds) in pencil and then scan it in to finish it in photoshop. I don’t draw massively huge things but it depends on what I’m drawing I guess?

anyway here’s some next page-ish sketches next to my tiny pudgy fingers for reference

Well, firstly thanks for reading! Hope I can keep entertaining you with it. There a few methods to make your characters stand out, but two of the biggest are that of silhouette and colour.

If you can understand what a character is doing by their silhouette, it makes the pose ‘readable’, and the motivation and acting of the character that much clearer. It’s very important to have strong, clear posing in animation, so I try to apply it in my comic as well. It can tell you what a character is doing, but it can also tell you how they feel.

The second is colour; the current backgrounds are predominantly blue. When I shade the characters I use a sepia for the tonal values, but I also designed RGB’s latest outfit with this in mind. Orange and blue are on opposite sides of the colour wheel, so it makes the character stand out. I did the same thing in the previous with Madras; the interior of the House of Paint is a green turquoise, while Madras has a scarlet pink colour scheme.

Also occasionally breaking the frame like this helps to bring the character out, but it’s best to use it sparingly. You also have to be careful that it doesn’t disorientate the reader or break the flow of the page; having character popping out of the frames tends to drag the eye towards it, so I always hesitate before doing it.

Hee, I was hoping that might confuse people. In actuality the change is simpler than you might think, and will be explained eventually.

As regards the grayscale comment, however, it’s true that he is very different in that state.

Very.

Anonymous asked: Thesis anon again. I know you're very busy but would it be alright for me to email some questions regarding what I'm researching in The Property of Hate for you to answer at your leisure? It would be really useful to my sources to have a direct Q&A with the author. If you're too busy it's totally understandable and thank you so much for your time!

yes but my hands are still sore so it might take me a while to answer and the answers will be short :’D if you can, please wait a few weeks before sending me the email and then I might be able to do a better job of answering!

Well first sh-shut up you can’t make me happy by saying things like that baka.

Secondly yes, you can, I love strange questions, mostly because I am so very, very strange. I have a lot of very strange habits and hobbies, but being an animator one of my favourite strange things is what I call ‘people watching’. More specifically; watching little nuances that make people who they are, that reveal things about them. Sometimes it’s how they walk, sometimes it’s how they light a cigarette, lick their fingers before they turn a page, tilt their head forward when they’re thinking how to put something politely or back when they’re trying to remember. I’ve been able to deduce that someone had a spinal injury from their limp and that someone had recently lost their ring just from watching how they behaved.

One of my favourite responses to analyze is when someone is eating something new or really delicious for the first time. Everyone reacts differently, but humans are odd because they try to disguise things a lot of the time; with food, they can’t. It’s much harder to hide what you think about a piece of food, especially in the first few microseconds that you take a bite. It’s literally a chemical reaction, so it’s much easier to see a true response. Afterwards of course you have the 'acting’ part, pretending you like it or aren’t so impressed; but it’s actually the genuine, involuntary movements of people’s faces that intrigue me.

Aka I am a creepy fuck and like watching people eat nice things. Sue me.

Ooh, cool question, yay. Well, in a universe where everything is possible and time doesn’t exist, my first choice would be Patrick McGoohan. I know all of you are going ‘bwuh’ but if you’ve heard of the 1960’s tv show called 'The Prisoner’ he played the main character, number six.

He just has that perfect clipped BBC accent that can sound absolutely insufferable but still dapper, also RGB is ever so slightly influenced by number six, so there’s that.

If I had to pick someone from the modern realm, I have a feeling that Colin Firth would do a fantastic job. For one he’s got the right age to his voice, and has great vivacity, but he can also do that wonderful blustering stammer, which would be perfect for RGB’s pomposity.

Interesting that you noticed that. One of the traits of RGB (that will become more apparent as the story proceeds) is that, although he likes to give off a sense of class and sophistication, he’s a complete sham artist. He’s all about false impressions and selling something that isn’t there, illusions and pretty words. TPoH itself is riddled with the message that things are never what they seem.

So, he gives the impression that he has immaculate taste by wearing suspenders and spats, but if you look closley the fastenings are cheap, and the spats are actually just a part of his shoes- they aren’t the genuine article. Nothing about RGB is.