so, this is the third to last scene... carmilla's wrap-up, which i feel is the weakest. she's just a very static character! she doesn't want to change. it's like my english teacher's taught me... put your worst argument before the final act. <:)
this will also be the scene where the gay is canonized for the other two.
the nurse is a siamese cat with a little bit of dog mixed in. i e...
2021-02-26 21:32:10 +0000 UTC View Post
so, for this strip, i was actually planning on this being 1/3 of a sequence, where 2 other scenarios similar to the popcorn incident (doing something stupid -> having it solved logically very readily and effortlessly) took place, followed by a humorous conversation in the third sequence about the pattern.
the popcorn sequence ended up being like 8000 pixels tall, so i'm just not doing the...
today i'm going to ~HOPEFULLY~ finish sketching the stupid popcorn strip.... HOPEFULLY....
https://www.twitch.tv/dupereffective
stream started at 5:49 pm CST.
2021-02-21 23:50:09 +0000 UTC View Post
EDIT: no extra panels i guess, i'm getting hit with a wicked headache today.
this page is a little longer than usual to avoid an awkward cut... i will have to jostle the panels a lot to center them once the page is fully colored and flattened.
rough one to comment on, because i feel like a lot of comments are simply spoilers at this point. i don't exactly try to aim for shocking end...
2021-02-19 02:02:16 +0000 UTC View Post
this strip is from august 2019, never really got finished though. what was interesting to me about it is that it was written entirely in script format, which i don't usually do for FaD strips, instead relying on the in-the-moment motivation to complete them.
most of the incomplete strips i was looking at i realized i didn't remember exactly how they went anymore due to the lack of script, bu...
today i'm just gonna be finishing up the popcorn one i started last week, and maybe lining or finishing another comic, since this week sucks!
https://www.twitch.tv/dupereffective
stream started at 11:23 am CST.
stream ended at 1:58 pm CST.
i've felt pretty terrible physically and emotionally for the past couple of days, so i'm going to have to pass on the commentary for this page, unfortunately. hopefully the next page will be the last one of this scene? i can't make promises though.
2021-02-12 14:50:24 +0000 UTC View Post
today i'll be working on folie a dupe strips.
https://www.twitch.tv/dupereffective
stream started at 10:37 pm CST.
stream ended at 3:31 am CST.
the next part of the scene will struggle to stand on its own as strongly as it would have with the scene about carmilla self-harming removed earlier, because it made the ability to still harm yourself within the facility most obvious.
it won't fall apart, though, because there were other indicators, and there will be a little wrap-up with sugar's arc. at this point i've learned to over-build...
hi everyone, i hope all of you have been relatively healthy and safe.
i think it's really funny when arms stick straight up from off-screen, but frequently it's not able to be pushed enough to make it obvious that it's intentional, instead of just an anatomical error. so i decided to just push it for a joke in this one.
i retweet donation posts on my twitter pretty regularly, so i reco...
2021-02-02 04:08:25 +0000 UTC View Post
today i'm just gonna try some animal crossing fashions, a little bit unusual for fashion streams, but i do miss them.
https://www.twitch.tv/dupereffective
stream started at 6:38 pm CST.
stream ended at 8:48 pm CST.
tried to put a little more thought into this page's shot choices -- the first set of panels would be far away from kim to put emotional distance between the viewer and her.
the dialogue introducing the evaluation would become larger in text size over three bubbles, and then the camera would zoom in.
the camera would become uncomfortable and closed-in -- the space between the door and the ...
i'm pretty tired today, had to go do other stressful stuff before starting this stream, so it will probably be a short one. for the last stream of the month, i'm thinking of doing animal crossing type outfits again.
https://www.twitch.tv/dupereffective
stream started at 9:37 pm CST.
stream ended at...
this page was so irritating... way too long, but just short enough to not be able to slice in half. i've been shading this for 11 hours straight now, so my commentary is going to be sparse.
in this scene, i was planning on carmilla getting a little more... subtly antagonistic or malicious once the toes of her delusion were stepped on. this could have been implying that she was younger tha...
2021-01-22 10:44:32 +0000 UTC View Post
more fashions... i'm going to be trying to focus on some of my larger characters (and also want to draw one carmilla on a vampire costume), but i'm still open to suggestions and such.
https://www.twitch.tv/dupereffective
stream started at 8:10 pm CST.
stream ended at 12:43 pm CST.
today will probably only be an hour-long stream because my sleep schedule is a mess and i have an appointment in the morning... i am open to outfit suggestions though.
https://www.twitch.tv/dupereffective
stream started at 7:50 pm CST.
stream ended at 11:15 pm CST.
okay, let's see what i can remember about what i wanted to say about this page, because i happened to lose a few hours of sleep today specifically...
i moved a few things around in the rest of the story's structural plan, where lupe's wrap-up arc and development will both take place in this scene, since they basically function with the same purpose.
the reason i did that is not necessa...
today i'm going to be doing more observational portraits of people who don't actually exist. i don't know if it's actually helping me understand the human face more, but it can't hurt.
https://www.twitch.tv/dupereffective
stream started at 1:48 pm CST.
stream ended at 7:30 pm CST.
hey again everyone. i wish i had a ton of stunning ideas for q&a's, but i don't! the theme this month will be something simple, theme songs. you can ask for a song i think fits a character or give me a song and ask which character it would fit. in this case i think it would be okay to repeat characters.
my memory has been so poor for the last year that i don't really ...
2021-01-03 19:23:17 +0000 UTC View Post
hi everyone. i had to delay this update because i no longer work on shabbat.
this comic was also supposed to be several more panels long, with dupe opening up the wall beside the door, and slapping a label over the "2020" that says "2021" instead, then leaving in the opposite direction. cutting it halfway was kind of a "tail that can be dropped in self-defense" thing, although i did want to ...
this page is late because it's a little longer than usual. also, because i'm tired, just, all the time.
anyway, here are the flats. shading forthcoming.
this scene possibly, besides touching on frankie's perspective of being institutionalized, is introducing the concept of ward quality, or the idea that not every single ward is as bad as this one. i am very aware that a lot of peopl...
2020-12-27 08:09:30 +0000 UTC View Post
today i'm going to try to do maybe some more down-to-earth shape, based studies for things that i struggle with drawing a little more instead of full on painting thumbnails, maybe.
https://www.twitch.tv/dupereffective
stream started at 11:33 am CST.
stream ended at 3:20 pm CST.
since i didn't do a stream on sunday, i'm making it up today. will probably just do a few more thumbnail type paintings as last week.
https://www.twitch.tv/dupereffective
stream started at 12:31 pm CST.
stream ended at 5:20 pm CST.
okay, here is the next page. this scene definitely feels a little superfluous, but at least works for more believable pacing. i felt like people would enjoy frankie if they've been reading the comics for years, and the next "scene" is slated to happen within the same time frame, ie. kim finishes the conversation with frankie, walks into the day room and sits down, and this is the next scene. 2020-12-13 03:52:27 +0000 UTC View Post
hi. i forgot about the q&a, but i remembered now. i was having a hard time thinking of a theme for this one.
i think i'll decide to go with characters' opinions about other characters for this month.
you can ask what i think a character would think of another character that they do or don't know in the canon itself.
since it isn't really specified how exactly a cha...
i'm going to go with what's currently winning the poll for this one: study streams. gonna be painting/studying some portraits of people who do not exist.
stream started at 4:12 pm CST.
2020-12-06 22:12:36 +0000 UTC View Postmy swiss cheese brain has once again failed to do this and i just now realized
2020-12-06 17:35:50 +0000 UTC View Post
before anything else or anyone asks, here is a picture of lupe's drawing with the brightness turned down and the contrast turned up so that it's more visible:
in the original script, she was slated to draw nothing at all, because that best represented how she feels. i based the later decision to ...
2020-12-04 01:16:07 +0000 UTC View Post