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I need some advice.
9 years ago
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Illustration and Character Design
So I really want some advice. I hope you don't mind if you could spare a few minutes...
For the longest time I've been thinking of a way that I can start to be able to write my stories, my creative writing and scripts that go alongside my characters. Being a role player in the past and amateur creative story writer, I've finally decided I'd like to get into more writing than drawing when it comes to putting my thoughts down on paper.
Every time I imagine something and want to draw it, it looks dreadful and completely unlike what I see in my head. I've had all of these backstories, comic and manga ideas all stored away and with only a select few who know a glimpse of the vast imagination I have poured into these stories, characters and concepts. The biggest issues is, my drawings put me off and my brain throws a fit and leaves. AKA art block. Writing can be moulded and manipulated and with the power of the keyboard over pen, you can make plenty of mistake and just cut and edit as you please much like digital art.....but probably 9000 quicker. I'm just not there with my art. AT ALL. You can be as complimentary as you want and I appreciate it IMMENSELY. But I hate my work. I actually have trouble having confidence that I'm consistently improving; its as if I want instant results and i feel others get there faster - Very envious! I'm also always afraid of stepping into new realms of drawing and feel that I'm somehow a criminal, changing from style to style until I'm happy. I feel like trash. Is this wrong? I don't know. Comfort me with some rationality and logic, I'm lacking a lot of that.
I'm looking for somewhere private, somewhere I can write and share my stories. I'm also interested in what you might label fan fiction but fan fiction and writing of my OWN characters and not of any others. Perhaps maybe one day with already existing characters? but I'm not completely into that. I just want to be able to show my creative writing talents and see what people think, it'll really help me improve and mould my story into scripts that will help me map out my drawings. I can then put drawing to words once i feel my art has reached where I want it to be for the style of my manga/comics. I get hit with Art block all the time and I think writing is probably my earlier comfort zone where I felt I wasn't pressuring myself to make something perfect. Writing felt more natural and it allowed my imagination to flow at a nice pace with no pressure, it wasn't and hasn't left my mind. I have about 64gb of data in my brain about the characters >>; I AM A LIVING HARDDRIVE.
I really think it will help me unwind, I'm clearly not happy with my art and where it is at at the moment and I need a way of relaxing into something that to me, doesn't require all that much effort; the script, the ideas, the thoughts, they are all there and ready to go. All I need is an outlet.
If you can, anyone whose into this sort of thing, is there anywhere like...a site or forum of some kind, an archive of sorts that can allow you to story write, save it privately or when you are ready, publish it to the public.
Oh, and I apologise. I not long ago got home from work, I'm totally shattered and brain farting all of this and most of it might not even make sense. If there is any grammar problems, spelling mistakes or general garble you don't understand or need translating, please go ahead and let me know <3
Thanks everyone, tell your friends!
Kaoru~
For the longest time I've been thinking of a way that I can start to be able to write my stories, my creative writing and scripts that go alongside my characters. Being a role player in the past and amateur creative story writer, I've finally decided I'd like to get into more writing than drawing when it comes to putting my thoughts down on paper.
Every time I imagine something and want to draw it, it looks dreadful and completely unlike what I see in my head. I've had all of these backstories, comic and manga ideas all stored away and with only a select few who know a glimpse of the vast imagination I have poured into these stories, characters and concepts. The biggest issues is, my drawings put me off and my brain throws a fit and leaves. AKA art block. Writing can be moulded and manipulated and with the power of the keyboard over pen, you can make plenty of mistake and just cut and edit as you please much like digital art.....but probably 9000 quicker. I'm just not there with my art. AT ALL. You can be as complimentary as you want and I appreciate it IMMENSELY. But I hate my work. I actually have trouble having confidence that I'm consistently improving; its as if I want instant results and i feel others get there faster - Very envious! I'm also always afraid of stepping into new realms of drawing and feel that I'm somehow a criminal, changing from style to style until I'm happy. I feel like trash. Is this wrong? I don't know. Comfort me with some rationality and logic, I'm lacking a lot of that.
I'm looking for somewhere private, somewhere I can write and share my stories. I'm also interested in what you might label fan fiction but fan fiction and writing of my OWN characters and not of any others. Perhaps maybe one day with already existing characters? but I'm not completely into that. I just want to be able to show my creative writing talents and see what people think, it'll really help me improve and mould my story into scripts that will help me map out my drawings. I can then put drawing to words once i feel my art has reached where I want it to be for the style of my manga/comics. I get hit with Art block all the time and I think writing is probably my earlier comfort zone where I felt I wasn't pressuring myself to make something perfect. Writing felt more natural and it allowed my imagination to flow at a nice pace with no pressure, it wasn't and hasn't left my mind. I have about 64gb of data in my brain about the characters >>; I AM A LIVING HARDDRIVE.
I really think it will help me unwind, I'm clearly not happy with my art and where it is at at the moment and I need a way of relaxing into something that to me, doesn't require all that much effort; the script, the ideas, the thoughts, they are all there and ready to go. All I need is an outlet.
If you can, anyone whose into this sort of thing, is there anywhere like...a site or forum of some kind, an archive of sorts that can allow you to story write, save it privately or when you are ready, publish it to the public.
Oh, and I apologise. I not long ago got home from work, I'm totally shattered and brain farting all of this and most of it might not even make sense. If there is any grammar problems, spelling mistakes or general garble you don't understand or need translating, please go ahead and let me know <3
Thanks everyone, tell your friends!
Kaoru~
I will see if they would like a chat :)
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If you need to plan things out in charts, something like http://draw.io/ is a good place to make charts. Thought, personally, when it comes to brainstorming ideas and getting them down, I like to have something like a whiteboard or a large sheet of paper on the wall to draw charts and write down ideas on. Either way, you can keep them private until you're ready to show someone.
Not sure if any of this is what you're looking for, but they're out there.
Some times i wish i could get back into roleplaying, and continue her storyline as her older self, and her days now after being away from her pack for years that split apart in the past. Every time i try to track down any good roleplay places, the plots are too different from a place Rain would belong in, OR the worst part is i'll find good forums and everybody drops like flies within a week of posting in that forum. Roleplaying has become a dying art over the years and it's terrible. I do however do little drabbles of writing by myself over on Livejournal, whenever i feel the need.
I would HIGHLY reccomend Livejournal for you, because you've got absolute control over your privacy settings of your writings and it's a very nice site to work with for writing. I use it a TON when needed. You can also customize the journals to your liking if you enjoy working with HTML, but they also offer free templates and templates you can pay for. The community is generally friendly, though i'm not too involved in other peoples journals. I typically stay buried in my own.
For me, while writing alone can be some ease on the mind, i crave and miss the feel of a group of people to spill out bits and pieces of story with, and together we create an interesting story all at once in the form of roleplay. I miss that feeling. It's incredibly difficult to track down any good solid roleplays these days. I haven't even tried in about 3 years, at least not seriously, to find anything like that. I've mostly just stayed buried in my private Livejournal.
But yeah, i really feel you. It's almost a relief to see someone else, who i truely admire, to feel the way i do in reguards to art. It's really hard. Spending all this time pushing ourselves and feeling like everybody around us has got it down while we just don't seem to move in skill or anything. I know that so well, i've been hung up in a depressive art block over it until recently. Recently i've just been trying to push myself again, and seeing how that goes.
I've got a fuckton of characters and stories as well, but I mostly keep all my writing on my laptop. All these archived notes, RPs and story parts all over the place, heh. Looks like you've been given a few places on where to put your work but I know a few decent resources over on tumblr. If you're stuck for story prompts or want to avoid cliches.
http://clevergirlhelps.tumblr.com << This place has all sorts of information. People discuss and add different ideas to posts as well. Pretty handy to look through.
I'm happy to do some read throughs as well. Creative writing was pretty much the only thing I was good at for a long while. I totally get the idea of being stuck on an art level that doesn't live up to a story. It's rage inducing. Writing is a brilliant way to flesh things out so I hope that works out well for you <3 I love talking characters as well. I'm usually super private with mine. ;u;
If you can describe a scene in great detail and make all the pieces tell a story, there's no reason you can't come back to it later and draw it out, for starters. Something a lot of people lack is a coherent narrative in their art and a good reason for various pieces of an image to be the way they are. I don't know if you're a big movie buff or an avid reader, but it's always nice to see things mentioned in a story that turn out to be important details later on. If you ask yourself, 'What ought to be in this picture?', with the situation and story in mind it might help you visualize the layout and important aspects of it in greater detail. Keep in mind, though, it still isn't something that's going to help you immediately.
Basically, being able to draw things the way you want them to be takes a lot of effort and practice. I'm nowhere near there myself, but I know the methods people use to get there. Things like perspective, models, basic shape construction, gesture sketches and whatnot all help give you the basic foundation you need to build a complex illustration. Having a narrative in mind tells you where the pieces of that foundation need to be in order to make sense.