Thanks :D

I'll be frank, the picture is great, but that dialogue is really bad. I'd complain about the speech impediment making it needlessly confusing to read and just needing the translation, but the 1) and 2) broken up by the fuzzy thought bubble didn't need to be done that way period if you were willing to use pointer strokes or proper balloons -and- if you were willing to write overtop of your artwork some.

He explained in the pic the reason for it.

For the speech impediment, but not the placement of the upper text and thought bubble necessarily. :3

So what's said isn't bad? :o


Anyway, the issue here is the artwork. I can't be expanding the canvas too needlessly (in this case any horizontal expansion is a no) just to fit some dialogue here. I could not find a better place for the thought bubble to be. It can't be too far away cause then it'd really look bad, not to mention could be confusing to those too quick to trace the bubble back to which head (not that I expect it from anyone really, but it does happen); between the heads and I'll end up covering up either the fact Ezekiel has 3 floating controllers in front of him, or cover up either or both naga necks which can cause confusion to some viewer, I can't be putting speech in the bottom half of the image( that is excluding the black bar at the bottom) because then it'd be just as bad and misplaced as you signature being a big watermark in the center of the canvas or just plastered someplace on a major prop or character or anywhere but the corner,or rather, anywhere but the top would be all over the place for worse. So I decided on that since I don't want any of that nor was I going to color it, and based on past pictures I did like this, I would do the dialogue trade with the 123) method and the thought bubble from the middle head that's more concerned about her bum will be above the owner's head and divided with the bubble. Admittingly though, I do have a few issues with covering up things, but that only has much to do with clothing, angling, and character interaction. Speech (not thought) bubbles didn't seem needed as one side came from solely that character as does the other. That just about explains why it's like that.

I'm having a hard time thinking of an appropriate response to that needless part, because talking without a tongue will be confusing sometimes. It's correct, but does that serve any real purpose? Maybe not, outside of showing the effects of no tongued speech. I pretty much left the blanks of each missing letter in rather than taking them out so you can guess what the missing letters are, given the context be right too, kind of like from a game show or elementary school spelling tests, because I want to show what's she's trying to say but make it clear that she cannot voice any of the missing letters, which all involve the tongue.


Hell I just noticed that I forgot that the tongue is needed for L's too, meaning the L's shouldn't be in the upper text.

I'm pretty sure that even without a tongue you can make T N sounds because those are done more by the teeth and sides of the mouth, along with the C-CK-K and even the G sounds because those come more so from the throat. The proper TH and L sounds are gonna give you a hard time though. And look I wasn't trying to step on your toes because I thought this picture was really cool.

You're right about the picture not being conducive to dialogue. Its one of those gotchas that I run into far too often. But even then a little TLC its doable. That being said, I've consumed WAY too many comics in my day, so you begin to get shorthand for this stuff.

Heres how I would have approached it http://i.imgur.com/AQRAJyQ.png

I don't mind criticism as long as it's not insulting. Plus my response was long just cause there was an butt load of things to consider.

Anyways...

No, actually you really can't make T and N's with teeth alone, let alone four rows of fangs (snake anatomy bites here). I'm not about to go over what needs what anymore, for this subject. I've went back and thoroughly re-research snake anatomy and speaking with no tongue, and now I've got to change my approach to the naga's speech, and what exactly their speech impediment is. x_x

You're take on it was nicer than mine though. :3

I've updated the pic. Better?

Better :3

What's with the other head? Is he stuck on backwards?

Nope. Just twisted backward. the snake like neck being long enough to really make 180 turns.

I ask because it looks like a torso on their back. Like there's a chest there.
I see now that it's just another set of arms.

And the "pecs" you see on the back are just back muscles for both sets of arms. (if you didn't already know that by now) :3

Well, I wish I could get to know the nagas better, anyway. That looks like a really cozy butt.

Very

May I remove the objects and curl up in their to watch their game? :3

makes me want to play halo 4 with you good sir!

So much YES about this! (Yeah, sure, so you need practice with comic dialogue placement, yadayada, that topic's been thoroughly discussed.)

First off, FATTIES are always a guaranteed win by my book. Second, HALO!!! HECK YA!!! Thirdly, butt-squeeze, heheh. Fourth thing, Ezekiel is a thing-i-dont-know-what-he-is-but-he-looks-epic-anyways creature. Fifth, an exotic take on an already-exotic species. (I'm a little anal about this, but it's not a naga, rather an anthropomophic... hydra I guess. :3 )

This pic rocks like no other! (Not sure why I haven't paid more attention to your art. )

You know what they say about fat asses. They're people I would want.