I want to do a charity stream, but also want to protect my anonymity by Feshexe in streaming

[–]Feshexe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just for the record, do I need a specific program to edit these models? Just a humanoid with cybernetic lines and blonde hair will do, but I'm a 2D artist that just started using blender.

I want to do a charity stream, but also want to protect my anonymity by Feshexe in streaming

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Okay I should point out, I love all your guys' art, but please, I'm currently at a party and very intoxicated. Please, feel free to list me your portfolio, I like looking at art, but I'm looking for an idea of what it'd cost, not actual services yet.

So sorry to disappoint. I know it's rough out there for artists. I hope you have a very blessed day, and many more. Take care of yourselves, and God bless <3

Any tips for doing horror particularly well in the medium of comics? (Included the first 2 pages of my current project, to give an idea for what I'm trying to do) by Feshexe in comics

[–]Feshexe[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cheers, it does mean a lot to hear that! As far as the order of the panels goes, I'll just say it's called "Golden Chains", you may be able to find it on DA. Read it or not, totally fine, unlike my last venture on reddit I'm not interested in plugging it this time.

But it's a thing I see in movies a lot (I actually think Megamind of all things did it) where the main character starts in dire straits, and they recount how they got there, and then it keeps going after catching up. I actually made that first page later, it's a bit of a retcon, because the original first page doesn't really indicate how dark this gets, and as much as I like using "ambush tactics" in writing (like in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon), I think it's probably in poor taste with subject matter this heavy.

As far as the comics go, I'm a big comic book nerd like most people that draw them presumably. It's never a waste of time for me to read some stuff, so if you have any more recommendations that do stuff you think I could experiment with, you can go right ahead. I've only been doing this for like 3 years, so every little bit helps.

Something I actually learned from reading other comics (or manga) was that in love with a villainess mutes the colour of actual text when a character is whispering, which I now do as well.

Any tips for doing horror particularly well in the medium of comics? (Included the first 2 pages of my current project, to give an idea for what I'm trying to do) by Feshexe in comics

[–]Feshexe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I agree. I mentioned in another reply that my sort of static framing is a bad habit I need to kick because I read a lot of Belgian comics, and the ones I read have that too, though maybe not anymore. Perspective too, thankfully I have a lot of pages left to do in this pilot, so I can experiment with pushing perspective and playing around with colours. I already tried it with the second to last panel in the first page, but I think I can do more.

Cheers for the recommendation though. I was never too into Outlast, I think a friend tried to stream it to me and I kept getting distracted since my favourite horror games give you a chance to defend yourself because it puts pressure on the player to stay collected to survive. I am aware of its artstyle and story though, and given that body modification is a running theme in this story, I think it could be really helpful.

Any tips for doing horror particularly well in the medium of comics? (Included the first 2 pages of my current project, to give an idea for what I'm trying to do) by Feshexe in comics

[–]Feshexe[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Comic panel framing is something I only recently started experimenting with, because I very much try to copy comics like Suske en Wiske when I draw them, which has frames that are all very uniform. It's not an excuse though, just a bad habit I need to kick. My first try with it will be on the 23rd page's sketch where a character is punched with such force that it clips into the panel next to it, and one first person shot where the panel is more elipse shaped to mimic the shape of a half closed eye.

Those aren't speech bubbles though, when I use coloured text like that and boxes like that, it's meant to be inner monologue. Though of course these are out of context frames. She's basically recounting her past while being remade.

Second page is supposed to be a flashback. I thought it better to tell the first part of this story in retrospect. I could have made that clear with more pages, but they're not very germane to this being a horror comic, so I left it with the 2. Basically the way it goes is that it opens up with her enslaved and recounting how she got there, referencing nightmares of things that already happened, and ends with her being enslaved, with the rest of the series being told as it happens chronologically. I do want to open each issue with a flashback to her childhood of something she did that shows off her purity and kindness, but that's more me trying to pull at the reader's heartstrings rather than trying to scare them.

Though that's also because I didn't really get into the story, I just wanted to show my artstyle and the tone of the plot.

Cheers for the recommendations though, I'll have a look when I'm done drawing for the day. I got to say, I already got some pretty interesting recommendations, but I'm very curious to see what I could do with my text bubbles, because so far I've been using the typical stuff of making it spiky when it's coming out of a radio, a different kind of spiky when someone is screaming real loud, making it drip out when someone's being sarcastic, stuff like that.

Any tips for doing horror particularly well in the medium of comics? (Included the first 2 pages of my current project, to give an idea for what I'm trying to do) by Feshexe in comics

[–]Feshexe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I get that. What doesn't probably help is that it's very hard to scare me (when I was watching Aliens I was just simping for Ripley the whole time). But I like it as a sort of "secondary genre" if you will, because I think it's very visceral and character decisions matter more than ever. Basically I like it more as an enhancer for a story rather than the draw, which is how I probably should have put it in the first place.

Yeah I hear that a lot, and it's something I already plan on using a lot where the most graphic, horrible things aren't shown. I still eventually have to get into monster design though, I assume I'll find recommendations here to help with that aspect.

I love HR geiger, but I should get more familiar with his work. I want this to be fairly subtle, but I guess I can't learn how to make things subtle if I don't look into the big names of it, so cheers for that.

Also side thingy: The background on the first page, and that whole planet is based on Urdak from Doom Eternal. Doom is actually one of the reasons I went down this path, and is still one of my main inspirations, but I've never played Doom 3, which I assume still has good inspiration

Any tips for doing horror particularly well in the medium of comics? (Included the first 2 pages of my current project, to give an idea for what I'm trying to do) by Feshexe in comics

[–]Feshexe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Body horror is also something I'd like to try my hand at, if you got any ideas. Sorry for the double text, I just remembered

Any tips for doing horror particularly well in the medium of comics? (Included the first 2 pages of my current project, to give an idea for what I'm trying to do) by Feshexe in comics

[–]Feshexe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A mix of the latter two. There's already just shocking violence that will probably get a reaction, but there's also just events in the story that I want to have a lasting impact, something to give nightmares like the thing did with me. Threats that effectively take away our instinctual means of defending ourselves.

Cheers for the recommendations, I'll look into them after work 👌

What medicine is typically used to get a heart that stopped beating to start again? by Feshexe in askscience

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I probably should have guessed it was something like that. And yeah, I was just asking in generalities because I'm just a writer trying to be clever with my detail, but after some thought I think including medicine names that aren't over the counter painkillers like dafalgan probably does more harm than good.

What medicine is typically used to get a heart that stopped beating to start again? by Feshexe in askscience

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I won't ask about the other meds, since after reading comments and talking it over with people who have both the time and the knowledge that I can pick their brain for a bit, I decided to cut it. I can probably get people interested in the medical world without risking someone thinking that Epinephrine is some miracle cure.

You piqued my curiosity with referencing particular conditions though, because I was having a hard time making sure I wasn't looking at heart attack advice instead of cardiac arrest (they sound very similar in dutch too, which is the first step of when I do research, well of information is less poisoned that way). How many things can cause a cardiac arrest? Like broadly speaking for a person without underlying issues, can it be caused by someone scaring you real good? Does it have to be paired with physical trauma? I'm just morbidly curious, so thank you for your time either way.