Well, Didn't Finish The Sketch Yet, But It's Fun To Make Another Drawing For My Wall.

I figured I have trouble drawing the hair of one of my ocs and I figured out I have the same problem drawing the hair of Bakugou. That means, I'll keep drawing Bakugou until I figured out the secret to his hair and why when I draw it from imagination it doesn't look right.

Grumpy boi and drawing no. 1

Also: that's just copied from a sceencap.

I am currently so proud of myself :D

I really managed to keep drawing the first chapter of a story with my OCs. It's really not that big of a deal, but a huge leap towards my dream <3

Just thought I might share the beginning of my sketches I'm actually planning. (And the first chapter will have around 10 pages :D)

(and sorry for my bad handwriting but I'm too lazy to fix it for the sketches)

And the scene is not even that important. It's just them goofing around. For like the entire ten pages. But it's funny.

Tips for writing

I already had another story which I never got to post, since I kept rewriting it into eternity. After forcing myself to take a break from it, I think I finally figured out a way to keep consistently writing a story. So, I thought maybe this post might stumble across a reader who struggles with similar things as I did and I could provide a possible solution without them needing to go through a year and over 10 different versions of a first chapter ending in a failed project. (and admitting that I needed to stop was what hurt the most since I really love the idea I had and maybe I might even try to restart that story, but that's a topic for another post in maybe 2 to 3 years.)

Also Disclaimer: This is only my opinion on the matter and what I figured to be helpful. In the end, it's up to you how you want to write your story and to decide what works for you. I'm just sharing my experiences.

I had a couple of problems which mixed up together until I needed to give up.

First off, I lacked structure. With my first bigger story, I had an idea, a beginning and I knew some major plot points that needed to happen. But what I never knew was when or how the story ended. I just wanted to tell an endless story or figure out an ending on the way. That didn't work for me.

With my current story (which you can check out here, if you're interested) I researched a couple of ways how to structure a story properly. (It was just for fun honestly, but so helpful in the end) I already had, like before a vague idea, and some plot points I wanted to happen. What I did: See if my story would fit into any of these structures and what would happen at which point until the end. And then I found a structure that fit my story (almost) perfectly. After that, I wrote down the plot in bullet points creating my outline for the story.

(Note: Of course, you can take any story structure you find and bend it a little. For example, I decided to go for a three act-structure and decided to skip the introduction part, since I wanted to plunge the reader into the story without heavily explaining what was going on. They would figure it out on the way … )

This means I knew what happened at which moment. And most importantly, I had an ending. Now I had to face my next challenge, fighting my constant urge to rewrite everything. After proceeding with my used-to-way of just writing what comes to my head, I quickly figured out that this wouldn't work. It didn't work earlier and it didn't work now. So, I needed to figure out what was wrong with my approach.

For that, there are multiple options to do so. Either you can ask others for their opinion of what is wrong with your text or try proofreading yourself. I recorded how I read my texts and heard afterwards to the footage while I was reading along (and yes, it sucks hearing your own voice on record, but if you imagine it's another person, it's not that painful anymore, after a while)

Then I had another important realization. I still had no structure in my chapters. The story was now well structured and I knew what I wanted to write the chapter about, but my thoughts were jumping from one thought to another and then back again. To solve this problem, I came up with an approach that still works for me.

Before writing the chapter, I think about what I want to happen in this chapter. For example, in my current story, I needed to introduce the two main characters and they needed to meet. I also wanted to hide some hints on backstory and needed to write about the event that starts the entire story. With that in mind, I just start loosely writing down what comes to my mind. It doesn't matter if it's good or not, since I'm going to rewrite it later on. Once I come to a point, where I completed all of my goals for that chapter, I take what I wrote down and structure the plot into bullet points. Then I take these and write a second version along with the bullet points. This makes sure that my thoughts are structured in the end and that I have a clear storyline to follow.

After that, the last step is proofreading. As already said before, you can ask others to give you feedback or record yourself. Maybe use a grammar program to fix obvious mistakes you've overseen (helps a lot. especially if you're writing in a language that you don't use everyday) In this stage I mostly find some sentences that are hard to read / speak or just some wordings that repeat or don't quite sound right. So I go ahead, mark them and fix them.

And after that, I was by now always satisfied with what I wrote. This method might be a little overkill but it works for me and the most important thing you need to keep in mind: If you'd like to write something, it's supposed to be fun. No matter the way you do it. The process of creating an own story and slowly watching it come alive, that's the feeling that makes me happy and why I keep writing.

Hope you had fun reading and maybe I was able to give you one or another idea on how to write a story. If you want more tips, you can send me an ask or just comment on this post.

DTIYS

The bg was a pain in the butt but in the end i love it 😭

Rules:

- you can change the perspective however you want as long as it resembles the original

- most importantly; HAVE FUN, FOLKS !

- use the tag #xnzliandtiys so i can see it, or just tag me!

I forgot what other rules i usually put in my dtiys but just ask me if you're not sure about something :)

Dream and Nightmare belong to Jokublog

Hiii, it's been a long time. A lot going on in real life currently.

I found myself something new to be obsessed with and I am also slowly changing to original art supplies. IDK why, but it's currently more fun to draw on paper than on my tablet.

I doubt that I'll ever start posting frequently.

A little WIP:

And here also the reference, if you want to see:

Why do I keep changing the design of my characters?!

That way I'll never be able to draw a consistent comic :(

That piece is pain. I traced the sketch on a separate layer and started with the lineart but I messed up the eyes. I tried to fix it but now it's smudged. Now I can start over again tracing my sketch.

I think this time, I won't trace the eyes and just try to get the expression I want.

Okay I made a sick sketch

It's tiny (like on the corner of my sketchbook) but I saw that pose and I was thinking like, okay this is EXACTLY how it looks when he uses his quirk so I scribbled down the pose and then drew him.

I want to make that in big. With markers. And maybe even make a background. And hang it on the wall to Kirishima and Denki.

And I was also thinking of something funny. The way he would describe how he fights with his quirk:

I can use my quirk as a weapon. Just think of it ... like a table. A table isn't dangerous, right? Then you accidentally drop something beneath it, try to pick it up and while getting back up you hit your head against the table. Although, it's just a table, it still hurts, right?

(I'm not sure if I'll allow him to reshape his forcefields but if I do, he would add:

Now imagine the table being a spikey pyramid...)

Hello,

it's been some time since I last posted something. I really should try to get myself to post regularly. Whatever, I have a couple of pieces that I started and probably will never finish and since they already look quite decent, I'll share those with you 😀

I recently got again into the dsmp fanfiction passerine by thscus (blujamas) and drew two pieces. These are from the beginning of the story.

I originally wanted to create here a perspective from above but my habits got the better of me 😅

And here we have little Wilbur and Tommy as they meet Techno for the first time😄 I also wanted to draw this amazing background but failed due to my lack of understanding of perspective and focal points. I guess that was supposed to be a 2-point perspective but I can't get myself to figure that out right now 😂

It's been quite a while ...

Thought I might post a couple more drawings.

I once did a drawing of Deku from MHA but ... I would put it into uncanny valley territory. So, I'm redrawing him again.

Take a bald Deku 😆

And here the version I did before: