Fairly recently, conventions have had to start cracking down on people who table at these conventions and sell fanart. When does fanart infringe copyright and when doesn't it?
The Trade is a podcast related to comics. "This month's talk is a discussion of Fan Art, Comic Conventions and their...
I meet up with my friends almost every Sunday (not recently due to massive homework pains) at a place called the Spritely Bean. They have been doing pretty well and recently hosted an event called the Artist Alley Comics Fest that was very successful in its first year. I work up this morning...
I'm not exactly what one would call a designer, but I had this fun little idea concerning fan made trainer cards. Please note that this is still in a VERY ROUGH draft stage, so you'll have to bare with me and my bare bones implementation.
Just take a quick look around DeviantArt and the...
Here's something I've been wondering for awhile.
I work a community center and am a volunteer for a small class of teens. Our focus is comics and their age ranges are anywhere from 12 to 18. I'm in there to help the teacher supervise the teens (they're really a good group of kids) and I've...
How It All Began
At the beginning of time, there existed a single congregation. They considered themselves an average people. They tended to the universe as its entirety was their home, even in its deepest, darkest stretches. They thought of themselves as the caretakers of this young universe...
There was this one time when I asked people around RPNation for shark references. And you know they all did? They pointed me in the ever-so-lovely direction of... Staff-chan? You've gotta be kidding me...
ANYWAY, I finally got around to doing this picture. She's a character in my comic. The...
Yes, you. I'm talking to YOU.
Awhile ago, I wanted to do a writing contest with a real prize. By real prize, I mean, something you could use. The easiest thing we could aim for is money, but RPN is full of members who are not just from the United States. Also, many would think it as plainly...
Every once in awhile, I dream up the most bizarre stories. When I do, I've made it a habit to jump out of bed and immediately go to my computer to start writing, not wanting to lose such an interesting concept.
Interestingly enough, the motif behind the story I dreamed was spiders and webs...
Whether you are here at RPNation for tabletop games or for text-based roleplays, we all start here.
To engage in a story, no matter the kind of character or genre of the story, we must create a character. Every facet of fiction can attest to the vast array of characters who interact in them...
So... I just found out about this... politically stringed place. And it doesn't really sit well with me because it's so painfully obvious that these people have an agenda of their own in the guise of... whatever it is they are masquerading as. It's sad in a pitiable way, to search through all of...
This world has been carefully crafted by me for one purpose: To tell stories. I will not be writing this story (Gray's in particular) in the traditional sense. I will actually be drawing it as a comic. It's what I've been practicing for the last year. I think two years, now. A new medium is a...
Source: http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2011/09/20/25-virtues-writers-should-possess/
Disclaimer: This advice contains rather strong language. But really, the only reason why I wrote this is so you, the reader, cannot blame me for not telling you this.
1. A Wild And Unfettered Imagination...
This morning, my sister bought me a drawing tablet (a Wacom Bamboo Splash, specifically) and let me use her copy of Manga Studio 5 because she saw that I was interested in drawing digital. I want to go multimedia for future projects (i.e. start on paper, finish digital) when I get to that skill...
This was a fun 30 minute exercise that one of my writing professors used in class to get people thinking. To get people brainstorming about characters written for a story. I'm sure we can adapt it to text-based somewhere. I want to know what you guys think.
Everyone splits in groups of about...
For those of you who don't know what Ace Attorney is, click here.
I mean... even roleplays that center around mysteries in general. Does anyone have any information on something like this can be handled? I just thought that it would be interesting if we could do something like that here at...
Hensville. The City of Beginnings.
This place was called the Shady Oak. Known for its pies, the ten varieties of wine made right on location, and the absurd amount of business that flows in and out every day. This pub has seating for 200 people. Consider yourself lucky to get one during...
This prompt was written on August 9th, 2011.
The first time I wrote for One to be Loved was 5 years ago in 2006. It's hard to believe it's been that long. It was traditional play-by-post roleplay that took place in the Warcraft universe... I believe just after WoW got super popular. It was...
I was thinking of making a roleplay that uses RPdom's dice system.
I'm wondering how I should play this out, though. Setting aside-- since I can make that up on the get-go, but I feel like by making this game dice-based, putting it in Play-by-Post format is just going to hurt it. Wouldn't it...