Category: ominous

if I didn’t look so dang lovable

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This story is absolutely true. Not the fact that my heart is a black emptiness powered by hatred, but the exchange that I had with the student. It was a grade 9 science class that I used to work in, and the student was one that I enjoyed bantering with (or else I very likely would not have said what I did).

On a related note, I learned to accept a long time ago that I am almost completely unable to intimidate anybody that I really want to. As the alt-text says, ah well! [February 9, 2012]

Sadako or Samara? Doesn’t matter, they both scare me

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I don’t think I’ve talked about Words With Arrows in my comics! Let’s talk about Words With Arrows.

There are two primary reasons I incorporate WWAs, and both are crutches. One reason is clarity. This one’s slightly less necessary as my drawing skills continue to improve, but sometimes there are times when I look at something I’ve just drawn and I realize that the reader may be confused as to what exactly I’m trying to get across. Either because the artwork is no good, or they just don’t have the frame of mind that I do while creating it. So I throw in Words With Arrows to explain, as I have in this comic.

Now maybe that’s insulting to you as a reader, having your “hand held” like that, but it isn’t mean to be so! It’s mostly just me being unwilling to do my job better.

The other reason is purely as panel filler. It’s when I’ve drawn something and there’s a lot of white space that I’m not sure what to do with. More often lately I’ve been trying to fill that with simple backgrounds, but sometimes I just throw in Words With Arrows just…because. (As of this writing, there’s a recent comic about maturity that relied on WWAs for that). [November 8, 2011]