@QuasiTemporal Placement of speech bubbles is still something I have to work on. While I draft I try to place them, to leave room in the final art without the bubbles overhanging the characters or an important element of the background. Then I do the final art without the speech bubbles. Finally I import the picture in Affinity Publisher and create the speech bubbles. That way, I can have a French and an English version

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https://wandering.shop/@QuasiTemporal/116032891637562901

@Nisaa And thanks for considering buying my books! To help you choose: most characters speak a very classical language (either in French or English) as they belong to the upper class with the exception of Érié who isn’t fluent so she does some grammar error and misplaces words from time to time and Inspector O’Brien, who speaks with a cockney accent in English and in Parisian titi slang in French. It may make his dialogues harder to read

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RE: https://sfba.social/@Nisaa/116032142461320887

@Nisaa it appears that it already happened but it was during a video chat. I would be extremely pleased if someone cosplays one of my characters during a convention (but in France cosplays are more for US comics and mangas conventions and I do mostly French-Belgian comics conventions — the visitors are not the same, older and more masculine than for mangas)

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@sifaseven/116029827315908757

@sifaseven According to Procreate, it took me 14h to do the latest page, it has very detailed background but only 4 panels. On the average it’s more 12-13h with a maximum of 20h (many panels with lots of background)
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#ScribesAndMakers 7: #TTMD w/ @art_of_goulwenr

Clocking in 10pm EST with some questions:
-You say you're largely visual, so if there is dialogue, do you leave space for it, or do the whole image and then cover up a piece, something else?
-Opposite to @crcollins I remember 90% of my dreams. Are you in yours, then you recast/change that fact, or are you more watching things play out, or something else?
-Finally, anything you'd hoped to discuss that simply didn't come up? If so, go for it.

@itrytowrite nice to meet you too and many thanks 🙏

Surprisingly, I wasn’t much a connoisseur of the Victorian era before I started Esther and Erie. In fact it wasn’t set in that era at first but I moved it to have more documentation.

I worked hard to find a way to render the gothic aesthetic with so many details, ruffles, cornices without spending too much time

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https://romancelandia.club/@itrytowrite/116030416786274263

@art_of_goulwenr thank you for spending the day with us. Your work is really good and it was great to get some insight into what you do.

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Maybe when I will have finished the main story if a have a good idea? 3/3
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@NaraMoore Before Esther and Erie, I was mostly doing current days or fantasy/pseudo middle age stories.

I’ve read several horror stories of the Victorian era but wasn’t really compelled.

What changed my opinion was watching Penny Dreadful with Eva Green. Also Drood by Dan Simmons, about the last year of Charles Dickens, seen from the eyes of Wilkie Collins

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https://sakurajima.moe/@NaraMoore/116031402968294081

And as I dig into the classics of that time to create the universe I discovered that there was many untold topics that deserve to be narrated and that I tried to include.

About a visit to Paris World Fair: I did a custom art once but it happens a few years after the main story. I enjoy doing Esther and Erie in another eras, like the Minoan version, it’s always interesting to give them different clothes or hairstyles 2/3

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@art_of_goulwenr

You said you weren't originally interested in the Victorian era.

How did you go about it? Were you more interested in the facts and the reality of the period or in how they saw themselfs i.e., a literary approach?

I am more prone to read the fiction of that era and approach it that way. But rely on historical pieces to capture what they didn't think to include.

Second question, which I suspect I know the answer to, is there any likelihood they will attend the Paris World Fair, Exposition Universelle (1900).

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RE: https://sunny.garden/@gahlearner/116026175443578923

Many thanks everyone for all the questions, I wasn’t expecting that much, and interesting 🙌

I hope I didn’t miss anyone, if so, don’t hesitate to ping me, but there was so many notifications at some moments that it was difficult not to get lost! 🙈

Thank again! 🙏

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@Nisaa And thanks for considering buying my books! To help you choose: most characters speak a very classical language (either in French or English) as they belong to the upper class with the exception of Érié who isn’t fluent so she does some grammar error and misplaces words from time to time and Inspector O’Brien, who speaks with a cockney accent in English and in Parisian titi slang in French. It may make his dialogues harder to read

#scribesandmakers #ttmd

@QuasiTemporal Placement of speech bubbles is still something I have to work on. While I draft I try to place them, to leave room in the final art without the bubbles overhanging the characters or an important element of the background. Then I do the final art without the speech bubbles. Finally I import the picture in Affinity Publisher and create the speech bubbles. That way, I can have a French and an English version

#scribesandmakers #ttmd 1/2

https://wandering.shop/@QuasiTemporal/116032891637562901

RE: https://sfba.social/@Nisaa/116032142461320887

@Nisaa it appears that it already happened but it was during a video chat. I would be extremely pleased if someone cosplays one of my characters during a convention (but in France cosplays are more for US comics and mangas conventions and I do mostly French-Belgian comics conventions — the visitors are not the same, older and more masculine than for mangas)

#scribesandmakers #ttmd

#ScribesAndMakers 7: #TTMD w/ @art_of_goulwenr

Clocking in 10pm EST with some questions:
-You say you're largely visual, so if there is dialogue, do you leave space for it, or do the whole image and then cover up a piece, something else?
-Opposite to @crcollins I remember 90% of my dreams. Are you in yours, then you recast/change that fact, or are you more watching things play out, or something else?
-Finally, anything you'd hoped to discuss that simply didn't come up? If so, go for it.

I have spent looots of time on Érié’s background, creating three different backstories 🙈

- the 1st one was only suggested in the original 2019 Inktober
- the 2nd one is the topic of the 2022 Inktober
- the 3rd one will be explained during the final story (with additional details in 2025 Inktober and some more in @NaraMoore fanfics

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#ScribesAndMakers Feb 7 Talk to me day. #TTMD
@art_of_goulwenr

I'm really struck by the use of lighting in your art and I'd love to hear about either your process and/or how you use lighting to tell the story.

@art_of_goulwenr thank you for spending the day with us. Your work is really good and it was great to get some insight into what you do.

#ScribesAndMakers #TTMD

Maybe when I will have finished the main story if a have a good idea? 3/3
#scribesandmakers #ttmd