Jonah Mudlaff I don’t know if you know this, but Mark has said before that the artwork for Light helped him draw Brody. Adds to the cool factor of the Easter egg!!
It’s so weird. I watched your videos for such a long time. And soon I realized that you wrote my favorite book when I was in the 5 th grade. It was an Akiko book. I couldn’t even believe it. Love your work
Number 7 is so true for me! A quick run down of my story (kind of gruesome, be aware): Aria, a young girl, finds out that she has telekinesis. Her parents were murdered around the same time, so she vows to find out their killer using her newfound gift. The first draft I made started out with her saying good night to her mom and then going to bed. She discovered her powers that night and her parents were murdered the next day. It’s very slow and clunky, but I put it off to the side for a little bit before it finally hit me how I should write it. The second draft starts off in the point of view of two officers investigating some gunshots they heard inside of a nearby movie theater. They walk in and are horrified at the scene before them: the entire theater is dead and all by the same cause. Each person has a bullet through the center of their forehead. It cuts to Aria and her friend Ruby watching TV. They hear a knock at the door. The same two police officers knew her parents and break the news to them. At their funeral, Aria cracks a mirror in the bathroom, but not by her hand, by her mind. I personally think that start is better and more interesting. It took some time for me to get it right, but I’m glad that I took the time to rethink how I should start the story.
the second version is definitely on the right path to a much better presentation; however, the whole general story concept is wayyy too generic and overdone.. You need something a bit more intricate and interesting to make it worth pursuing. If you have a good, truly unique and/or interesting idea, or even a character, to work from, then a lot of it will write itself
I have a question: how do you know if you have mapped out your story enough to start drawing/scripting? How do you edit scripts in terms of content? Thanks ^^
I know it’s a bit late but I found this question. This is what I do, make a question list. First it should be as simple as possible, for example, who? Why? When? Then harder ones like What are the characters real feelings of the situation? Are they scared? Excites? Why? Try to say your story out loud. The. Tell it to someone else? Could you do it? What do you feel that is missing? Maybe characters are not appropriate? Titles don’t match the story? Too short or too long? As you work in your story make more questions. How are they going to do that? Will they be able to? What will be the obstacles for every situation? Characters personality, relationships mood and clothing or style are too hard to plan once you already started your story. Plan them before, all important characters also should have this questions. Do they modify or change the story or are they just for the perspective of the reader? Are there characters or situations that feel not necessary? I hope this helps someone.
Dear Mr. Crilley, your videos are what inspired me to get into artwork back 7 years ago. I've recently started in digital art and I'm still learning. Thank you for sparking this life long love of mine.
{I absolutely love this guy!} Thank you. You are so straight forward, honest, and personable. My son is 13, and is interested in drawing. He watches you, too. Great ideas for making things more professional.
I like seeing the many examples of your work in one video. A body of work of which to be proud. And, a kind and generous heart to impart so much knowledge from your store of experience. 👏😃 Wishing you and your family the best of the Holiday season.✨☃️🎄🎉✨
Thank you Mark for all the content over the years. I think this was the one thing I needed to get started. I just couldn't think of how to do it, but seeing all this, I think I know how at least for something short.
The background makes me miss our tatami floors. Great advice! When there's little to no exposition at the beginning, I feel more like the author is giving me the benefit of the doubt.
Wow Mark, you held back that you did a story on Pekar and Crumb!,, are you even serious, that's is mental impressive. And I knew the characters were them first off, greta job on the drawing, I'll have to hunt this one down
A side-thought related to #1, or possibly an expanded version of it - Something I feel is important when I read a story is also that the first few pages (especially the first page) (or the first minute-or-so if it's a movie) need to have some sort of "hook" to grab my attention. Something to set up expectations, and create a feeling of curiosity. Something that makes me want to know what is happening, or what is going to happen. A good example of this being done in a slow-paced manner is the start of the movie Alien. The slow panning shots that show the darkened and unpopulated interior of the Nostromo serve a double-purpose of both establishing the setting and making the viewer interested in finding out what the ship's mission is, and where the crew is. (The crew question gets answered immediately afterwards, when you see the cryo-pods, but at that point the viewer's attention is already caught.) A good example of this being done in an action-packed and intense manner would be the book Snow Crash. Okay, it does begin with exposition (afaik, extreme amounts of exposition is part of the author's signature style), but the starting exposition is written with a lot of character and attitude, and is then followed by a rather intense action sequence. Together, this gets the reader both interested in the world the story takes place in, and interested in who the Protagonist is and what he does.
Hey Mark, I ve been straggling with drawing from my imagination, any tips? Also I tend to get really angry and stressed when I draw as opposed to other arts like playing the guitar or dancing, why?
Helo dude i am from npl can you make something culture heritage and soon.I am always trying to learn something from your art your tips are awesome and good
My first comic started with a six-paged prologue, which explained the backstory of the character. This sounds bad, and it is, but I needed it all in the prologue in order to focus the rest of the story on something else. Now of course I start comics better, there is not much exposition, like in the one a couple of guys meet in a bar and argue about a girl one of them just recently broke up with and the second guy had a crush on for years. This isn't probably the most creative idea, but it exists :v
I am begging to know: Was the book to the left of Brody on the first page of Brody's Ghost, in the middle of the stack, a Michael Palin Diaries book? It looked like those were the words that got cut off by the edge of the page.
The first tip remind me how horrible the begiining of the book _Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children_ . The book start was so weak even when the promise of the book is pretty fantastic.
Please Mark, at times, when I attempt to put together ideas for a story, I feel like some concepts-or ideas, would be wasted if they were used on that one story..but I end up with a story with no creative ideas, because I am afraid I can use these ideas for another BETTER story..... am I making any sense? .. I'm just crazy..
Oh mark I have read out the whole brodys ghost but now I want to read it again by holding same in my hand I have searched at all possible sites but I have not find better result for me I lives in Pakistan please tell me a link or a source where I can bought it please help me for collected edition of brodys ghost book please must reply me I am waiting for yr suggestion
Mark now I must posiblly tru I buy "Mike Falls" es I could, what was after this Chanel, now I am not sure, if I had don only by look of frist page and first page form Brody's Ghost , I hade sure get not deap with iformation if, you not expain it at video.
I have an issue. The book starts off just like any other book, however as tension builds, reader learns all this was just a boy reading a book. But i have no clue how to blend the two scenes.
You may stop before the very interesting scene with boys mom or friend calling and he didin't finished it ,he turns around and we see that he was just reading a book it's just an option
But how do I know what panel to draw my characters in? Like how do I know to like draw the character big walking and next to her/him what he/she is saying?