Stylesrj
Tabitha SEAL
Thorvald said:I hardly use PNG anymore since I found that put's excessive strain on the bandwith. Thats why I kept with JPEG.
Also, Photobucket doesn't like images more than 1mb big. It compresses it way down unnecessarily if you go one byte over the line.
In a sense, yes; it's not that they're long, it's that they're unnecessarily long. Part of the problem is that when it comes to scale, you tend toward the maximum: large font and showy pictures, and so the comic itself becomes larger than it 'has' to be. (Aside: As I recall, you once mentioned that you're running at 1920x1080 res? That might have something to do with it.)
Indeed. Although I don't make my comics fit that resolution... at least not any more
Additionally, your characters talk waaay too much. While on the one hand they're a goldmine for quoteworthies, oftentimes it feels like an episode of Seinfeld. (Which, given that your comics have a sitcom-y feel, is probably not so coincidental.)
I'd say the art medium I use limits me from cool action scenes, but also... I like the sitcom approach. The Soap Opera feel.
DYOS isn't all about action after all, it's about people you don't know talking to each other about things you don't care too much about, and yet you watch it anyway... for what reason? I dunno, it was on television wasn't it? Hey did you know -insert female lead- is having a baby? And the father is -insert male lead's rival-?
But yeah, unfortunately my style of writing focuses on dialogue a bit too much. I guess when I was told "Show, don't tell" I accidentally did the opposite.
I think even my stories do that. Because I was told not to describe things, but have characters explain it or something like that to make it flow more into the story.