MTH Comic #1

This one's for Maia_saura. Found on AO3 here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/17403332


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Snowflake Challenge Day 11

Day 11

In your own space, talk about your creative process(es) — anything from the initial inspiration to how you feel after something’s done. Do you struggle with motivation or is it a smooth process? Do you have any tricks up your sleeve to pull out when a fanwork isn’t cooperating? What is your level of planning to pantsing/winging it?

Oh man. Guyz I love talking process, it's possibly my most favorite thing.

I'll do a fuller process post on Patreon after narratives are done, but here's the general gist:

First, I do brainstorming on my Google Tasks, which I basically treat as a place to dump small text files, since it's synced with my phone.

For the Maia-Saura MTH comic, where the prompt is the Flag Speech, here's my first Google Task:


Which then becomes this when I was getting out of my car after my morning commute:

( more blathering )

Do you have any tricks up your sleeve to pull out when a fanwork isn’t cooperating?
Usually, the reason it's not working is that there's something structurally wrong. So what I do is step up a tier in the process and ask myself what I was trying to do there. (so if a panel isn't working, I look at the page, if a page isn't working I look at the adjacent pages). Usually it turns out I need to draw something completely different in the panel, or I need to change the panels in the row, or I need to shift some content to the next page. All 3 of those things happened with this comic!