#moderndragon

leopards laze each on plush pillows slender capes of red and chrome paperback dreams in their deep doze twitch their toes to black mambo

Hi! First off, as always @ everyone: I still have a bunch of questions squirrelled away from that time ages ago when I asked for asks & then got overwhelmed...I'll try to get to them someday? Sorry!

But to answer this:

I got my start firing with a local pottery studio (after taking a few classes & ingratiating myself with all the employees so they added me to the studio potter list when it was supposed to be closed), then after that ended up meeting a fellow potter by chance at a market & boldly asking her to fire for me (& somehow she said yes & also taught me everything I know about running a kiln <3).

So I guess that, once you've got a foundational knowledge of pottery (especially what's required for firing, eg. wall thickness, how to tell if your pieces are dry, etc), I recommend gentle, enthusiastic boldness & trying to befriend as many local potters as possible?

There are also a couple of websites (this one & this one) that aggregate potters/studios who offer kiln space rentals*, but it'll be extra important to have as much familiarity as possible with everything firing entails before going this route, as often individual potters don't have as much time dedicated to kiln-tech stuff as studios do!

I hope this is at least a little bit helpful & happy potting!! <3

thanks for your kind words! :'0 i'd love to see more storyboard-comic series out there - storyboarding is often thought of as a pre-production process but imo it's such an efficient and engaging means of telling a story on its own.

i use the same program for Heart Work that i use for my storyboarding day job - Storyboard Pro - for all the drawing & art (but you could easily use any other program you're comfortable boarding in like Photoshop or CSP). to compile and post it, i export all the panels individually and combine them into a PDF in Adobe Bridge, and then upload the PDF to SpeakerDeck which gives me slideshow embed to put on the website.

in some ways it's probably a bit more labor intensive than comics but in some ways it's maybe easier. i try to add 2-3 panels of posing for each line of dialogue on screen so that you can tap through the embeds at a fairly steady pace, so there's potentially a heavier drawing load than for standard comics (though i definitely don't draw as clean or detailed as most comics). but i also find stuff like revising the art easier - with comics if a moment in the story or visuals changes it can affect the layout and art of the entire page, but it's very easy to edit/remove/add to boards.

moony!! she's sweet :3

changed a couple things about her design, mainly making her spots pale and adding a 'third eye' scale (which i think i'll start doing for all prophet nightwings). also she does have a jade charm like the others in her winglet, she just wears it around a wrist.