#wunk

A very serious adult man havin a lil splish splash

i enjoy how that DON (ドン) came out...was in a hurry so i didn't look up the stroke order. it looks like the second stroke in ン is an upstroke to the right. 策/saku/migihane? i know very little about JP or calligraphy.

the second stroke in my ン was definitely an upstroke, although it goes from thin to thick rather than the "flicking/lifting up" motion i think this character is supposed to have. i can tell it's an upstroke because if it were a downstroke, the "lifting" would have left more broken lines (compare it to the downstroke on the left) and wouldn't have that noticeable curve inward/away. that definitely came from my right-handed ass pressing down.

i intended it to be straight like the blocky versions in one piece, but my youthful vigor made it thicken & curve in the opposite direction it's supposed to...

still like it, though. i find it really hard to achieve spontaneity/energy with SFX in comics and i'm not sure why. after glancing over JW#1 for sounds, i noticed i tended to replace or erase the "C" when just a "K" would do.

maybe because it communicates the sound better? or because curves have less energy? to my memory mignola does this a lot so i might've just picked it up from him. or it could be a standard practice that i have no idea how to google.