冯伟 Feng Wei（c12） • “The Fisherman and His Wife”

Concept designer, illustration artist

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Great dialogue can come from radical emotional honesty. But in most real conversations, people

dodge questions

answer indirectly

lie (badly)

change the subject

crack jokes to avoid serious answers

lie (convincingly)

say half of what they mean

tell the truth but get so anxious/angry/defensive others now think they're lying

If your dialogue feels unnatural, it might be because everyone is saying exactly what they think, or articulating their thoughts too well. Try letting characters hide things instead.

Your two characters are having a conversation, but each one is having a different conversation. They should always reply to what they think the other person is saying, and they should always be wrong about their assumption.

Now, obviously, like any writing advice, this rule is meant to be broken. Any writing advice you are given is more like... a guideline.

Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.

modern Ambros' style is almost laughably different.......... all his shirts probably got various severities of dry rot too

* The little German boy

* The girlboss

* The overdressed antebellum Southern gentleman

* The chad and the incel

* The empath and the sociopath

* Jesse Pinkman and Walter White

* Drake

* Grimes

* Ea-Nasir

* Stray Cat J

* Apollo (unseen; depicted only as a dodgeball thrown onto the stage to briefly strike another archetype with the Gift of Prophecy)

* Shinzo Abe

* Jerma

* The pornbot