u/Liauditore

Seriously, I'm fighting for my life 😭

Everytime I write anyone saying anything I get an indescribable amount of second-hand (first-hand??) embarrassment. I'm new to comics, so I'm not sure if that's just part of the process or my gut telling me something's off.

It's just dialogue too. Narration is fine, "HUMAN ARM!" is hilarious to me, but as soon as the characters start speaking to eachother I feel like I've written aliens pretending to be people.

Hello there!

I was playing around with the idea of using photobashing (as well as a bunch of other random stuff) for the backgrounds of the webcomic I wanna make and I think I may have gotten a bit too carried away.

The notes I had for myself were to chill on the screentones (in the page on slide 2, I like how the screentones look on the character in the first panel with her face - where the tones are only on the shadowed areas - but in the other two panels I feel like it just makes it hard to read) and thicken up the lines on speech bubbles.

Other than that, I'd love to hear some thoughts from people who aren't me - does the style look interesting, or is it just a turn-off? Too much eyestrain? I intended for things to feel a bit unnerving, does that come through? etc.

General critiques also welcome!

I had a bunch of bootleg DVDs as a kid which were mainly scattered episodes of old anime, but there were a couple of soviet cartoons thrown in there as well. I assume this one was an anime, because for whatever reason it shared a DVD with the og Gundam, but I'm not certain what country it was from. It was also dubbed in Mandarin Chinese.

It wasn't Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics, which I think I had on another disc.

The key thing about this show that sets it apart from all the other fairy tale collection shows that I've found in my search is that it had two "host" characters who would intro and outro each episode. They were these little furry humanoids, I think they were brother and sister?

There was something about the sister wanting to learn about fairy tales so that she could become better at shapeshifting and eventually shapeshift into a beautiful woman, which her brother made fun of her for. I remember there being a running gag where the sister would try to turn into various girls and would turn into a pig instead, and then her brother would laugh at her.

Unfortunately I don't remember much about the contents of the episodes themselves, other than that I'm 90% sure they were fairy tales. The only one I remember anything from was one that spanned two episodes following these kids on a quest in a medieval setting. There was a generic boy protagonist and a rogue girl and they were trying to track down a lost princess. In the end, it turned out the rogue girl was the princess all along. I never got to see how this one ended because this is where these episodes stopped and Gundam began lmao

I've tried to recreate what I remember the two host characters looked like: https://imgur.com/a/qSf2yw0

I think they were a bit rounder, although I'm pretty positive about the girl being blonde and the boy having brown hair/fur. I have no clue what animal they were actually supposed to be, if any.