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OddPenguin β Nuzlocke Comics Guide: Starting your Comic
Published: 2013-03-01 01:22:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 11408; Favourites: 180; Downloads: 69
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Folder with all the other tip and trick guides:volbeatfiro.deviantart.com/galβ¦
planned on putting some art maybe in between the tips, but there really wasn't room, and in the end this is more a tip guide not a work of art, art's not really needed unless to point something out directly. included as much as I could and tried to give good examples. also a touch of humor here and there to keep it from becoming a boring read. a guide for nuzlockers on how I feel it'd be best to go about making a strong start to a nuzlocke.
let me know if anything needs more elaboration, improvement, and hope this helps. more are coming later on
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thank very much uwu
now that ive read this i actually need to go and buy a pokemon game i will use :0
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you're most welcome, and heh go for it have fun
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The planning bullet points will truly help me with my nuzlockes.
As for long pages, I honestly would do at leas 3-6 sheets per page. 10 is a bit too much for my art programs to handle.
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sweet good to hear, and yeah, that type of setup can be daunting for some art programs to handle
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Oh, and about the professor intro cliche. I never wanted to include it. It's not my thing.
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yeah totally understandable
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Not the best at drawing, hands shaky as hell so makes it difficult to do even the simplest of art, but always wanted to try a Nuzlocke Comic out so thanks for the tips! Definitely helped me plan out some of it as I was reading ^_^Β
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cool to hear, glad the points here were of help
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What can you do to compensate for not being able to do tall pages? I don't have the money to rent Photoshop but, at the same time, I see what you mean by doing short pages dragging out a Nuzlocke story, which I really want to avoid. Should I wait to try and get Photoshop and a drawing tablet before starting my own Nuzlocke or should I just give it a go with what I have? Thanks for the help, I really appreciate these tips.
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you can always stack your pages in any sort of freeware program like gimp or so, doesn't need to be a paid for pgoram or so.Β
and you're welcome, glad they're helpful
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Eh, I'm gonna make a fanmade one not based on my irl nuzlockes really...
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This is so helpful, thank you! I am currently in the playing through the game/starting to plan and get ideas stage of creating my first nuzlocke comic, and I want it to be well done. I will definitely be reading through all of your nuzlocke comic guide pages.
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glad to hear, thanks
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My Nuzlocke strips are shorter and condensed, and the art style is really cruddy atm. My main goal is to help me get used to a tablet I just got and started using. So my artwork should get a bit better overtime. My main concern is whether or not people will skip over my Nuzlocke just because it's not in the "tall" format you say.
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comics really help you improve over time, you'll get into a groove. and it's up to you and how consistent you are with release/interest in story/characters, don't feel your choice in page format will make people skip over it.
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Thank you!Β I'm working on a nuzlocke right now!Β Granted my supplies are extremely limited right now and my art sucks but I WILL do this!Β For PokΓ©mon!Β For art improvement!Β For my sanity cause drawing makes me relaxed!
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welcome, and cool to hear.
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I may possibly start a Nuzlocke someday, probably when I have more time on my hands (summer)
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sounds like a plan, Odd Ones will likely be updating faster in teh summer too
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Summer is just the time for comicking.
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summer, where comic is king
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This is great! I was worried about my Nuzlocke starting without the professor joke or tutorials, and I wasn't sure how long to make my first page! Thanks so much for doing this!
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super, glad you think it helped ya out
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cool man this is really helpful and got my brain going. I already created the first page in my nuzlocke so i don't want to redo it but i find this really helpful in the the thought for story.
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great you like it, and ah, gotcha
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*About to make my Nuzlocke- But is reading these first*
- Jump in with a bang, ignore Professor Tutorials...? Check (I might jump in with the Rival Battle for Crying out loud!)
- Read other Nuzlockes first, Check, I'm reading about 50
- Plan, No check... *Must find a buddy*, My brother is too judgmental and blurts out spoilers
- Tall pages, Something I've been wanting to do for a while now, and something I'll surely do sense I refuse to color my comic, Check
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sound's good. so are you continuing the original meme idea, or going to abandon that and do a new idea.
for sure, next nuzlocke I'll probably jump even further than that, the beginning parts of games are the most done part, so jumping a bit later is better.
indeed you do
I don't mind helping out with things here and there, though note I will be big and demanding on consistent theming of ideas and concepts, I will nitpick the plans if I feel they're not up to par. if this is what you want, cool I'm willing to help, if you're seeking a less critical planning buddy, then that won't be me.
it's just the most effective format for online and readability, it's up to you
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I will continue that one day- But in-run I did really bad, and my comic quality was bad. I like the idea-But I want more experience before I continue a big comic like that (Plus I need to look up more memes)
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ah gotcha, sounds like a plan
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Thank you very much for this tutorial. I've made a Nuzlocke I want to share with the world, but I thought in all of these things you've mentioned and decided I'm going to organize things at first.
Besides, I don't know how to draw, so it's going to take awhile for me to begin.
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no problem, I'm glad it'll help
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I'm going to read your entire Nuzlocke Tips Tricks gallery folder. They are very helpful!
Thanks so much, Firo!
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oh, great to hear and glad you find them helpful.
no problem :3
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you should make a whole set with the ones you already had with the tl;dr, and adding the links in the description for further information, this ones are pretty good, also the title of this one is nuzlcoke!
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there already is a link to a folder with all the other ones, if you mean make a set of all the tl'dr and put them together, I find that's kind of silly, you wouldn't exactly put 15 book summaries together and call it a book, putting all the tl'drs in one place would encourage laziness in people, the tl'dr are meant mostly as refreshers to the points I made in each guide, reading only the tl'drs misses out on a lot of the important information
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Been reading all your tutorials, they're being useful!
Damn, I wish I'd have thought about things before starting my nuzlocke. It started with bad art, no plot, the character had no design, no character development, absolutely nothing.
I was just like: "IAM GOIN START MAH NUAZLOCK".
Seriously, I wish I could change the first page and also the cover with my actual style. Because I don't like the fact that people runs scared when they see my first pages and they can't possibly know how much I have improved.Β
Do you think I should remake the first page and also the cover, also putting a message saying "Dude, this run changes, give it a try, please" xD
Also, thank god I changed things and added a plot and everything...
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oh thanks a lot, glad you think so.
heh, it's the most common thing I run into nuzlockers, they end up hating their first pages. it's understandable as most don't think about all these things when they start off and just do it for fun, then it becomes a more dedicated rewarding project you want to improve later on.
personally when I look for nuzlockes I don't judge based off the first page, I look around at a middle later on page, and if I like what I see, I go back and start from the beginning.
Your original cover comes off very spoiler y not going to lie, since you have fully evolved guys on it and it can take the drama out of things when you know they'll last that long to evolve, so I'd say yes on the cover mostly because it dampens the drama of knowing who will survive.
as for the pages, I say leave them be, it turns into a never ending cycle if you keep going back and tinkering old pages.Β
same here, It so much more rewarding and enjoyable when you personalize your run with a plot. taking a pokemon game and replotting it to something unique to you is such a blast
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Oh, wow, this is so great!
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Informative and engaging; you, sir, have a gift.
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lol Figured I better say something here before I dive on into the rest (doubt I'd be able to say more than a quickΒ "This isΒ STILLΒ so great"Β on the rest of these guides xD)
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And now to spam your inbox with faves!
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(Also, THANK YOU for the tutorial bashing.Β I didn't plan to start at the "Welcome to the World of Pokemon" intro anyway, but it's nice to hear that I'm not the only one who thinks that's one ofΒ the WORST ways to start a Nuzlocke).
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ah thanks, I liked my guides to be fun to read as well as informing.Β
heh, glad you think so, and cool to know they're being enjoyed.
no problem, I know not all agree, but I'll bash something if I feel it ends up cliche or such.
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waa... so much good information!
but i already did start my nuzlocke
but i went with a more realistic approach, so no proffessor part for me x3
thanks for this tutorial!
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heh, no problem, and there's more to come with other helpful info such as plot and such
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thats cool ^^
i hope that my plot will come as good as it is in my head on paper :3
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Pffft I had so many messages that accidentally deleted this along with the rest-- glad I went to your page and checked your newest devs! Thanks for the tutorial! <3
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no worries, happens to me a lot too, I x things on mistake and stuff. with the exception of comic pages which get foldered to keep from cluttering the main gallery, everything pretty much stays in the main folder, so no worries, and heh, no problem, hope it helps :3
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