Don’t ask me why I drew the bird’s wing backwards…
I think I could draw a whole civilization of these guys. Unfortunately, Screaming Tongue himself (bottom left corner) doesn’t color well. I need a much lighter red marker:
I came up with a new character tonight. Andre is French. What do you think? I love his hair.
What’s his story? Do you like him? He came from the other day’s doodles.
Update: I inked and colored (I’m not liking the red, but the yellow works):
What do you think of these guys?
I’ve been switching between sketching things and doodling with my Faber Castle mechanical pencil and these ink doodles with a Koh-i-noor ballpoint pen. Whatayathink?
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What’s the premise of Screaming Tongue? What should the story be? What’s the schtick? I currently have very little idea. I’ve just been doodling and sketching and wanting to create something new, something regular, something with a purpose, and the Screaming Tongue characters kind of just happened.
Right now, I’m thinking about what’s important for premise and story for a webcomic. What does the form need? Should Screaming Tongue be some sort of modernized Greek Chorus addressing contemporary issues? Should it be some sort of commentary on Web 2.0 issues from a ranting tongue representing all the many knee jerk trolls out there? Should it be the screaming voice of sanity? The jester fool? A total non sequitur?
What’s going to be most expressive and most freeing to me as an artistic type who wants to be more creative while simultaneously serving some larger purpose and hopefully, somewhere along the way, appeal to an audience?
If anybody out there is reading this, I’d love to hear what you think.
I really want an Axiotron Modbook. Pen and ink and pencils are cool, but for a webcomic they’re not quite the best. I have a Wacom tablet, but the whole drawing somewhere other than where the lines are appearing doesn’t work wonderfully for me.
Unfortunately, the Modbook runs about $2400. So, I plan to do two things:
1. Sell a bunch of stuff to help raise the money for the Modbook. I’ll do a follow up post with some eBay links.
2. Beg for donations. Want to help, donate via PayPal here:
My friend Dan pointed out that Kung Pow: Enter the Fist had a screaming tongue in it named “Tonguey.” Now I’m just depressed.
Maybe I should have registered screaming tumor instead…
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