Wow! These are really cool! I really like your elf and the cyborg.

Hi! I have seen a good amount of artists use Artstation as a great place to showcase your work. They then often share it out there through Pinterest and Instagram.  I would say Instagram would be the best social media place to do it. I would love to see your work. I have noticed a huge surge in need for graphic artists for dnd art…[Read more]

Nice to meet you! Thank you for the welcome 🙂

When I started drawing, I mostly did anime/manga art. As I’ve practiced my art has slowly inched to a more “semi realistic” style, but there’s definitely still some manga influence in there. I use pencil and pen a lot too, as well as colored pencils and alcohol-based markers.

 

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Hi Zee! welcome!

I am @scoutfinch190, I too write and draw and am currently learning digital art on Krita. Having drawn traditionally all my life, this is a big learning curve though lol, but I’m getting the hang of it, vector stuff is a big struggle though🤣 (vector means it’s not made of pixels, so you can zoom in infinitely w/o…[Read more]

Hey Scoutfinch!

This is a pretty familiar question to me, I’ve been there XD

So, I currently use an Intuos pressure-sensitive tablet without screen display. I’ve used a Wacom Bamboo in the past and it also worked great, it’s just smaller.

I was saving up for a big display tablet, but I ended up not getting one. My dad got a…[Read more]

Hi! I am not a professional artist but I have been doodling with both the Intuos Pro and Wacom Cintiq Pro 16 in. They are both very good options but things to consider is that the Intuos pro requires major hand and eye coordination which many like myself struggle through it and takes a long time to master. I honestly don’t that…[Read more]

Well, after trying six times to post a reply, I figured out that it just doesn’t like me putting links in here. So let’s try again xD

For electrocution, I went to the BRCA (Burn and Reconstructive Centers of America) website. Under “community resources” and “safety”, they have a page with a lot of info about electrocution.

For…[Read more]

• I love, love, love Ilkwon Ha’s comics. Annarasumana…

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If you like superheroes, the Daredevil comic series by Mark Waid is clean! Vol. 2 gets a little weird for a bit (supernatural-style weird), but overall it’s really good! I also really liked The Defenders: Diamonds are Forever (which censors cussing).

To piggyback on @rose-colored-fancy‘s recommendation, Scott McCloud’s book…[Read more]

Hellooo!!

So, I’m not super well-versed in comics, it’s actually something I’m looking into because I’m going to apply to a comic design course later this year.

But, I do want to recommend Haikyu! It’s a manga and an anime, the writing is AMAZING and so is the art. (That anatomy and perspective, BEAUTIFUL) I love the way the…[Read more]

Fair warning, this is going to be a bit of a ramble – I wrote this post over a couple of days as I thought more about this!

I didn’t include this part at first because it’s kind…[Read more]

Of course, I’m happy I could help! And yeah, injuring characters is tough XD

@scoutfinch190

As for your first questions, that’s quite beyond me XD But I can answer the latter!

Does anyone also know if there could be a pain-killer strong enough to ease physical wounds in pill-form?

Yes! Painkillers that work on the central nervous…[Read more]

@scoutfinch190

And I agree with @anne_the_noob14  ‘s assessment on cut off ears.

I think yes! The “hearing” part of the ear is on the inside of your head, so unless the knife gouged into the person’s skull, hearing will still be intact 🙂 Although they’ll probably hear a bit differently, since our outside ear directs sound inwards, so things will probably sound differently.

(Someone correct me if that’s wrong XD )

I’m a bit late, but I thought I’d just say “yes” to this ⬆️. I’ve lived (and been injured) in very cold climates (-45, plus windchill). Never have I or anyone I know had a wound freeze over. Though we do tend to stay inside a lot at that -40 mark 😂.

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Our bodies really like to be around 98.6 degrees in Fahrenheit. Water freezes below 32F and melts at temperatures above that. If you were to be in an absolutely frozen wasteland and got a massive bloody gash, some of the blood outside your body could freeze. The blood…[Read more]

I noticed something here…

Think about the physical proximity of the two guards that would be on either side of him.  Punching their captive in the mouth would make more sense if he was upright and facing them, or pinned to the wall.  At best, a guard might give him a grazing blow down the side of his jaw, but that would b…[Read more]

*high-fives fellow Dickens fan back* Yes, audiobooks are amazingly helpful for classic novels… especially when they were paid by the word…

LOL, it really seems like that sometimes XD Dickens knows many words but concise is not one of them. XD

That’s a really cool premise! Best of success with it!

@olivia

Haha, you are welcome for…

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Agreed!!! I’ve always loved how unique the book and chapter titles are and have even thought about making my titles similar, since I love them so much. xD I might, but who knows…

I love it too! I’ve thought about adding titles to my chapters, but I’ve never actually tried it. *Lightbulb moment* I could maybe do that with this next pro…[Read more]

Thanks!

@scoutfinch190 has mentioned that book to me before. It sounds interesting!

Super hard!! A lot of the time, I just end up ending the book, LOL.

Hm… currently, it is the sequel. I haven’t fully come up with the blurb, so this is more of a messy explanation.

Lucy is finally going to go to Hawaii as a celebration. That is,…[Read more]

What books/movies do you like?

How interesting! I’ve never attempted a mystery personally, but I’m somewhat familiar with Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes (mostly movies). Is it hard to come up the clues to a point where they’d be revealing just enough to not be a spoiler?

What’s your WIP?

Well it would be an orbit through the core, not around the core. It would basically be a straight line, they’d be going back and forth on. It’s a similar scenario to an oscillating spring. And that’s assuming the hole goes all the way through.

I think it would mainly cause the no-gravity location to be not in the geometric…[Read more]

As for how long I have been writing? oh geez, over 20 years I guess. The first story I wrote was when i was 6-7ish years old. Since then, every few years, I would get another story itch or idea and try my hand at it. I haven’t finished…[Read more]

If the material deteriorates similar to uranium, the gravity will weaken slowly. The people on the vessel may not notice the weakening until something or someone jumps a little higher or flies a little farther than normal. Water or other liquids might be an indicator. Liquids tend to turn into spheres in zero g.

Since space is a…[Read more]

How cool! It’s always interesting to see fantasies set in cultures people don’t often use.  That’s so interesting about how the fabric was cut! Your story sounds very interesting!

Thank you! I’m having a lot of fun with the setting. It has a very cool and unique aesthetic. It’s awfully hard to research the historical stuff though…[Read more]

Well the idea of using a superheavy material to create artificial gravity is a new one for me. However, there are some inherent problems for space flight. Because of the weight of this material, very high power engines would be needed for forward movement. This in turn would probably mean having to store equally large amounts of…[Read more]

In a symmetrical sphere, the gravity gets weaker the closer you get to the center. At the center the gravity is zero. Gravity will always pull toward the center, so if you were passing through the center, gravity would change directions. (If you want more details look up Newton’s shell theorem). Your planet is not spherically…[Read more]

Hey, so I have actually thought about this a little bit, even though I haven’t written any sci-fi.

Besides magic and the breadth of understanding, I feel the primary distinction between most sci-fi and fantasy, at its core, is exploring the differences and similarities between us and literal aliens. With that in mind, I think the…[Read more]

Technically fantasy, it is set on a different world and it does include magic and dragons, but otherwise I am trying to make as alternate history feeling as possible. Partly to demonstrate how the unfallen world should have been, so much of the art and culture of the different human societies are straight…[Read more]

Thank you! I’m glad it works!

My story is set in a fantasy world inspired by medieval North Africa and the middle-east, so researching the clothing for that was hard. I end up settling on historical feasibility, which just means I think of what materials and methods they have and work from there. An interesting feature of that…[Read more]

Thanks! *oh he’s been through some stuff…*

Ok, so as far as the descriptions go I can get a clear image of Sahar (‘lil sweety pie) but I don’t get much of her personality here. Also, since you’re going in first person (I…[Read more]

Hi ScoutFinch! So happy to have you!

Your excerpt looks cool! Describing anything sci-fi/fantasy is always tricky, and I don’t have much experience with it, but I’ll try to help from what I’ve seen others do.

Your description is good and comprehensive, but maybe you should start a little bit wider. You might have done this…[Read more]

I’m still working about details. She is going to be the illegitimate daughter of her father. and I don’t know if I’ll have the guy be a prince, duke’s son, or something else…so ya…I only have a page written out cuz I kinda want to get the first draft of my first WIP done first…

That sounds cool!  I’ll have to try that.  🙂

My first WIP is about a girl who goes to visit her Uncle and Aunt for the summer and goes and does field work. (inspired by my summers of work😂) the second is about a girl who gets pulled into a different world, must go on a quest if she is to get back to her world, and must trust someone she has been told not to trust in order to…[Read more]

Ooo, that sounds really cool!  I mostly do just people or animals, like horses and dragons; although I would like to try mixing fabric and wool to create costumes for the people I felt.

I just started Bk Two of the Ravenwood Saga! I love it so much! 🙂

I’m not sure what I want to study at college. I love history, English, and I want to someday be a full-time writer. So I guess I’l study English, though where is still unknown to me.

Thanks! Help would be nice…though with us just talking on an online forum i don’t know how that would work (figure that out in time i guess) right now I’m working on a fantasy story, christian fiction, and I wrote down a beginning idea for a fairytale rewrite.

Your story sounds cool!

Hi there!  I’m Lily!  I came back to visit the SE Forum and saw your post!

First off, I love fantasy too; I’m a member of the KP forum (I thought your username looked vaguely familiar) and I also love needle-felting!  (I haven’t met a lot of people who do).  What are some of your favorite things to create?

Also, welcome to Story Embers!

I think it’s really up to you. Since sci-fi tends to be more secular than fantasy, I think putting any kind of god-figure in it would be interesting and unique. If you have different alien races, I’d definitely think about the god’s/gods’ plan for them and how they relate to the god(s), just like you would if you were writing fantasy.

Lucky that you make it! I just get to have it at friends houses. Peach juice…interesting…sounds good

I dabble in romance, Christian fiction, fantasy, and I reeaaalllyyyy want to try sci-fi…but i have 2 WIP right now so i’m going to wait a bit…

What WIP do you have going right now?

In my mind, putting a sci-fi story in this universe AND dealing with God is rather difficult, or at least gets a bit weird. If you have aliens, you have to think about what God’s plan is for them–did they fall? are they corrupted by sin? does Jesus save them too? I haven’t read C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy, but I think it would be…[Read more]

That movie sounds really interesting. I don’t think I’ve heard of it before.😄

My magicless fantasy just kinda means I have a totally different world created, with new animals/races and stuff, but there is no magic. I’ve heard it called a lot of different things (Adventure fantasy maybe?🤔) I like it because I like the vulnerability…[Read more]