I looked at the recent messages
"I am wearing a dark cap, white mask, pink shirt and dark pants"
Dark cap, white mask, pink shirt and dark pants, got it, but why wear a mask tho? I started looking and wandering around, muttering her outfit.
I looked to the right, I saw a girl standing still carrying a backpack. She is wearing a dark cap, white mask, pink shirt and dark pants
She fits the description, so, Tinatan is a girl after all. I was expecting a guy or a grown man with just a girl username but it is a girl that looked the same age as me.
This is bad, my charisma talking with girls is bad, but I need to talk with her to adapt my novel into a comic.
I approached her, she noticed me. I raised my right arm giving her a sign.
"You might be Stephie501? I was expecting a girl because of the name"
"Yeah, I tried to use my name to register but it is already in use. So I just used the recommended names"
"Let's get started then.... Oh yeah, which one of your novels will you want to get drawn first?"
"The action one"
We walked to a nearby tables, she started taking her drawing materials out of her backpack, she also took out big rectangular cardboards. She sets everything on the table neatly.
"Can you guide me drawing it? I can still remember the story and imagine it but I think your imagination is better than mine since you own the novel"
Wow, good for her, she can remember the story in the start while me who made the story forgot it. I took out my phone and went to my notes app, going all down back to chapter 1.
I started reading it, all of my imaginations from the past are coming back in an instant.
"Okay, let's add some improvements in the comic version"
My heart was beating fast in excitement.
"Let's add an intro for it. On the top left corner, on this corner" I instructed while pointing it out
"On the left of it, make a line here, up to down, it is a back of a wooden cabinet. On the right her is half of a chair because the other half was covered by the cabinet. Add a head and his body on the holes because that will be where the main character is sitting and playing the game. Add a table on his right near him. And now on the most right here are two medium sized rectangle windows. Add a other end of a bed here and now finished"
"Oh I see I see, wow, you have strong imaginations"
She started drawing a panel with a ruler, making lines. He drew a box and started making a line up to down, drawing the back of a cabinet.
She started shading the cabinet. The way she shades it looked like how a professional does. It started to feel like realistic and cartoonish, the shade looked like it really made the cabinet brown, she shaded the whole cabinet.
"What kind of chair do you want?"
"The plastic one, you know, the Viterex"
She started drawing the chair, she suddenly stopped and put her pencil down.
"My mask and cap are bothering me, got to take it off"
She started to take off her mask and put it on the table, revealing her pretty face. Shit! She took off her cap, revealing her whole face. Her eyes were shining beauty, her nose pointy, her mouth pinkish.
"OH MY GAD!!!"
*Stephen is getting in love, love at first site*
Fight it Stephen fight it! Breathe in, hoooooo, breathe out, haaaaaaa. She continued drawing, I watched as she drew.
"What's your name?" I asked
"Oh, errrr, my name is Tina, what about yours?"
"My name is Stephen"
Just go with the flow. I just watch her draw in silence. People around are talking, murmuring, laughing, kids shouting while running and playing around.
Tina's doing a great job in drawing. Her shadings are the one making it better, she gave the walls some details, the chairs, the objects around.
"Okay, on the second panel, we now introduce the main character. The problem here is, I can imagine the environment but I still haven't imagined what the main character looked like. But I can imagine what he is doi-"
"Wait, you don't know what the main character of your story looked like?"
"Yep, I just continued the story. Another fact about me, I don't know what the other characters in the story looked like, I just write what they looked like but not imagine what they looked like. But the only character in the story I know and imagine what the character looked like is Luna, the main character's..... You know, soon to be lover".
"That's kinda odd hearing it, a novelist who doesn't know what his or her character design in his or her fiction story. What about the cover of the novel?"
"The guy on the novel cover? I just asked AI to generate me one. Yeah"
"The second panel size should be like this"
I showed her by making imaginary lines. She nodded, she copied the lines with her pencil.
"I really need a description for the main character to continue, and of course, the eyes. What kind of eyes do you want?"
She took a piece of paper out of her backpack and pointed it, mentioning me to draw it in the paper. I took the pencil and started drawing it. That looked better, fierce eyes.
"I didn't know you could draw"
"Only this kind of eye I can draw. The gap in this eye will be in use in the second season of the novel where the blazing light on his eyes goes out. It's like a tail. The hair, I want, spiky and dark, the shirt, dark, the pants, dark, the shoes, dark, all dark. Later, his shirt will be white because she will go to school"
I continued guiding her, the second panel, third panel, the second page, the third page, the fourth page. I treated her a coffee and bread for a break.
Then the fifth and the sixth page, we went to a restaurant and ate. The seventh and the eight, and so on non-stop, until the whole chapter 1 of the novel is finished.
I looked at the time, it was now 5:19, we started at 8:42 in the morning, she drew fast. Tina stretched after giving it a final touch of the last panel.
I took the cardboards and started looking at it, her artsyles are mind-blowing. It mixed realism and cartoonish styles, the backgrounds looked great and characters looked great.
"I'll soon take it home and replenish it"
"What do you mean by replenish it"
"By making it better and cleaner, it has so many erasures that can be seen"
"You mean, your are going to draw it all over again?"
"Yep, those cardboards are just references. And also we can't publish the work in cardboard, duh🙄. I also have the right and better tools for making comics back at my apartment"
"But you made a lot of effort in this, you wasted a lot of time for this. You shouldn't have added the shading if that's what your planning. Shade it back to your apartment instead"
....
"My gosh, how could I have never think of that!"
She put her hand on her forehead in disappointment.
"Say, why are you drawing for free?"
"Well, I just..... I need a novelist to make stories for me, you know, win win. A win for me and a win for you, like make everything fair"
She looked to the right, watching the surroundings. I took a seat, looking at her drawings.
"I wanted to make my works and artstyle popular. I tried making a work but I can't, my imagination is just weak. I cannot even create my own one. Good for you, you can easily do these things in your mind very easily. And also thanks to you, this kind of work was created. I am so excited to publish it online"
"Do you have friends back in New Jersey?"
"No"
Wait what!? Everyone should have friends, and also she's a girl, every girl I know has friends, not now.
"I am just very anxious talking with other people that's why I haven't made a single friend. But when talking with you, somehow it is not embarrassing"
Hearing that made me blush. I looked at Tina's face, her cheeks turning red like tomatoes. Why are you blushing after saying that!
When talking with her, why does it feel easy and not embarrassing? Thinking about it makes me blush again.
"Uhhh, won't it be a money waster when buying this cardboards, draw it, and just transfer the drawings in new ones?"
"Yeah, it is a pain. If only I had a computer and drew it there without using cardboards and paper. And also so that we can color it"
I have a computer back home and with that big tablet thingy which is for drawing but I usually don't use it after realizing I can't draw. I was about to draw my novel.
"I should get going now"
She stood up, I gave her the cardboards.
"Okay, I will see you soon next week"
"Next week!? That's long, we just make the readers wait long"
"Ever heard about resting? The reason why I got fatigued in making novels and stopped narrating it is because I wrote and finished 1 chapter in 1 day, everyday and suddenly, got bored of it and stopped narrating it for a month"
"I don't care, I want it to continue making it"
She's just like me, wanting to rush things.
"I'll meet you on Monday afternoon then, after school is finished. I'll meet you in this spot. I won't be meeting you tomorrow Sunday so that you can rework the chapter 1 while I... Continue my long awaited chapter of the novel where the main character got 1v4 by 4 villains, another main character that fights the other leader, and another main character who fights the other leader and finishes the apocalypse on and for all"
"Wow, that's a great end, you really have nice imaginations. Okay, see you soon again on Monday"
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Novelist(Stephen):
Upsides or likings:
-easy to make scenes and images in his head
-easy to make novels
-easy to think of ideas
-liked to turn his imagination to read
-making novels is his hobby
-loves making new novels
Downsides:
-bad vocabulary
-bad handwriting
-forgetful person, easily to forget scenes
-foggy brain
-can read but hard to understand what he is reading and doesn't like reading, but can still imagine the story in his mind but WON'T understand the story or what he reads
Goals:
-Wanted his novels to get popular
-He wants to get rich and famous
Comic Artist(Tina):
Upsides or likings:
-Easily draw the scenes
-Fast to draw
-a good drawer
-loves drawing
-cartoon artstyle can be beautiful if the genre is romance and realistic artsyle if the genre is action
Downsides:
-hard to make up stories
-limited imagination
-making comics is her hobby
-hates to imagine or make scenes
Goals:
-wanted her work and artsyle to get popular
-she wants to get rich and famous