ConceptBeen meaning to post this for days.. got a bit stuck on the caption and idk why but was also suddenly a bit hard to post my art?? Just kept procrastinating it for no reason.
But I spent so much time on this, almost a month and in total 23 hours, digital is not for me ig or at least i could never make comics on a schedule
Not too happy with everything but also like it:) but I was so indecisive about a lot of things and also indecisive when it comes to how to go about posting different languages, again i want to have the original too when i make Norwegian stuff so hope itās not too confusing with what order to read in and that the quality isnāt ruined when you zoom in
But yea I just end up spending so much time doing unecessary stuff when doing digital, Iām still inexperienced and itās so hard to just draw how i want on a phone with my fingers (i dont have a proper stylus). So just draw a lot worse than i would traditionally? I at least think so, the process is kinda frustrating but itās also fun to do digital but a single stroke takes me so many attempts.. also had been a while now as i kinda forgot about all art apps on my phone for a good while. I did trace my traditional doodles tho but then redrew most of it anyway and thatās why thereās some inconsistency in line weight I tried to fix it but thereās still some at least noticeable to me, and tried closing gaps i natrually have in my linework and continue my doodles to fill out the panels so they werenāt floating with no legs or half a torso
Anyway, these are some newer ocs I first drew back in September? I first did concept doodles of these kids then, and revisited the idea in the middle of November wich included the doodles for this, and some days later started doing the digital version and making a proper comic page of this interaction
So I just wrote some notes at first, bullet points style, then did doodles but the initial idea was a bet; I call the story concept VeddemĆ„l wich is Norwegian for āa betā and the roles were supposed to be switched and they were older at first too but then i thought the whole bet thing would be more child-like (not that teens or adults wouldnāt make bets on otherās expense) but ended up with 5th graders and got so many ideas for other things like them being "ordenselever" itās not the same as prefect but i cant find a proper translationā¦ but they fetch milk and clean the classroom and stuff and it changes every week, so thatās why sheās the one that tries to win the bet bc she natrually get to spend time with him more than her friends that made the bet ā she doesnāt really have bad intentions but a mix of both, genuine interest especially after a while but also for the sake of the bet? So with them being older at first in my idea it was gonna be more heartbreak romance story but now the bet is rather to make him speak instead of getting him to like you, it just came to me that this boy doesnt speak after i drew him a couple times so idea sprung from there, and then when revisiting the story idea i kept thinking he would probably know some sign language so thatās where this interaction came from also me randomly seeing the logopedic sign while scrolling the dictionary i have on my phone (i once took a course but have forgotten a lot, keep mixing up some letters too when randomly practicing the alphabet once in a while, i wish it stuck and some day i hope to learn norwegian sign language for real) but yeah i just thought "Oh yeah he probably would have some speach therapy". I think iām leaning more towards selective mutism but i dont know yet
For a little bit of context I imagine he just answer in sign by habit and by this point they already know eachother enough for him to talk to her (in his own way)
But in short itās supposed to be a story about friendship and bullying, a bet or joke going too far and yeah just a concept for now but too fun to play around with new ideas
Soo this was fun to make but took a while, maybe iāll get better at navigating the digital art world sometime, itās been about a year? since i went into it a bit more properly, but I try to get better at being more efficient instead of spending unneccessary long time on unnecessary stuff but think iām getting there? But it started lagging so bad bc i made soo many layers and folders within foldersā¦ and i have a bad habit of duplicating everything before doing changes just in case and drawing every single thing on its own layer and have to get it perfect before i can merge them (and dubplicate every single one before i merge) just bc itās digital itās hard to let myself go with the flow the same way i would with traditional
Anywayā¦ the names (working? Might change my mind) are Brage and Oleana. Brage looks like a Trym to me but I knew someone with that name who also wore glasses so wanted to use something else, thought of BĆørre first then Brage, also Henrik and Espen, idk what fits most but for now iām sticking to Brage. For the girl i first thought of something like Lilly or Leonora but ended with Oleana (tho i also knew someone by that name too)Dec 10, 2025
But I spent so much time on this, almost a month and in total 23 hours, digital is not for me ig or at least i could never make comics on a schedule
Not too happy with everything but also like it:) but I was so indecisive about a lot of things and also indecisive when it comes to how to go about posting different languages, again i want to have the original too when i make Norwegian stuff so hope itās not too confusing with what order to read in and that the quality isnāt ruined when you zoom inBut yea I just end up spending so much time doing unecessary stuff when doing digital, Iām still inexperienced and itās so hard to just draw how i want on a phone with my fingers (i dont have a proper stylus). So just draw a lot worse than i would traditionally? I at least think so, the process is kinda frustrating but itās also fun to do digital but a single stroke takes me so many attempts.. also had been a while now as i kinda forgot about all art apps on my phone for a good while. I did trace my traditional doodles tho but then redrew most of it anyway and thatās why thereās some inconsistency in line weight I tried to fix it but thereās still some at least noticeable to me, and tried closing gaps i natrually have in my linework and continue my doodles to fill out the panels so they werenāt floating with no legs or half a torso
Anyway, these are some newer ocs I first drew back in September? I first did concept doodles of these kids then, and revisited the idea in the middle of November wich included the doodles for this, and some days later started doing the digital version and making a proper comic page of this interaction
So I just wrote some notes at first, bullet points style, then did doodles but the initial idea was a bet; I call the story concept VeddemĆ„l wich is Norwegian for āa betā and the roles were supposed to be switched and they were older at first too but then i thought the whole bet thing would be more child-like (not that teens or adults wouldnāt make bets on otherās expense) but ended up with 5th graders and got so many ideas for other things like them being "ordenselever" itās not the same as prefect but i cant find a proper translationā¦ but they fetch milk and clean the classroom and stuff and it changes every week, so thatās why sheās the one that tries to win the bet bc she natrually get to spend time with him more than her friends that made the bet ā she doesnāt really have bad intentions but a mix of both, genuine interest especially after a while but also for the sake of the bet? So with them being older at first in my idea it was gonna be more heartbreak romance story but now the bet is rather to make him speak instead of getting him to like you, it just came to me that this boy doesnt speak after i drew him a couple times so idea sprung from there, and then when revisiting the story idea i kept thinking he would probably know some sign language so thatās where this interaction came from also me randomly seeing the logopedic sign while scrolling the dictionary i have on my phone (i once took a course but have forgotten a lot, keep mixing up some letters too when randomly practicing the alphabet once in a while, i wish it stuck and some day i hope to learn norwegian sign language for real) but yeah i just thought "Oh yeah he probably would have some speach therapy". I think iām leaning more towards selective mutism but i dont know yet
For a little bit of context I imagine he just answer in sign by habit and by this point they already know eachother enough for him to talk to her (in his own way)
But in short itās supposed to be a story about friendship and bullying, a bet or joke going too far and yeah just a concept for now but too fun to play around with new ideas
Soo this was fun to make but took a while, maybe iāll get better at navigating the digital art world sometime, itās been about a year? since i went into it a bit more properly, but I try to get better at being more efficient instead of spending unneccessary long time on unnecessary stuff but think iām getting there? But it started lagging so bad bc i made soo many layers and folders within foldersā¦ and i have a bad habit of duplicating everything before doing changes just in case and drawing every single thing on its own layer and have to get it perfect before i can merge them (and dubplicate every single one before i merge) just bc itās digital itās hard to let myself go with the flow the same way i would with traditional
Anywayā¦ the names (working? Might change my mind) are Brage and Oleana. Brage looks like a Trym to me but I knew someone with that name who also wore glasses so wanted to use something else, thought of BĆørre first then Brage, also Henrik and Espen, idk what fits most but for now iām sticking to Brage. For the girl i first thought of something like Lilly or Leonora but ended with Oleana (tho i also knew someone by that name too)Dec 10, 2025
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What do you mean you drew this on the phone 
A whole comic!? On the PHONE! That's awesome! And can totally relate to the "juuust gonna duplicate and save, just in case:>" The comic is so cute, both in story and in art, the expressions:3 and little 
ļø And cool you have learned some before! Was "fadder" at uni one year for those who studied this (they didn't have any at the same coarse, needed ppl from same faculty), they taught some so learned how to order stuff at the bar xD Cool how you drew the signs here, we get to learn it to:D
A whole comic!? On the PHONE! That's awesome! And can totally relate to the "juuust gonna duplicate and save, just in case:>" The comic is so cute, both in story and in art, the expressions:3 and little ļø And cool you have learned some before! Was "fadder" at uni one year for those who studied this (they didn't have any at the same coarse, needed ppl from same faculty), they taught some so learned how to order stuff at the bar xD Cool how you drew the signs here, we get to learn it to:Dā¢
ā¢Finally managed to post after artfol glitched out multiple times when trying to post this, also all my drafts are now gone
only for art posts tho my text post drafts from years ago are still there..
only for art posts tho my text post drafts from years ago are still there..ā¢