hmmm, I don't think this is a "drawing practice" issue; you had a scene with complicated cross-dialogue between a roomful(!) of well coiffed characters in your head and it actually works (with some bubble trailing). The issue might be in translating what's in your head (multi-dimensional & multi-sensory) to pencil & paper. You can hear the different voices in your head, which eliminates the confusion, but we can't. So hmmm, I dunno. Bold face lettering for the "loud" one in the group, a verbal tick unique to one character. Smaller lettering to indicate a background contribution to the dialogue works sometimes. You know the tricks. I was trying to think of a way to indicate the sword&toga dialogue as "sub rosa" which would give a completely different feel to the plot---just some thoughts. A famous writer once said that on every page something should have just happened, is happening, or is about to happen and you did all three in one picture; that is excellent plotting :)
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Date: 2007-08-25 02:15 pm (UTC)