Clarification:

My hobby is writing short stories, but since I’m not a native English speaker and I have to use a translator, I’m starting to question the quality of the translation, and comics are a completely different matter, it will be easier for me to translate these clouds of dialogue, which will allow me to cope with the translation even without a translator. Do you think it’s worth it?

Here is a link to my mini-story, perhaps it will help you give me more appropriate advice: https://lemmy.world/post/40376627

  • cRazi_man@europe.pub
    3·
    17 days ago

    Comics are a completely different medium. This will not make up for poor translations. You’re comparing 2 different things and you need to decide what sort of content you want to publish, then you can plan how to best achieve what you want. In the time it is going to take you to become a good artist, you could use the time to learn English yourself. Decide what you want to achieve first. Translating with comic dialogue translation is going to still be just as much of a problem.

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    1·
    17 days ago

    Disclaimer : I’m not reading your link

    Answer: I just think it’s not worth it. The motivation to make comics should arise from your need to express yourself visually, not to compensate for poor translation. Learning to draw maybe comes easy to you, but then you’ll have to actually do it and keep it consistent and meet your own standards, which is the extra hard part you are not taking into consideration.

    Climbing the mountain can be a challenge, but it pales in comparison with setting up camp and living at high altitude indefinitely. If you don’t have a call for that kind of lifestyle I would suggest you reconsider.

    Give it a go, though. Nothing wrong with a bit of tourism and sightseeing. You may even get to enjoy it, and you will understand for yourself if it’s meant to be for you or not.

  • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
    1·
    17 days ago

    I mean it depends on what you wanna do.

    Of course if you goal is to make money, drawing comics might be a very tedious way, but if you do it for fun (which I assume) then just do it.

    As some people here have mentioned there might be better ways to go about your creation process regarding language, but make it fun first, and then you’ll gladly adapt to make it digestible (at least in my experience).