The Onomatopoeia Assistance Thread

[Littlefinger]

Onomatopoeias give me so much difficulty. I am drawing a comic and for whatever reason my brain has difficulty interpreting sounds appropriately.

So, I've got a guy tied up and sitting in a chair. His hands are tied behind his back and he's pulling at them and struggling with them a little bit. You know the sound that rope makes when you pull at it like that, when it rubs against itself a little? I came up with "stritch" and "creak". Do those fit? Anybody have any other ideas?

 

[lovecraft68]

Onomatopoeias give me so much difficulty. I am drawing a comic and for whatever reason my brain has difficulty interpreting sounds appropriately.

So, I've got a guy tied up and sitting in a chair. His hands are tied behind his back and he's pulling at them and struggling with them a little bit. You know the sound that rope makes when you pull at it like that, when it rubs against itself a little? I came up with "stritch" and "creak". Do those fit? Anybody have any other ideas?

Hmmm being a big comic fan I am thinking rather than a tough to describe sound effect perhaps you focus around the hand and draw symbols for the motion, you know squiggly lines to simulate he's rubbing them back and forth.

 

[Littlefinger]

Yeah, I'm thinking I'll just do that for this particular scene. See, I'm trying to get out of the habit of writing actions as sound effects. I used to draw a scene like this and would have words like "twist" "struggle" "wobble" etc. beside his hands. It comes from an insecurity about the graphics. Like, "I am clearly drawing his hands bound and tied and there's some motion going on but will it be absolutely clear to everyone that he's struggling?" But I think you're right, it should be clear enough without a weird sound effect in there. Thank you.

 

[damppanties]

More of a murmuring sound than a scritch or a creak I'd say.

 

[lovecraft68]

If they're those "japanese" ropes that are big with people just playing around with bondage they're too soft to make any noise at all. And they come in pretty colors.

 

[Stella_Omega]

'rub' would work, but I really like 'stritch'

Ropes don't actually make that much noise, even when really strong people are fighting them. So disappointing!

 

[TE999]

Just say 'He struggled against the ropes that bound him to the chair, but to no avail' and be done with it.

Stritch?

 

[Stella_Omega]

Just say 'He struggled against the ropes that bound him to the chair, but to no avail' and be done with it.

Stritch?

You know, like the sound efFects in the old Batman cartoons-- POW! SPLAT!

It's a comic strip, not prose.

 

[TE999]

You know, like the sound efFects in the old Batman cartoons-- POW! SPLAT!

It's a comic strip, not prose.

Heh! I liked the sounds in the Marvel comics the best. Like Krasssk, Thuddd and Whaaam.

 

[NoJo]

You know, like the sound efFects in the old Batman cartoons-- POW! SPLAT!

It's a comic strip, not prose.

Julie Newmar still makes me go GA-ZOINGGG