You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on.
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How I draw and how I leave things out is parallel in some ways to the non-verbal soundscape in radio stories.
I created the characters from what I read in the script. I decided how I should talk, accent, no accent, my own voice, or a created voice. Then, I visualize what I should look like.
I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.
There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.
My process is kind of intuitive - I think about how a character will speak according to their station and personality, occasionally making notes with guidelines for their mannerisms, and then I just sort of crack on and write it.
When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.
The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know the mechanics, to make the characters grounded in convincing detail.
As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.
To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.