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If you're doing an image quest, show, don't tell. If you need to explain in text what's going on in the picture, the picture isn't doing its job - unless you're compressing, say, lots of dialogue or other non-critical tasks, but even that is very context sensitive and of varying mileage.
It's also a good idea to try to keep the text to a minimum. Walls of text are a chore and FUCK Homosuck and its literally physically painful (YMMV) to read chatlogs, seriously, fuck that shit with a pineapple in hell, and a quest's purpose is not to make a good dramatic reading, but to be interactive. If a quest isn't readable after the fact in its original state (as an archived thread), it's most likely because it wasn't readable at the time either.
Problem Sleuth is quite possibly as perfect as a quest can realistically get.
A text quest with images is... just a text quest that happens to have illustrations. While it's certainly not illegal, it seems pointless to put much effort into text quest illustrations unless its purpose is drawing practice.
Also, it can be good for your eternal soul and physical being to try different things and fail horribly, rather than just stick to some safe formula. Just remember that "trying different things" is not a counterargument to "this isn't very good at all".
And in other news, general advertisement vice:
DON'T BE AFRAID TO CALL SHIT BY ITS REAL NAME (namely: shit). Hugboxing only undermines an artist/writer's skill, and comments like "it's the best the best the best!" and "wow it's so shit all the toilets in my country are clogged" are all equally worthless, because they don't explain why it's great/shit.
Fiftyfifthly, all forms of political correctness are nothing but cowardice. There's no need to be deliberately insulting unless you want to, but if you find yourself asking the question "could this hurt someone's feelings", the only answer you should give yourself is "I DON'T GIVE A FUCK". Apply as suitable to the theme and tone of your quest, it's not binary.
And NO. NO. Tracing is not good drawing practice. Tracing is a good cheat for technical drawings in a quest, in "real" works it's just lame as communism and potentially straight out illegal. You'll learn fuck all about anything by tracing.
Drawing from reference is practice. You'll have to look at the reference and use your brain to figure shit out, and make sure you don't fuck up the proportions and shit on your own. You'll have to work your eyes, brain, and hand-eye-dick-brain coordination, and that's how you learns you some anything, 'cause ultimately your brain and skills are muscles and unused muscles tend to become bitches.
However, when working with a bigger or just more work-intensive drawing (and you should always use references (doesn't need to be direct references) when you can, with the internet you have absolutely no fucking excuse, bitch), it saves you neck strain and nausea to copy and pasta the reference image (one that you need to refer to a lot, some lesser things aren't used enough to be worth the trouble) into a separate layer, resize as needed, and move close to the bits you need the reference for.
And never, ever, EVER, get careless with Scho-Ka-Kola. I went full retard with a can some days back, and I FELT THE WARP OVERTAKING ME, HHNNNNNNGGH. But do buy the whole 10-can box, it's good for you. http://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/scho-ka-kola-100-g-tin-can-dark-10-pcs-box-red/21606
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