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Sooo… I’ve been working on a new graphic novel that’s very Italian (I’ll be posting sketches and concept art someday!). But I still miss my boys! So here, enjoy a silly Italian-AU doodle of Cans of Beans.

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What I mean when I do not control the hyperfixation.

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You Were My Joker That Night

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Bowls

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HEY, YOU!

DO YOU LIKE OLD COMPUTER GRAPHICS?!

did you like ANY of these photos? would you like to see HUNDREDS MORE OF THEM?! with THOUSANDS OF UNIQUE TEXTURES?! ALL FROM FUCKING DECEMBER 15TH, YEAR 2000?!

NOW YOU CAN!!!

THERE'S ALSO A BUNCH OF CLIPART FROM 1997 IN .WMF FORMAT. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE THAT, BUT YOU MIGHT!

STILL not convinced???? LOOK AT THE DISC THEY CAME FROM!

WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!??!?!?!?!?! DON'T WAIT! GO LOOK AT THOSE JPEGS... TODAY!

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It creeps back in

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Jose Basso.

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SF to LA. For those who know this road.

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In your view/experience. is the rate of "incompleteness" among webcomics more or less the nature of online personal projects as a whole? Or is there something specific to webcomics like laboriousness, audience expectations, relative medium infancy or whatnot?

well for one thing webcomics has changed significantly in the last ten years. it used to have a much lower barrier for entry, just get a smackjeeves account or set up a website with a wordpress plugin. starting a webcomic when i started my webcomic vs starting a webcomic now are totally different experiences.

so i can only speak to people who started their webcomics roughly ten years ago. and roughly ten years ago a lot of us were a whole lot younger with a lot more time and energy to spend on a comic for free. this part is probably still somewhat true for new artists.

but then you get older. your ideas change. your skill develops and the old stuff isn't as good. or you don't have as much time, you got a day job. unless you're one of like five people on earth your webcomic is not paying your rent. you need to make money. your shoulder hurts. you're 30 now. you're struggling to make updates on time between whatever else makes you happy and what else you need to do to live. you wrote this story when you were 21, you don't relate to it anymore, you have different ideas, you've grown up, your audience has noticeably dropped off from the peak, social media managing is hard, you have to go to work, you're so tired, all the time.

it's a lot of things.

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I found some Mononoke and Ayakashi concept/production art!

With my interest in Mononoke renewed with the upcoming movie, I craved more content of the concept art variety! Initial searches were unfruitful. Most results were of Princess Mononoke art book or fan art. So I got creative with my research.

Mononoke's IMDB page states that Takashi Hashimoto was the character designer. According to an anime database, his name translates to "橋本 敬史" in Japanese. Combining that with "モノノ怪" in Google search revealed the existence of two key frame art books, pictured below. The landscape-oriented one was published in 2010, and the portrait oriented one was published in 2017 in celebration of the show's 10th anniversary.

There are a handful Ebay listings, all of which are incredibly pricey. That did not stop me from nabbing a copy of both. This one and this one were the most interesting because they provided a peek inside the respective books. Someone on Twitter was kind enough to do a flip through of one of the books though!

Google image search also yielded some interesting results. A lot of these are orphaned images where the original site is long gone. I linked my sources below where I could.

Some key frames: [Source 1] [Source 2] [Source 3] [Source 4] [Source 5] [Source 6]

Original production art (!!!) [Source 1] [Source 2] [Source 3]

The first image below seems to be the base of the character booklet featured with the official DVD. It appeared that Medicine Seller's hair went from straight to wavy as the production went on. Based on the Google translations, I think some of these originals were auctioned off on Yahoo a while ago? I can't read Japanese so I'm not 100% sure.

Speaking of Twitter, Takashi Hashimoto seems to have one! These days he mostly shares photos of his pet budgie, but if you do a bit of digging there are some nuggets of Mononoke stuff sprinkled in. Showcasing a few below.

LEFT: A crop of the original pencil sketch for the art book cover! The draftsmanship on this is so clean. O:

MIDDLE: The sketch of a new illustration to commemorate the anime's 10th anniversary. I love that added authenticity of drawing over the Medicine Seller's head with a lil post-it note!

RIGHT: I found this on Pinterest, but it linked back to Takashi's Twitter so I presume the original tweet was deleted. But check out Medicine Seller's doofy lil expression, hehe. This was actually featured as a black-and-white image in one of the character sheets, so it's pretty neat to see its colored original.

Not featured in this is environment concept art, of which I found none of in my trawl. However, if you happen to own the 2014 DVD of the series, there is a bonus section which showcases how environments are built for the Bake-Neko story arc. As far as I know, this DVD's bonus content is not reuploaded on Youtube. The DVD is not for sale on Amazon. Blu-Ray is available, but I don't know if this bonus bit is included. So here's a few listings on Ebay!

This concludes my deep-dive in search of Mononoke concept art. I hope that with the moving coming out next year we may have more to look at. Hope you enjoy! :D @dharmafox

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#DRCL - Midnight Children

Shinichi Sakamoto

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If you're seeing this you're legally required to read the "cans of beans" webcomic

I drew fanart for this years ago and like a lot of things it lives somewhere is the back of my mind and comes to the surface every so often

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UH OH MY WEBCOMIC HAS COME UP

Obscure Webcomic - Round 1-I

Lifeblood Lost - Abandoned

Gwendolyn wakes up in a strange world of floating islands in the sky after being burned at the stake. She is picked up by a man with wings, a warrior from a village of winged people. In the distance a combatant regiment, a group of humans who seem to have come from the same world as Gwendolyn...

Cans of Beans - Finished

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Tine Poppe.

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"See ya, Mr. Postman!"

Some exploratory illustrations from my latest comic idea. The cute guy waving his hand is Raul, while the postal worker is Vincent. Been really excited about this one, it's felt the most 'me' since, well, Cans of Beans!

I may end up making a new Tumblr for drawings from this new idea, but we'll see--especially for the more spicy drawings.

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To whoever put Cans of Beans on here, thank you, I didn't even know this was a thing going on lol

Obscure Webcomic Tournament Bracket

Alright with our winner crowned for the fancomics, time for the main event! The bracket is separated here in to 16 subbrackets (A-P), because the full bracket is massive.

You can find the complete list can be found here. This includes links and the descriptions, exactly as given in the submissions (except when there were multiple submissions, in which case they were combined.)

The bracket was seeded by date of first publication - so the oldest comics (we've got a few from the 90s) are going up against the newest (from just the past few months!), etc. (and if anyone else is insane enough to run a seeded 512 bracket the sheet is automated and you're free to copy it).

There will be 8 polls coming out daily, starting (hopefully) Monday, May 29th, and will be tagged #obscure webcomic poll and #webcomic round 1 and like the previous the rules will be Vote for the One You Don't Know.