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chatgpt is the coward's way out. if you have a paper due in 40 minutes you should be chugging six energy drinks, blasting frantic circus music so loud you shatter an eardrum, and typing the most dogshit essay mankind has ever seen with your own carpel tunnel laden hands

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Oh...that's gore...that's gore of my comfort character...

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Guh also one more idea that came to me in a half-awake state: polyhatz but it's ross x robert with queerplatonic addition of aroace roy

Yes

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Here we go!

I will most likely remake it once I start thinking about the printing more (yeah im going to make a book) but here is what I made!

I used both of my fav concepts but one is a back cover now. Tried to color Suncat and Guard but honestly more simple was the way to go

Also flowers on the back are lupins, Finnish people know that those are an issue here lmao

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Riverclan alliegiences for ASC arc.

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Drawing the toons high as hell will never not be funny to me

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Hiii Dinooo!

I just wanted to throw this out there and ask how you regain motivation for most of your comics, and are there any tips for people who are trying to start their own?

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so for motivation that's a bit more difficult, since its very much different with different people! What i can suggest is- i guess not to as much as i do HELP I've learned that I'm a freak of nature, and that normal people don't finish 20 comic pages in a day I usually just let motivation make me work on pages, instead of forcing myself to work (which is why i- again can get 20 pages done in a day to not working for months), but erm! that's just how I work, and I don't think I'd recommend working like that for everyone! What I sometimes do for motivation though- is making a spotify playlist with my characters and listening to it (especially the ones I have animatic ideas for, as I like imagining how they would play out while I draw) You can also do things like OC activities (like the OCtober thing I've been (not) doing), or getting commed/traded art of the characters, as I also just like going through my own character's toyhouse galleries sometimes! I also like drawing lots. of lyric art

And for tips on comics, I do have a few! -Do not. for the love of all things make pages complex. I'm begging. (Unless ur crazy or smth) -I would recommend especially at the beginning of your comic, to make it as simple as you can! If you're a good way in, it might be a better time to add more detail (this goes for character design too. if they're complex, make a simple version please. HELP) -Reread your script over at least once! Better if it's like the day after, so you can make sure it's what you want -Write a super quick outline, with a summary of each chapter or event, so that you don't forget anything

-If you're going to upload publicly, I'd recommend a schedule! If you just post them whenever, you might end up with months of nothing -With schedules, I'd recommend having about a month of backlog in case you need a break! -Don't make your schedule too much!!! Just make it maybe like a page a week while you get used to it, or even every other week! You're not going to like your comic if you're always tired of working on it

Remember that this is all just how I do things! If something else works for you, than do that instead!

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Poseidon

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Anti-Pines designs so far !

Finally finished these guys !! I procrastinated a little but they're here ! I think I captured the energies for the characters that I was really going for ! :D

For the characters with the "Anti-[Name]/[Name]" the second name listed is what they actually go by in their dimension ! For the others it's unchanged

A couple simple close-ups below cut

I also plan to eventually make a proper fake logo for AGF, for now I just used a basic one I made using the font file from here

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Don’t look at things you know will make you angry. Don’t read the comment sections. Don’t look at the blogs of people who add dumb comments to posts to confirm that they’re dumb all the time. Don’t read old conversations you had with people you don’t talk to anymore. Go look at pictures of kittens or something instead. Protect yourself from negativity in every way you can.

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Violet: Is a toddler

Also Violet: WORKS AT A BAR

(Argh I love this story its so silly)

Meadow clearly, cares very much on who can work in her bar, aka the child she takes care of- /j Her excuse is that she doesn’t drink any of the alcohol 😭

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Random ideas for a hypothetical spooky month musical

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Girl In Blue by animal sun with Ross I made a WHOOOLE post bout it on my Spooky Month AU/SM related stuff blog

It makes me insane

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Aaron taught Ross to ride a bike :3

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Ngl seeing the artist I recognize from making a deviantart specific(only posted there IIRC it's been a hot minute since I checked DA) semi niche roy-but-each-of-his-emotions-are-seperate-entities type AU go on to make a much more known hatzgang centric AU brings quite a bit of happiness to me for them. Like. Genuinely, congrats on the following, if that artist is reading this after being posted, at least.

I KNOW WHO THIS IS!! I KNOW!!!! I love their AU SO much I've been deeply hyperfixated in it for days!!!/vpos

(Cough go follow cough there's also a Discord Server cough :) /silly /nf)

I should've shared it here earlier actually

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OH also- small headcanon I came up with the other day that I really like :]

Kevin is Mexican on his mom's side and when he was a kid, he and his mom would make sugar skulls together for Day of the Dead!

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