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ms paint so fun

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theme two: airlock by ebrothemes

live previews: (one) (two) / install: (github)

this theme was designed around wanting a simple theme with only 2 colors and options for a couple photos in the sidebars, that also supports photosets with a carousel lightbox (ideal for gifsets) and has a night mode toggle. i'm really happy with it, and it definitely works a lot better than my past themes/pages. it should work well for both text-heavy and photo-heavy blogs.

features:

responsive

NPF post support

day/night mode toggle

2 custom colors (day/night mode colors can be different)

540px posts (option for 400px, 450px, and 500px, but it was designed at and works best with 540px)

custom text like and reblog buttons

optional photo in right sidebar

8 body font options with even more customization options for font size and heading fonts

up to 4 custom links

carousel lightbox for photosets

credits in the code as well as here

please like/reblog if you use

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current mantra

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Having ocs is fucked up they make you wake up and think stuff like what if i learn to code in renpy and make this into a visual novel. Who said that

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heyy

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HIGH ON STANDARDS LOW ON SKILL. CREATIVE PROCESS MAKE YOU ILL

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I SAW THE LOW POLY THING ON TWITTER CAN YOU ERXLAIN HOW U DID IT PLEASEREERE I BEGGGGGG

alrit. heres a guide on how i did these low-poly freaks

first is. using the polyline drawing tool, draw the shape of the object. try to use as little points as possible

second. turn the alpha lock on and shade the object, preferably using the airbrush

third. use pixelization filter with alpha lock still ON (so the outline doesn't pixelize as well)

fourth. use posterization filter for silly colors

boom youre done. i hope it was helpful

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shitty draft of a comic

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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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tips for getting people to like your ocs

*disclaimer: this is based on what’s worked for me, aka an artist that likes to make comics/storyboards. so this advice is directed at people who do that

you can do things like this:

Which is fun! Character sheets like this are great, especially for personal reference! But frankly, I don’t think most people engage with this (at least I personally don’t). You could have the coolest character in the world, but it will be harder for most people to feel invested when they’re presented so neutrally like this.

My main piece of advice is: get better at writing.

That might sound harsh when said like that, but let me explain what I mean! (Not trying to imply you’re bad at writing either!)

What I tend to do is just throw characters into situations with as little handholding as I can. Give enough context that readers can follow along, but don’t feel like they’re being explained to.

what can you learn about the characters through their designs alone? (age, personality, economic status, occupation, etc)

what can you learn about the characters’ relationship though their interactions alone? (are they close? familial? romantic? is there hostility? are they tense/relaxed?)

what are the characters currently doing? what were they doing previously (how long have they been talking)? what are they going to do next? can you convey this without dialogue?

how do they feel about what they are doing? are they content? focused? over/understimulated? would they rather be doing something else?

where are they? does it matter? would establishing a setting in at least one panel clarify the scene? is there anything in the enviroment that could tell some of the story?

what time of day is it? what time of year is it? what is the weather like?

Now, with all this in mind, I'm going to give you another example. I'm going to use completely brand new characters for the sake of the experiment, so you won't have any bias (aka I can’t use Protagonist from above, since you already know all about him).

Did this get more of an emotional response from you than the first example? Why do you think so? Who are these characters? How do they know each other? What else can you infer about them? What happened? Who is "she"?

Now, you don't have to actually answer all those questions. But think about them! You can tell people a whole lot about your characters without ever showing them a list of their likes and dislikes.

Obviously, comics aren't the only way to get people invested in your original characters! But regardless, easily digestible formats will grab people's attention faster than huge blocks of text, and comics are a lot less work than doing wholeass storyboards.

Now go and share your ocs with the world!!!

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i have a headache

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The fact that I have any Artfight attacks at all is a miracle

First character is is Wyn by @iced-squid, second is Fiona by @pyra404

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Im the guy who likes mold, i feel ok enough to come off anon now that i know u agree lol idkkkk its so attractive i have a mushroom guide book and i used to pick mushrooms and stuff that reminded me of my bf and id draw him covered in mushrooms and mold and stuff. Very fun to draw. Its all very pretty and i thought literally no one agreed with me cause i could not find anyything of people talking about it

that's so cute and romantic <3 i love fungi and mold and decay.... like aesthetically it's all very beautiful, but there's also something exciting about the instinctual disgust reaction that goes along with rot. mold specifically is hot to me for a lot of the same reasons that make infection and contamination and parasitism hot. be careful babe or i'll bloom inside you and make you sick!

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returning to my roots

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originally intended to draw this from the pov of the character whose tie he's pulling on but then I learnt I cannot fucking draw from that angle so here is this other sketch I made

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wire tutorial for a friend

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god i love making animatics in my head i wish drawing was real