#(but i mean not that much; i didn't know a ton. reread those wikipedia plot summaries myself)

[unproduciblesmackdown]

similar to the greentext stuff - i was visiting with my neighbors and their grandkids were around, and I said to this eight year old, "Hey, you wanna know something cool? I was playing the game when the Endermen came out." and his eyes went wide, like this kid looked like i told him i landed on the moon. His grandma thought it was really funny, and she said she has no idea what i'm talking about, but her grandbabies do, and that's incredible to her.

oh that's fun lmao, when minecraft & that update's existed for more than your whole life, and yknow being that young and like Next Year fr is this huge time scale away, a couple of years is a quarter of your life thus far and like maybe nigh half of the part of your life you actually have longterm memories for....i was checking out this dev's blog's archives about a:tdd's release in 2010 & in one entry they compared the implicitly Roughly concurrent release of Minecraft and i was like hey whoah. forever primarily being a game i've Heard Of more than any more direct exposure so i had no precise sense of [before minecraft release] [after minecraft release] Year 0 there but it's like for sure back in thee day when minecraft was a new thing, huh

[1010lilfoot]

Do you have any tips on starting a comic idea? I just get so discouraged whenever I try. I really do like to draw even though I’m not so good! But I don’t know why comics are so tough for me to try

I'm sorry to hear you're discouraged, so I'll put my all into giving you good tips! Comics are certainly tough, and they can be tiring too, but to me they're absolutely worth it!

People get disheartened for many reasons. They may feel dissatisfied with their art, they may lose steam and/or interest, they may feel pressured by the expectations of others. That's why my golden rule is self-indulgent comics! Pick an idea you're very excited about, one you would enjoy rereading.

Another good way to start is to keep the art simple! Comics take a long time anyway, so I like to keep in mind quantity over quality (some would disagree, and that's fine too). As a kid, I didn't follow any sort of typical process for comic-making. I didn't sketch, I didn't write a script or outline, I just put a pen to sketchbook paper and cranked out as many pages as I could! It can feel freeing to draw that way (it also takes less time), so I recommend giving it a try!

Lastly, don't feel constrained by comics. They can be anything, any combination of image and story. Experiment to your heart's content! If too much drawing exhausts you, maybe do an illustrated story with occasional full comic pages? If it's hard to write a plot, have your characters interact or do something stream-of-consciousness. If you dislike your style, do something simple or abstract.

For anyone who really wants to get down and study sequential art (like comics), there are good books and online resources out there. But for me, the most fun way to gain a sense for comics is to draw a boatload of them!

This is where I started–around 6th grade or so? It's a lot of armless guys, panels without gutter space, and the sensibilities of a tween who read a ton of manga. But I'm still very fond of this stuff!

So please try to be your own fan as you draw!

Anonymous asked: The latest ask makes me wanna draw comics of my own ^^

Anonymous asked: Hearing you say comics don’t have to be crazy rendered and can be anything makes me want to try even though I can only draw stick figures! XD

Please do draw comics! I'm a comic fanatic, so I'd love to read them. (And I'd share them too, unless you didn't want that.) Comics are my favorite artistic and storytelling medium!

Anonymous asked: What’s cell shading? I hear other artists say they do that instead of full rendering, but I never know what that actually means! XD

I'll explain, then! (Take with a grain of salt, these are my interpretations.)

Full Rendering is more like this (I do it so rarely that it's kind of hard to find an example!) There are gradients in the shading, nothing is one solid block of color, for the most part. It can have more realistic lighting. More painterly, I'd say.

Cel Shading (often called "cell" with two L's (I do that too)) is more akin to how I color @talentdelunecomic. The name refers to the "cels" used in traditional 2D animation. It's "simpler", with less realistic color variation, and limited gradients (gradients are becoming more common now). Here's a wikipedia link if you want to know more, though it primarily references cel shading in 3D animation.

Because animation involves many frames (and traditional 2D means they're pretty much all hand-drawn), they can't look rendered all the time, like a full illustration. It would take an eternity (or a metric ton of animators) to release just one TV episode! So the concept of cel shading came about. Because comics also involve many more images than your average illustration, cel shading is helpful to those who aim for speed, like me!

Again, these are just my interpretations of the terms, and I don't doubt that every artist would define them slightly differently, but generally we all have a similar perception of what "rendered" and "cel shaded" look like. Hope that helped! ^^