#(sorry for barely any art here i'm working on my comic)

[skleech]

"grant us eyes" or whatever that pale mf said

[1driedpersimmon]

Do you have any advice for people who might want to get into making comics like yours? I'm always pleasantly surprised by how fast you pump them out and even have other little projects/doodles on the side. How do you keep the quality consistent?

(sorry if this sounds a lil cold (?) i rlly love your peppercakes they r so skrunkly)

First off - Thank you !! I'm honored you like my lil guys and comics hehe! (and no worries on the tone !! I didn't think it sounded cold at all!)

Alright secondly lets see...

Short answer: You really just gotta start and keep going!! Once you start you get the momentum and it gets much easier (like riding a bike, which people like to use as comparison often).

Long answer:

Alright I thought about how to answer for this for a bit and I think I'll break it down to the main aspects.

So timing ! Basically I'm drawing 24/7 (and I'm currently not working as it's an off time for me, but I shall in a week and you will see that my posting frequency will decrease substantially). Ok maybe not 24/7 but I essentially am drawing from the moment I wake up to when I sleep (minus eating, restroom, working out, some errands) and while I do not say this is the key to being better, I'm just realistically displaying how much time I'm spending on drawing. (... one of my new years resolution is to not in fact do that and go out more because I feel like I'm being cooped up in my room a lot haha). But minus the amount of time I spend itself a lot of it has to do with the importance I take in speed drawing. And when I say that I mean quite literally how fast I can draw. AND I think a large part of where that speed comes from is how I like to generalize designs and just my overall process of drawing. (Which, I will not go over now but if you'd like I could make a separate post on how I go about doing my usual sketch, lines, colors, etc) Like, I love ff and all of it's crazy designs but it's so complicated I simplify everything till it's juussstt recognizable, and that's something I feel like really adds to the speed of things.

Also that's sweet of you to say for the quality haha (I always am thinking stuff like ah man this aint it... not my finest work, and then just post anyways cuz who cares I already made it heh)! That being said my quality wasn't alwaysss consistent! Here's an example of my very first "comic" I made for my characters:

And here's the same 4 panels I redrew just about 2 years later:

So I've been basically drawing comics for this for just about 2 years now (will be 2 years officially in a few months) and I most certainly did not get here in one night. I think, as I've mentioned, it's really important to keep up with the comic making (or drawing in general) so that, yes, you can get better, but the way you get better is that it becomes familiar to you. So you can approach concepts and ideas with a more experience. And I think a large part of what holds alot of people back is the idea that "ah I can't do this idea I'm not good enough." So what !! Still do it, I most certainly did it a couple years ago when I barely scribbled my ideas. And then you can totally go back and redraw it ! no "Rule" saying you can't go back and revisit your ideas, like hell even professional artists go back and republish their works with their improved art styles ! (ex. Tokyo Ghoul... even though I don't care for the story, it's still pretty cool! I think he even added more scenes? Anyways..). I think there was that one post going around where it was something like do it scared and that's really REALLY what you gotta do.

And that leads to my final point. You gotta love doing it. I like to make comics because I LOVE my characters, their story, and actually the act of putting it all together into a story, drawn comic, visuals, etc. And, I found my method of loving them. For me, what held me back was the "structure" of comics. I mean you can p much see that the way I like to do things is def not the "traditional" manga/western comic book style right? I won't go as far to say that I "made up this way" of comic making where it's one panel at a time but it certainly worked for me. (I have no idea how many comic wips I have collecting dust in my folders from my earilier days of making this comic where I just gave up 20% of the way in because I really could not vibe with the formatting, but then I figured out I really like to "thumbnail" comics (a result of when I was studying storyboards alot imo) and I went on from there).

This is where I feel like alot of people get stuck too. Where they really do like their ideas, their character, their stories and such, but as soon as they try and go through the process of creating in a certain way... the wind is just instantly taken out of their sails. And while I do believe sometimes you just gotta push through and do it anyways, sometimes that's not the right method to go about it. So instead of brute forcing a method of creation and eventually forming a bad relationship with the process, find a method that works for you. And maybe it doesn't look all that great or good compared to others, but that comes in time and as long as you like doing it, that's what really matters at the end of the day.

Tl;dr: be a lil freak, and lil weird about what you do (this applies to everything, not only art :3)

Alright so I think that's all the points? idk if you still want to ask me stuff, feel free to anytime :) Always happy to share my thoughts!

[zzeldaverse]

holy moly! a zzeldaverse post in the year of our lord 2024? this must be impossible!

it's been almost four whole years since i last posted--one of my last posts was about age of calamity! that came out november of 2020. yeesh. i would like to sincerely apologize for disappearing without a trace into the sunset (supposedly all-consumed by AoC, which I haven't even technically finished playing yet!)

and i think it's a bit silly that my next post is when another playable princess zelda game has released! i haven't gotten my copy of echoes of wisdom quite yet, but I'm super excited to play. games like EoW is why I made zzeldaverse in the first place--to have people realize there was a gap in the zelda series: a game solely revolving around princess zelda, and not the journey link takes to save her. that's the exact idea i had in mind when creating this webcomic.

so, with this post, you might be wondering: is zzeldaverse coming back in any capacity?

yes and no. i'm a full time college sophomore working my dream job, and i barely have time to play video games or draw anymore. i'm an adult now (YIKES!) and i have to allocate my time wisely, and right now, video games and art don't fit into my schedule most days.

keyword: most days! i still draw zzeldaverse and play zelda, just not as often as i used to. as i redesign and redraw some zzeldaverse pieces, i'll post them here for y'all to see. I'm unsure if i'll be making any more original comics other than silly meme doodle posts, but i still adore drawing these girls. if EoW zelda turns out to be Echo, and not Fable, i will 100% be adding her to this lineup.

tl;dr: i'll be posting doodles every now and then! don't expect any sort of schedule. college has me tied up as-is. thank you for sticking around if you have all these years and unconsciously helping me grow up. sorry you had to be subjugated to my old art style!

i love you all :) have fun with echoes of wisdom!

-annie <3

[cutechan555]

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[xycuro-illuminati]

Why didn’t you like the current Daredevil run?

I'll do a speed round here we go:

- Horrible character assassination on everyone especially Matt and Elektra.

- Zdarsky was v clearly inspired by the mcu Netflix show so the run had a severe case of mcu-ification

- The way he wrote women was atrocious (examples: Elektra, Kirsten, Mindy, literally everyone else)

- The shitty retcon to Elektra's backstory going from the sheltered sweet girl that loved her father sm that when he died it broke her to the point of grief and revenge that she became an assassin and it shattered her worldview to the stupid fucking backstory the mcu tried pulling of her being a spy sent by the Hand to recruit Matt.

- Whitewashed Kirsten AND gave her blue eyes

- the obnoxious way of how Matt was written in terms of religion to the point where he went from caricature to straight up crusader colonizer preaching

- Matt is so horrible in this run this is the most OOC he's ever been it legit feels like reading an mcu dd fanfic from someone who barely watched the show and only took word of fanon and saw gifsets

- Zdarsky tried grabbing story plots from previous runs and executed them horribly to the point where he only grabbed the worst shit from it (the ableism, infantalization, and sexual assault)

- Daredevil Elektra as a concept; it doesn't work. I'm sorry, cool outfit and all, but the Daredevil mantle isn't like the Spider-Man one where anyone can wear the mask. Daredevil was specifically for Matt to process his trauma of losing his father and used it to gain justice where the system would fail for his city. His upbringing fits the mantle and the only person who would fit that mantle is Sam Chung. With Elektra it doesn't work and it's on par with the whole "wife takes the husband's last name" but worse. My friend @thosemintcookies has made better points about this.

- Whitewashed Sam Chung and made him just sit at a cave waiting for the Beast or some shit

- Speaking of the Beast, the Hand being the big bad guys of the whole run sucks. Can we leave the Hand behind please the ninja clan isn't the ultimate dd villain.

- Foggy is just there. He doesn't do much and he's just THERE. It sucks. And he throws around the term catholic guilt for no fucking reason. The guilt Matt feels is regular guilt please shut the fuck up Zdarsky.

- Brought back Mike Murdock and did some decent writing on him only to kill him off. Cool, what was the whole point of that.

- Pulled a gotcha on making us think that zdarsky killed off Kirsten in a train explosion but it turned out she was fine which was so foul. Daredevil comics are NOTORIOUS for fridging female characters so that shit was just unacceptable idc argue with a wall.

- Checcetto's art style sucks I'm gonna be honest. The novelty of it being pretty ended v quickly as soon as he drew poc and holy shit he cannot draw them nor can he draw any other expression.

- Did I mention the ableism? And the infantalization? And the fetishization of Matt's disability? No? Okay well this post covers it all here.

- It gets into racist territory too with how they write Sam and the Hand

- This romantic mattelektra agenda makes my skin itch they're not romantic they're tragic their whole deal is that they could never go back to how they were as lovebirds in college. Soule broke up Kirsten and Matt and they kept it like that for this shlop I'm gonna kill you zdarsky and I'm making Elektra a lesbian now.

- Back to Elektra's character; zdarsky takes the cake in "Let's make Elektra's whole life and character revolve around Matt and Matt only". Making her quit her ways and making Matt treat her like shit by calling her a murderer despite the fact that in previous runs he would NEVER do that and has ACCEPTED that this is who Elektra is.

- Speaking of the murderer shit; Matt is a huge hypocrite in this run and not in a good or fun way. Homeboy got rescued by the other Defenders but then got mad and called them murderers bc they've admitted to killing people and it's the most fanficy thing I've ever read. Zdarsky, did you know. That Matt has known Jessica, Luke, and Danny for years now? Did you know that he already knows that they've killed people before? Did you know that he's teamed up with killers plenty of times (see: Elektra, Natasha, Frank Castle) and doesn't make a big shit about it? Did you know that Matt has killed people before in previous runs?? Did you know that zdarsky?? Bc it's clear he doesn't know.

- Whenever Spider-Man shows up Zdarsky writes him better than anyone in the run and this is a Daredevil run mind you

- Shitty ass writing. Shitty plot bc we've seen it all and there's nothing done. OOC on everyone. Misogynistic writing at its finest. Whitewashed characters. Stupid religious pandering bs that only the mcu girlies would like. Terrible run overall.

@thosemintcookies @froggynelson @faacethefacts @xuanelle @daresplaining @evileyeamulet

Feel free to add more or elaborate more on my post I'm giving yall the stage if you want it.

[yeowninefive]

My 2024 Art Retrospective (Part 1)

Sorry for this lackluster introduction, but I've worked on this for quite some time and this is (once again) super long as it stands. So here goes.

Fanart: Last year I talked about how at the start of 2023, I had a decent start in drawing fanart; only for it to fall at the wayside due to my work on OC projects at the time. The story is pretty identical for 2024 where an OC project I worked on for the spring (Mime En Blanche) and some big major changes IRL (taking up on a new job following my degree completion/graduation) ended up scuttling my plans quite a bit to do more fanart work. I do think I tried to make up for it somewhat in that for the rest of the year, I made quite a few works of my OCs in the appearance or attire of characters from notable works (and at least a couple works featuring the other way around).

Nonetheless, still not too satisfied with that outcome; so what I'm hoping to do is take a "one for me and one for them" attitude with my art for 2025; where I actively make sure to have a more even production cycle of art of my OCs and art of works I like or have a passing interest in.

Animation: Again, similar to 2023, I made some pretty small results, though I think they represent some notable advances. *batteries were included (as part of my Mime En Blanche project) was an interesting one where it was originally supposed to be just artwork, but somehow I managed to find time to develop it further into a short animation, so that was cool. It may not be too surprising that it was made at the same time as the bigger --and standout animation project-- Pan Rebanado, which I actually took additional steps to expand it into a very small video (with some technical elements such as a camera pan and later added sound effects). Both of these also fulfilled a goal I wanted to do for 2024 where both animations were done in color.

Unfortunately, this is pretty much where my animation efforts for the year end for 2024. Both of these animations were from the spring, and my aforementioned job pushed it way towards the back in terms of priority. There is/was one other animation that I only barely started and haven't done much with. Moreover, all of these were in Clip Studio Paint, I didn't do much --if anything-- with OpenToonz.

My hope for 2025 is that I try and work on animation more consistently, in more casual/small doses. To that end, I hope to address that by getting back into learning animation more, publishing more "WIP" works for stuff I started on but didn't/haven't finished, and trying my hand at animatics when not publishing small/simple animations/doodles.

Backgrounds/environments: I think my focus on backgrounds/environments weren't quite as strong as last year (which I feel was a better return to form after the dip in 2022), but it was still a pretty good effort. Namely with some of my character-specific artwork (Name, Come On Home, and Strum Against the Storm to list as highlights) and some of the environments I made for my Mime En Blanche project, though I also got at least one landscape (Merge) and mixed media artwork (Zoe and Coffee) in for this year as well. As a negative, meanwhile, I again didn't get to try and revisit any of my previous landscapes for a remake, unfortunately. I'll be surprised if I ever get around to making one at any point for 2025.

Speaking of my mixed media artwork, one of the goals I mentioned I wanted to do was to produce more mixed media work with my OCs, as I still have photos left over from my 2023 Canada trip I haven't gotten around to yet. As a matter of fact--I actually have *more* photos from another trip from this year that I'd like to use for my art as well. So my goal is return to those photos and start cranking out more of those throughout 2025--this will probably be a domain The Commodities OC band will be occupied in for quite a while. (I also imagine any additional landscape/environment work I do will be showcased in future comics, which I'll talk about in my next section.)

Comics/stories/OC projects: The aforementioned Mime En Blanche (MEB) project was my landmark for this year; and while I'm still pretty pleased with it, I do wish it garnered a little more interest like my Clock Robin Caper did. (Part of it I feel is besides a smaller OC roster, I honestly don't know if one of the creators of the featured OCs ever saw or noticed it.) I probably would had gotten another OC project done this year, but my new job disrupted a lot of my art plans.

In the meantime, I also do like the handful of comic strips and one-page cartoons I also made, the main thing I like about them is that a good number of them had pretty short production turnarounds—the path fro idea to product for at least two (Woe Betide Deu in particular, which was actually reworked from an older idea for a comic strip) was actually pretty brief, compared to numerous other ideas that still remain on the shelf.

My goal for 2024 was the hope to improve my time management to get more of my ideas/stories I've written done adapted into an artform (via illustration, comic, or animation/animatic); and it's pretty much the same goal for 2025. Though at this point, I feel like anything I get done at the rate things are going is going to be a win inof itself. I'm going to elaborate about this in length later.

Art trades/commissions: Pretty much the same as before--no real movement towards commissions, and any art trades I wanted to do was taken up by my MEB project, and then later by my current job. (I did get a couple of art done in lieu of then-current trends, but that was before I got my main job.)

The main difference I would say going into 2025 is that in light of my current job (in that it's not related to either my recent education/studies or my hobbies) I think I feel confident enough that I want to do some kind of standalone test run for some sort of commission/freelance work. I'll probably end up doing some research or asking some other creators for advice. On a related note, I might also open a Patreon, Ko-fi, or some other equivalent. I just want to try and force some movement in this area, especially if pushes me in a direction to be more conscious in how I arrange my time.

Art output/reception: Honestly, my job and changes regarding art platforms has changed things enough to the point that the best I can do is point to individual/specific achievements and use that as a yardstick to show any evidence of growth. Normally I would be been able to produce a tally of the total art I made in 2024, calculate the total number of interactions (based on certain metrics), and compare it to previous years to show the differences; but I simply haven't had the time and/or interest. This is where I will active give tumblr some genuine credit here in that it's actually been telling me in my art notifications certain milestones I've crossed with my likes and my reblogs (with at least over 2000 reblogs and over 2500 likes across all of my blogs, if I understand correctly). Maybe I will submit a post out of the blue somewhere in 2025 that does this (or at least compares that point in 2025 instead of 2024's end), but I'd advise not to hold your breath.

The one thing I can say is that in 2024, I wanted to try and take a step back from my art for my other hobbies; as well as start adhering to a more predicable art publishing schedule. I'd unfortunately say I failed on both aspects, though I definitely think my current job situation played a factor in both aspects. (I feel that I did net myself a minor win in discovering and starting to regularly use PostyBirb+ to publish my art across multiple platforms, although at times it certainly feels like it takes almost as much time publishing art individually to other platforms. I also do have to publish individually sometimes, since there are certain features PostyBirb+ doesn't support.)

So my desire to spend less my time on my art feels like it's hit a major crossroad with my art goals for 2025, which I feel would demand genuine time for me to develop certain skills and make certain accomplishments (like the animation and comics/stories stuff). I feel like the best scenario I can come up with is try and take more of a monthly (if not weekly) scheduled approach, where I try and focus on a particular goal for each month. (You may have noticed that try is a major key component of this retrospective.)

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Much like with last year, I think this has gotten long enough that I’m splitting this up into two parts (I was trying my damnedest to avoid doing so, but one section just spiraled out of control). A link to the second part should eventually show up here. Here is my genuine gratitude to whomever that bothered to parse the whole thing (so far). Normally I would say "have a Happy New Year's Eve/Happy New Year's Day," but we're past both days. So I'll just say for now, have a Happy New Year...or at least, have a 2025 that's as least-awful as possible.

[iwakuraz]

hello can i ask you about your ocs? your art of them is so cool, i’d love to know more about them

:0 YES!!!! THANK U SM thats so nice of you!!! going on a rant under the cut hehe. hope u do not mind that super bad at explaining so its all just me saying random stuff ajshdj. sorry about that

SO STARTING WITH THESE TWO

the one with buns is called rue and shes an oc I've had since like 2020 ,, shes kinda rude and mean but shes also pretty gay w/ the other character next to her. I think I'm gonna call the other girl paige? but I haven't reallyyyy decided on a name yet! one thing about me is that I'm pretty bad at naming characters. I named her after this one old art website I used as a kid though, the website was called 'paigeeworld'. dunno how many people remember paigeeworld but I do. and paige is def the kinda person to go on art websites like paigeeworld and deviantart. so thats why I'm thinking of using that name. also I named rue after the flower rue

I have a story for them vaguely planned out in my head but I need to flesh it out more. I have the ending planned out but uh. the other parts of the story? yeah. I only have those vaguely decided. they're pretty fucked up tho and .yeah . they make eachother worse probably.

rues birthday is 18th august, paiges birthday is 6th of june. these dates do mean something! paiges birthday is the same day that paigeeworld originally announced their closure (I think?) but rues birthday is something a bit more personal 2 me. their story isn't really connected with any of my other ocs, they're sorta just chilling. I started making a fun silly comic thing with them a bit ago but have barely gotten anything done with that cause school. :[

in my head, paige sorta reminds me of the stummy book song 'we all fall down'. thats why I gave her a cup. bc haha get it...... we're all just drinking out of cups waiting for the day when we can't get enough,,, I think her character item is gonna be a cup. always has a cup of like milkshake or something. yum I love milkshake. a song that I associate with rue is 'please tell me mr wonder' by siinamota. and rues character items is her plush of a bear and a bunny! her plushies are alive btw and talk to her sometimes. but I should probably draw her with her plushies more because right now I only have a slightly old animation of her with them. blehhh

there is another oc who is relevant to these two, her name is rini. but I haven't done a proper drawing of her in a while,, I have a drawing of her from 2022 and I am not showing that. rini is in the same class as paige and rue tho. shes the class representative

next here is dot. shes the mascot of my neocities site but I like her quite a lot :] shes a pretty big nerd I think. nerd bunny. her main source of literature consumption is reading old instruction manuals on how to use windows 98.

OKAY NOW TALKIGN ABOUT VIN MY FRIEND VIN!!!! definitely the oc I've posted about the most. full name is vincent but you can call him vin for short, or vinny for medium. I named him after the car seat headrest song vincent. his favourite food is salt packets (the type you get in restaurants) and his favourite beverage is vinegar. VINegar. I like him a Lot and hes basicallyyy my fursona :3 hes a lonely sad teenage cat and I love him so much!!! he doesn't talk a lot, but I think he communicates through likee his tamagotchi or something. again this is another character I have a story planned out for vaguely but I should flesh him out a lot more. I think right now I'm more just using him to represent myself. just know he is very very special to me -w-

AND. do u see the cat on the left. I think I will name them pepper. they're meant to contrast with vin, I think they're rlly energetic and fun and yeah!!!! :3c <- basically they are that emoticon! been trying to think of a name for pepper forever. I'm thinking maybe the name pepper will work. like yeah sure. I don't think they'd enjoy spicy food so they wouldn't like peppers. thats why I think pepper is the perfect name for them. peppers favourite food is probably dip dab? or whatever those things are called? yknow those weird lollipops you can get that come in a packet full of these weird powder thing and you're meant to dip the lolly into the powder? thats what pepper would eat

this is (tama)rini!!!! tamarini. basically the bunny version of the rini oc I mentioned earlier and then said nothing about! they collect tamagotchis and are very very very normal about tamagotchi. she looks sorta similar to dot, but thats not intentional. I just like the colour purple and I also like bunnies.

there are SOME others but these are my favourite ocs right now. holds them in my hands and shakes them.

[doe-prince]

Hi ratt, I popped in from the GS discord!

A question: where do you get your inspirations for the initial worlds/premise(s) of your comic works? Namely GS, I guess, but others too. Is it a specific few things or do you draw from more broad sources?

2: Do you have any advice on following through with said concepts to a full or consistent execution? I’m always stuck in the shiny new idea phase :/

Sorry I worded that weird but hopefully you get me. Keep up the stellar work please. I’m a big fan! ❤️

Hello hi!

I honestly don't know, sometimes a theme or thought starts haunting me and I need to make something out of it before it runs me insane. One photo can fuel the whole project, I think something like that happened with Corpse - photos of sheep with livestock guardians, the design of anti-wolf collar, religious imagery and upbringing being hacked into the back of my mind. For GS especially, a secret: I'm just into writing characters. The world, logics, customs, even the plot come later, and even those I like to keep vague to a degree. I think about what kind of characters I want to write about, and then what kind of events would bring their most interesting parts to surface. Godly missions with high stakes are just a stage for me to write about siblings with multiple issues and big bleeding hearts.

2. I can't offer smart advice, but if you want to try it like I usually do, just hold your nose and jump in. I often get incredibly invested in those shiny ideas, but if I notice I take too long to get into them or start planning too much, they fade. They're not shiny anymore, and if they're not shiny, I don't want to work on them.

I came up, scripted and drew Corpse in one month because I was so excited. I started GS with very little lore in my head, just because I wanted to test the art style and get to know my characters, and here we are five years later. (This choice has bit me in the ass a few times because the foundation was barely there, and despite me having a lot more knowledge and lore in my head now, I still have to build on the foundation ignorant little ratt made back then. It's wobbly! But with a bit of sneakiness and torturous brainwork you can always flesh it out later and make it carry its weight.)

Obviously just jumping in doesn't work for everyone, especially if you're a planning kind of person unlike me, but it might give you a kick to get truly invested. And when you're invested, you want to work on it to see where those characters go. You want to take them to the end and tell them they did a great job.

[dailycass-cain]

This week the GOTHAM WAR has begun. Is the basis for this "war" for Catwoman/Batman work? How does Cass fit into this? I'll give my thoughts on it...

So the basis of the event is Catwoman is training the "hired help" of Gotham. Instead of working for Scarface, the Riddler, or Two-Face. They're off doing their own things in robbing the rich. But already there's a problem with that...

So the basis of the event is Catwoman is training the "hired help" of Gotham. Instead of working for Scarface, the Riddler, or Two-Face. They're off doing their own things in robbing the rich. But already there's a problem with that...

Not just the easy answer. Court of Owls.

Sure, maybe a few of them use mooks. This very issue brings up Professor Pyg as using "hired" help, but it feels kind of wrong for Pyg to do this sort of thing.

When Dollotrons have been his modus operandi. Why need thugs when breaking folks into nothing is far cheaper?

What's to stop Pyg from doing that exactly again? Nothing really. So all Selina is replacing is Pyg from going to hired back to his old ways.

That's not good at all. That's kind of why Batman and the Bat-Family are needed.

That isn't bringing up the "biggest" bad himself, the Joker. There have been numerous stories of the Joker just by himself making Gotham a literal hell without any hired help.

The Joker at his scariest is when he's by himself. Even then he's causing all sorts of harm in Gotham.

Those are the "easy" examples.

What about the other villains who already have an operating gang say Punchline and the Royal Flush Gang? It feels like writers Chip Zdarsky and Trini Howard make Selina's case paper thin.

That's not to say Batman's side is any better, "My parents were rich line." Was not the intended dramatic moment the book had. More made me chuckle as it could've easily been photoshopped with, "MY PARENTS ARE DEAD!" instead.

Likewise, is Selina's retort. Literally, again there are so many examples of Bruce showing compassion to folks by using his fortune.

Just alone in Batgirl (#63), we had this scene. That's just one moment that easily popped in my head.

It just feels so wrong for the basis of this "war" to be so flimsy when there are better ways for it. Aka the bot that literally subjugated all of Gotham because Batman took "a life" (that turned out to be false).

There's so much to see Selina's side of things when Failsafe had domain over the city. We have barely seen the city or ANYONE react to that.

Like that alone is more a cause for SOMETHING than what we're getting initially here.

I digress I could go on and on poking the holes into the fight itself, but how does it relate to Cass? Well, already she should be against Selina's plan.

A life is a life.

No matter what Selina's way will take lives. So…

The fact this is all glossed over with her being silent. Just says it all for me that her part in this is already "planned".

I'll probably hate it.

I'll probably despise it.

I thought long and hard about what the best course of action during this event would be for me. I really do love the artists attached to this event. I do love Cass. However, I do not like the context of the event AT ALL.

The answer is kind of right in front of me. Well, three answers. Birds of Prey (out next week), Spirit World, and Detective Comics. I adore two of these and by all things considered with the preview, I'm gonna probably LOVE BoP.

So instead of going into long rants and give myself stress I shouldn't need. I'm just gonna enjoy the good art.

If there are bad moments (which I'm sure there will be) in this event. I'm gonna call it like I see it.

But as for going into detailed thoughts like this? That's it. This is all this event is getting out of me. I have too much enjoyment else to give my focus too.

I just feel sorry for the fans of Duke, Tim, Stephanie, and Barbara. Those fans gotta suffer thru this as Damian, Cass, Kate, Luke, and Dick get to play outside this "sandbox" of woe.

This comic was garbage. This story is garbage. It's just best for me to look away for the most part and enjoy the stuff with Cass that I do have outside "the war".

That's my thoughts on it all. 😁

Now to enjoy a BETTER COMIC next week.

[pocket-lin]

hii <3

4, 11, 16 and 19 for the fandom asks??

(almost just wrote a plea for you to answer all of them but managed to restrain myself😅)

hi hi hi!! thank you for asking me these, this is so much fun!! reading back on these answers after I've written them is shocking because I really can just go on and on about stuff, huh? I really don't talk that much irl so I didn't know I had all this in me hahaha I'm so sorry!! I'm actually so embarrassed 😅 I'm gonna put the answer to 11 in a separate post so I can actually attach the picture I'm proud of!

4. say something nice about a ship you don't ship (it can be another ship in your fandom, a mutual's OTP, etc)

the one ship that's jumping out to me is dramione. I am a huge hater of this ship (sorry sorry sorry if you're reading this and it's your thing I love you and support you!!!) but you guys make some really cool shit and I'm happy you have a community you can share it with!! I've poked around in the ao3 and tumblr tags and its absolutely not for me, but there's some really beautiful and horny stuff out there for this ship and I so genuinely love that for all of you!

16. a tiny detail in canon that you want more people to appreciate

if I'm being totally honest with you, I haven't interfaced with the harry potter canon in a very long time. i already own all the movies and books and stuff, so I wouldn't even be giving jk money by rewatching/reading them, but it just kind of makes my stomach hurt when I think about supporting her in some way. I've had to work through a lot of complicated feelings in regards to jk and harry potter in general, as I'm sure many people have had to do! her words and actions and how I feel about it are not complicated at all, but what to do in the aftermath of it was something I had to figure out. I mean, I have a hp tattoo on my ankle!! my pinned post is about this specifically, but where I've ultimately landed on it all is this: I don't want to let her steal any more joy from me than she already has. there are so many queer and trans people in this fandom creating such incredible stuff, and I just don't want to lose that! I got off on a whole tangent here and definitely have a lot more I could say on the topic, BUT all this to say, I can't really think of tiny hp details anymore!! and in this specific fandom, I'm totally okay with that!

19. your current fandom(s)

the fandom that I interact with the most is definitely harry potter, but I have a bunch of other stuff I'm super into!!

the whole reason I got back into any fandom–and the entire reason I logged back into Tumblr for the first time since 2018–was because of our flag means death!! I've loved rhys darby since flight of the conchords and was so pumped that he was a lead in an hbo show! I was totally shocked when ofmd turned out to not be queerbait!! something about that first season just flipped a switch in me and I looked for fan fiction for the first time in like, 10 years!! I actually didn't even know about ao3 and tried to go to ff.net and it was a whole thing. getting back into fandom was very intimidating, I'm not gonna lie. (wow I really could just talk forever huh?)

my other fandoms are: the sandman, the witcher, good omens (I was so late to that show but jumped on right before the second season completely on accident), check please!, disco elysium, red dead redemption (especial rdr2), the x files, the walking dead, the rivers of london series, and d&d: honor among thieves.

and then there's some stuff that I don't even know how I got into!! like, the spideypool ship. gang, I've barely seen any marvel movies, I haven't read very many marvel comic books. and I honestly don't plan it because I just don't like marvel (once again, could go on about this forever, I was a manager at my local comic shop and have many opinions). but someone I follow posted about a fic (and I am not immune to beautiful fan art) and then I fell down the rabbit hole!! def have recs if anyone is interested!

another one is the ted lasso fandom. I genuinely don't remember why we never finished watching the second season but then the reviews for the third season was kinda mixed so I never went back to it. and then I saw a writer I'm head over heels for had a ted lasso fic (other lives by @andthepeople) and WHOOPS I fell down another rabbit hole!! i also have ted lasso recs!

essentially, if ya boy's read/watched/listened to something, you know he's gonna go look at what the freaks (affectionate) are posting on ao3.

[loubatas]

Hey Brittany !

I noticed you’re a fan of webcomics as I came across your page seeing that you re-blogged a webcomic related post.

I’m Melissa, and I’ve recently embarked on an exciting zombie based webcomic project!

It would mean the world to me if you could check out my recent post about my GoFundMe campaign and consider liking or re-blogging it!

Your support could truly make a difference in bringing my vision to life and sharing it with a wider audience.

Thank you so much for your time and consideration! 🌼

Melissa

I was unsure what to do about this, but in the end I'll answer in the off-chance you are actually a rude newbie artist here and not a scammer And also to explain to my followers why they shouldn't send you and people like you any money

First. That's not how webcomics work. You don't ask people to send you money before you actually make the comic. You first post it online, for free. You can also set up a patreon for people to support you financially in exchange of early access to your comic, and once you've published enough pages to make a book you may do a kickstarter to print it and sell the physical books But in the end the concept of webcomics is that they are passion projects, of various quality, free to read online. Some people manage to live off this, but you should never start a webcomic with the objective to live off them

If you want to get paid before making your comic, you'll have to pitch your project to a publisher But you don't ask people to send you money for a comic they know nothing about, no plot summary, no visuals safe for two screenshots on your blog's only post, no presentation of who the protagonists are, nothing "An exciting webcomic project" you say, but you say nothing about why it's exciting and why we should be interested in it, and more importantly why we should trust you

Tumblr has had its fair share of scams where people promised to make an animated series, a web series or whatever and the people ran away with the money. Right now your project looks exactly like one of those scams. No one with a smidge of common sense will pay you anything

Secondly, that's incredibly rude behaviour here I don't know you. You barely followed me before sending me this message, you didn't like or reblogged anything, you just went straight to promoting your stuff in my inbox. And the "I'm new to tumblr I don't know how it works" card doesn't work here because that would be rude on any social media Don't do that Promote your stuff like every other artists do, by actually posting art and talking about your project on your blog, and by using the relevant hashtags so people who are following them can find your work. This way you'll catch the attention of people who are actually interested in your project Because I don't like zombies stories anyway. Sorry, bad shot there

And thirdly, and this time it's more personal: MY NAME ISN'T FUCKING BRITTANY. THAT'S THE NAME OF WHERE I LIVE

If you're going to promote yourself into a stranger's inbox, maybe don't be even more rude than you're already being by calling them a completely wrong name??

[meruz]

sorry if this has been asked before, but i wanted to ask about your lineart! the weight and line economy are just so nice, i get stars in my eyes looking at your lineart and doodles. could i ask what your approach to lineart is and what tips you might offer?

Wow I love these questions - Line is so interesting!!! It's a really big topic so I feel like any tips I give will be just barely scratching the surface. It's like deceptively simple...any given line drawing is essentially taking all the information we glean from seeing something irl ie light, shadow, dimension, texture, perspective, etc and boiling it down to the simplest possible visual information.

I think most commonly my line is informed by light source so like. thicker more continuous lines face away from the light and thinner more broken lines towards. and a lot of my spot blacks r simply cast shadows.

here's a more extreme example

BUT like everything to do with art there's no hard and fast rules. I use blacks when I think it'll be effective or interesting and I leave them out when I don't need em. umm couple things I find myself doing a lot... using spot blacks to make the separation between characters clearer. I like casting shadow in between characters so its easy to separate and read their silhouettes even when they're mashed together.

u can go even further to purposely create a silhouette like

to draw attention to a finger or tongue LOL. There's some comic book artists who are absolute masters at this type of stylization. Alex toth and his spiritual successor Chris samnee come to mind for me right away.

(toth)

(samnee)

I feel like I'm also often using line weight to separate planes receding in space

im naturally a really heavy handed and scribbly drawer(...?) draftsman. and im nearsighted so when i see things i percieve and break it down into big shapes over thin contours. so stuff like spot blacks and shadows came easy to me, the tricky part was making the rest of the lines lighter when they needed to be so the blacks could actually have impact LOLL. a lot of effective visual communication is about balancing contrasts. like I had to really train myself to press less hard on the pen. I think this is actually really evident if u go back in my archive to older sketches LOL

I actually feel like a lot of how I trained my hand to tackle line weights was thru stuff like hand lettering where you rly have to focus on being sensitive to that kind of thing.. contrasting strokes etc.

also exercises like figure drawing will have you flexing those muscles constantly

I'm starting to just regurgitate lessons from freshman year of art school so I'll stop here with the demos but yeah...I hope this was helpful!? I love line!!! I want to get even better at line work so I can feel confident posting work that's only line no color or value... I'll leave you with a bunch of artists who I think have particularly expressive and beautiful linework (not including toth and samnee who I already mentioned and who's work I love so much). You can probably learn much more from them than you can from me...!

Charles dana gibson LOL

Matias bergara

tonci zonjic

naoki urasawa

Daniel warren johnson

shiyoon kim

michel breton

also yoji shinkawa, tomer hanuka, leo romero, I feel like I'm gonna post this and think of so many more. there's so many good artists...!

[dethkomic]

Thanks for making the music tutorial! Do you have pointers for making comics and especially when it comes to keeping with it? It's like every time I start, I never finish or I get two pages in and don't continue. Any advice for that? Sorry this isn't totally an art question.

On here and my main I've been getting a lot of asks about comic production and design and art and writing and... boy howdy, so much great stuff I wish I could sit down with each and every one of you guys and talk your ears off about. Never think you have to ask me about one thing or another on here. I love getting asks like these!

So, again, maybe this is owed a longer explanation when I find the time to do so, but I can absolutely give a few pointers right now:

#1 - Do your best to write your ending first. Everyone's going to tell you this, and it's crucial when it comes to a lot of storytelling outlets, be they prose or comics, or as I'm finding out -- even stuff like songs. Write with the knowledge that your ending is there, and you will write confidently. Write without an ending, and you risk not knowing how it all comes together and getting discouraged for feeling way over your head. And that last part is absolutely me, even though I'm getting better at open-ended things... it still happens. Often. Doing this also helps you to figure out what happens along the way, what you can leave out, and the all-important thing that is pacing. Oh! And don't think you have to have every single minute detail of your story figured out. A pretty good feeling for how things wrap up is better than none at all.

#2 - Throw interesting things into your comic at all times. And I don't just mean major plot points. Those are awesome and if you can manage it, do it. But if even if the simple act of including something you really enjoy drawing (I do this a lot with animals and vehicles) gets you to open up your drawing pad and start making a new page of comic art, then the day is won! And about that bit with the major plot points...

#3 - Don't save your good ideas for later. If you have a good idea for your story, use it as soon as possible. Don't hoard the good stuff if you can easily throw it in, sooner. You'll keep your interest (and probably your audience's!) by revealing interesting bits of your story, your characters, your interactions and more, by telling them the moment inspiration hits. And you'll think of other cool things to fill in when "later" comes. I promise.

#4 - Don't sweat the art, sweat the story. If I drew dethkomic with the same kind of mania I draw a lot of my other stuff, we'd be here all year waiting for a new update. Especially when it's a hobby/fancomic/just for fun kinda thing. Whole-assing your art is great, but panels fly by the reader's line of sight so quickly, they'll barely notice a fair amount of half-assing if your story's good. And a half-assed story with all its imperfections is better than a story never told. Certainly go ahead and save your best arting for the important panels, but if you only managed to draw three fingers on a character in the background of an establishing shot, nobody's gonna care.

#5 - Just do it. This is the hardest one on the list. Sometimes, you just gotta say "My people want to see this!" enough times in your head that it gets you into your work. Don't worry if anyone is or isn't reading/will give you likes. Don't worry if you think you've taken too long a hiatus for whatever reason. Don't worry if you think it's pointless. Finishing a comic is a great effort and not for the faint of heart. Don't downplay the difficulty of doing any labor of love, really. Shit's hard. But it's fun. And give yourself a break because you're allowed to fail at updates and change your drawing style and re-do chapter 2 fifteen different times. It's okay. You're making comics! And that's awesome!

And I'll be your number one fan if you do end up making one. Please let me know. You know why?

Because dethkomic loves you! Thanks for the ask!

[weirdoartist21]

○~𝕊𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕒𝕦~○

(Author note: I'm alive! So sorry for disappearing, major things have happened to me and It made me really stress so I needed it break, bit I'm feeling much better now! And I'll be getting back to continuing Cold war Switch au and a few things will be changing since I've done a bit kf planning so I'll be switching Hudson spot to be Perseus, since well both are old and whatever I just found that black wasn't much interestjng to me, so anyway! Can't wait to see what it become and your welcome to use the cold war au for you own stories! I would love to read them, might help me with darn writer block ;-; Anywhoooooooo I'm back in business, and I'll be still working on the comic for it and making concept art for it, but also I wanted to try and improve my writing so there will be Grammer mistakes so bare with me-)

A small wip~

The music from the radio was the only thing keeping this car ride from getting awkward. Cipher watched the smoke flow from Bell lips, memorized by it. He couldn't help it, he had nothing else to do other then stare out the car window or him along to the music. Bell chewed on their cigarette before taking it out to blow a ring of smoke. Their mask slightly down enough to reveal the scar that was forever plastered on their left lower jaw.

"We're here." Bell spoke finally, as they got out the car and threw their cigarette on the ground crushing it. Cipher got out following Bell towards a woman with blonde braided hair waited. "Waith ." Bell hummed as Waith nodded in response and pulled up the garage door.

"Cipher." Waith spoke looking at him, giving him a small smile. Cipher nodded towards Waith as he followed the two in.

"Team round up." Bell spoke as they moved towards the board covered in photos and bits of red string. A few people walked over to Bell and Cipher watched from the side. He didn't know any of them that much only names and what Bell had told him. Minus Stone, Cipher knew him, they were in Afghanistan together, along side with Bell of course. But the others didn't know , Waith looked oddly familiar but he paid no attention to it.

"Now you all were chosen for this special mission to put a stop to Hudson." Bell spoke as they pointed to a picture of the suppose 'Hudson'. "He's going to be older but this was the only picture of him we were able to nab." They explained. "To find more details we will have to go back... when he first appeared on our radar. "

"Dhu qima always knew that mission would come back to haunt us." Stone chuckled as he leaned back.

"Yup, look back in every file we have on it Waith you can help, who knows what we've missed in those countless files." Bell explained. "Stone you need to remember ever detail you can on the day we found out about Hudson and bring it through with Waith." They explained as Stone nodded and went to work along with Waith.

"Knight you go back to what you were doing originally, need those weapons prepared for when our missions lead us on foot. "

"Yes captain. " Knight hummed and went over to the table full of ammunition and guns. Cipher but his lip wondering if he would have to do something, but immediately stood straight when Bell's eyes laid on him.

"And Cipher your goi going to do the same thing as Stone, but also your skills in decoding will come in good use these Americans have brilliant ways of hiding important details things in plan sight on a simple piece of paper, that's why I made sure I had you on the job." Bell explained. "Without you I don't think we will get close to Hudson." They hummed, causing Cipher to smile slightly at the praise Bell had given him.

"I'll do my best!" Cipher said proudly making Bell chuckle.

"Of course you will..." Bell said. "If you have any questions come talk to me, but in all hopes I want a red string leading straight to Hudson picture.... think you can do that for the team?" They asked and rose a brow, and Cipher nodded.

"Great to hear... well Cipher Wₑ gₒₜ ₐ ⱼₒb ₜₒ dₒ."

[deathbyotpin123]

I'm tired

I probably shouldn't be writing this. Idk, I need to rant into the void or some shit. Past 5 years, have been utter shit. And every time I feel like "this is the moment I get to slow down and relax" another shitty thing happens and I'm back in the survival mode.

(There's like... a lot of swearing below the cut. I'm sorry. I'm tired.)

I honestly thought, after getting diagnosed with the thyroid issues recently, and after all I went through in the past 5 years, that maybe I can rest now and just draw my comic in peace. Go to work. Get my shitty paycheck from my asshole boss... But no.

My boss has to go and start this whole talk about how he might transfer us to be freelancers. Then two days later, he starts this talk how he might pay us by some kind of provision. Then in the end goes "well actually, you know we're not gonna do any of that, I'm just going to start holding people accountable for their work quality and following deadlines". Which? My dude, bravo, took you years to figure out it's how every god damn fucking company is supposed to work. But whatever. The thing is, now I'm worried sick I might need to find another job. I'm not mentally equipped for another job. I don't want another job. But the asshole owes me 2 paychecks. 2 fucking paychecks. And I did my job on time. I completed all of my tasks. He owes only 1 paycheck to the other fuckers who got us into this mess. Fuck you very much, you fucking asshole.

I don't want a new job where I gotta go and be all smiles and fun times. I just want peace. I want to draw shit and get paid for that. Only I don't know how to even try to reach people to sell my art to. Social media is turning into a steaming pile of shit where I guess I bored my followers to death. I get barely any comments. I get barely any prompts. Like, I'm standing there on IG, waiving free art at people and not one person wants it. Am I to expect they would pay for it?

I'm tired of trying to promote my comic. I was hoping to stop trying to promote shit and just relax for a month. But thanks to my fucking boss, that's not a fucking option. No, I gotta go to Tapas forum with 3794234798 fucking topics that are all "just updated? post here!" or "sub 4 sub". Fuck your sub for sub. How the fuck is a sub 4 sub supposed to help me when you're not gonna fucking read it?

How?

(And I'm not even gonna go into the whole thing of how fucking tired I am that I can't draw NSFW stuff anywhere. God forbid we show a boob or a bare ass online...)

I am barely hanging on at this point.

I don't know how the fuck I haven't lost my mind completely. Like, hey, at least the therapy for the thyroid is keeping the panic attacks away for now, I guess.

But honestly?

I want to burn everything. Close all social media accounts. And just... disappear. Just fucking disappear from all of that draining, mother fucking bullshit. Because people no longer know how to interact with each other. Because I get fucking memes from my best friend. The bitch is taking 20 pills for her health every day and I didn't even know that because all she does is send me memes.

That's what 19 fucking years of friendship has come down to. Every 3 days we send each other a meme. Twice a year we might hang out. Ooooh.

Other friends? "I don't know her." One moved away. Another constantly works. Third one got a kid. Forth one pulls out a planner when you ask him to meet with us... A planner. Sir, you don't even have a job.

I saw a person from a different fucking continent more times last year, during fucking COVID, than I saw my friends.

What is my life even anymore at this point?

[cloudraker]

Can I get a matchup for tfp? Preferably with a male character please, either bot or con is fine!

I'm a short and chonky girl with short fluffy dark hair, and my style flip flops between grungy/punk/goth to kawaii and pastel, or just any combination of those two. If I had more money, I'd collect earrings by the bucketfull to suit either style.

Hobbies: Art (painting and drawing), baking, gaming, writing (fiction and poetry, plushie collecting, reading

Favorite places: Theme parks, mountains/forests, the OCEAN (all caps bc I love it most), toy and/or accessory shops

Likes: Superhero and action films/cartoons/comics/etc, studying animals and nature (my career path), my sweet little puppy Charlie whom I'd destroy god with my bare hands for

Dislikes: BULLIES. Hate them. Hate them so much, with a passion, 29/10 would wipe the concept of bullying from existence. Also spaces that are both tight and crowded, "busting your chops" and sarcasm and teasing (i hardly ever understand when/how it's friendly).

Upon first impressions, I've been told I seem standoffish and unwelcoming despite not feeling it. As in, I may have resting bitchface even though I'm relatively happy to talk. I'm a little awkward and prefer to be approached first, otherwise I might never say anything, and when I do talk I love, LOVE to ramble on about something I know or have recently learned a lot about. I also love to play, and by that I mean in general. Games, whether physical or just video games, are awesome and I really like them. I get competitive but I make sure I stay polite and light hearted. I'm a very sincere and literal person too, so I don't always do well with people who are sarcastic or snarky. I mean, I know the difference between a snarky person and a jerk, but still.

As either a friend or lover, I'm SUPER loyal and sincere. It's very hard for me to lie or keep secrets unless it's a little personal thing that I'm embarrassed about. And I will always, ALWAYS be willing to serve and help and I'll be upset if someone I love has a problem and there's nothing I can do. I will do anything from physical/mental tasks to emotional support. I'm at least 99.999% sure part of that is because I have a combination of "eldest daughter syndrome" and "gifted child syndrome". But I still like to think that because helping and being kind makes me feel good, that I may actually be kind.

I also consider myself a mom friend in terms of how I like to take care of people and readily accept any responsibility. And as a former gifted kid I hold myself to high standards and, may or may not overwork myself from time to time.

Hey, thank you so much for requesting! So sorry for the wait <3

I match you with...

Breakdown!!

Under the cut :)

He is here for the style changes, absolutely hypes you up whenever he can. He’s picked up a decent amount about aesthetics thanks to Knock Out, so he might even be able to lend a hand!

Breakdown doesn’t have a huge appreciation for the finer arts, but he’s more than happy to listen to you talk about what it is you’re working on at the time. He finds it amazing that you can create something like that, and might even try his hand at it himself with some prompting

He’s a big guy, so going to places like amusement parks is a bit hard for him, even if you overlooked the alien robot part. So walks together in secluded areas are perfect! Earth is so much different from Cybertron, and even though Breakdown isn’t exactly one to stop and smell the roses, he can appreciate how organic life has grown on this planet 

He’s not a huge fan of the beach though, sand gets everywhere and it’s so hard to get out of his seams! Much more willing to join you if it’s at a rocky beach

Doesn’t think much of your standoffishness. He’s a former wrecker, and some of the best bots he’s ever met had the grouchiest faces, so he’s not going to judge you for the way you look. He probably approaches you first, striking up conversation the best he can 

Breakdown agrees with you on the bullies part; he’s seen firsthand how horrible others can be treated and doesn’t care for it one bit. The teasing part though he’s a bit iffy on, believing that a bit of lighthearted teasing between friends and partners is healthy, but won’t engage in it with you if you’re not comfortable with it

Games? He loves games! Will absolutely try to get you to play lob with him, forgetting how easily you could get squished. Settles for something more human-friendly, as long as it’s still something physical. He doesn’t have the patience for something like a board game 

Appreciates your loyalty more than he cares to admit. As a Decepticon, loyalty seems to be hard to come by, and factor in the fact that you’re human, and he’s got quite a few insecurities about the relationship. But knowing you’re there for him and are willing to help him when he needs it does a lot to reassure him. He tries to do the same in return, but he’s honestly not the best with emotions. He’s trying though

He’s used to Knock Out working a lot, so he’s able to easily pull you away from your own work when he thinks you’re overworking yourself, making sure you actually eat something 

Despite his size he’s very careful with you! He enjoys carrying you around when he can so you can keep up and stop yourself from being underfoot

It’s a stable and mostly calm relationship, the two of you trust each other completely and he would do almost anything if it was to keep you safe