I have been building up the idea of a 'Bread Comic' for a few years now! I plan to make short stories or one shots with them when I have the time. I didn't want to make it too formal, but I've been excited to show off my characters in finalized reference sheets!! ♥︎ ♥︎ ♥︎
Toasty. A stand in for myself (but has its own personality outside that). It is a bright eyed and cheery creature! She enjoys artistry and loves to be as chaotic as possible. Eats bread on a daily basis.
Pronouns: Any, Preferred: She/her
Devil Bread. A spicy, egotistical, and conniving little critter (but secretly very sensitive and kind). They love to play pranks on their friends and be the center of attention. She's very cartoony in nature.
Pronouns: Any, Preferred: She/he/they
Moldy Bread. Despite their spooky (half-eaten) appearance, Moldy is very soft-spoken. They get tired easily and often sleep throughout the day. They thankfully haven't gotten any cravings for bread...yet!
Pronouns: Any, Preferred: They/them
Fairy Bread. A magical pastry, full of whimsey, passive aggressiveness, and lots of mom energy. She's enthralled with organizing things and never leaves home without her trusty schedule!
Pronouns: She/her
Mummy Bread. A secluded and grumpy character with an inflated ego. Despite waking up in the modern age and being terrible with technology, he is still quite pretentious.
if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.
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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.
I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.
I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.
If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.
Approximately 300 frames, many many tears, and 60 hours of my life later; I finally have the finished product. This Obitine animatic has been a dream project of mine and I’m so glad it’s finally done and I can share it with you all.
So... Pokémon has officially revealed the Top 300 quarter-finalists for the TCG illustration contest. I myself have participated, but unfortunately, did not make it. There were many awesome artworks!!
However... there has been a suspected case of an individual who entered with multiple identities (similar initials) through AI generated entries - V.K shows up in 6 entries. The weird and unnatural proportions, position, angle (look at vaporeon for instance) all give away indications of AI too.
The rules have clearly outlined multiple identities to lead to disqualification, yet the judges failed to take account into the suspicious number of similar styles appearing more than three times (surprassing the maximum number of 3 entries) with the initials.
"The rules in the contest affirmed that: submissions must be submitted by the Entrant. Any attempt, successful or otherwise, by any Entrant to obtain more than the permitted number of Submissions by using multiple and/or different identities, forms, registrations, addresses, or any other method will void all of that Entrant's Submissions and that Entrant may be disqualified at Sponsors' reasonable discretion."
This is very disappointing, Pokemon TCG. Not even just disappointing, this is very shameful and distasteful to artists who did not make it.
Edit: There also seems to be 2 more entries that are ai prompts but under a different name (pikachu sleeping with a background night landscape and another one sleeping on a tree root)
Here is a really good educational thread that explains the errors in the ai work (on Twitter)
UPDATE: on Twitter pokemon tcg actually addressed the issue, has disqualified the person with multiple identities and will be selecting more entries from other artists!!
seb wants to be pet, too 😤💕
((TYSM to @angel-fr0m-venus for asking how seb would react to clora petting all the cats around the school/hogsmeade BAHAHA. like a neglected puppy, thats how🐶))
They're such a little beast and it is amazing and please i need more, like written text even i just need the juicy lore and emotional moments that are circling in ur brain.