#HELP I PRIVATED THE POST?

[okapi8]

randalls in gouache, watercolour and chocolate

[vctrdoom]

COME AND GET ME OUT OF HERE‼️

[snakeunderyourboot]

Orpheus and Eurydice, jarthur variant BUT

Arthur is Orpheus. He can see again. John has his own body. It's weak and fragile, and John has no experience operating it. He stumbles and curses and whines that it's too cold, but there is no malice in his voice. He is happy - worried and frustrated, but still happy. More than anything, Arthur wants to turn around and help John, tentatively hold him, so they can get out of the cave together. He wants even more to look at his friend.

But the cave is long and twisted, and the longer they go the more tired John becomes. He used to narrate everything, despite Arthur being able to see again, but he has been quiet for awhile. So, instead, Arthur starts talking - he tells John about the first thing they will do when they get out of the cave. What food he will order John. How great it is to sleep in sometimes. How to correctly make tea. How he hopes they can go to the Christmas fair.

John stays silent. The hand - the one that used to belong to John and the one Arthur now holds onto John's new hand - is warm and sticky and Arthur hears the quiet dripping of something onto the rock floor.

Arthur talks about everything he can think of, because if he stops - he will turn around.

OR

John is Orpheus. He has his own body but Arthur still can't see. "It's okay" - Arthur says, his voice trembling with happy tears. - "You just have to guide me again". Arthur is injured and tired, but he keeps going right behind John, holding his hand with his right one. But the cave is long and twisted and Arthur grows more tired. It frustrates John: finally, he has his own body and yet he is still useless, he can't help Arthur in a way that matters.

He just needs to get to the exit. He just needs to get to the exit of the cave and Arthur will be fine. It would be so much easier if Arthur could still talk to him. He talked a little, during the first hours of the journey, but the closer they are to the exit the weaker his voice sounds, the less Arthur says. He didn't say anything for a while - and John wants so much to turn around and check if he's okay.

Instead, he continues to narrate everything he sees. He describes the twisted turns of the cave, the bats that fly around, and the beautiful gems he sees on their way.

John talks about everything he can think of, because if he stops - he will turn around.

[glubandeepspace]

i always see so so many "this is so cool, credit to the original artist idk who" and like hello You downloaded it from somewhere and it's an era where you can reverse image search in less than a minute (if not copy & paste link even quicker).

if you dont know how then you can also learn as fast.

if the results arent precise then first of all also why do you think the point of "credit" is only saying it's not yours?

is it not obvious that most artists post not only to share but to be recognized for their own hardworked skill & creativity?

but nooo youre the one who'll be or wanna be hearing all the "ahh yes this is so good"s for far far less of a point (without even giving others the option to check out the artist's other potentially similar works that both of you may enjoy)? is that the only way you can find community? just say "art not mine, idrc abt the source" atp at least if you won't (ideally) stop entirely. honesty & self awareness is great with the bar this extremely low. consumers these days

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The more I see your work and the more I see of poorly drawn scum villain, the more I'm tempted to do a poorly drawn tgcf 🥺 (I've only just started listening to it and I absolutely love it!!)

I just don't think I'm as funny as both of you and don't know if I could commit to uploading as regularly as you both do.

But oh! I am SO very tempted!! 😭

Working on an adaption of an existing media as a long form project is honestly my strongest recommendation for getting your creative brain going! Of course, there is still planning and hard work that goes into it, but the biggest creative pressures are much lower (And when anxiety brain is quiet, art brain thrives!)

That said, projects like this are a huge commitment, and I'm a bit of a freak case when it comes to the grind. PD-Scumvillian and I both put a lot of work behind the scenes to make it seem as effortless as it is. I'm wholeheartedly giving you my support should you go through with it; feel free to reach out and ask for tips and tricks!

[i-write-comics-not-screenplays]

Tip for Comic Artists+Writers

(If you don't do this already!)

Draw in ballpoint pen. In a notebook.

If you're like me and you struggle to plan your script in a word processor, or you struggle to "storyboard" or even sketch in a digital art program for your comic...

Don't do that part! At least, not yet anyway!

Scribble and sketch and doodle your characters, and their lines of dialogue, wherever you want on a piece of notebook paper, with a ballpoint ink pen. You can try and figure out the comic panel configuration of a page if you want to do that, but otherwise I recommend you don't do any panel-planning yet... in order to not limit yourself to a single page in the story. Draw the first and last scene in the same page, or only draw the witty one lines you had in your head that made you want to make this comic!

The benefit: there's no pressure to get it perfect!

Don't like how you drew the hands? Well scribble it out, or ignore it; it's not the final draft by any means. You're just getting the idea on paper so you can visualize it! It's the best way to practice what emotions you're trying to convey, or the positions of the characters, without worrying about if it's "good" or not. It gives you the freedom to make mistakes, so you aren't paralyzed by the possibility of making those mistakes and the trouble of having to edit them.

You can use a sketchbook or a pencil, but for me, this defeats the purpose of letting myself experiment and make mistakes with the art/dialogue. You get visual representation of what you want to work on (scribbled out hands tells me, "be sure to practice hands and gestures!"; Stricken out dialogue lines tells me, "yep that's not how I want him to say it. Maybe I should practice a few different variations of that line?")

Their faces can look wonky, their word bubbles can be poorly placed, and the dialogue can be absolute "cringe"... and guess what? It doesn't matter because first of all, it's hilarious what you can come up with when you let loose, but second and most importantly, you're getting your ideas down in writing and on paper!!!

--additional note: it gives you so much for you to reference from as well. I recommend letting the notebook be your central spot for experiments, concepts, story ideas, notes, reminders, and important details for your story/comic/graphic novel so it becomes a personal reference guide for you (and maybe somewhat of an encyclopaedia?) :)

I hope this is helpful - it has been for me!

[cern1cal0]

<?> I MADE MY ARKHAM ASYLUM PSYCHIATRIST FALL IN LOVE WITH ME (NOT CLICKBAIT)

[hanshenrykcd]

someone saved my fic "slipping mask" as a bookmark noting that they're all out of character and now i never want to publish anything ever again 🤠

[faynthearted]

school is back in session. free time is 100% gone. 😀

[pepperpixel]

More petrigrof!!! First a set of pics I didn’t fully finish of these 2 in sexy sweaters. And secondly!!!! The last / bonus picture of a set of nsfw petrigrof I posted on my nsfw twitter! The rest of that art… is here. If you want to see it lol

[honeyteastar]

I bring you the heiji names his bike and sadly his bike gets trashed a lot but he cares for his bike (the name like idk Tama or Angelina…) AND I project you the image of the super famous scene in Akira bike slide!!! Heiji can pull it off AND HE WILL LOOK SO COOL LIKE OMGIESS….because I personally love heiji hattori wayyyyy much like omg….heiji your so gorgeous and so pretty like KYAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will yapp and make stupid aus (ship related or not) and he will be somewhat added into said stories idk, heiji my gorgeous princess…who will deserve everything in da world….

[vampire-nyx]

I’m gonna be super real as a gay trans man, the idea that people (especially those like me) MUST center women at all times, in their lives and identity and attraction and oppression, is not feminist and dare I say it’s not even progressive.

[harumeowz]

Professional mental health experts have agreed with proshippers that exploring trauma in a safe enviornment is a good way to actually cope and deal with said trauma. There is a lot of research and studies from mental health and sex educators that prove fantasies even taboo ones are normal and healthy. This won't be for everyone, ofc, as each individual is different. So, no, there is nothing wrong with proshippers when much research shows fictional taboo interests isn't inherently immoral or dangerous.

And you think the internet is a safe environment? 🤨

While I agree that coping with trauma through fiction can definitely be healthy and a good way to cope, as it's something I do as well albeit within a completely different context, I rarely see said writers actually looking at their ships in a critical manner or portraying said relationships as being something undesireable to happen in a real context, especially if you involve KIDS in said context.

Tolerating proship helps normalize and romantice such a relationship dynamic, a dynamic that cannot work in anything but fiction, yet there are a lot of impressionable people (both with malicious intent and no malicious intent of a wide age variety) who will take this at face value without any other imput on the topic other than proships.

[aibouart]

i drew a streamer i started watching recently who was playing LN1~

their name is obakechan !

[siflshonen]

If Izuku felt like he accomplished his dream of being a Hero and wanted to pursue a new dream as well, so be it. He’d taken Katsuki’s Hero suit offer with one hand, so it was fitting that he might choose to reach out his other hand to another dream.

The stupid f*****.

—

A scathing satire about BNHA chapter 431.

[krystaldeath]

Cotl au Idea (again lol)

So basically this all starts back when the bishops are still all there, meaning Narinder is still a bishop. They all live in this big temple space together, and one day some of their followers bring a blindfolded sheep to them.

The sheep (Bany) is a prophet/oracle and is actually willing to stay with the bishops as a sort of advisor for what to do to ensure a prosperous future for the Faith.

I don’t have everything figured out but Bany and Narinder grow closer and closer and have this kinda sorta forbidden romance (though it’s allowed to happen, Shamura isn’t exactly stoked that their siblings — yes multiple — are courting mere mortals; kinda throwing stones from a glass house though considering their little will-they-won’t-they thing with Sozo).

From the beginning Bany can’t seem to seem Narinder’s future, at least not very clearly. No one is sure why, but it is part of why the two are first intrigued by each other.

When they’re having their romance Narinder asks if they can find anything, anything at all to help figure out if they’re meant to be, if their love will last. They do see something: them in a bed, holding two newborn kits with white wool-like fur with a black sheep of maybe 6 years by their side, smiling. The two rejoice over the idea that one day they will have children together, neither quite taking note of how Narinder was not there at all :))