#Indie art

[kulturegroupie]

[tamberlanecomic]

Break Time!

Hello all! Tamberlane is going on a posting break until April 2nd!

At the end of January, I had a fairly major (elective) surgery and am still recovering. I'd hoped to be back at work by now, but I need more time. Since the buffer of finished comics is pretty close to empty and I don't want to fret about that, I'm just putting a pause until I feel better. I'm PRETTY sure I'll be better by April, but I reserve the right to extend the break as needed. Thank you for your patience and understanding!

I look forward to seeing y'all again in a month and change -- and thank you in the meantime for all the well-wishes and support I've received. You guys are lovely!

[syneheart]

[stwah]

I drew this when the song came out. Early access and WIPs are available on my Patreon!

I feel just awful for Vivziepop because of those leaks. If you are helping spread those leaks, that is just awful and you are not a true fan. They are working hard on this just for y'all to go and do that? That's horrible. I've seen so many spoilers already and it's ruining all the major plot twists for the show. Why are y'all purposely ruining it? Should we be reporting and taking down the leaks instead of spreading them further?!

[elexuscal]

Okay there's a post going around right now that says 'if you're disappointed with mainstream fiction right now, can I suggest fiction podcasts'?

And for the record, I AGREE with that post. There are damn good amazing fiction podcasts out there and it remains wild how few peoples know of the medium's existence.

The reason this is a separate post is because I don't to derail the original... but rather that I think we can take that FURTHER.

Disappointed in mainstream media?

Go indie.

Seriously. Mainstream media has big budgets and therefore equally high-quality production value. Those can absolutely be fun. But big budgets also means they want to maximize the audience. By making something broadly-appealing to everyone, you kind of inherently make a piece of art less super appealing to specific niches.

So you want to find some fiction that DOES appeal to your niche? Go indie.

Indie video games. Indie webcomics. Indie music. Indie books.

Time and time again, across sub-cultures, I see people saying 'If you want to find excellent [X medium] you need to check out the indie scene' and that's cuz it's TRUE.

Listen. I know it's harder to find the good stuff; independent projects inherently have less of marketing budget. BUT. No matter your mediums and genres of choice, I promise their are YouTubers and podcasters and bloggers discussing things and giving recs and you're going to find you love SO much. Take the plunge. Give some indie art a try.

[dansyron]

fun project emphasizing her movement afterimages and some artdeco flair. ______________________________________________ Follow Me on Twitter | Furaffinity | Patreon | Tumblr | NewGrounds | IG

[indiegowrites]

Phobia Mikey

PhobiaVerse Michelangelo, representative of pyrophobia.

(Despite being the most powerful of his siblings, Mikey is generally the gentlest of the five. His endless optimism that one day, humans will accept them as living, thinking beings is what drives his bale to continue on.)

hes so silly oh my god i love you phobia!mikey!!!!!

closeup under the cut :DDD

[scoutfcv]

hello, everyone !! my name is scout, and I'm a recent twitter refugee, no longer willing to engage with a platform run by a nazi maniac. i'm an illustrator, living on a small island, and working on an independent webcomic called "Tales from Cypress Valley."

"Tales from Cypress Valley" takes place in a small town called Cypress Valley, and follows the adventures of Leverette Angora, an investigative reporter for her local news. after a mysterious crater appears - and with it, a suspicious stranger - Leverette takes it upon herself to get to the truth of the matter, even when the world works against her.

if you're interested, and you like what you see, please consider staying along for the ride! we're aiming for a valentines day release :) TFCV will be free to read, so I hope you look forward to it !!

[kulturegroupie]

[tamberlanecomic]

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[daniel-profeta]

Jack Stauber gets his signature degraded tape recording sounds and visuals using analog gear and then digitizing the results, which explains why the VHS look is a million times better than the obviously phony VHS filter that comes prepackaged with Adobe that shows up all over youtube nowadays, almost a weird rewriting of history as many younger people’s internal visualization of a VHS recording will be based off a cheap emulation rather than the actual thing. 

I realize this is a silly and hyper specific thing to care about, but it’s something I only recently learned that meant a lot to me and seemingly helped me understand part of what gives Jack’s work the aura of authenticity associated with the less polished look. It wasn’t manufactured, it was created that way, and little details like that stick out as important to me. You might not notice it immediately, but if you were able to remove the degradation from the tapes and if you had recorded these same songs in a professional studios with producers or recorded those same animations in 4k quality, much of the life and warmth and feeling of inherent longing for a time you weren’t even a part of would be stripped away, and those emotions getting evoked is a massive part of why Jack’s material works for me.  

In a larger context, it’s interesting to me how what are considered defects of any given medium at the time, are in hindsight the most charming and valuable thing about it. The needle drop, the hiss of a record, rolling the tape back before returning it, scratched dvds with wildly interactive menus, there is a magic to the tech we create that gets lost in translation, until suddenly it doesn’t. Suddenly you’re listening to a Mac Demarco record for the first time and noticing a strange quality to the sound, then you do a bit of research and discover it’s all in the analog gear he used instead of a digital audio workspace. All of this is not intended to be nostalgia porn, I’m not saying any medium is better than another, and to some degree it’s difficult not to be cynical about an aura of authenticity when it’s deliberately emulated rather than organically lived in, but at the end of the day what matters the most is the effect on the viewer or listener or reader, and that tangible emotional effect is what I’m talking about. 

[amnesiamilk]

EVERYONE GO WATCH PUZZLE AND SLING. ITS SILLY GOOFY. ITS SWEET. ITS NICE. ITS CREATIVE. Tumblr u will like this i trust.

[the-nothing-maker]

✨ THE NOWHERE KINGS SHOP IS OPEN! DON’T CALL IT LOVE PRE-ORDERS ARE BACK!✨

We’re proud to announce that our shop is finally open! Find it here: https://ko-fi.com/nowhere_kings/shop

• After receiving demands for a reprint, Don’t Call it Love is back for a second round of pre-orders! The sale ends on February 23rd.

We’re so grateful for all the support and love we’ve received for the first batch. We would not be able to bring this project to print without your direct support. If you did not have the time to get your hands on the book the first time round, don’t hesitate to check it out! Plus, the PDF is now available on the shop as a permanent addition :)

• Horns, an illustrated guide to tiefling sub-species, is available in English and in French. The Eclipse, a collab with @d-cybele, has also been added as a PDF. And you can always find You Were Mine as physical and digital versions!

• Merch has also been added! Check out our washi tape, mini-zines and prints; plus, you can get a 10% discount on all prints with our code “OPENING25” until Feb 23rd!

A huge thank you for your support, we hope you’ll like everything we’ve created ❤️

[syneheart]

[secret-sageent]