#SoH-Comic

[sleights-of-hand]

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[grooviestsadpapaya]

Some soh stuff but mostly redone refs and goofy things, there are… more lore-related things to come. The Twili dude is not a spoiler btw, he’s practically a concept because I haven’t settled on anything for his character yet. But he kinda has a mullet and we are 2 for 2 with red-headed dudes having mullets and that includes Groose

[shadowoverhyrule]

Shadow Over Hyrule — Chapter 1

N/A \\ Part 2

[uwingdispatch]

High republic babes, I made you something super cool!!!

These keychains are designed to feel like something Lina Soh gave to folks at the launch of Starlight beacon.

The text over the top says STARLIGHT BEACON in Aurebesh. The bottom says COMMEMORATIVE LAUNCH 7745 CRC. They are printed on marbled acetate.

CRC is the Coruscant Reckoning Calendar that was used pre-empire. (It also appears in Andor on Maarva’s funerary brick.)

Shop is here. Enjoy!

[santanimal]

A remake of..an old comic

For those new people! A long time ago, I made a small comic..and I decided to remake it again! So enjoy as I try to come up more stuff, remake it, add in new stuff and ect, ECT!

[tokiko220]

Putting my huge collection of Samurai of Hyuga incorrect quotes to use!

[starsofhopeosc]

stars of hope prologue 2

FIRST LAST NEXT NEWEST

[virtueisdead]

i love this poor fucker so much

[ IMAGE ID: Picture of Soh Jinhong from Gosu staring at the viewer. Taken from the scene where he finds his “caretaker” “dead”. END ID ]

[keliv1]

Oi, julho!

Recebi por e-mail os certificados de participação do 5º SOH, Salão Online de Humor de Pindamonhangaba, SP, que nesta edição tive a honra de tirar 3º lugar na categoria "tirinhas" (a foto está com olonk da exposição virtual).

Fui avisada que em breve chega o troféu (chocada)!

Aí, claro, postarei aqui e confira as edições em que participei neste link

Sigamos!

[cyancatart]

it's here

or @starsofhopeosc

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[grooviestsadpapaya]

If anyone has asks about soh or general rqs I’d be happy to answer them while I do lineart for the comic :] it’s what I’m good at but it’s my least favorite part of the process

[shadowoverhyrule]

Shadow Over Hyrule — Chapter 1

Part 2 // Part 4 (coming soon!)

[arsquare]

Hello everyone!

As I take on more projects and expand my practice, it feels prudent to write monthly newsletter posts to keep followers up to date on what projects I'm currently undertaking. So here's the update for October/November 2024!

Zines

Currently I'm participating in two zines, both of which will likely be released in November!

One is the Detective Conan Fanzine, which is dedicated to the 26 movies of the franchise. I was assigned Movie 2, and I've posted a preview below! The full illustration will be available on INPRNT after the zine releases.

The other is the Counter-Pale Resistance (@de-fanzine-cpr-pale), which is a Disco Elysium fanzine. Participants take inspiration from song lyrics to create their piece, whether it's an illustration, comic, or writing. I created an illustration of Harry and Dolores for this zine! I quite like this piece-- it will be available on INPRNT after the zine releases, and I'll also be making gold foil postcards of it. Stay tuned!

Additionally, COMPASS: A Heishin Anthology (@haidocityzines), which I did several illustrations for, has been released for free digitally! Download your copy here. There are also merch bundles remaining if you're interested.

Merchandise

I've been putting together a Kaishin merch bundle in the past several months to go with a polished print version of Breaking Stasis (link goes to the original version-- polished version will be uploaded at a later date), my 2021 Kaishin Secret Santa manga. There's going to be a bookmark, a memopad, and a postcard in addition to the book. I'm waiting for the last of the merch samples to arrive! When they do, I'll photograph them and open up pre-orders.

Remember this? The pages are now fully toned and I've fixed the illustrations that were bothering me...

Pre-orders will likely open on Friday, Nov. 8th, and will close before the end of the month. A more detailed announcement is coming in early November!

Additionally, I've added several prints to my INPRNT:

Commissions

Commissions are currently closed! However, you may contact me at any time via email at soharsquare@gmail.com or soharsquare on Discord to add your name to the waitlist. Folks on the waitlist will get priority when commissions open up again.

Upcoming Events

November 23rd: Tabling at KDF26 (Tainan, Taiwan)

December 10th: Lecture on creating fanzines and doujinshi, hosted by the NCKU Manga Club (Tainan, Taiwan)

December 14th-15th: Tabling at FFK17 (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)

This probably isn't relevant to most people here, but I figured I'd put this out there just in case!

CHORUS

CHORUS is my current comic project! It's a 16-chapter BIRDMEN fan manga, and we've just uploaded the last pages of ACT 2. If you liked my previous comics, please consider checking it out at @birdmenfanmanga! Most of my love at this time is going into this project.

A more extended newsletter on CHORUS can be found here.

Subscribe to the Monthly Newsletter Elsewhere

In times like this when social media websites are imploding for one reason or another, I think it's nice to have multiple bases of communication. Of course, monthly newsletters will always be posted on Tumblr, but you can also join my Community Discord for these updates as well. I have also set up an email subscription list.

Thank you all for the support thus far!

Love, Soh Arsquare. Oct. 27, 2024.

[INPRNT | Ko-fi | Commission info]

[rayzyart]

happy birthday, @e-vay !!!

Funny story, she was the one who actually got me into the sonamy fan world that I'm part of today!

I remember when I was in elementary I was searching up sonic boom on YouTube and then I saw a dub of your Boom! Baby comic and I remember the thumbnail was Amy just suffering during labour and I was standing in front of the TV like "Huh? Sonamy (soh nAA mee lol)???WHAZAT?? And then after that it just clicked and then I started being this heck of a sonamy fan lol

[confused-beany]

Okay so, I think I didn't phrase this correctly. I didn't mean to say that it's the ease you show with your work that I admire. I admire the dedication and determination you put into learning new things.

The thing you said about vision and pain is so so accurate. It actually kinda baffles me to see you put it into words so well because one time I tried explaining it to my friend how making art hurts me and they didn't really get it. The point is that I know it hurts to make art, if not physically then emotionally or in other ways. And art is absolutely 100% not effortless and I would never dare to assume that any artist doesn't hurt in some way to make their art, even when it brings them joy.

But anyway, THAT fear of imbalance between vision and pain and the fear of encountering the pain before I realize my vision or get close enough to it is what holds me back from attempting the things I really want to do. And that's what I was talking about when I said YOU DO IT. I meant in the sense that you are aware of the pain and hurdles you might face and the amount of time and dedication that might just go to waste and you still TRY. You have the courage and determination to make things that may not realize your vision completely but you still faced your pain in manageable ways. You compromised and came out of that experience with something improved, something learned. And I am in awe of your resilience and determination to keep going at even if you do hit the bricks. THAT'S the thing I admire the most, that you're not afraid to fall as you learn waking so you can run later and fly eventually. If that makes sense.

And YES YES art is so scary and painful and most days I think why do it at all if it just hurts. But we really can't help it huh.

One of the many things I really admire about you is how you DO things. You want to make a comic, you do it. You want to make an edit, you go and do it. You wanna do gifs, you figure out how to do it. You're constantly setting a goal and seeing it through and learning and growing as you go. And I admire that so so much because that's honestly not easy (at least it isn't for me). And I just wanted to let you know that

WOW I’ve never received an ask that made me pace around the room so much!! Thank you for telling me!! Forgive me for rambling in this response but I want to talk about the creation process a little bit— at least how I personally experience it.

Every project, no matter how large or small, is largely a fight between vision and pain. If my vision beats out my pain, I finish the project; if the pain becomes too unbearable, I hit the bricks (willingly or not).

Pain can mean a lot of things. It can mean frustration and dissatisfaction with your work in progress— a lack of technical skill that you can visibly see. It can mean the fear of ruining your vision by putting it down on paper. It can be the feeling that what you’re doing doesn’t matter. And in the context of this ask especially, it can be running headlong into wall after wall while learning how to use a new software.

I suck at learning new software. The learning curve for me is often so steep it feels untenable at times. Why can’t I do the simplest things? Why can’t anyone teach it to me in a way I can understand? I don’t even know if this YouTube video will teach me what I want to learn. And you’re saying I’ve got to watch 20 minutes of it to even see if it’s what I’m looking for?

I need you to know that for everything even remotely complete, even if it’s a work in progress, is built on a mountain of failures, of incomplete works, of past trials and tribulations. What I have of the music video for the SCP antimemetics division, built painstakingly in one of the most inaccessible and unfriendly video editing softwares, AVIUtl, dragged itself out of earthen trenches so that my music video for Pathologic could crawl pathetically. And that paved the way for the bits and pieces of the Kekkaishi music video, which walked so that the things I do for BIRDMEN could run.

I don’t think it’s really as simple as saying, “You want to make a comic, you do it.”

I think if I had never done any comics before in my life, I’d be so fucking frustrated with the process. But because I’ve been drawing comics since middle school, because I drew things and gave up and drew more things and gave up more, I was able to learn the language of comics by the time I entered high school, and by the time I entered college I had fought tooth and nail to learn how to use digital art softwares (I sulked a lot about this. I hated that everything I learned about making manga traditionally became essentially obsolete. I sulked soooo much about it it was unreal. don’t be like me).

That’s why I could finally, at that point, after almost 6 or 7 years of drawing, finally finish a 16-page oneshot for the first time in my life. Because I had hundreds and hundreds of pages of shitty pencil sketches of catgirls and schoolboys and what have yous. And knowing I could do that let me push myself further. I said to myself, I bet I could draw a story longer than 16 pages. I bet I could draw a story that’s 100. And I did. I had to sacrifice vision so I wouldn’t encounter so much pain, but I did it. And that’s why I think I can draw 600 pages now. Because it doesn’t hurt so much anymore, these days.

That’s not to say that drawing comics for me is an entirely painless process. It just means that the only thing I’m fighting is my self-esteem and perfectionism for the most part. I think my technical skills won’t fail me, not for panelling, not for compositions, not for art. It’s all about convincing myself that what I’m doing is worth it. Not the easiest, but certainly much less painful than having to fight that PLUS technical woes.

I think I understand what you’re going through, just a little bit. Maybe you don’t experience things exactly as I do, but I think you’re going through a lot of pain right now. That you have a vision, but you have trouble carrying out, whether it’s because of technical issues, unfamiliarity with the medium, a fear of beginning something you won’t end up finishing, or something else entirely. I don’t have too much sage advice for what to do here, but I want to assure you that what I do isn’t nearly as effortless as you might perceive it to be.

I want to take this chance and say to you that just from looking through your archives I can see that you’ve improved so so so much over the years. You draw often, you do lots of character design work, you’ve got a lovely and distinctive style. I know you mentioned one time that you wanted to draw a webcomic— and I say do it! Just dive into it.

The reason it took me so long to get to my level of competence in comics is because I had to reverse engineer a lot of shit. I used to draw things panel by panel, until I wanted a 2-page spread and realized, “Shit! I have to plan and pace out my story so that everything before the 2-page spread comes to a neat end on the left-hand page!” I used to freehand dialogue until I grew so frustrated with the fact that conversations seemed to constantly go off the rails that I realized, “Yikes, I gotta script this out beforehand...”

And so on and so forth. And maybe you’ll feel like you’ve wasted time and love on something that isn’t good, but just DOING things will teach you so, so much. It’s okay if what you make is bad. You can always start over, do it better this time.

This offer goes out to you, but really it goes out to any of my mutuals— if you ever want to talk about making stuff, whether it’s illustrations or writing or storyboarding, I’m always down. Whether you want technical advice or simple encouragement, feel free to reach out to me. I love seeing what other people are doing, and I know it’s really frustrating and scary to feel out a path by yourself when you feel like you don’t really know what you’re doing.

Art is so scary. It’s so painful. But even so, we can’t help but want to carry through with it, right?