#art doesn't need to be perfect to be loved

[smiledemon69]

ADVICE FOR NEW COMIC ARTISTS/PEOPLE WHO'D LIKE TO MAKE COMICS!!

Let me tell you what i learned from own experience and watching 756576747 webcomic videos:

1. the art doesn´t need to be perfect. you´ll never be able to practice everything you´ll need to draw because you can´t know what you´ll have to draw!! and you´ll get better over time!!! so pls don´t worry about art. Readers love to see your improved too!!

2. same with plot/storytelling! you don´t need to be perfect. BE CRINGE BUT BE FREE!!!

3. work at your own pace!!! don´t stress/burn yourself out. however, it´s important to keep working on it! the longer you take a break the harder it is to get back on track!

4. do what you think works best for you and your story. Don't create something you think others will like. Create something YOU'LL LIKE!!! this way, you won't lose passion in the long run

5. Your comic doesn't have to have the typical scroll format or book format, go wild frfr!!!

6. Please draw the background/when you use 3d assets, draw over them so they don't look out of place!!!

7. most importantly, just have fun!!! It's your comic 🫶

Never hold yourself back thinking you're not good enough!! It's important that you start!! You got this 🫶💕

[hygienic-soap-dispenser]

Hws Nordics as University Students Headcanons

Because I am a suffering student and you need to suffer with me <3

Denmark

The clown of the group

Has trouble focusing/paying attention

Will use other Nordics in group study session with the goal of body doubling to keep each other in check and focused, but often devolves to laughing and banter instead

Offers good moral support and asks a lot of questions in class, has great participation marks, but can go off topic

Rallies people to meet when need to discuss group projects, again he is great moral support

When writing he either cannot write anything or speed types and hyperfocuses, no in-between

Appears self-confident and social but can actually struggle with self esteem and seeming like he's incompetent or "too much" for people, tries to compensate by being extra likeable and useful

Bonds with people over humor, socializing and making friends are more important than grades to him

Only chooses classes that interest him, does surprisingly well as a result

The most likely of the Nordics to be late for class

Goes to a lot of college parties

Sweden

The mom of the group, always checking in on people and making sure everyone feels included

Reformed high school bully, but still gossips with Norway about classmates and faculty

Has very high standards for himself and his work, will force people in his group projects to do at least 2 rounds of editing

Can really get in the zone and hyperfocuses when studying, but to do that he needs his noise cancelling headphones, his stim toy, perfect room temperature, comfy study clothes, and his daily ritual to actually start

Refuses to pull all-nighters to finish assignments, sleep is more important to him (king)

Is professional with group projects, is calm and good with delegating work

At the same time, he is very opinionated and loves to debate people in and out of class. Often argues with specific students

Easily overwhelmed from noises, activities, and group projects, needs to find quiet places to hide

Gets good grades, professors either love him or forget he exists

Is part of some interest clubs, like for art and woodworking

Norway

The mysterious hottie who sits in the back of class

Hates group projects, doesn't contribute much to them unless it's with his favourite people (other Nordics, specifically Sweden)

Doesn't contribute much in class, but when he does it is good

The class health nut, goes out for 6 am and 11 pm jogs (he is insane)

Also tbh he gives off the vibe of someone who'd be a health nut but also really into drugs at the same time?? Like he does sports and yoga and tracks his water consumption and macros but at the same time experiments with drugs to "expand his spiritual worldview"?

Is fine with concentration, doesn't really struggle unless there's a lot going on in his head at the time

On that topic, he frequents the counseling and medical clinic. There have been rumors about his frequent medical visits...

His writing is okay, nothing to write home about, but then sometimes can get very poetic and profound, especially when it's a personal topic

Gossips a lot with Sweden, they like to people watch together

Skips a lot of classes, somehow still passes

Finland

Perfectionist and an over-achiever, bases a lot of his self-worth on grades. Will get upset if he gets anything below an A-

Can feel like he's in a competition with classmates for good grades and approval from professors, will ask a lot of questions and tries to start discussions in class

Will talk to the professor right after the end of the 1st class to introduce himself and establish dominance

Tries to humble brag about school and his work ethic by telling classmates how often he crams and pulls all-nighters

Very anxious about grades, always does well (at the cost of his mental health)

Mostly sustains himself on energy drinks and coffee

Doesn't like group projects because he thinks no one else cares about doing well as much as he does

This isn't helped by the fact that he has trust issues and thinks others will let him down

Frequents the counseling center and medical clinic on campus. The former because of stress and trauma which worsens school stress, the latter because of medical issues as a result of said stress

Professors either love him or hate him

Despite how he acts in class he's actually a people-pleaser, but his over-achieving nature can be hard to deal with

Goes to the campus gym at least once a week to lift weights, probably part of the school hockey club

If he survives, will pursue graduate school

Iceland

The freshman, trying to figure things out

Thinks that because he did well in high school he'll have an easy time in university (he won't and will be humbled)

Sits in the back of class but secretly wants to sit up front with the "nerds", doesn't want to risk making a fool of himself

Overanalyzes group projects and panics. Double/triple checks his work before sending in his contributions because he wants to seem competent in their eyes

Usually reserved but once he opens up will say the most out of pocket things, sometimes it slips in his quiet phase

Surprisingly, is among the worst of the Nordics in terms of grades. This is mainly because he is unconfident in his own work and views, so he often ends up self-sabotaging his work or doing the bare minimum

His friends are his main priority in school, not grades

Like Fin, is a people-pleaser. Unlike Fin, he is easy to get along with

[mudinyourshoes]

I'm trying not to go into the FoF tag because I'm behind, but I can't help reading some of you're posts and ngl I'm kinda worried about the finale because they've hit the "I need to kill you/I need to die" story beat sooooo many times (without, ultimately, ZYZ dying...but still...) that I feel like to make the ending satisfying they are either going to have hit that story beat so hard it shatters like Li Lun's drum toy or they are going to have to subvert it in some way without losing the tragic momentum the show has built and either one of those things is going to be hard to pull of well. Still, even if the show doesn't stick the landing, it's going to be one of my favorite dramas. The journey has been worth whatever the ending is. My germlin brain is like "it might even be a work of art if the ending isn't perfect because that's sort of the message of the drama anyway, isn't it?". The love and friendship, the labor and suffering, they were worth it even if the ending is terrible.

In case anyone was still hoping for a happy ending...

[brucewaynehater101]

For those of y'all who are worried about your artwork, here's quick sketches of the batfam for fun. These are real quick and easy drawings you can do that don't need skill. I'm sure your artwork is great regardless, but sometimes little doodles have less pressure

Batfam members in order from left to right:

Batman, Robin (Damian), Nightwing, Black Bat, Red Hood, Red Robin, Signal

Also, Black Bat could be drawn with similar body shape to Batman. Depends on if you want her to have a cape

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Redraw of my first post on this blog. Oh how far we've come B'*)

[Now with it's own redraw!]

[cry-ptidd]

The red means ily!!!

[crabsnpersimmons]

I hope you don’t mind, but I was bored and drew Clip :)

live crab reaction:

oh oh oH OH OH !! I LOVE IT!! you got all his details so well! i just wanna leap into his arms for a hug! thank you thank you!!

I NEVER mind! i still remember the eclipse drawing you did before! i love them both!

let's see what Clip thinks!

live Clip reaction:

i think he likes it too! he's just been bouncing around my head since i got your submission yesterday!

[anothermonikan]

Ponee (It is half 3 in the morning)

[whispers-of-lilith]

Was going to post some 4am spicy thoughts, but the literal second I start writing them down, my brain says, "no. must be perfect. keep rewriting those 5 sentences until they're perfect. make the whole thing longer while you're at it too".

And for the love of all that is holy, I fucking hate my brain. I just wanna post my silly little thirst without it needing to be perfect.

[princess-ditzy]

tsukkiyama au where yamaguchi is a fallen star and tsukki is a college student who majors in astronomy

[commsroom]

if w359 were to be adapted (and imagine this is a perfect world where adaptations are perfectly true to source and author intention) would you prefer a live-action w CGI or animated? how should Hera be portrayed?

oh god, okay. first i have to get over my gut reaction to the idea of a wolf 359 adaptation, which is... please no, not in any form, never. literally the nightmare scenario for me. but okay, other than that.

the wolf 359 that exists in my mind's eye when i'm listening to the show is, like... live action, physical sets, practical effects including some puppetry (for the plant monster, notably) - and that's definitely influenced by gabriel urbina citing farscape as the main inspiration for the tone of the show. so, in a perfect world, assuming at least the main characters would still be played by the same actors and everything... like that, i guess? i love to see fan animations, and there's the obvious benefit re: voice actors, but i don't think it would work. the realism and mundanity undercut by larger than life scenarios and science fiction nonsense is a necessary contrast to me, and the characters are just... such Real Life People, when i picture them in my mind.

and hera is definitely a big reason why i don't think the show can or should be adapted to any visual medium. when i commission art, my personal design for hera has that blue holographic look because 1) it's important to me to have recognizable visual signifiers, and 2) i want a way to give her a physical presence for artistic purposes while still suggesting some intangibility + distance. but i don't literally think she looks like that. if you are portraying what hera actually looks like, then there are two heras: viewed from the outside, formless and faceless, basically a disembodied voice without any other autonomous parts to express herself with, and the way she sees herself in her own mind and her own memories. from what we can infer, i honestly think the image hera has of herself is just of a regular human woman.

i don't know if you could portray hera in any visual medium, because... you can't show her, you can't make her a hologram or a face on a screen, and you can't make her... more robotic, with more expressive moving parts of the station, etc. because any of those things would imply something different about her than what exists in canon. like, i love the idea that eiffel looks at hera's cameras when he's talking to her, but it's important that something like hera's cameras never comes across as hera, as a physical presence. if that makes sense? the sense of isolation, the way hera feels trapped, at a physical distance from the others, unseen - that's such a central conflict of her character, the very literal way that her struggles are invisible to the others, and how the contrast between her internal vs. externally perceived self is at the heart of a lot of commentary re: identity, disability, etc. that surrounds her. audio is really the only medium where that can be maintained while still keeping hera an equal presence to the others - maybe there's some commentary you could make by deconstructing audience assumptions in a visual medium, but it would be difficult to make it the same.

... and that's not even getting into how music, and radio, and voice, and sound recording are all thematic components of the show!!

[celiaelise]

Need to find a therapist who doesn't think "~follow your passion~" is good career advice.

you ever feel like you can just tell someone else is romanticizing YOUR life???

[witherbythesword]

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[the-red-thread-that-strangles]

Hey @yoshiyakiryu

Here's Josh smashing Crowley with a vending machine for you

I swear there was context when I started it, but it's been a while

[dandyshucks]

trying to figure out how long i should wait until i just take the dive and go find a locket (perhaps... a beetle locket even,,,) online and cough up the $20+ CAD flat-rate shipping price,,,

i just want a little locket to wear ,,, have a guz picture in it like a sappy fool,,,, BOY HOWDY DO I FEEL SILLY FOR IT THOUGH DHDKDL

[sysig]

Hm ok what's your favorite or a really cool worlbuilding thing you've done? For any fandom or original or even an unimplemented idea

Hmm well at least in the past decade, my big worldbuilding projects have mostly come down to three-ish stories: Other Side of the Gun, Adventures of Gæilo and Ethon, and Just Desserts

OSG was an Invader ZiM fancomic concept I started around 2013 to justify every single Irken headcanon I ever came up with lol - I never finished it, or even really started it, but I put a lot of time and energy into its roughs back in the day :)

^A stick figure recap of Ch. 1, inspired by - what else - the Vargas stick figure recaps lol

One that you can see over here is all the work I did for my DnD campaign, AGE! (Though its sideblog hasn't been updated in a while haha - the AGE tag over here works just as well) I basically homebrewed a pantheon and had an absolute blast designing all the gods and their forms before they became gods and even things like architectural differences in their churches and the BBEG and his motivations and just ah <3 Such a fun project :D

It also laid the groundwork for things like Pokemon Homestyle, specifically all my papercrafts! You can really see how I leveled up haha

And my latest has been Just Desserts! Even with less time under its belt, it's still pretty expansive, as evidenced by my icon and theme and the backlog lol, and it's the one I have the most AUs of! (Though OSG does come close actually haha) There are still some thorny details I'm trying to iron out, especially to do with the magic system, but all the characters and creatures and the fact that I made my own fighting minigame, ah, pleased! I've never been so happy with a sona before Charm! ♥ From the very beginning it's been so fun to work on and I still want to improve!