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I love this picture so so much you have no idea-

GET SCOLDED IDIOTS!!

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Whenever you show process pics for your comic the sketches are colored grey. Why is that? What purpose does it serve? Or do you have no particular reason to do that?

Thanks. Have a good day and wake up well! ^-^

the main purpose of the grey tone is to fill in the linework! this makes it easier for me to color down the line using clipping masks clipped to that layer. i use the lasso fill tool for this

the fact that it's grey is mostly arbitrary, you could use any color. However sometimes I use the grey tones to map out the general value structure of a page; ie what the darkest and lightest parts of the page are going to be. I don't usually follow it one to one in the shading step, but it helps me plan out the overall balance of a page

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can i just say that your panel composition is absolutely incredible? i adore the way the panels reflect the story, like things falling in and out of frame and interweaving with each other. absolutely gorgeous!

ahh thank you so much, that means a lot!!! i take a lot of inspo from Shirahama Kamome, who’s like. the absolute master of unconventional and story-driven paneling. I try to channel even a fraction of her power when I work lol

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Oh my god, I saw that ask about your paneling inspiring their comics and I was also over here thinking about how your paneling has really inspired me! I’d been sitting on the next part of my comic for 4 months because I’d been struggling with scripting and thumbnailing and your comic has breathed life into me. honestly your paneling has been such a treat to look at.

I forgot how exciting and unique paneling can be!! It’s so fun to look at and I have shown pages of your comic to other comic friends like look at this!!! Isn’t this cool!!!

Also it delights me whenever someone finds a way to represent link’s stamina bar in skyward sword in some way. Link’s coughing and wheezing had me going oh!!!! The long ugh was very relatable

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ahh wow, thank you so much!!! 🥺🥺🥺 I’m so happy my work has helped you get back into comics!!! that’s the highest praise seriously 🥺🥺💕💕

loft’s low stamina is so important to me lol pls just imagine him shoving stray stamina fruits in his mouth for that entire run across faron

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Careful. He bites

PLEASE give us the baby wolf with the Eyebrows askdjjfjf

introducing god's angriest looking child

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I just reread all of your bonus-links comic and *gestures wordlessly* your comics are so so so inspiring. I need to gush about it a little bit.

The layouts of the pages and the panels, there is so much movement in the way they direct the eye. I'm also a huge fan the textures you use in the backgrounds, the swirls and colours!!! The panels are just SO interesting to look at, even the ones with a simple composition.

I also! really love! the details that flow in and outside of the panels, like the red lines and the fabric of the sky, the way they direct the eye is SO beautifully done. And the panel borders becoming frames and decorations,,, I'm running out of words, the pages and panels themselves become an illustration in itself.

AND THE PAGES WITH THE RIFTS!? the way these portals just tear the panels apart!! it feels so unnatural and whoahh it's so cool to see a story using the comic medium itself to it's fullest!! it's seriously so exciting to look at!

It's clear that you are putting so much thought and hard work into the story, designs, and pages. Thank you so much for creating and sharing this comic! It's seriously so inspiring!

oh my gosh wow, thank you!!!!! that seriously means so much coming from you because I’m so inspired by YOUR comics!!!!! I don’t know anything about TMNT but I keep up with here there be turtles bc your work is so fantastic!!! 🥺🥺🥺 the colors,,,,the linework,,,the paneling,,,,so good

anyway seriously thank you so much this gave me a much needed boost of energy 💕💕💕

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Is eow gonna be canon (or mentioned) in bonus links? Or is the story too set to put more characters into it? Sorry if you’ve answered this before :)))

tbh, in terms of the main cast I probably won’t be adding any new characters. however there are some interesting lore implications in eow that might end up working for my story, so I can’t say for sure it won’t get mentioned!

I am also thinking about designs just for fun tho :-) haven’t had much time to draw recently but I am cooking

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I’m watching a skyward sword playthru and reading Star Wars fix it fics at the same time and I can’t help but frame sksw in star wars context and I fully believe link is being plagued by force visions like obiwan kenobi. that kind of Bad Vibe is how I imagine force visions to feel and look. poor guy

I read this as “I fully believe link is being plagued by force visions of obiwan kenobi” at first by accident and I was like hell yeah brother

anyway this is very funny and also correct

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what is ur favorite loz game :]

It’s a tie between minish cap, botw, and a link between worlds :-)

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I keep thinking about Loft and one of my headcanons for SkSw Link in general is that after everything he probably becomes one of those people who kill enemies as quickly and efficiently as possible without giving them time to say anything bc what if it’s someone with power. What if they cast another curse. He can’t afford to let someone attempt to talk their way out of death bc what if he becomes responsible for another long string of disasters as the result of his hesitance in killing someone. Like what is this, a storybook? No, it’s a damn battle. It’s life and death. He doesn’t like taking the role of an executioner, but he can’t give someone time to monologue, enemies need to die fast and that’s just good common sense. (Trauma. It’s trauma and an insane guilt complex.)

Idk. I’ve just. Been thinking abt it. Is Loft like that at all?

that’s a good headcanon! Loft is a lot like that, at least with monsters. That was actually one of my goals with the opening of ch 1— to show that in battle he’s, well, kind of brutal. The idea of killing people still makes him squirm though, which is why that encounter with the Yiga bothers him.

He’s definitely adverse to letting any enemy get the last word considering what happened the Last Time he let that happen, but he also just sees monsters as instruments of Demise, aberrations, blights on the land that need to be removed. As opposed to Slate, who can imagine a world where monsters are just sort of there, minding their own business.

as a sidenote to this conversation, this is a side of Link that I find to be really interesting. We as the players are meant to have fun killing monsters, but what about Link? Does he find it it fun too, or is it just a duty he takes no pleasure in? It’s something I’m hoping to explore a little with each character in the comic, but for Loft, I think he secretly finds it exhilarating at the very least, and isn’t sure how he feels about that.

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Hello!

Just a quick question—I seem to recall a comic in which you drew Ravio and Mirror meeting again after the war of eras, but I can't seem to find it in the ravio or mirror tags. I remember it having a panel of Ravio hoping they could return to their prior arrangement, swearing to not take over the house while apologizing profusely. It ends it Mirror dashing forward to give him a hug. You also may or not have commented that you were playing with Ravio's design? Could you please direct me to it?

I absolutely love this comic and all of the worldbuilding you've put into it. It's helped me through many a rough college night, and it's lovely to see your thought process behind it. Thank you for making it available to us :)

hey! the comic you’re looking for lives on the bonus links blog, here!

thank u so much, I’m so happy to hear that 🥺💕

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Hi i know this probably isn't something you planned but as i was scrolling down your page I mistook this panel as Loft having wings

Which is cool. Like a fucked up version of Hylia. "Hey my godhood is built on The Horrors (TM)"

I'm reading too much into it but I just thought that was a cool idea/visual, even if you didn't mean it. Thank you tired eyes for making me see things 👍

you know, that wasn't intentional on my part HAHA but it does kinda look like wings!! that is a very cool visual hehe

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Love your style and your story as well as the designs for all your characters! They're very fun, and are an interesting take that I personally enjoy. Since asks might (still?) be open; What's your personal HC for Groose? Like some people hc he was supposed to be Ganondorf?

🤔 hmmm I don’t personally HC that Groose is like, actually a direct ancestor or reincarnation of Ganondorf. however, especially for the purposes of the au, I like him as maybe a thematic analog for Ganondorf’s place in the repeating trio. the gods love threes!

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Since Mask started his game off having prophetic dreams like Loft will he have them in the comic ? Because I keep imaging the two of them ending up in the same dream and looking at each other like 0-0? (probably not how it would work but I find it funny)

not in this au haha, though it’s true that every link (and Zelda for that matter) have experienced prophetic dreams. Loft’s specific neverending visions of future disasters are unique to him though!

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I need to know what the Links' favorite foods are. real life analogs must be made.

okay, I only did the ones that are in the comic so far, but here u go!

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Hellooo would you happen to take commissions ? I would love a full body drawing of your slate, the way you depict him lives in my head rent free haha

If so, what would be your rates ?

Thank you for what you do, your bonus links always make my day when I see your posts, and again with the behind the scenes haha

Have a great day, you're a wonderful human (or hylian cause I'm secretly sure you're one)

hi! thank you!! I don’t have commissions open at the moment, but I’m thinking of opening them soon! I’ll have a commission sheet up with rates when I do