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Roleshuffle, Part 33! It makes me hunger for freshly baked bread...

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My art of (kay-then-i-guess) Roleshuffle AU characters. All designs belong to them!

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Toxic straight manga

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@kay-then-i-guess WILBUR!!! OMG!!!

Time taken: around 2 hours?

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Roleshuffle, Part 31! The Election Arc is finally here!!

Just know that I'll probably be posting a little less pages per post this arc. I wanted to move a little more slowly, especially since these pages took super long.

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Roleshuffle, Part 32! I knew I had to change some things up in the Election Arc with Techno in the role of Wilbur, the most prominent thing being, well, the election. So, instead we have the contest! If it weren't for the confusion of the new people coming in and not knowing what I was talking about, I would 100% just rename this arc the Contest Arc haha

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Roleshuffle, part 22! This section was really fun for me to draw :D

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Hello, Just wanted to say that I love this au!

( My favs are foolish, will, sam and quackity!)

I wanted to ask, what app do you use to draw? Also, are you going to do more character sheets?

Thank you so much! I'm glad you're enjoying it!

I use Clip Studio Paint! I kind of hate Adobe products, so even though I have access to photoshop through college, I prefer Clip Studio. It's very easy to learn how to use, while still having more complex features that you can use if you want to. It's also nice because unlike photoshop, it is a one time payment. The only exception I think is if you're using a non-Windows or non-Mac product. All-in-all, I think it's a good program, and it's very beginning friendly (while still having complexity within it). Also, if you're curious, I use an XP-Pen drawing tablet!

I would like to finish the updated character sheets, but I also want to prioritize getting the comic ready. The character sheets were kind of something I started to do when I thought I had the time for it, but then ended up not having as much time I thought. It's a stretch goal, basically! I'd be willing to share some of the old ones in the meantime, though, if you want to see any! I'll have to black out any spoilers, though, and naturally, my art has improved a lot since I first drew them. Thank you for your interest, though!

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More Roleshuffle! Enjoy.

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Roleshuffle, Part 29! Wilbur was originally singing a, uh, different song, but due to the cc being crappy, he's been demoted to Wonderwall.

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So, I had this idea as I'm getting close to finishing the Election arc of my Roleshuffle AU to go through my previous comic pages and point out everything I did wrong :) This is all for funsies, and I feel like my art has gotten a lot better with the Election arc. Plus, I think it's very important to go back and critique yourself to 1: see how far you've come and 2: to better understand where you tend to make mistakes. So, let's get critiquing!

Soooo starting off, I really didn't know how to make a comic. I had only done very brief, minor comic making before, so this was a completely new field of art that I wasn't used to. You can immediately see that problem in the first and second panel, since they. They aren't a panel. Nothing about them (minus the speech bubbles) indicates that this is a comic. I think the first would have benefited from each item being properly separated, and the other would have benefited from an actual image behind it; not a gradient. Speaking of the items, that's supposed to be Sam's hand at the top, and it is freckle-less (no clue why I forgot to add those lol). Some other consistency things that are weird is that L'manberg has no tower entrance, and there aren't any trees surrounding it in any other drawing. On notes of consistency, the sword there is supposed to be Techno's, but the design changed later to have a gold hilt. I guess that change never reached this panel, so now that just looks like a random sword stuck in the ground. Nobody's sword in the comic looks like that haha. Similar deal with Techno's crown: the spacing of jewels is not consistent with how I draw it in the rest of the comic.

Moving on! The next two panels of Connor aren't bad, per se, they just aren't good. (I'm mainly bothered by the fact that he doesn't have teeth in the first one.) Also, because I didn't want to draw hands and cut his arms off, it just looks like the framing of the panel is all wrong. Plus, I don't think I've seen anyone pose like that in real life. He looks like he's about to hug you, which is not the vibe I was going for. In both of these panels, we have what will become a reoccurring problem throughout: loooooong neck because I didn't draw a base figure before drawing the clothes. Connor's face should either be longer in these panels, or his shoulders should be higher. Either way, the neck does not look right. Another reoccurring problem you'll see is dull coloring/shading. I'm still working on this, to be frank, but these images all look rather dull. There's nothing unique about the lighting/colors, so it doesn't really pop like it should. Either I needed to add more dynamic lighting or be better at highlights.

Yet another case of long neck. Oh, and weird positioning on the facial features. The eyes feel stretched across his face instead of, well, where they should be. I also think in these opening panels I really fail to encapsulate Connor's personality. I was really banking on the fact that he's a silly little comic relief character in the canon dsmp, but his delivery is very dry/flat whenever I watch old clips of him. Therefore, in the early bits, he just seems a bit off because of the high energy I gave him. Next up we have a bad case of something that looked good in the sketch but did not come across after coloring. What I wanted to happen was his face to gain some anime-type shading that screams "oh no", but it just wasn't strong enough, so the end result just seems like I copied and pasted the same panel for no reason. Also, in the lower image, Connor's face does not look right. I can't really put my finger on why, but it's either because his eyes are uneven or that the facial features, once again, kind of stretch across the face.

aaaaand I originally wanted to go through the whole first part of my comic, but this is turning out to be very long. So that's a tomorrow project. Hope you enjoyed my critique!

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for your roleshift au, who is everyone swapping with? i’m very curious…

I try to keep it a secret (for funsies), especially if it hasn't been guessed already, but I can give a list of those that are already known! If you want to know more about my process of selecting all of these and figuring it out, check out this post and some of my character design sheets (linked in my pinned post on my blog).

Sam is in the role of Tommy!

Techno is in the role of Wilbur!

Quackity is in the role of Tubbo!

Connor is in the role of Eret!

Foolish is in the role of Dream!

Ant is in the role of George!

Skeppy is in the role of Punz!

Wilbur is the role of Sapnap!

Tommy is in the role of Fundy!

Fundy is in the role of Jack!

Jack is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Ranboo is in the role of Niki!

Schlatt is in the role of Quackity!

Hannah is in the role of Schlatt!

Tubbo is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Aimsey is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Niki is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Dream is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Ponk is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

George is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Aaaaand that's everyone that's shown up so far! Feel free to make any guesses, though most that haven't been guessed haven't had any major events that would clue you in really, so I'd really be surprised if you got it right haha

Anyways, thanks for enjoying the comic! I'm continuing to work on the election arc, and hopefully that'll be done soon.

(^This is me going insane figuring out the election arc, btw)

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I can't go over everything yet (spoilers), but I do want to talk about a fun thing about Techno being in the role of Wilbur in my Roleshuffle AU.

So, in the dsmp canon, Wilbur doesn't find Eret out due to two reasons: 1. Eret is competent. He's a good liar. 2. WIlbur is too arrogant to think someone would do that.

On the other hand, with Techno in the role of Wilbur and Connor, above all people, in the role of Eret, I hit a wall. Would Techno figure him out? I decided Yes, but also No. Think about c!Techno. He lets people betray him. When he teams with Tommy, he asks Tommy a few times if he's sure he wants to do this. He doubled checked that Tommy wanted to betray him. Twice, if I'm remembering correctly. When Quackity invited him to the prison, Techno knew it was a trap. But he went anyways. He let Quackity betray his trust. I feel like this is partially because of Techno's hubris ('TECHNOBLADE NEVER DIES"), but there's more to it than that. See, when Techno has friends, he protects them at all costs. He wanted Ranboo to make it, and got angry when he was killed. He wanted to protect Phil more than anything. He cared about the Syndicate. He cared about Tubbo, and felt bad enough about killing him to apologize to him. I'm not positive, but I think that's the only time in the series that Techno apologizes. Ever. So, in short, Techno wants and values his friends, to the point where he'll give them second chances again and again. He'll let them betray him right up until the last second, giving them all the chances they need to take it back. He wants them to take it back.

I feel like there's also a point similar to this to be said about Techno and his inability to lie (I think the only person he lies successfully to is Tommy, who would've believed anyone at that point in his arc), but that's a conversation for a different day...

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Me: Alright, I need to buckle down and draw.

Also me: Horizontal Ranboo

(and KinitoPetboo)

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your comic is single handedly bringing me back into the dsmp, it’s great. Also, wild guess, is Dream Ponk? Idk I’m racking my brain to remember who was actually in the DSMP early days

That's literally so cool to hear that my comic brought you back into it! Glad to have you here!

Aaaaand nope. If I had started the comic during the first bit with the discs, it'd probably be obvious who Ponk is, since they would have had some conflict with Sam and Quackity. However, I didn't start there because I thought it was a little too boring tbh. As such, the role of Ponk doesn't really do much for a while. I've mentioned this before, but there's so many early roles that don't really get a part until later. Almost everyone who's apart of the jury in the court scene got slapped with one of those roles (generally speaking).

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I’m taking your silence on the BBH and Karl guesses I sent as confirmation it’s either one

I'm on a trip right now, so I'm actually just not posting as much haha. But it's a valid guess, and I gotta say that Dream as Bad would be really cool, especially considering the deal with how the egg reacts with green and whatnot.

But, I'm going to go ahead and knock out some guesses I got in my inbox about Dream: he is not Bad, Slimecicle, Karl, or Callahan. But you're kind of in the right direction with Bad and Callahan? Definitely nowhere near Slime (he doesn't show up until Las Nevadas, canonically), and not Karl (who has shown up! but nobody's guessed them yet).

And here's some pictures of Dream from the comic, for funsies (he's gossiping with himself)