#i made a handwriting font for this. fun fact.

[funsizedcrow]

the boy and the sword

[binary-bird]

mahalabia

[jojo-schmo]

Is it okay to ask what font you use for your comic dialogue? It looks like an exact fit for what I wanna do!

Sorry if you were asked this before.

Hello! No worries, I'm always happy to answer stuff, especially if an ask is buried deep in my blog.

So I made my comic font years ago on a website called "myscriptfont" that no longer exists. It's my handwriting! I made it like what... eight years ago?? Holy smokes. I think font technology has advanced past this but I'm too sentimental to change it after so long haha.

I don't know if I'd give it out though, not just because it's pretty personal to me but it's kinda janky. The 'i's and exclamation marks get pretty close together, the (") quotation marks don't work correctly, and ellipses act weird and I have to space them out manually. I know its quirks and how to work with them but I imagine it'd be frustrating for others. And there's probably a way for me to fiddle with those kinds of settings but I haven't tried yet.

If you want to make your own though, the site I made it on turned into the website "calligraphr" and I believe you can make one font for free when you register!

But if you want my Kirby "Forgotten Language" handwritten font, I put it here for free. :) I made that one on Calligraphr a year ago so it should work great! It's got newfangled font technology!

[srcepiksla]

OwO whats this? a meet the artist thingy??

this was a bitch to make since my self perception is flimsy at best, but yeah! thats me (i guess)

[thymeclangen]

Prologue - Part 1

{And it begins. May the story of our humble beginnings strike awe into your wild-beating heart}

[howlsnteeth]

actually i'm curious.

[jorjorend]

Februabba day 12 - Secrets / Rain

I always thought Bucciarati would push Abbacchio away in their last days, after his body dies, because he knows otherwise Abbacchio will find out he's dead, and I guess he feels like being distant from him now will make it easier for Abbacchio to deal with his death when he's gone. (It won't).

@heritage-februabba

Comic text:

I know he's noticed me avoiding him, ever since Giorno and I faced the Boss in Venice.

"Ah—sorry Leone, I—"

"I just need some space right now."

Of course it hurts, being so cold to him. . .

"Leone?"

"STOP!"

"You should be sleeping in your own room, Abbacchio."

. . .

"Oh."

"It's for your own good."

"Right."

*click*

But I have to be. I can't let him know—

how cold I've really become.

[thekidsarentalright]

me & you

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

Hey, love the post you make about obscure disabilities. Could you make/ have you made about dysgraphia?

Sure. This will be my post for disability pride month tomorrow. Which I'm posting now because I don't have the spoons to schedule it for tomorrow.

I hope you don't mind I turn this into a combo one because I have a hard time mentally processing one of these conditions without understanding all three.

(Obligatory I do not have any of these conditions. This is not meant to be a diagnostic tool. Please do your own research. I'm only answering a question that was asked of me and it's really hard for me to explain one of these without explaining all of the similar conditions to differentiate them.)

And I hope that you don't mind my poorer language skills right now I'm recovering from a server sinus headache I've had all day.

Dyslexia vs Dyscalculia vs Dysgraphia (bonus round Dyspraxia)

These issues have like, a 30% comorbidity rate. So if you have one there's a 30% chance you'll have either of the others. People with conditions may be perceived as "slow" but they are not intellectual disabilities (Not that there's nothing wrong with intellectual disabilities. I'm just pointing it out because people will say "you can't have dyslexia. You're so smart.")

But the fact that they're comorbid and often comorbid with autism and adhd causes some misunderstandings around the conditions because people think they have one condition and attribute all of their issues to the one condition with no knowledge that its not just one condition they're expressing.

Dyslexia

Dyslexia is characterized by the limited processing and comprehension of graphic symbols, particularly those regarding language. People with it have poor reading skills, flipping letter sequences and words, and poor handwriting. Although it is a learning disability, it's important to note that dyslexia does not impact a person's intelligence, although they may seem slower due to poor language processing skills. (There's nothing wrong with disabilities that impact intelligence, I just don't want people saying "he can't be dyslexic because he's so smart".)

Many representations of dyslexia often exhibit letters tap dancing across the page, shape shifting, and doing backflips. It's important to note that these are incorrect representations, because it's really hard to give a visual representation of what people with dyslexia experience. However, it's really harmful to express dyslexia in this fashion as it leads to people thinking that they don't have dyslexia when they actually do.

As I understand it, dyslexia is the eyes/ brain being able to flow seamlessly when reading large blocks of text. Ways to combat this is cut out a strip to block off lines when you read them. Use a highlighted strip of paper to highlight lines as you read them.

Fun fact, there's a few fonts that space the letters well enough and differentiate similar letters enough that make it easier to read. Comic Sans font is the most widely accessible accessibility tool for dyslexic people as it's one of the easy to read fonts that on every machine. (These accessibility tools have proven to make everyone read faster, dyslexia or no. But people with dyslexia have found them instrumentalin functioning. )

Another fun fact. Rick Riordan wrote Lightning Thief so that his dyslexic son could have representation in a character that had the same disability as him.

Dyscalculia

Dyscalculia is often called "math dyslexia". People with Dyscalculia have issues with numbers. They have poor math skills, issues interpreting graphs, issues doing basic arithmetic, issues understanding things like place value, issues understanding time especially when it comes to reading an analog clock, and issues seeing patterns. This often causes a high level of anxiety around math. Some reports say these people have issues with directions, remembering locations, and reading maps (though research is inconsistent on that one).

Dysgraphia

Dysgraphia is easy to mix up with dyslexia, which is why I needed to write all these out. Where dyslexia is difficulty reading. Dysgraphia is difficulty writing. Symptoms include difficulty writing words, expressing thoughts in written form, and organizing and processing your thoughts. This can cause issues with social communication for obvious reasons.

These people also may have fine motor perception issues, writing in a straight line, spacing their letters correctly, etc. Especially fine motor skills around writing. They may also have issues with grammar, punctuation, and capitalization.

Bonus Round:

Dyspraxia

This one gets mixed with dyslexia two. Dyspraxia is issues with spacial awareness. They often say they can't tell where their limbs are in space. They may have issues with coordination, walking in a straight line, and balance. It's very hard for me to conceptualize, but people that have it may say that they bang their limbs against things due to poor spacial awareness. Which honestly, relatable. I've slammed me calf into a door before. And my shoulder blade. How? Good question.

These people have issues in social situations because their entire focus will be on their coordination, not making a mess, and not making a fool of themselves, etc. Their issues actually get better when they drink because the stress of sucked situations makes it worse and alcohol loosens them up. (I'm not advocating for drinking, but saying that the issues resolving when your drink validates your dyspraxia, not invalidates it.)

I think a lot of people that know of the condition may think people with low depth perception have dyspraxia. A lot of people have told me they think I have dyspraxia because my lack of depth perception negatively impacts my spacial awareness.

-fae

[keystonepublishing]

Penciled Lines by BecausePlot

Fun fact: I intended for this to be completed at around the same time as my r/place Reddit bind.

But stuff got in the way and this somehow got delayed by over a week. A 16-page booklet.

Ironic, isn't it?

So along the way of doing my r/place Reddit bind, I stumbled upon a small fic that provided a good distraction - good enough to bind, in fact. But I also discovered another fic that piqued my interest, one concerning a minecraft server called the QSMP.

I have known of the server and followed the events there, but from a distance; between Hermitcraft, Decked Out, Rancher Duo, and my love for SBI, I didn't have enough time to get as deeply invested into lore as before. With that said, my love for Philza has made me very much aware of his QSMP shenanigans and I wanted to find out if there are good fics about him and his government-assigned partner, Missa.

And lo and behold, I found one!

As said before, this booklet is 16 pages. The main cover is just 2 paper layers (one layer of black cardstock and another of black color paper) on one another. The main font is Liberation Serif, with the title and drop cap in Handwriting Draft. As is my style, I added-in pictures at the opening and ending pages to set the theme and mood of the story.

All in all, despite the delay I find this bind to be a refreshing work after the laborious effort of the previous Reddit book.

Thanks to @becauseplot for writing this fic!

[kimtaegis]

{Kimtaegis' GFX Breakdowns, Ep. 2: ↳ Rainy Days 1st Anniversary}

a little insight into the editing of the set, featuring texture, brush and mixed media extravaganza

.... Can you believe it's been a year and that I literally started this the week the mv came out and then abandoned it over and over again??? ANYWAY

Since the song is all about yearning and missing someone, I went with an "old memories" (letters, postcards, notes) kind of vibe and of course also incorporated the rain theme in several different ways. For a nostalgic, heartbroken look, black and white plus dirty ripped up paper always works in my opinion. Now all the paper rips, torn edges, creases and water stains you see weren't there from the start; using brushes and adding, masking and blending textures, I made the photos, letters and papers look like they've been touched hundreds of times like a sad lover would </3 Here's a comparison so you can see how much that affected the look (I couldn't disable all the rough edge masks for this or the general rectangle form would've been gone too, but you get the idea):

Another detail I love is the colour bleed in the last one, picking up that water theme again!

The rain in that panel is made up of 10 individual pictures with ten 10 rain brush variations.

The most fun and interesting thing is probably the fact that the middle panel’s folded paper is actually made from paper scans! I never thought I would spend a concerning amount of time thinking about how to fold a paper prettily, but it took several attempts until I was satisfied with how it would open up with each unfold. This is how some of the raw scans looked like:

And some fun facts at the end: I don’t like my handwriting, so I used a font throughout. And funnily enough, they later used the excact same font in Taehyung's Dicon photobook! I'm glad the professional editors agreed that it totally fits the Layover era vibe, lol. (They probably had the full, paid version, though - I had to replace all the apostrophes with another font so they would show up....). I initially wanted to include many more mixed media elements but sadly my printer and scanner aren't particularly great, and I also didn't have sturdy enough paper for what I was planning to do. Namely stitching and sewing paper with yarn! I did try, though, and ended up ramming a needle into my finger and nearly fainting at a family gathering. The fruitless sacrificies I made for this. Embarrassing.

[sancta-seraphina]

Idk my assumption with your art is "damn this person probably has INSANE handwriting"

A fun fact about my illustrations & graphics is that a lot of the words you see in the pictures were either hand-lettered by me or made with fonts created by me (in which I drew the letters). Not all of them, sometimes I'll toss a pretty font in there that I got elsewhere.

They're still a little different from my actual handwriting, which is very round and slightly messy with my right and very neat and orderly with my left. And yeah, both hands write very well thanks to me breaking myself so many times (most recently in 2021, so not even long ago).

[Make a super specific assumption about me based on my art style?]

[ghostedglitch]

happy one year to my hypnospace comic!

(and one day, just pretend i had this up yesterday shhhhh)

here's a little series of fun facts about making it

- started as a poem. i wanted to make a Millenium Anthem animatic and/or write a fic (i ended up doing the latter) but this came to me in the meantime and, being hyperfixated and eager to make something about it, it developed into a comic.

- that said, i was deep in the throes of an art burnout. i tend to make a lot of art around the new year, usually due to being in multiple gift exchanges, as well as working on my own things during winter break since i don't usually have the time to during school, and that wears me out. both this year and last i struggled with having energy to draw. however, i'd just recently found out a style that was pretty easy to work in even in that state: polygonal! so the comic is pixel polygons.

- the comic actually sort of ties into (and is directly quoted in the summary of) the aforementioned fic i wrote—which is called "do(n't) be afraid"—as evidenced by the focus on the HSPD badge as well as the Enforcer being almost a self-insert

- the typography is done by hand. i looked at the game's font file for the standard font and copied it. to this day i can pretty reliably just. handwrite in hypnospace font with the pixel pen. and i do! it's very space efficient!

- the dithering is also done by hand, because i'm a madlad. well, for each pattern i did like a portion by hand and then copy-pasted it until i covered as much area as i needed to, because i'm a madlad but i'm not a masochist. and then when i needed it again i just copied and pasted the layer and used a clipping mask to change its color. now though i have that big pixel brush pack on clip studio paint. so i won't be needing to do that again anytime soon.

- in panel 3 we see the Enforcer's face as well as glasses on their desk. like i said. pretty much a self insert. we also see their computer and hypnospace headband; i studied that intro video for this but between not seeing it a whole lot and the artstyle i was using being really simplified, i'm probably missing something lol

- in panel 4 we see dylan merchant at his desk. there's a calendar behind him. i actually looked up what day of the week was december 31, 1999 so i could circle it. it was a friday.

- the girl in panel 5 is supposed to be rebekah, the girl who likes squisherz and won the fan art contest but didn't get to find out because her dad took away her hypnospace headband. there's only one small picture of her to go off of, though.

- panels 7 and 8, which can also go together as one tall panel, were fucking FUN. what i did for the glitchy static bits was i made various clusters of black rectangles, each cluster on a different layer so i could copy and rotate them to fill more space. then on a clipping mask i used airbrush without antialiasing in white, RGB, and CMY. boom, static pattern. the elements from the game (the error message window, the cursors, the car) i had to copy by hand. see, the wiki doesn't have many screenshots, and if you try to screenshot the game or a video of it then it scrungles your image clarity. so i had to take those screenshots, eyedrop the colors from there, and then do such riveting and time efficient (that's a joke, it took forever) tasks as Count Pixels So Everything Is The Right Size. which for the shiny new HypnOS 2000 look was painstaking. look at those gradients. gradients everywhere. it was worth the work because it looks fantastic but man. and then to scrungle those elements i just used the rectangular selection tool, grabbed arbitrary bits and pieces of the things and Moved Them Elsewhere.

oh yeah babey

[ventrue-in-control]

Jackie Mczyne

since I never made one before cuz im bobo the fool

Name: Jackie Emanual Abdul Mczyne Pronouns: he/him they/them age: 25 forverer but 70 in total (30-7) Nationality: British-Tanzanian Species: Vampire (VTM) Clan: Ventrue Sect: Camarilla Location: Andover (primarily) and Swindon (secondary) Personality: egotistical anarchistic idiot Partner: @misericorsalvator Sire: @keeper-of-lions Notes: This man is a germaphobe and has a bit of OCD. Also can NOT handle physical toutch what so ever. If he was a bird he would be an impundulu

There are no specific rules for interacting with my blog! Just dont be focking racist cuz ill feed your kidneys to the dogs

THINGS ARENT TAGGED SO BE WARNED OF GORE BLOOD AND WHAT HAVE YA NOT you can of course ask me to tag certain things I will appologize because I may very well forget orz plz do remind me.

More rambles under the cut off

You've unlocked the extra rambles! congrats! Im so sorry as this may just be incomprehensible

first of all Hi! Im birdy, 24 years old, a black trans animator from the netherlands. I do da drawing and da makin of da gaymes. I stream on twitch you are always free to reach out to me here in DM's or else on discord The-Nerdy-Birdy#0918 <- JUST BE AWARE I was terrible social anxiety and I may be slow to respond THAT'S NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU PLEASE KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU Im just silly :3 and have my moments. I promise ya tho I love to talk and ramble.

WITH THAT OUTTA THE WAY MY BOI OH HOW I LOVE HIM SO HE CAN SOMETIMES BE A BIT OF A BITCH AND I AM SORRY. HE CAN BE MEAN. ITS JUST A CHARACTER THOUGH BUT IF I EVER GO TOO FAR LET ME KNOW PLEASE I DONT WANNA HURT NOBODY

anyways, quick summary about jackie.

Jackie went through a lot in his living years! going through the 50s to the 80s as a black man in the uk certainly was something! He used to be a genuine sweet and caring kid and now he still cares but hes very jaded by the world. He used to be part of the british black panther party and he has many opinions bout stuff and politics! but he has quited down quite a bit after his embrace.

he has a bit of a shortfuse cuz folk keep threathening him and hurting him so he is quite defensive. sadly he does not have the brains to see yet that he himself also hurts people and he should be a bit nicer to folk sometimes!

He cares tons about his friends and those who he considers fam. he does not enjoy seeing folk get hurt but.... if push comes to shove he will always choose himself. hes all he has. and all he can rely on and nobody is worth destroying himself over. atleast he'd like to think that. he does however often finds himself choosing his friends over himself and he hates it.

EHHHH FASHION WISE. He basically runs a GIANT company called SALMON which both makes ready to wear as haute couture. he is not the sole designer of it al. but he is most well known. he is a bit of a control freak with his company (not much better outside it either) so he will pick up more work than he should resulting in him always stressing about something.

he has many other companies also and a whole buncha other lore PLEASE ASK ME BOUT ME BOI HE IS ALMOST 10 YEARS OLD AND HE MEANS A LOT TO ME.

EHHH IDK WAT ELSE TO ADD SO U GET SMALL FUN FACTS!

Jackie is terrified of moths his handwriting is actually a perfect typewriter font he is really good at math! unlike me! cant see shit without his glasses was part of the british black panther movement HIS FEEDING RESTRICTION IS FOR ME TO KNOW AND YOU TO FIGURE OUT TEEHEE He wishes to become prince someday fave color is salmon of course.

HAVE SOME MORE ART OF HIM ALSO

HIS COTERIE BTW HOW COULD I FORGET! He is actually from a still active chronicle! though I most things on dash arent like canon lol In order the characters are: Tommy Riley Jackie Ada and Chris. they all hate each other and they has an awful time together :)

[plloydarts246]

Reading & Reflection 4

LeGibiliTy

This chapter discussed legibility, which normally refers to the ability to read things clearly. Usually in a grammatical way or when referring to handwriting. However, I have not considered legibility in the context of typography. There are complex relationships between each letterform and those relationships can drastically change depending on size, weight, color, value, spacing and placement. I chose these two photos below. They illustrate the literal Dangers of incorrect spacing, font choice and width.

“a letter may not be considered apart from its kinsmen; it is a mere abstract and arbitrary form far remote from the original picture or symbol out of which it grew, and has no particular significance until it is employed to form part of a word.” - Frederic Goudy

This week I have tried to explore more solutions to my prompt 'Hateful' and 'Bath'. I have unintentionally taken a deep dive into the subject of Roman baths and I have settled on a Gladiatorial Spa. (Fun fact: The word Spa is the abbreviated form of Salus per Aquam which means "health from water." in Latin) The original sketch I made had a certain quality about it that I have had a hard time replicating on the computer. Or even just redrawing by hand. Some of the other elements I plan to use as backgrounds or patterns. I have not considered the 3 main marks yet but I have come up with a name Helvius which means golden (or blonde) in Latin. I may also try to incorporate Latin for Hate odium and thermae or balneum (bath).

[wobubling]

Fun fact about the font here: i made it a little while ago with my handwriting but for some reason the w is bugged so what youre seeing is actually two v’s really close together

Itty bitty wonder twins