#i suck so bad at this one

[l4zyb0n3s]

going from S and A ranking during all of resident evil 5 to a dying 30 times in one chapter of resident evi 6 is my personal 9/11

[opikiquu]

my life a movie (PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR)

[dizzybizz]

my brain latched onto ratio in the span a day or two and i am. struggling with that. have a hsr magma dump about it.

these are in reverse chronological order so that it looks like i get more normal as the post goes on (it doesnt)

[deoidesign]

How I save time on backgrounds as a full-time webcomic artist

Hi! I make webcomics for a living, and I have to be able to draw a panel extremely fast to keep up with my deadlines. I draw about 50 panels a week, which gives me about 45 minutes per panel if I want any semblance of a healthy work-life balance.

Most webtoon artists save time on backgrounds by using 3d models, which works for them and is great! but personally I hate working in 3d... I went to school for it for a year and hated it so much I completely changed career paths and vowed never to do it again! So, this is how I save time without using any 3d, for those of you out there who don't like it either!

This tactic has also saved me money (3d models are expensive) and it has helped me converting my comic from scroll format into page format for print, because I have much more art to work with than what's actually in the panels. (I'll touch on this later)

So, first, I make my backgrounds huge. my default starting size is 10,000 x 10,000 pixels. My panels are 2,500 pixels wide, so my backgrounds are 4x that, minimum. Because of this, I make them less detailed than I could or that you might expect so it doesn't look weird against my character art when I shrink portions of it down.

I personally find it much easier to add in detail than to make "removing" details look natural at smaller sizes, but you might have different preferences than I do.

I also make sure to keep all of my elements on separate layers so that I can easily remove or replace them, I can move them to simulate different camera angles more easily, and it's simple to adjust the lighting to imply different times of day.

Then I can go ahead and copy/paste them into my episodes. I move the background around until it feels like it's properly fitting how I want.

Once I've done that in every panel, I'll go back through the episode and clean up anything that looks weird, and add in solid blacks (for my art style) Here's a quick before and after of what that looks like!

This makes 90% of my backgrounds take me just a few hours. This is my tactic when I'm working in an environment that an entire scene, or multiple scenes, will take place.

But many panels will inevitably have a location that's used exactly once, and it would waste time and effort to draw a massive background for those. So in 10% of cases, I just draw the single panel background in the episode. I save all of these, just in case I can re-use it later (this happens more often with outdoor locations, but I save them all nonetheless!)

I generally have to draw about 2 big backgrounds per episode, and 3-5 single-panel backgrounds per episode! At the beginning of an arc/book the number is higher, but as the series is continuing and I'm building up an asset library of indoor and outdoor elements to re-use for the book, the number generally goes down and I save more time.

My series involves time travel and mysteries, so there's a lot of new locations in it and we're constantly moving around. If I were working on a series that was more consistent in this aspect, this process would save me even more time!

Like I said earlier, this also saves me a lot of pain and gives me a lot more options as I'm converting from scroll format to print format!

panels that look like this in scroll format...

can look like this in print!

because I drew the background like this, so I didn't need to go through the additional effort to add in the extra detail to expand it outwards at all.

Anyways, I hope this helps someone! As always if it doesn't help, just go ahead and disregard. This is what I do and what works for me, and I feel like I only ever see time-saving tips for comics that involve 3d models and workflows, which don't work for me at all! I know there's more people like me out there, so this is for you!

Enjoy!

Also obligatory "my webcomic" if you want to see this in action or check it out!

[boobilby]

Team Z.I.T.S (why on gods name would you name your team that idk)

[valtsv]

VAL and Shrue dynamic that only exists in my mind moodboard

[each-uisge-enthusiast]

the modern villainisation of demeter will never cease to enrage me bc it wasn’t ENOUGH to just take a story of a girl being torn from her home from everyone who loved her and dragged away to be forced into marriage and twist and corrupt it until it was a romance story about female empowerment that wasn’t ENOUGH they HAD to take the original hero of the story the mother who went to every length to find her daughter again to bring her home and demonise her character until she was this horrific overbearing unloving mother. overprotective controlling without love. they turn the story of her grief at her YOUNG daughter being torn from her without her knowledge into the story of a misunderstood bad boy and a horrible cruel mother who won’t give him a chance and i really find it sickening. it’s ironic, that the ever misogynist age of hellenistic greece, has a better grasp of how disgusting and horrifying this situation was that a modern, self proclaimed ‘feminist’ era.

[froggi-nixxlol]

erm, I wanna do another notes post because I say so-

10 notes- I WILL CLEAN MY ROOM😭😭

20 notes- I'll cut off all contact with my fake irl friends

35 notes- I'll practice regular hygiene instead of hopping in the shower, only using water, and calling it a day

40 notes- I'll change my clothes everyday (this is something I rlly struggle with, please dont judge me)

50 notes- I'll start reminding irl friends TO NOT call me my dead name and to call me Nixx (or xan if they're a close friend)

60 notes- I'll ask my mum to take my to get an autism test (something that I might have along with my DIAGNOSED adhd)

85 notes- I'll go on walks more often, maybe even take my mum or my grandpa's dog with me and just enhoy nature ig

100 notes- I'll stop vaping

110 notes- I'll start opening up about my feelings more (even though a few people in my life will disregard/disrespect said feelings)

200 notes- I'll tell the person that I have a crush on how I feel (even though he likes someone else, and Im scared)

250 notes- (last one, and kinda important for me) I'll set alarms for my medication and sleep at a regular time so that I can take my meds at a regular time

BONUS:

1000 notes- I'll start eating regularly instead of binging/not eating at all (I do both interchangeably)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Remember: The burning sensation is part of the process.

[felix-krain]

Has this been done yet-

[skunkes]

adding to my collection, need more

[munsonify]

raw, next question.

[mspaint-flower]

hi

gentle reminder that me and my family are still in need of help and my comms are open, i have school so i may not be very fast but i try my best to be despite the situation i currently live in it would be great if you could help in any way, even just by sharing. thank you for everyone who helped me so far (and a special thanks to EmeliaK), i had wished by now this would be over but it's not. so i gotta keep fighting

thank you

[asleepinawell]

What do you want? I'm busy. Go hit your head against the glass or something.

[banditblvd]

bandit?.? Riptide posting?.????? It’s more likely than you think!

I was going through my screen recordings and I realized—not for the first time, mind you—that most if not all riptide clips are so animatic-able

[umblrspectrum]

hi im back