#i'll get hate for this

[gaylactic-fire]

[partyswirl]

sighs

[pinkravat-art]

i cannot keep my identity secret anymore. I am harrier du bois

[ouranobsession]

I will be damned with this unpopular opinion, but I just realized why I don't hate the Zuka Club as much as the general population.

As someone who went to a real life version of St. Lobelia Girls Academy, some things in the anime that are obviously exaggerated, but there is some truth to it.

Taking things from a more realistic perspective, this is a school in JAPAN. A place where QUEER notions/feminism/pronouns/basically western views on gender and sexuality are heavily repressed. Luckily, most of us weren't born and raised in Japan because that country is misogynistic as hell. They freakin' decided to put permanent shutter sounds on cellphones there because they can't control the men to stop taking pictures of people without consent? All women train carts? Those issues need another post and discussion.

This really puts the anime and manga far ahead of its time which must be why its so memorable. Anyways moving on from that...

We also had a theater club and yes they also had musicals done (LOLOLOL. We actually had two types of theater clubs, three kinds of singing clubs/glee clubs, and 3 types of dance clubs but LOL that's not the point of this post). We've had gender studies and feminism discussed slowly even as kids. In high school, I could definitely name few people like the Zuka Club because we were taught to fight the patriarchy and the misogyny.

The elaborate plans for a first kiss? Obviously the anime was over the top, but I remember some of my friends and classmates planning elaborate dates hoping for a first kiss. Sending gifts daily with notes and all the works? Done. Serenading them with a guitar, chocolates, flowers, etc while at school? Yup. That's happened. Girls hiding behind doors stalking the senior they have a crush on? Daily occurrence.

Do I like the way they were portrayed in the anime? Not exactly but it was and is in true OHSHC fashion to just be over the top with everything. The whole anime is satire so no one should take it too seriously.

[deep-space-lines]

IT'S FINALLY FUCKING DONE. I'M FINALLY FREE

UNTIL FRAUD COMES OUT

Tumblr shrinks it down pretty bad so please. please. I am begging you. look at the full sized image and zoom in. This art piece made my friends worried for my mental health I need someone to witness the amount of detail and effort I put into this

also the original sketch under the cut bc I think comparing them is really funny

[arcanegifs]

Arcanegifs' Arcane Season 2 (2024) Character Poll 2nd Place: Caitlyn Kiramman ↳ "I am a decorated officer. Leader of House Kiramman. Address me with respect, or keep your mouth shut."

[lotus-pear]

ace detective more like ace DEFECTIVE

[teh-inggris]

pvp civ nation...... this aint much but pls take my contribution for this series bc im going insane i love hate this man so much get him out of my head

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The dog days are over.

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[vulpixelates]

i know it will never happen but i so desperately desire an origins-type playable backstory thing in all games but especially veilguard. i feel like it added so much depth to origins and made you feel instantly connected to your character in a way that gets lost in games like inquisition where you fill in the blanks as you go except for the bare basics. like, i do enjoy the freedom to willy nilly decide where a character was before the events of the story from a creative perspective, but the playable origins were just so good! especially when you go back to where your warden is from and can engage differently with the arcs there

[tzarrz]

i listen to fog lake too much

[messrsbyler]

you. yes you, person with rejection sensitive dysphoria. this message is for you. your friends DON'T hate you. they aren't mad at you. they aren't talking behind your back or wished to cut their friendship with you. they love you and treasure you and they are good people who wouldn't hurt you like that! ok, that's all. have a nice day.

[bixels]

tarpit site.

[hajihiko]

'Strong opinions about femininity and masculinity' moment

[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!

[kamisden]

etho got his angsty mess and so now does bdubs