#it’s so tedious

[frnkiebby]

today is mission x day. in which Ghoulie must suffer through billing BL/ind forms to this post-apocalyptic worlds government~🎃

[deadly-kalopsia]

tumblr pls stop crashing i need to get to 1000 boops

[lesbiansanemi]

All fun and games having a bunch of figures until it’s time to dust them

[thecrystalauthor]

Camellia, lollipop, and cupcake are by @mud-foot who might have deleted their blog? They’re also mudcritter on instagram

Arven belongs to my friend keDJGAnimations on twitter, the Collector is mine, and Lloyd and imogen belong to @phoebepheebsphibs

Gidget belongs to @v-70

Primrose belongs to willowocat on twitter

[milocelium]

So i started this painting in August of last year (‘22) and i’m FINALLY working on finishing it

[koipudding]

trying to finish mung bean soda (3.4k) but my tummy hurts and i have a chem mid term i gotta write a reference table for.

[mistercrowbar]

Sorry not sorry Shadowheart, from every Astarion romancer ever.

[1alchemistart]

that's right babygirls i still have more JKAWLKLSDF

i always thought it'd be fun if ladybug had wings so i gave her some bc yes

[newts-and-sharks]

I really need to finish moon

Sea creature Sun!

This took way too long! I’m gonna hold a funeral for my hands! I’m giving them a Viking funeral! Burn! Burn you cursed appendages! It’s practice for where you will be going in the afterlife!

[whiteraven90]

Fluffy bear-sized baby and a scrunkly wet potato. Some of Griffin's juvenile forms. He didn't have parents (or kids of his own), but I wanted to do a bit more for the background than a blank canvas.

[skipppppy]

I’m GENUINELY curious. I’ve kinda picked up that a lot of us have at least 1 part of the drawing process that we just fuckin,, hate. I know a lot of us have strong opinions on lineart. Mine is doing the flat colours, that shit is so boring. Rant about what you hate and why in the tags. This is a safe space to be a whiny bitch

[wonjns]

one day i’m gonna finally organize my masterlist & actually make it presentable 😭

[kalmiaclown]

🌀oooooo you wanna listen to Your Surgeon Is Human, Too by Machinery of the Human Heart sooo baaad🌀

[taddymason]

the fandom: Jay is the smallest ninja and has no muscle strength.

Meanwhile Jay:

Are you telling me that if Jay were a weak twink with noodle arms he would be able to lift Nya like she was nothing over his head and throw her into oblivion? or the time he hung from a rope with a vengestone ball on his ankle and A SNAKE clinging to his leg in EP60? I don't think so

Btw Skybound being a cursed season as always, amazing

[hotcinnamonsunset]

proof that you CAN use math in every day life😌✌🏼

[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!