#medium work

[dreamgirljune]

if tumblr loves anything, it's bitches who are doomed by the narrative. in this uquiz, find out what role are you in the tragic play?

[welcometogrouchland]

Extremely bad batgirls comic I made featuring Steph's sex life and Cass' ability to read everything but the room

[kellkyy]

"Ghosts" made with airbrush and paper cut-outs

[sasswonfp]

This joke came to me in a fit of laughter (ALT description provided :3!)

[punkitt-is-here]

Your praise of Chainsaw Man actually makes it sound really interesting so would you recommend manga or anime?

Manga, but mostly because I haven't watched the anime aside from the first four episodes. I recommend reading it specifically because Fujimoto is a fucking genius when it comes to his panelling. Like, genuinely some of the best in the industry. The way he uses the medium of comics to portray intimacy or horror or comedy is like no other. I might post some examples later, but I genuinely think you're missing out if you ONLY watch the anime because Fujimoto uses the medium so goddamn well

[b4kuch1n]

podcast people in my phone

[emilinqa]

on an increasingly urgent mission to get everyone to read the star trek year five comics

[saltmalkin]

tiangou

[partywithponies]

Listen to me. If you want your media literacy to improve, you have to consume a variety of media. And I don't just mean a variety of genres or a variety of writers or a variety of target demographics (though absolutely those as well), I mean a variety of mediums. Read books. Watch TV. Watch films. Listen to radio plays. Watch theatre productions. Watch documentaries. Read comics and graphic novels. Goddammit read fanfic and watch youtube videos as well, just for the love of god have variety. Learn to recognise how different mediums convey themes and information in different ways. It's like food groups, you need a little bit of all of them to be healthy.

[abby-howard]

I'm going to be asking a lot of artists I follow this question, but how did you develop your style? It SEEMS like most people find their style and stick with it forever, just making improvements and iterations. I tend to work in a lot of different styles because I enjoy doing that, though I know there are things I gravitate towards as well. But I wonder what your journey was and how you got feedback and improved while staying true to what you enjoyed?

Hi there!

I definitely wouldn't say that I've found my style and stuck with it forever-- I feel like each of my projects has asked for a certain kind of art, and has presented new challenges that push me in new directions.

Some of that comes from seeing someone else's work and having something click into place that might fix errors/faults in my own, and then I might try to incorporate that, such as bigger outlines on my characters to help distinguish them from the background, or maybe a way someone else simplifies eyes that can help make mine look less weird.

When I first started drawing, I can see where I encountered certain influences because my sketchbooks suddenly switch to incorporating some new stylistic element that I liked from whatever I was reading/watching at the time. But it was never QUITE right, it was never just copying, there was always something ~wrong~ with it. And that wrongness was my style! As much as I hated it, that was what distinguished my art from being just a copy of someone else's. I hate it less now, and understand that other people see something there that maybe I don't, because it's just what happens when I filter other people's work through my head. My soul, if you will.

There are definitely through-lines with my work, driven by what I like drawing and what comes easily to me-- hatching is almost always a major component, and I like making expressive characters. Here's some of my earliest available stuff, from my old webcomic:

Then not long after that, I started The Last Halloween, which pushed me to challenge myself in both layout and style:

And here's the same comic, years later:

And here's a series I did for kids, where I had to use full color and lay off on the hatching, as well as learn how to reconstruct animals that we have no photo references for, which is definitely a place where style comes majorly into play, whether I wanted it to or not:

Then there was the horror book I did, where I tried to push my work to be less cartoony overall, and to work very hard on improving my hatching:

Then I started work on Scarlet Hollow, where I incorporated a limited/muted palette and had to once again push myself to make less-cartoony art, as well as learn more consistency so I could draw sprite sets. This was a big challenge for me, and has helped me grow as an artist so much!

And most recently, I wrapped up work on Slay the Princess, which required that I go back in the cartoony direction, but in a very different way than I was used to. This took a lot of sketching to figure out, and there's still a decent amount of artistic stumbling in Chapter 1 while I settled into it.

She's drawing on anime/Disney influence, but each Princess required a bit of stylistic variability. Some are more anime, while some are more realistic than even the Scarlet Hollow characters.

So I wouldn't worry too much, honestly! A person's style is often something that reveals itself over the course of their career, rather than something they choose and then try to stick to forever.

Even if you don't think you have a style, you do. It might vary a lot piece by piece, especially if you're trying to closely imitate another person's art, but the more work you do, the more you'll figure out your own strengths and interests!

[sysig]

How far did you get? (Patreon)

[otemilk]

MANNY JACINTO as ELLIOT BALESTRA (2024)

[sunlit-mess]

Hey! I’m a super big fan of all your work. All your art is super expressive and real - I get so excited when I’ve seen you posted. So, I’ve been wondering, what initially got you into drawing? It looks like you’ve been doing it a super long time.

Sorry, I’m realizing this looks like a bot posted it lmao, but I do love your work & it’s so awesome you got into Hazbin because seeing how you interpret the characters is so fun.

Cheers from Ireland!!!

I hardly remember jackshit about my younger years but all I can say is- It's five nights at Freddy's for sure. 😭😭😭😭

drawing had been my coping mechanism and outlet ever since, so behind any work are vent arts lol

[kaiserouo]

should've done this since day 1

very significant fuck

[honeybeeofficial]

ARE YOU GONNA SELL THE HORSESHOE CRAB URSES???? Plzzz

Hahaha I did a breakdown the other day of what a realistic price for something like this would be. All told, time + material cost would put the horseshoe crab somewhere around $700. Since it's all done by hand, the amount of time this one took would not be conducive to selling them in any significant number. (Also, it would kill my hands to try to do these en masse– punching and stitching leather is haaaard.) I would consider doing a commission or two if anyone genuinely wanted to pay that much.

That said, I am absolutely thinking about cleaning up the pattern I drafted and offering that (at a much lower price, obviously!) for anyone who wanted to make their own. I bet it could also work in a stiff canvas, or interfaced fabrics.

[kamabokobun]

A sculpture I made of my slug fakemon starter :]