#strong bad emails

[frootlooppoptarts]

[captainzigo]

dear princess twilight sparkle,

how do you type with hooves?

[apple-stars]

flashtoon freaks from my childhood

[tumdownfarm]

There ought to be more Homestar Runner / Strong Bad Email GIFs online. Just saying.

[deepdreamnights]

From this post, a conversation between Mrs. Nice and Dr. Underfang, about how there's more than one way to make a comic.

While the linked post goes into the process in much more detail, the short version is that making a comic with AI involves all the steps of making a photocomic or a Wondermark-esq collage comic.

Here, each panel is a combination of one or more gens through direct compositing and inpainting ('gumby Underfang' is a basic crop-job but the others are multi-image composites, inpainted edits, or both), with graphic design and non-AI composited elements. `

I like to use AI art to achieve forms of 'fauxstalgia', weaving concepts into the aesthetics of artifacts of the past. I consider myself a nostalgia artist (not a nostalgic artist, tho I can sometimes be that), but you can get as experimental with it as you want.

And people are already doing it, they just don't call them comics.

Those sequences of AI-generated photos that tell a horror story that pop up on Tumblr? Those are comics.

We are very much in the "plastic wrap and lens flare" phase of AI art, where the newest and (often literally) shiniest effects take center stage because like an early 2000s kid with a cracked copy of photoshop, it's the new toy.

(I have a feeling Colin Kaepernick is going to give us, at most, a few adventures of a D-rate Borgorroth of Coolswordoorroth before absconding with the bag.)

Feel free to reblog with folks that are doing innovative stuff.

I will start by recommending @reachartwork, where you're going to find all kinds of interesting new stuff, and a fun illustrated prose super-verse under the CHUM title.

[coralinefl0wers]

binge watching sbemails lately and i need absolutely everybody to know how happy i am that ppl are homestarposting in the year of our lord and saviour 2024. gives me hope for the internet at large. shoutout to @razzafrazzle in particular who i just discovered just now

[cheapsweets]

The Deflagrating Bawigrat

My response to this week’s BestiaryPosting challenge, from @maniculum

Pencil sketch, then lines in Sailor fude nib fountain pen, using Diamine Sepia ink.

Though process beneath the cut...

"In Asia an animal is found which men call Bawigrat. It has the head of a bull, and thereafter its whole body is of the size of a bull’s with the maned neck of a horse. Its horns are convoluted, curling back on themselves in such a way that if anyone comes up against it, he is not harmed. But the protection which its forehead denies this monster is furnished by its bowels. For when it turns to flee, it discharges fumes from the excrement of its belly over a distance of three acres, the heat of which sets fire to anything it touches. In this way, it drives off its pursuers with its harmful excrement."

My initial response to this one was 'oh boy!'... I'm pretty sure I know exactly what this creature is. If my suspicions are correct, there is traditionally a very specific way of depicting it, which might be dramatic but doesn't actually gel particularly well with the description...

Regarding the Bawigrat itself, we have a bull-like creature. I took a lot of inspiration from aurochs (and heck cattle) - the main difference being the horns curving up and back rather than forward and up, and giving it a fuller belly for maximum fermentation. I also tried to reflect the horse-like mane, though it's sitting a little lank across its neck while it's not in motion.

I was wondering for a while how to present the beast, and came to the idea of drawing a landscape, with the fumes slowly crawling across it and igniting anything they touch. Then I had another thought... Apologies Mac, I know you are going to get this reference.... ;)

[loathemetc]

Strong Bad is a difficult drawing instructor to follow, he goes really fast.

[raspberryzingaaa]

Minecraft rolling up with a choice Sbemails reference I see

[captainzigo]

do you like her costume

[lssthnthree]

The board game ... Again!

[squalamander]

he's not a kin or a comfort character but a secret third thing (my worksona)

[chelledoggo]

i had to do this sorry

[deskmanic]

Exactly 20 years ago, strong bad's Compy got an inordinate amount of viruses, wreaking havoc all over the website and also the world of Free country USA.

[frootlooppoptarts]

[coralinefl0wers]

having grown up watching homestar runner/sbemails and recently rewatching it all via the same 10hr comp, i am delighted to see ppl getting into it in 2024 and warmly welcome u to the cloughb!!

@wayneradiotv ‘s Trogsday stream vod convinced me to watch Homestar Runner, and one 10-hour cartoon comp later I am thoroughly charmed and wish I’d known about it as a kid. I wasn’t a very online child, but I can tell would’ve loved this if I’d known about it. Honestly I feel like a lot of my teens-twenties have been spent catching up on internet phenomena I missed out on growing up. I’m gonna watch more sbemails.

also at one point strong bad did a dance that reminded me of this thing that’s going around so I made this in like 20 minutes