#the comic is drawn like the second pic

[banana-pancake5]

Haven’t posted art in a tad bit so here’s some doodles from that comic I was working on (Sadly, I have yet to continue working on it ;-;)

[dashing-through-ecto]

The difference one and a half years can make

My first comic

My latest comic

It's been absolutely staggering to see the differences even though these panels have the same vibes.

[illya-roma]

AHAAAAA

I LOVE THIS SO MUCHHH

It's amazing

Robin’s Egg by Calix aka @arzuera​ is just, such gloriously fun fic to read. I literally want to draw so many scenes from it, like sadlkjfaskd  its just!! so cute!!! aaaaa ;33333

also a lil doodle for locket because my mind is so stuck on it and figuring it out, i mean its just ;) so thoughtful of timbo

[wendylianmartin]

hi!! do you have any tips for anybody who wants to create a webcomic?

hope you’re doing well! :3

Well if you want to make a comic you probably already have an idea in mind so go ahead and make that one ;)

It’s usually good advice to make a shorter comic first but just jump in and make any comic you want. 👍

I recommend making a collection or mood board consisting of other comics you really like so you can examine them and see how each artists handles transitions, speech bubble placement, framing etc. it can give you a lot of ideas and inspiration.

Another fun thing is to try doing some ‘test’ pages. If it’s not ‘the official comic’ in your mind then it might encourage you to experiment a bit and you can figure out how you want to do the colors and lineart and such.

Random tips that come to mind:

-don’t get stuck doing only ‘close up shots’ it’s a good idea to have at least one panel on each page (or at least every 5 panels) that is zoomed out a bit so you can see a full shot of your characters and some background.

-if the scene changes to a new area it’s a good idea to start with an establishing shot with a big background image that shows off the new area.

-don’t avoid the things you’re bad at drawing. Purposely write your weaknesses into the story so you can get better at drawing them.

-pay attention to the kind of angles you’re drawing your characters at. If you notice you’re only drawing a front or side view it can be fun to try more dynamic shots like one from overhead or one from below.

-readability is important so make sure you pick a font that’s easy to read and make sure the text isn’t too small. (Try comparing the size and readability to other well known comics to give yourself a reference.)

-use references a lot and as much as you can. It might seem like the effort of finding a reference picture will make the drawing process longer but I find that it speeds up my drawing process A LOT. I’ll struggle to draw a hand from memory and keep deleting it but as soon as I just take a pic of my own hand to look at I’ll have it drawn in 30 seconds lol.

-don’t stress over anything I’ve said here and just have fun drawing. At the end of the day, all that matters is that you’re making comics because that’s the only way to get better at them 👍

[agileo-101]

REQUEST FOR FNAF CHILDREN OC SUBMISSIONS!!!

Hi cuties! As you know, I have a webtoon called Blarerock, https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/fnaf-blarerock-/list?title_no=833851 and I have a request.

I need several human children OC as an audience or by-standers for my comic.

If you have an human oc, please reblog this post with image of child oc attach to it!

Rules-

Please human children characters only! Don't send me a pic of your adult oc and then ask me to draw them younger.

One submission per person! I would like many ppl to have a chance for their oc to be featured!

Must be hand drawn and fully colored art! No Gachas. No black and whites, I don't want to second guess what is color of your oc and then get them wrong.

Just a heads up, the setting is in the pizza-plex; so large room with loud music and flashing lights.

thank you for reading and I hope to see your ocs soon!!

[chilewithcarnage]

oh finally making that post on lore olympus and rachel smythe's supposed 'decline in art style' before I forget about it .

so in the original post, the blogger jokingly edited this tweet in reference to the original tweet on the right made by infamous ex-tumblr fan artist rcdarts. my problems with this post stems from in my opinion an unwarranted comparison and kind of 'grasping at straws' type of complaint to the way lore olympus' art looks. op of the post makes it seem like Smythe's art devolved; but if this is the type of critique you're trying to make it's got pretty weak legs to stand on. the above pictures are not good examples if you're trying to have a valid argument that lore olympus' proto art is better than how the comic ended up looking. you can argue that the character designs of the series are boring and safe considering they're based off of Greek gods as opposed to say the art in the supergiant Hades series. That's all well and good but to say that legitimately that first picture with gray Hades and orange Persephone is 'better' than the second feels disingenuous. From a technical standpoint, the art of the second image is better. The art in the first picture while decently drawn is much flatter and dull than the second. Second pic is definitely more visually interesting and has better usage of its colors/painting style. Though the palette is limited there's still visual depth and volume to it. Design wise I get a much better read of who these characters are and what they're like. Also second pic Hades and Persephone are much better proportioned than the first. Albeit it first pic looks like a wip, Hades' head looks huge in comparison to Persephone's (her torso also looks like it's kind of just floating over his, the limited composition and coloring doesn't make it feel like these two are actually touching/interacting with each other). I think a lot of the smoke lore olympus got (and still gets) is due to the main characters looking like a stereotypical 'booktok' romance couple; Hades being a tall sharp featured fit man in a suit and Persephone being a big bright eyed button nosed Disney princess esque young woman. But the first pic doesn't even divert from those tropes. It's pretty much the same visual dynamic except Hades gives less sugar daddy/mafia boss and more academic(?) shut in. And Persephone's is face is less rounded and her hairs shorter but that's about it in terms of design differences. I've never read lore olympus and don't plan to so I can't give any actual criticism to the series, but in this specific case where we're just judging art and visuals the claim of the older art being 'better' seems unfounded. I think what a lot of people that rag on how the series looks hate it because Smythe's style is very much a product of when she started getting popular. It's very much that early to mid 2010s tumblr fantasy style that a lot of women artists were doing (hence why I feel low-key why this and also Steven universe had/has so many haters is mainly due to misogyny, this is a very feminine art style). y'all need to understand that a person developing a more simplistic style is not equal to their skill devolving. The comparison to rcdarts to me is unjustified cause rcdarts actually did change for the worst. like how I just said simpler style =/= worst art, but rcd's work not only got simple but less visually interesting, less dynamic, utilized more static and dull posing/coloring, and over exaggeration to the point where characters were unrecognizable.

[workinghandinhand]

first pic is like.. one year old already. second pic was drawn in december. this is AU where Lisa is the older sis of Brad. Buddy is orphan from orphanage, so is Dusty. there were no flash. i actaully wanted to draw little comics based on this AU to reveal the relationships of the characters... i just really like the concept 🏃‍♀️

[jduckdraws]

First pic: 06/27/24 - 07/10/24

Second pic: 06/26/23 -?

Last pic: 01/13/23

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Last year on my break I did alot of concept art of my Sonic Dimensions AU characters. My brother was telling me for the longest time to give the characters new designs to make them look different but I was too lazy to do it back then, so I finally decided to take a crack at it since my Au has a small timeskip they shouldhave different looks since its a new era for them. Also thinking of the overall theme what im going for the comic. I remember how long it too me to do Sonic's design cause I wanted his look to me be similar to his current one. I wanted to make his shoes look really cool and detailed along with his gloves. I was looking at all these cool runner shoes for him. God knows I'm regretting it cause they are difficult to draw, especially if I gotta keep drawing it in the comic too🥲 but I love how they look so I'm keeping it for now I just gotta practice it alittle more. Maybe i might give him another pair of shoes in the future but we'll see. Lol

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Anyways the first drawing was me practicing some hatch techniques making it look more like a manga. I want my comic to be colored but i really like the manga black/white look. Haven't drawn a cool looking Sonic in so long so this drawing just gased me up that I actually improved ya'll 😭 I'm so proud of myself.✨️💪🏽 I want to continue doing this on my side account posting my concept work new doodles with it too. Next is probably Shadow.

[max05nb]

Day 19:

(masterpost)

Here's Scott redesign/my take on his design, Unlike El's this one is actually quite different than the card design, I took a lot of inspo from Pinterest necromancers and other artist who drawn his design, I tried to combine elements from everything to make it mine, hope you guy love it as much as I!

There was a lot of experimenting with him (I figured out the shocking fact that he in fact doesn't have straight hair most likely) and the pose do not make sense (Idk what I was thinking) but I'm happy with the results!

I included more color variety, white lilies on the hat representing Milo and I kinda made the belt have eyes, idk if you can see it or nah

He also has his little gecko friend! That I kid you not spent at least half an hour searching for his name just to come up empty handed... Did he not name them?? Did I just miss it?? Idk

Just to show how smart decision go into these, the reason why he doesn't have the Loincloth (I spent 10 minutes looking for the name of it) is because it's annoying to draw in a siting position. Specifically in the sitting position I usually draw him. Yeah that's it I'm just to lazy to figure out gravity so nahh

Also you see how my designs lack patterns that were my favorite parts from the card designs? Yeah I'm just too lazy to draw them, I know, not very cutesy nor demure of me '^'

Random add ons: I added a another skull, now he has a skull on his hat. Couldn't decide on nose, went with how I'm feeling at the time of drawing. I drawn the wand that turns him into a ghost and drawn two options for a broom, I went with the second opinion btw. I can't get over the fact not even his is straight, the skin has a hair style much closer to wavy almost definitely not straight like how I thought. Should have known, Scott is as close to straight as a circle.

I was debating his earrings a lot, I wanted him to have multiple but couldn't figure out what type. Btw here's lore I made up on a wimp he definitely got his earrings from Milo and never takes them off because of that as it was a gift for his birthday or something. This is now canon to the comic I'm making. Was it important not? But I'm writing this post at 1am because I procrastinate.

He would make it into Edna's nightmares from Incredibles with all the lose fabric he has on most possible designs, he even got a cape in the final one, he's asking to be suck into a plane propellers.

Making this design also made me discover a new artist, so funny story, my phone was broken so I couldn't really use it to listen to music so I used my sister's laptop, I also used that for ref pic btw, and the laptop is logged into her account. I didn't want to mess up her YouTube history and was too lazy to log in the try to log out of my Google account so I opened up incognito, I typed in YouTube and searched "necromancer playlist" and let the ai do it's thing. I'm not kidding when I say this, you can check it for yourself, the second playlist is literally called "playlist for the non binary necromancers" like it was made for me specifically xd Btw really good compilation kudos to whoever made it! Anyway the new artist I found is Bear Ghost, specifically recommend Necromancin dancin and Starkiller.

[asexualsoup]

In which Peter Nureyev goes undercover at the Vixen Valley and Juno just happens to find him there. Not canon... (maybe). I’ll find out tomorrow when the finale comes out, I guess lol. 

And yes, this comic was all just an excuse to draw Nureyev as Jessica Rabbit. 

As always, click the pics for better quality. 

[ID: A five page fanfiction comic of characters from The Penumbra Podcast, in grayscale. 

Page 1: The text at the top of the page reads: “Disclaimer: Not canon (unfortunately).” The first panel shows the exterior of the Vixen Valley at night. Juno’s word bubble reads, “Come on, Vick. We both know you got the intel I need on the guy I’m looking for.” The second panel shows Vicky and Juno sitting in armchairs together inside the Vixen Valley. Vicky’s word bubble reads, “You know how this works by now, Steel. I ain’t in the habit of givin’ out anythin’ I can put a price tag on.” The third panel is a close up of profile Juno looking serious while holding a drink. His word bubble reads, “I do. Just want to make sure it’s a price tag I can afford.” The final panel shows an extreme close-up of Vicky’s grin. Her word bubbles read, “Hehehehe. I guess that depends on how badly you wanna find your ‘guy...’” 

Page 2: The first panel shows an employee of the Vixen Valley dressed in a black suit approaching Vicky, their hands behind their back. Their word bubble says, “Ms. Vicky. Your wife is on the phone for you.” A grinning Vicky responds. Her word bubble reads, “Perfect. Steel, gimme a minute. I gotta take this.” The second panel shows a frustrated Juno. His word bubble reads, “Goddamn it, Vick! You can’t just-!” He gets interrupted by another Vicky word bubble, which reads, “God, you’re such a baby.” The third panel shows Vicky and her employee walking away. Vicky grins and gestures behind her with her thumb. Her word bubbles read, “I ain’t leaving for long. Gives me time to think over our little deal. Besides, the show starts soon. And somethin’ tells me you’re gonna like it.” The final panel, which rests partially behind the third panel, shows a still angry Juno shouting to Vicky behind him. In front of Juno is a stage surrounded by tables of waiting patrons and bustling wait staff. Vicky grins mischievously in the foreground as she continues to walk away. Juno’s word bubble reads, “Vicky!” Vicky’s word bubble reads, “Don’t enjoy yourself too much, Steel.” 

Page 3: The first panel shows a close-up cartoonish version of Juno pouting (FX: “pout”). His word bubble reads, “hmph.” The second panel is the same close-up but drawn in a less cartoony style. Juno looks upward curiously as the lighting in the room changes and the show begins. The lyrics to the song Why Don’t You Do Right? by Kansas Joe McCoy and Peggy Lee begin to appear in text boxes surrounded by music notes. The third panel shows the curtains on the stage, now lit from behind by a spotlight to show off the silhouette of the hidden performer posing sensuously. In the fourth panel, Juno gapes up at the stage in interest as other patrons cheer and whistle around him (FX: “whistle” and “woo!”). The final panel shows the silhouetted performer behind the curtain doing another pose. The lyrics on this page are: “You had plenty money 1922/You let other women make a fool of you/Why don’t you do right?” 

Page 4: The song lyrics continue across this page. The first panel shows the performer sticking a long leg out from behind the curtain. The second panel shows a close up of Juno’s eyes as they widen and he blushes. The third panel shows the performer stepping out from behind the curtain and grinning, but the second panel partially covers the third, obscuring the performer’s face. We can still tell that they have round glasses, light skin, long dark hair, and long, slender fingers. In the fourth panel, we see the back of the performer’s head as they push the curtains aside. More patrons of the Vixen Valley watch with rapt attention. The fifth panel shows a close up of the performer’s high-heels as they slowly strut across the stage. The sixth panel shows a squinting Juno. His word bubble reads, “No way...” The seventh panel shows an extreme close up of the performer’s heavily lashed eye behind their glasses. The lyrics on this page are: “Like some other men do?/Get out of here/Get me some money too.” 

Page 5: The final page of the comic. The first panel takes up about three quarters of the page. It is a full view of the performer on stage, revealing him to be Peter Nureyev dressed in a Jessica-Rabbit-style dress. He poses sensuously, hand on his hip, leg stretched out, and head tilted back. The second panel shows a grinning and slightly flushed Juno with a little heart beside his head. The final panel of the comic is the moment Nureyev notices Juno is there watching him. He gasps, looking embarrassed and blushing furiously. The lyrics on this page are: “Get out of here/Get me some-.” The second line is cut off by Nureyev’s gasp (FX: “gasp”). 

End ID] 

[iheartgod175]

INCOMING WIP BOMB

Alright, I decided I didn't want to wait any longer and start sharing some of my works in progress from this week. I haven't drawn this much in ages 😳

But anyway, here's a few pics I'm working on currently, some of which will be appearing this weekend when I get a chance 👍

I won't go into lengthy details, but the pics I've done, from top to bottom:

Sailor Moon

Uncanny Resemblance Pt 3, featuring Roxanne

Salvador's official design! (@blazing-shadows , I just KNOW you're going feral right now 😅😂)

Power Paige from Super Why's Comic Book Adventures

Wolf and Lucy showdown? Or perhaps...

There was gonna be a sixth, but I held off. That one's gonna take a bit more work than normal, so there's gonna be a delay on that one. I might include that in the second batch of WIPs/finished projects.

I hope you guys like these, and be on the lookout for them this weekend!

[kryxyoyo]

hi!! what's your main source(s) of stickers? your journal looks incredible :00

eeeee ty sm!! i get stickers from literally anywheres. dollar tree, craft stores, walmart, target, pharmacies, amazon, ebay, mercari, etc. i really like buying from artists too. like gloomygonza, mcmadmissele, pepperonccini, so on

here are pics of what i own rn:

really like pen gear products, they have so many diff stuff. both my current journal and the first row of sticker books shown in pic are from pen gear. i also really like fashion angels stickers (second row) and just regular stickers found around. the imaginarium book, i use for more whimsy theme pages, since the style is very vintage/antique like.

have a lotta loose sheets bought from dollar tree, others come with coloring books like crayola ones, lisa frank, trollz, etc. usually just rip them from whatever book theyre attached and keep in a box lol

also started just printing own cutouts from art i like other artists or shows/comics. and even own art drawn myself.

[littlewestern]

Guadalcanal looks a little like the 1940s-era superhero Sparky Watts, as created by Boody Rogers. Idk if this was intentional or not but they seem to have a similar "can-do" personality bordering on the absurd in different ways

I'd never heard of this character! But it's the right time period so I was excited to look him up.

...My god, it's uncanny.

There's a few things going on here, and it's a fun opportunity to talk about the design process, which I'm always happy to explore.

So when I first started working on Guadalcanal, I was immediately drawn to the little detail that he had one gun for defense purposes. It's almost silly, right? This big, imposing aircraft carrier who can't really defend himself at all and has to rely on the destroyer escort, but still carries around a tiny ladypistol "just in case". For that reason, my primary visual inspiration is, no joke:

Doctor The Meme himself from Gundam X. The wiki tells me his name is 'Techcs Farzenberg' which is an absolutely top-tier white-people-in-anime name.

Gonna be honest, I'm mad I didn't look up more pics of this guy before. Now This Is Fucking Character Design.

But he's a little old, right? And that hair just won't do. And I like how serious the glasses make him look, but I need a little more charm. A big boat needs to be the kind of character little boats will want to follow and defend. So we have a basic idea (as silly as it is) but we need to fill out the details.

I'm big on drawing design inspiration from old photos. Not only is this a great way to draw period-accurate outfits, but it also helps with designing more realistic faces. I find that when I draw inspiration from photos and real people, my characters feel more realistic, like people you could actually meet somewhere instead of just lines on a page. So I googled up "wwii navy men stock images" and clicked around.

Oh yeah, this is great stuff. His glasses dovetail nicely with our bespectacled non-combatant idea, and this lad's hair is much more indicative of the time period we're trying to portray. From this guy I pulled the hairstyle and reaffirmed that my decision to give Guadalcanal glasses was the right one. This guy just looks so approachable, and I want that for my character as well. If this is your great-grandpa, congrats, he lives in my head rent-free.

Now to put the finishing touches on him. I bulked him up a lot to give that air of importance and authority, and softened his facial features out to make him even more friendly-looking. His face - particularly his nose and mouth - are heavily inspired by an ex-boyfriend of mine (who I won't show here for obvious reasons lol). I think most designers can't help but draw inspiration from the people around them, so we might as well lean into it. I love the way my lived experiences can be reflected in my work. Now we can put it all together!

The one on the left was the first-pass design and the one on the right was a redraw after some tweaks and a bit of practice. You can tell I struggled with the hair and just phoned it in, but that's what first-passes are for. There's a reason I never posted the first design, lol. The second one I prettied him up a bit and broadened all of his features, focusing on his nose and the ratio of negative space around his eyes and mouth. I think this gives him a more mature look without aging him too much, since we still want him to look young enough to excuse his youthful arrogance. I figured out the hair as well, which was helpful!

"But why does he look so much like Sparky, then?" You might ask. This is a fun example of 'convergent evolution' - where two artists come up with the same result based on different approaches! A thing that's important to note about Sparky is that he was originally designed as a send-up or parody of superhero comics of the time. This informs a lot of decisions about his design.

Sparky has superhuman strength, speed, and toughness. Sound familiar?

But of course, you don't want to step on a copyright holder's toes. And you want comic book buyers to know they're buying a Sparky Watts comic and not a Superman one. Being a parody gives the artist a lot of outs here, ways to make Sparky visually distinct while still poking fun at the types of superheroes the audience is more familiar with.

Where Superman sheds his Clark Kent glasses that make him unassuming and approachable, Sparky keeps them on all the time. Superman has tousled black hair and a costume with his symbol on the front, where Sparky has neatly-parted blonde hair and a normal collegiate outfit that distinguishes him only by way of saying that he's completely ordinary. You can see, then, how they arrived at his design. By making him *different from Superman* they made him the same as Guadalcanal. That's okay, they didn't know. ;^)

Thanks for the ask!

[y0d00p]

since i'm no longer viscerally opposed to seeing ex-besties OCs or having them on my page, i wanted to share some old art i still like that happened to feature them :) the first pic here has what i consider to be one of the cutest/best looking Lad's i've drawn. overall i just like the little homage to Computers I Like

the posing in the second one is really cute, and i love the composition in the third one! the story with the third one is that in our RPs, multiple characters had become corrupted/infected by Soed, excluding VR specifically, despite him really wanting it. funny (?) in hindsight now that he's Soed spawn himself

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i drew TONS of these tiny comics of just OCs saying funny quotes from videos or tumblr posts. i'm sharing this one because i like how everyone is drawn here and because Lad is in it

pokemon AU Lad and (the other one) was one of the last major things we RP'd together and actually "finished" and it was really special to me. asocial middle aged man living off the grid after escaping a criminal organization and the pathetic 35 year old shmuck he meets that just lost everything and doesn't know how a pokeball works. human Lad (as a separate character) got a lot of his development from this

comics from an RP we had where their kaiju OCs showed up from an interdimensional portal or something and started causing havoc. back when Lil was into dudes lmao

i'm sad about archiving this one because it's a cute little moment with Tro and Icha but i feel like the set up with (that guy) is too good to just cut out (sorry these are long, if the text is hard to read, you can click -> right click -> open image in new tab to zoom in)

this was drawn back in Splatoon 1 time... before playable octolings and new hairstyles... the pacing in this makes me laugh

to finish up here's some doodle pages focusing on Lad and (the slot machine), including a fusion. i love the Lads in these so much ubububu he's so cute

Lad reading I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream to (the slot machine). little Lad is so cute LOOK AT HIM!!!

[beansinjeans]

Various sketches I've drawn while enjoying thinking about Gonzoclock's incredible fanfiction Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Snake. Some bonus headcanons and notes ive developed under the cut

First off have this really rough reference art i did for the slytherins

I know what youre asking. You're asking, why is daphne's hair different in this pic from the train pic? the answer is simple. My artistically driven headcanon is that daphne wears a different hairstyle every day. Harry, being a little bit daft sometimes, doesn't even know which is her natural hair. I like fantasizing about silly shit like that.

Also guess i should note that the comic is a scene from chapter 24. 3rd person pov on harrys parseltongue with merlin. Second subnote, didn't update Remus's appearance to gonzo's headcanons in this post, so he just looks like Movie Remus-- he's also wearing a sweater and not a jacket in that scene, oops. I miss details sometimes.

[frenzyarts]

I was reading ASBH again and I was wondering what steps you do to draw your backgrounds. They're amazing and I struggle with doing them

First of all I'm in shock and awe that someone out there is still reading my ancient unfinished comic, thank you omfg 😭🙌

Honestly I don't love the backgrounds in ASBH! I had a hard time with them. At the time I just wanted to make a comic, not care if it was messy or well written, and just get it out there!! This backfired because it turns out I do care about those things. A lot of the backgrounds took on a super messy and sketchy quality as a result. I still love that rough art style, but I think I'd do "sketchy and messy" differently now.

This is the most detailed background I did for the comic. It started by tracing over a pic I took, but editing some stuff to fit the look of Upper Limbo (which was supposed to be somewhat art nouveau). Here's some wip shots:

For this next one, I thought the photo would help me get the perspective correct. It sort of worked? You can see in the second sketch how I added on buildings that are in a similar position to the photo. (Also enjoy my beautiful sketches lmfao 😂)

I was having trouble remembering the background so for the next page I just traced over my previous drawing 😂 I simply Couldn't Be Bothered to make my line art look like anything other than spaghetti

This one was all from my sketch, no reference, and yet it somehow looks way better than the other ones imo(this was drawn only a few weeks after the first one, it looks like I improved super fast but really I feel like I was just getting on a roll)

Finally we have this page. I don't even think I posted this. But for the backgrounds here I did my favorite lazy techniques of "big textured background" and "background but I blurred it so I don't have to draw details"

I hope this was somewhat helpful! Let me know if there’s something you’d like me to cover in more detail