#trafficzine

[gammagoop]

my piece for @trafficzine :]

[zhukzucraft]

my piece for the @trafficzine!! thank you for giving me a chance

[astronomodome]

my piece for @trafficzine :D

[spiderziege]

my piece for @trafficzine! the secret life dragon fight ✨

[alienssstufff]

"Impulse had escaped then, sure, but Bdubs found him again. He always did."

My piece for the 5th Edition of @trafficzine ! Ft the Session 5 Tag Game between Bdubs, Impuse, Scott and Tango

This piece shares the same prompt withhhhh @mxmarsbars ' wonderful fic through Impulse's POV link [ HERE ]

[notes , commentary and SECRET TASK undercut]

Entirely optional. I did it because it perfectly aligned with the idea I was gunning for when the prompt lists dropped.

Even before being accepted into this edition of trafficzine I had this composition idea stewing since Session 5 (one of my personal fave episode of the entire life series tbH). My piece is a still version of THIS impdubs animation loop

Brainstorms for the first Check-In

A breakdown of some of the design decisions and easter eggs hidden in the piece

And some progress images!

bonus lil dumb doodle of when Martyn was reacting to my page in his trafficzine stream -- i was aestheticaly inspired by the pmmm anime op i take his comments with me to the grave...

[ink-ghoul]

Waterlogged leaves 👎👎👎

Piece for @trafficzine Go check everyone's art

[illustromic]

Hi so I'm a bit late posting this, but I was part of @trafficzine 's Double Life zine, and this is the artwork I did for it!! I was teamed up with the wonderful @to-make-yourself-known and their piece is just stunning, go check them out as well!! And thanks to the Trafficzine organizers for allowing me to be a part of this!! ^w^

[he1ian]

hunter and prey

[boxbug]

A Canary’s Final Flight

My piece for @trafficzine 4th edition! Get it for free here! 200 pages of excellent art and fics, incredible work from all participants and from the mods especially!! huge shoutout to the mods for real

Process notes under the cut! (I struggled a lot so it's a bit of a novel)

So the entire process was a Ride. I knew when I picked this prompt that I was going to have a hard time, because Jimmy’s final death had been illustrated a billion times over by extremely talented artists. But I had a Vision of the snapshot of the second before the impact, when everything is still but you know what’s about happen. It was very much inspired by the clip of Fog by Jabberwocky, bu the thing is, they have the advantage of all the build up of the fall, and that’s when the trouble started.

This was my first version, and obviously it wasn't working. And I was trying so hard, with so many iterations! Small wings, big wings, no wings, different poses, less backgrounds elements. I'd done compositions were everything seemed peaceful but something is Wrong, but it wasn't working this time.

So instead I focused on what rendering I'd like to do - I tried a painterly approach, for that visceral feeling, but it wasn't working either (but hey, I did keep the red sky, so, progress)

At this point I'd been doing back and forths for weeks and I was just as lost as at the start. Now that's my tip for people who make art of any kind, in situations like that, stop thinking about how you can make the best piece possible, and think about you can have fun with it (because when you aren't it's visible). And for that was, 1 - going back to using ink and pen nibs and doing way too detailed inking, and 2- looking at Dave McKean's covers for Sandman (which, funnily enough, was also a reference for my previous trafficzine piece)

And from there I was actually going somewhere! Between the jagged rocks, the red sky, and the increased verticality with the borders, I had hit the vibes I wanted.

I did some experimentation with the border, and even though I really liked the bad boys I drew they were taking too much away from the lonely desolation, so I actually used Red (Unecessary Redstone)'s idea of all of Jimmy's worldy's possessions scattered on the ground post impact, with the idea to make it looks like the central image is his grave being dug.

(and yes for a short amount of time the were supposed to be clock markings on the sun, but there was already enough going with the wings so I scrapped that) (also fun fact the reason why the wings aren't fully material but more ghostly is because my toddler cousin was watching me draw the very first draft and asked why he didn't just use his wings and i went :( so the wings are a metaphor now)

So from there I found a bunch of picture and took some myself, cut and assembled everything together, added shadows in all the appropriate places, and repainted some elements so that everything would look better intergrated (some of the wheats are basically 100% handpainted, the cardboard as well). This took a suprisingly long amount of time, but I was done!

Well I wasn't expecting to have that much to say, but I hope if you're still reading, it was at least interesting!

[lyrqxa]

they aren't good at being sneaky

my piece for @trafficzine ! in it, you can see pearl and scott's perspective drawn by @synless.

(link)

[cheesecrackery]

Here's my piece for the 3rd edition of @trafficzine !! It was such an honor to participate in this :D

Link to the zine

[vyeoh]

A deal cashed in...

here is my piece for the fourth edition of @trafficzine! Be sure to check it out :)

[solarockk]

oh I wonder what's coming in 7 days..👀? @trafficzine

[trafficblrpositivityproject]

@trafficzine to those who run each issue of this zine, hugs and kisses to you all <3

To everyone on the @trafficzine staff!!!

[to-make-yourself-known]

my contribution to the @trafficzine!! it was such a blast working on this and everyone's pieces are absolutely incredible!! i collabed with @illustromic, go check out their beautiful piece as well!!

[briseise]

cornflower blue

my piece for the third @trafficzine! my soulmate/partner was @aroaceacacia, so check out their's as well!