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[jaedoesart]

Stickmin Space Resort but it's a tycoon game...

[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!

[skyartworkzzz]

Do you have any tips on drawing faces? 

I AM REALLY BAD AT EXPLAIning and teaching in general cuz most of the times Idk What The Fuck I am doing, but I do hope that this quick guide can help a little!!

These are mostly stuff I observed when looking at other ppl's art + learning my own style!

If it also helps, and this is MAJORLY a personal preference/learning method of mine, do not take the guidelines too seriously! They help u figure out the body and placement of things, sure, but if u hold urself to draw Perfectly over them, then I think it just- limits how stylized or expressive ur art can be Idk, at least thats how it felt for me cuz- as u can see, in no time I am following the lines I drew, but I did add them anyways cuz they help me remember what I am trying to achieve! So for example, even if I drew over the red line a little, the eye is still not obnoxiously close to the ear, which was exactly what I was trying to avoid :)

Hope u can take smtng good from this! Happy drawing <3

[nxtyrfinalgirl]

A Mimikyu for @v-the-raven ~

[t-eaowl]

They’re wondering why all the sinners have such small waists

[anielskaaniela]

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[celepeace]

Sometimes I'm surprised that monster hunter isn't more popular among the creature design and spec evo corners of tumblr, at least the portions that also play video games, and then I remember that it's just about as hard as soulsborne games (I'd argue some specific entries are even harder) but doesn't have any of the atmospheric or story elements to attract people. It gets by on sheer gameplay alone and isn't a pvp game either. There is no way to make the game easier besides picking one of the less mechanically complex weapons and git gud. If it wasn't for the neat dinosaurs I couldn't think of a game less alluring to the average tumblr user

[aria0fgold]

Yaknow what, I'm just gonna treat Yume Nikki as a type of game I can only play for a short time everyday to enjoy everything in it.

[scarapanna]

hey! this is chance & here’s this week’s prompt. what websites or resources do you use while you write or develop a character/story? what do you think of them and would you recommend them?

This is a really good and interesting question!

Most of it is actually based on what I come up with on my own story whise, whenever I don't know what story or interests to give a character I usually brainstorm a few ideas I havent used yet to find what fits best.

For character design I usually take different kinds of animals and reference them for looks and color palettes (The funny fella in my pfp was based off of a bearded vulture for example), I go on Pinterest for these as there's lots of material to work with and some really nice pictures as well.

However if a character is heavily affected by something or has gone trough some form of trauma I use multiple medical websites and sources to be as accurate as possible since these kinds of subjects are rather delicate and complex to tackle, wikipedia is handy but the more correct information the better (an example of this is this silly little mossfly here)

Regarding the sources themselves id say Pinterest is good for color palettes or designs, while for stuff related to physical traits or mental health related information wikipedia is a good basis but more websites should be integrated in this kind of research to get a better understanding

[djdhwkwhhehe]

how to dress grunge

~ textbook guidelines from a true god ~

thrift the thing (crucial)

have an interestin hobby (any hobby is cul tbh)

decent posture (could be a little lousy, but it gotta be intentional)

wear cooler tones if possible n dont wear bright fresh garments

as long as it stays on u sizes dont matter (it rlly doesnt)

always wear smth ugly to perfect the fit (if its not a bit ugly, is it a fit?)

get messy w the material. customize it (anythin would do the trick)

prints n patterns r always welcome. along w weird textures (dont afraid to mix them up)

be skinny. or dont. ur grunge. ur automatically cul now.

make sure ur eyelids r red n stone-ish

jeans n stockin r the same thing. better ripped

wear makeups but dont put efforts in it

wear it w pride n obscurity

pics cre: pinterest

[twotriickhoofbea2t]

I'm trying to find good resources for drawing butts like you do, any tips/pointers/references/guides?

Uh, drawing butts like I Do specifically is a bit of an odd thing, since the way i do it isn't necessarily the way others do it? i have some like, sketches i did on the subject before but it's all kind of cryptic and weird.

it's just kinda like, guesswork and using gravity and envisioning the form in 3d space with physics in your brain and all sorts of other general art stuff but, like, specifically applied to the butt.

that's not useful advice in the slightest but it is all i can say.

[anonprotagging]

hello, today god’s strongest warrior (me, queer trans man) faced The Horrors (took apart the garbage disposal to fix it) which turned out to be nothing but a farce (it was jammed by a tiny-af frosting tip)

[seraphim-soulmate]

shoutout to the autistics who don't do fuckall. keep it real. keep it locked down.

[your-fave-is-bi]

Made a knitting mistake like. Five rows ago when i in total today did like. Seven. Got very confused and sad about it, then rapidly tried to figure out if i could fix it to then bump into a huge wall of inexperience and lack of knowledge which in turn has resulted in me being so fuckinf mad and frustrated i have just. Given up.