#yeah I'm totally fine

[leclecsposts16]

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[chrrywvea]

this movie is taking over my brain holy shit

ANDREW SCOTT as Adam & PAUL MESCAL as Harry All of Us Strangers (2023) dir. Andrew Haigh

[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!

[azurerosses]

LOOK AT THEM!!!

"They've been practicing this for hours and they're still going to get it wrong."

[norriszn]

so they went to the fia ceremony together and left together and then landed in london together for the mclaren xmas party :D how much 'together' can we handle in one day? landoscar nation how are y'all feeling rn?

[kunikiiida-kuuun]

You know what really ruined me in Chapter 117?

It was how Kunikida was actually terrified when Amenogozen appeared in front of them. He couldn't stop trembling, and sweating, standing in front of a being that was nothing like they've ever faced before.

And despite his fear, even in those moments, even after being stabbed, he chose to fight. With bleeding and trembling hands, using all his strength, he grabbed the blade, stalling time at the cost of his own life so he could give Tanizaki a window of opportunity to escape.

Even before he was stabbed, he realized that there was no way they could defeat Amenogozen as he transcended both space and time. He was already prepared to sacrifice himself to let Tanizaki escape, and put on a brave face even though he was scared...

He can only feel relief in the knowledge that Atsushi showed deference to his intentions, choosing to save Tanizaki instead and in the process helping to realise his ideals...and as he fades, he makes the most peaceful expression...

[honeylionbaby]

Honda Racing THANKS DAY 2023

[intermundia]

so unlike yoda and obi-wan who both faded into the force and left no body behind, anakin left behind vader when he passed away, like luke struggled to move a very real, heavy, damaged body, and vader's corpse was a husk of a material form that carried all the scars of his life and his crimes. i honestly think that if luke hadn't forgiven anakin, and set him free by burning vader's body in a proper jedi funeral (whether he knew it or not), anakin might not have been released into the force to materialize as a ghost. i think he only got to be one because of the care of both luke and obi-wan, aka the son he never knew and the closest thing he had to a father, forming an inter-generational web of support and connection. the two of them both loved anakin so much that they helped him cross that final boundary into the force, whether he deserved it or not, that's not how love works. like fire purifies as it destroys, and luke's forgiveness and devotion with the pyre offered anakin the privilege of being made clean. as vader's armored body was transformed and consumed by the flames, the light of anakin's heart was liberated to shine out again into the force, and that light was the face that obi-wan greeted on the other side of death. so basically anakin couldn't have done it alone, not without the assistance both of the living and the dead, freely given, and sorely needed, and it makes seeing his relaxed, youthful face even more poignant. it's not only his own heart and effort that brought him there, but luke and obi-wan's too.

[avatarcompanion]

Let's not forget Mai was staying loyal to and protecting Zuko after breaking up with him, literally being unable to stop pining over him lmao.

[v88sy]

You know, if there's absolutely no intention of bringing Tommy back, I want them to never speak of him again.

I don't wanna be baited, and then I can continue with my silly little head canon that they started talking again/are friends. Maybe even fucking in secret if Buck's single. 🤭

[fellthemarvelous]

If we are going to hold Aziraphale accountable for the things he has said to Crowley, then we can hold Crowley accountable for calling Aziraphale "stupid" and "idiot" because even if "he didn't mean anything by them" they are still fucking hurtful too.

"You idiot...we could have been us."

You think that didn't fucking hurt Aziraphale?

Seriously?!?!

Especially since Aziraphale had already been treating them like an "us" the entire season. "Our bookshop." "Our car." The shit that people try to claim is somehow abusive.

Once again, excusing Crowley's words and holding Aziraphale entirely accountable for his is just like when I was in Catholic school and they were like Eve ate the apple first so her sin was worse and we're just gonna let Adam's sin slide even though he ate the apple too because he only did it because Eve provoked him.

It doesn't work like that.

Double standards are so tiresome.

If Aziraphale doesn't get a pass for his hurtful words, then Crowley doesn't get a pass for his either.

It's that simple.

[france-unofficial]

no i currently feel like im about to have a fucking meltdown :D

friend has an end

best friend has an end

gender has an end

end has an end

but you know what doesnt have an end

egg

[howtodisappearcompletelyand]

20/10 stars little guy

[bronzebluemind]

It’s been 0 weeks since the World Cup finale, 17 weeks to go until sgp and 34 weeks to go until next season.

[purple--queen]

Alice got finally away from the curse that lead to her mothers dead just to die a few hourse later?

[loo-nuh-tik]

Yet Daniel was never to see or sense the presence of another supernatural being. He remembered Louis as if he’d been a hallucination, something known in a fever. Armand was Daniel’s single oracle, his merciless and all-loving demonic god. 

The Queen of the Damned