#yes this is about my OCS

[gender-is-a-scam]

New character parallels just dropped: Devoted like a knight vs devoted like a dog

[mr-weirdo-mcgee]

How do we feel about this ship dynamic?

[eyestrain-addict]

I'm not into astrology in a tiktok kinda way, I'm into astrology in a "court astrologer/wizard who wears navy blue robes embroidered with silver constellations, and is the closest confidant of the King and is secretly in love with him." kinda way.

[amywhereyouwant]

Hate when characters go "This isn't you!" to someone doing something horrible cus like what if it is? What if your perception of your friend has been so skewed that you never saw this side until it stared you in the face? Did you really know them?

[envyenvys]

Dog/leash/owner this, knight/sword/sheath that, what about deer/headlights/driver?

[mithrasisgay]

Toreador hopelessly down bad for emotionally unavailable Nosferatu........

[anexistingexistence]

Imagine the protagonist's boyfriend throwing stones at his window and climbing up a tree to get in because the protagonist's mom doesn't want them to be together so they have to meet up in secret.

Now imagine exactly that but with two full-grown men. All of a sudden it's a lot less cute and a lot more "Mc why tf do you care about what your mom wants you're 24 years old damn it."

[danyayeni2]

Lumielle be like

While the two DO have a loving relationship, and do eventually fix their problems, their love language is still of death threats, driving daggers into hearts, and making out with each other as the blood of their victims pool around their heads like halos. Their mouths crash together with the bruises on their hands complimenting only the actions they have caused on both each other and others.

Because no one could have a crash that burns better and brighter than them.

please excuse my hater moment but i hate when people see two characters that have the most insane dynamic and they’re like but what if it was wholesome :) okay well what if they fucked nasty style and tried to kill each other all the time also

[foolych]

If you’re ever worried about being cringe, just remember:

I’m out there :)

[strawberry-jellicle]

Which one of you is the up and coming ringleader, and which one of you is the trapeze artist running away with the ringleader to find their freedom

[meimeikyu]

It/Its nonhuman x He/She lesbian

[void-thing]

My favorite relationship dynamic is where one partner loves to infodump endlessly and the other doesn't speak much at all but loves to listen to their partner infodump no matter what it is

[from-the-stone-art]

There’s something like the anticipation of a kiss, then the pleasure of being cloaked in peace~

Bonus

[bearsandswears]

Have had the scribble version of this since at least September but drawing Astarion’s hair is haaaard

Gale’s regular hair is tricky for me too but the wizardly updo mod is 🤌

[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!

[aspidisnothere]

How do I stop feeling like this about OC x Canon I can’t get any shit done without zoning out