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the player gave kris rizz

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long time no hiccup

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fellas is it gay to memorise your best friends heartbeat so that you always know how he's feeling and where to find him?

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"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"

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I freaking LOVE your art dood. It’s so damn lively and zingy and engaging and really genuinely stands out. It’s such a delight to look at,

I went through your asks and really appreciated you sharing your artistic influences.

I have an artist question I gotta ask.

How do you go about planning your compositions/arrangements? Like it’s one thing to just draw ship art but I noticed your /compositions/ are really strong and consistently visually interesting. They have a great energy to them,

and I was wondering if you had any tips or could share the things you thing about when you’re arranging those boys on the page, It’s something I really felt stood out!

Thank you!

I want to give you good examples  but my art changes a lot depending on the projects I work on so, apologies if the style differences are a bit jarring xD

Here’s the things I think about the most when it comes to composition.

-INTENTION

I find that choosing a specific feeling or little story I want to convey trough the drawing helps giving it focus.

Ask yourself, how do I want the characters to be perceived?

Is there a conflict, a relationship? What are they feeling, physically and emotionally? How is the environment affecting them?

Every answer can help you choose things like the camera angle, the poses, and the placement of each element.

Want a character to feel helpless? > when we’re looking down on them, that feeling is dialled up. When we’re looking up to them on the other hand, they feel in charge. 

Are they being subdued by another character?>  You can convey that by giving them a hunched posture, or putting them physically below their oppressor if the environment allows it. The way one touches the other (or doesn't) can also tell a million things.

-DIRECTION

I think art looks best when it has flow to it, and this is also something where intention helps you make the right choices.

I highly recommend reading Mike Mattesi’s “FORCE” book series on the subject.

The direction of your character’s energy and movement is dictated by “lines of action” (actual concept that you can research!);

If you keep them in mind during the sketching process your final piece will look much more dynamic, and you can harness this energy to guide the focus of the art.

Shadows and lights work similarly: your eye is naturally drawn where the light is is more intense, while concealing elements with shadows will make them look ambiguous and mysterious… you can use that!

-BALANCE

Hard for me to explain, but experiencing lots of good art will definitely give you a feel for it.

You want your arrangement to fill the canvas in a pleasing way;

Pushing too many elements on one side will make the piece feel unbalanced, but spreading them too evenly might feel boring…  you want a little movement, but not to an unpleasant degree.

My personal tips: know  the aspect ratio of your canvas and work with it.  If characters are making the piece lean too much on one side, use background elements to balance it out on the other. Make thumbnails!

I also block out the silhouettes during the sketching progress, it gives me a clearer idea of the area that is being covered and how the “puzzle pieces” fit together :)

I hope this helps! I actually think about these 3 things a lot for the coloring process as well, but I’m not confident enough with color theory to make a post about it haha. 

The two posts with my influences are here and here!

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did a ref sheet for peter cause im trying to be consistent in how i draw this dude

also experimenting with different coloring

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did a ref sheet for peter cause im trying to be consistent in how i draw this dude

also experimenting with different coloring

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So You Want To Read Batman Comics But Have No Idea Where To Start

So: you’re new to the DC Comics fandom and are interested in Batman and his family. Maybe you already know a bit about them and are just looking to figure out where to start reading actual comics. Maybe you know nothing. Maybe you know a whole lot about one character but want to start reading more about another one.

Whichever it is, I’m here to help! There’s a wide range of Batman/Batfamily comics (for all ages, moods, and types of people), and I’m happy to meet people where they are and help people dive into comics. On that note, brace yourselves, because this is going to be a long post. Recs start under the cut.

—IMPORTANT NOTES ABOUT READING COMICS—

Superhero comics are traditionally written in what’s known as runs; an author gets to have an extended period on an ongoing (or limited) title where they (traditionally) write in 4-8 issue story arcs; think of these arcs as chapters in a potentially never-ending book. These individual issues are colloquially known as floppies. So when I talk about “Tom Taylor’s run” on the Nightwing title, for example, I’m talking about the main author on the Nightwing title from March 2021-September 2024 (Nightwing (2016) #78-118). Every so often, titles end, the principal author on the titles switch up, or they’ll have “guest/interim authors” come in to do single issues or a single story arc.

These story arcs are then collected in hardcovers or ‘trade paperbacks’ (generally referred to as trades, occasionally TPBs); both collect the entire story arc (plus bonus/behind the scenes material, in some cases) in a single paperback/hardback book. Trades are super useful if you want to read an entire story at one time, want to be economical about your comics spending, and/or want to read things in order. Occasionally, if a writer has a particularly long run on a title or a big company event happens, you get published omnibuses that collect an entire event or run (or part of it, if the event is big enough); omnis are very expensive up-front, but ultimately they tend to be good deals and are often curated well. These collections are all generally also released digitally. Frankly, unless you’re into comics collecting, want individual issues for their pretty covers, or are supporting a currently ongoing run, I would default to buying trades/omnibuses where possible. It’s simply cheaper and easier for reading.

List Notes: Each character list is sorted vaguely chronologically according to a combination of IRL publication dates and the character’s personal timeline. Big caveat that these are not all-inclusive reading lists nor are the inclusions inherently indicators of quality; I’m just trying to hit major character highlights. You should also note that many comics contain multiple Batfam members due to the ridiculous number of crossover events and the solid integration of the Batfamily as a whole into each others’ books in the post-90s era. Comic rec tl;drs are given at the end of each character’s list. Most of the links will take you to Amazon/Comixology, but I also talk about various ways to access and read comics at the bottom of this post.

Secondary Note: DC Comics works in three universes: the pre-Crisis universe (everything published from the beginning of DC Comics until the Crisis on Infinite Earths event in 1986), the post-Crisis universe (everything published between 1986 and 2011), and the post-Flashpoint universe (2011-now). 

In 2011, DC completely rebooted their universe following the ‘Flashpoint’ event. This new universe (interchangably called the New 52 universe, post-Flashpoint universe, or Prime Earth) drastically changed many characters’ histories, personalities, and relationships with each other (sometimes for the better, most of the time for the worse). The early years of the post-Flashpoint universe are an absolute incoherent mess continuity-wise; DC’s been trying to sort it all out over the past few years with the Rebirth and Infinite Frontier events (with varying degrees of success), and there are definitely some bright bits and pieces, but it is not my favored universe (though I will certainly recommend it where needed or when it’s good). 

Now: let’s get started, shall we? Lists below the cut (please click here to view the most updated version of this post on desktop via my blog instead of on mobile/the dashboard, for easy readability and formatting purposes):

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Watching the first episode of Race to the Edge always makes me a little sad. Because it implies that for three years Hiccup has been feeling lonelier and lonelier. Once he manages to defeat Dagur and stop the rest of the threats (with the help of everybody else), he watches everyone find a purpose, he watches the riders drift apart and find a path of their own. While he can't move on, he can't see a clear path for him. Or rather, he sees one and he's approaching the finish line of it.

He frantically searches for a new dragon, something to discover, something to allow him to hold on to the past. He doesn't want to let go, because the time he spent with the riders defending Berk and finding new dragons was the best period of his life.

Before becoming the leader of the riders he was a runt. He was the screw up. He was the biggest Hiccup in the history of Berk. He was a disappoinment. He was lonely. After the battle against the Red Death everything changed. He finally became someone important. He had friends, the village kind of respected him, his father trusted him, he had everything he always dreamed of.

But then they defeated Dagur, and the screaming death, along with Alvin and all the bad guys, they had nothing keeping them together. Or at least, that's what Hiccups feels.

He can't stop searching, he needs it. He needs to find a new dragon, or a clue, or something. Because if he can't, then he will be alone once again. He will lose everything he worked hard to get.

I think that's also why Dagur manages to trap the riders in a trap. All of them have drifted apart, of course that's part of it, they weren't ready. But Hiccup is distracted. Because part of him sees this as an opportunity to not be alone.

I think it's really sad. Maybe it's just my mind trying to get the maximum amount of angst out of everything I see (not that I complain, honestly).

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I made these as a way to compile all the geographical vocabulary that I thought was useful and interesting for writers. Some descriptors share categories, and some are simplified, but for the most part everything is in its proper place. Not all the words are as useable as others, and some might take tricky wording to pull off, but I hope these prove useful to all you writers out there!

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what if we were a demon boy band and we all ran like goofy guys? haha jk...unless? 🤔

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UGH