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Homeless Family Overdrawn & Has Bills Coming

My homeless family is overdrawn & has bills coming very quickly, including our phone bill which is our only way of getting income currently and our campsite stay is nearly over, and we need funds to move to another spot to avoid people harassing us.

Our current focus is the overdraft & making sure none of the bills go nsf, otherwise we lose our bank, then making sure that the phone bill is paid, then we can deal with things like our living arrangements & living costs outside of bare basic needs.

55/1100

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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!

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I have officially closed the kofi membership, at least for now, so… nothing holding me back from sharing the chibi tutorials (so far, I'm going to be updating it in the future~) 🤗 ENJOY! INTRO

PEA CHIBI

BEAN CHIBI

(tbc...)

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Should crosspost here

So hopefully very soon I'll be able to make digital art again, as well as edit and post all the physical art I've been making, and when I do so I gotta decide on which blog to post it to, here or @kitty-draws-stuff either way I'll be RBing it to the unselected blog, just wanna figure out which blog to be OP

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really helpful technique ^ once you know how to divide by halves and thirds it makes drawing evenly spaced things in perspective waaay easier:

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My homeless family needs 300$ TODAY so we are not cut off from the internet, our only source of income, we are in talks to be getting a place this month but if we can't cover this we can't continue that train.

0/300$ CAD

https://ko-fi.com/kittydoesstuff

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Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.

Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)

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Ohh, so I was looking at my storage and found these! I originally shared them on twitter before yeeting the platform. Anyway, feel free to use! Art memes for your oc :D

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HII my character & shape design tips PDF is now available! ^_^ hope you enjoy !!

BUY HERE or HERE

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Nazari, the rook, who belongs to @wickedapostate, art by me with guidance & feedback from Jay

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Got excited about Dragon Age, so I drew my Marian Hawke!

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Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

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Homeless Family Trying To Survive Winter

Okay so the campsite we have been staying at has closed for the season, we are now trying to figure out a new place to stay while we establish an income so we can get housing after nearly a year of being homeless.

As we are doing this we need funds for things like storage bills, food and medicine (one of my family has ended up with long-lasting tooth pain during this all)

https://ko-fi.com/kittydoesstuff

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Homeless family, winter coming and our car is breaking down.

Okay hello, you can look up kitty says stuff tag for a detailed version of my story but in short my family had to evacuate our home for our safety. That was late last year.

Right now we are dealing with a truck with a broken window and a flat tire, we are at a campsite right now but it is closing very soon.

We have bills for storage and winterizing our small living spaces (truck & no water or power camper). We also have very little food.

These are just our immediate needs, long-term we are also dealing with health issues and are trying to get into a place.

If you would like to help you can dm for paypal or donate at my kofi

https://ko-fi.com/kittydoesstuff

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The last version of my guide is 2 years old, and doesn't account for some new features, new competition, and some rebrands, so once again;

Here's a purchase guide for when RPG Maker is on sale, as well as the Visual Novel makers available.

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Earlier I told a patient around my age that to get to the blood lab just follow the red circles painted on the floor, and she started laughing. then she said “sorry, I’m thinking of this thing I saw online where a children’s hospital had like, red streams painted on the floor”

And I was like “THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL COLOR THEORY POST?!?” And she was like “YEAH 😱”

And we both were kinda like 😳😳

Outed ourselves LOL