#edit: forgot a panel whoops

[gomzdrawfr]

something about food

[sparklygummybear]

i suck at composition but uhhh made fantrolls into like hero mode type pictures/panels or whatever. decided to change my trollsona's horns because honestly the last ones were a pain in the ass to draw and make symmetrical and yeah.

[sapphyreblayze]

Sigrid Nansen in Absolute Power #3

[angelplayzgames]

A part of this

hehe he got hypnotised

( Check out the MASTERPOST of this AU here )

edit: whoops, forgot to add a panel

[crabbng]

i actually got some in process shots for this #WebcomicDay ! they are of an episode 12 page, so this doubles as a sneak peek 🤣 you can see i forgot to take a pic of the finished lines before i started on coloring (whoops)

there are a few secret steps after finishing up backgrounds etc. (scanning, cleaning up) but since this is a sneak peek, i didn't want to put the Final Product out there.

I guess I'll ramble a little bit about The Process below the cut.

SKETCH: I don't plan out my pages as much as I should other artists do. I think about the next couple shots I want, what I can probably fit on the page, and then decide how tall the panel should be. after that I draw a big line across the page 🤣 sometimes the panel gets bisected, usually not trisected. I love it when people consider the whole of the page and make the paneling choices that elevate the art. I just don't do it lmao

luckily for me, I don't have a requirement to make every piece of my comic pages The Best. So, I focus on what I enjoy: expressions and conversations.

LINE DIALOGUE AND PANELS: For inking/lining, I ABSOLUTELY have to put in my dialogue/dialogue balloons first. Since I'm doing everything on the same page of physical paper, I can't really shift things around partway through to make the dialogue and art fit better together. I also have to make sure it all fits within the panel lines I have planned. I've gotten into situations where the WORDS fit in, but in order to make a word balloon with decent space around the words, I cross over a line. Sometimes it works, but for me.. it doesn't work most of the time. So, gotta plan ahead.

You can also see down in the final section, I handwrite my dialogue! So, if I mess up, I sometimes have to add in a few letter that I can substitute in during editing.

FINISH LINES & ERASING: All I have to say about finishing lines/erasing, is that erasing can be such a challenge lmao. JUST YESTERDAY... when I was erasing.. I tore a page a little bit. And I often accidentally crinkle a corner while erasing. The obvious solution, and what I know people do, is to sketch on one page, and then use a light table (or equivalent) to do a cleaner, lighter sketch on a new page, and then do lining on that. Which is a good idea, maybe someday I'll try it lol.

COLOR FIGURES: There's really no good reason I start with the figures, besides that I like watching them come to life with the colors. It feels weird when they're blank on the page. They're also generally the most important part of the page for me, and seeing them colored helps me decide on which panels I want to do flat color backgrounds for.

But! This means I can't go back and edit skin tones etc. to be in different lighting after the fact, unless it's to make them darker! So that's something I have to be cognizant of and plan for in advance.

I use Copics for most part of the figures, except when I know there's going to be several large areas to color, like Aoife's hair or her sweater and pants. I have character's hair planned in Copics, but I have several browns from other brands (Prismacolor, Blick, Winsor and Newton, Artist's Loft) that get pretty close to her hair color. Clothing that has large areas that need to be colored are planned as being from one of those other brands from the start. I don't want to use up all my Copic juice on them!!

Also don't you just love seeing the texture of the paper through the marker? I love it. I love the natural variation you get.

BACKGROUNDS & OTHER DETAILS: Color everything else! Backgrounds and shadows generally. For backgrounds I'm once again using my alternative brands. I've got a lot of space to cover, and those markers, along with being cheaper, are generally larger than my Copics. So it works out.

Sometimes I tend to go a bit wild with the single color backgrounds, to the point where I think it can get distracting. So I have to rein it in and leave some panels with white backgrounds, so the reader isn't just blasted with colors from every angle. My rule of thumb is to try and only have color on one panel in each of my lines of panels, and to alternate sides, if possible. I feel like that guides the eye easier.

Doing things traditionally means I don't really get any shortcuts when it comes to backgrounds, including just flat color backgrounds. Every square millimeter has gotta be colored purposefully by me. And maybe that seems like a pointless use of time and effort! But man, I love the end result. I'm all for shortcuts, it's just a lot of the ones I see floating around don't apply to me 🤣

I'll talk about my other steps here too, might as well.

SCANNING: After colors and everything, I scan the pages. They're too big to fit in my scanner, so I scan the top and bottom halves separately, and stitch them together (I use PhotoStitcher).

From there, I rotate it to (more or less) make it straight on my canvas, make a .clip version, and send it off to my iPad!

I got my iPad in a workplace raffle, and though there's a lot about the UI I don't love, it's been really convenient!

EDITING: Editing consists of: cleaning up things that should be white (like eyes, teeth, and word balloons), and then cleaning up marker that's bled over into areas it doesn't belong, and is distracting. I try not to overdo it on marker cleanup, because 1) it takes a while, 2) it can stress me out if I decide I need it all to be PERFECT, and 3) it feels slightly disingenuous, just TO ME, about my OWN work. I don't think 3) is valid, so I try to ignore that part, but sometimes in my head I'm like 'mm but Jacki can you say its traditional if you have to do so much work in post to make it presentable??' (said in a very snobby voice). I went from not really caring -> REALLY caring -> hopefully I'll get to caring a reasonable amount.

FINISHING: Last steps are to send it BACK to my computer, where I have two auto actions to size the page and to export it as a .png in a large and a small size. I should be rightfully criticized for how I size the pages lmao, it's 2647x3560 pixels. Why that number specifically? That's 1) how I've done it since the beginning, so they are all this very strange size, and 2) it's about the maximum area of scanned page I can consistently get.

I think that's it? I don't know why you would, but if you have any questions, feel free to hit me up and I'll answer them to the best of my ability. Hope someone finds this interesting or helpful LOL

bye 💕 happy webcomic day!

[ro--lal]

:D hi!!! this is the anon who asked the two questions about panel edits and oc x canon :3 i was wondering if u could use this panel of karkat shoosh papping gamzee

but instead of karkat its my fantroll, hennie, a jadeblood (who just turned into a rainbow drinker after being dead for a long time) shoosh papping gamzee from his rage + gamzee is tied up with chains (this is optional)

hennie and gamzee are matespirits :3 also i know hennie is wearing jevil's outfit but its what they choose to wear after coming back

also hennie is nonbinary :3

i hope that wasn't too much :D!!! thank u for answering

gonna be so fr i was on call w my partner while making this so i lowk forgot to add the chains WHOOPS

hennie is ADORABLEEELEE OMG so i hope i did them justice ;3

[queen-rainy-love]

Sending asks (2/2)

Hey Black Pearl, how's it going with your family? You and Abyss Monarch getting along well? Also, has your relationship with Captain Caviar changed any bit?

To Oyster, what's it having a sea monster and its little squid child as your stepparent and half-sibling? What shenangians had happened?

Black Pearl: I'm still honoring my daughter and granddaughter's wishes...even if I do not like it myself.

Oyster: That eel Cookie is not welcome in the manor or anywhere near my daughter.

Edit: Whoops! Almost forgot! The Black Pearl sprite in panel 2 was made by comic creator user Moonberry.

[ilovebeingaturtle]

so sorry for the bother but I have to know your thoughts on Alopex?

Oo, not a bother at all!! Okay so yeah-spoilers for IDW? also this is gonna be kinda ramble-y and not fully thought out AGSHZ It’s very early in the day for me

To start of! Alopex is a great edition to TMNT, she fits in very naturally and she has a design that can simultaneously be adorable and fucking feral, which is great AHA, I’ve always enjoyed fox characters in media so I always feel just a rush of affection whenever I see her like look at that wittle guyyy. Outside of that though she’s just super neat! Again she feels very at home in the world and not just inserted into the narrative which is always a risk with ‘new’ faces in established properties, I love her weapons and her confidence a lot. I think I might be a liiiiiiittle burnt out on “character who was in the Foot that left the Foot” as a trope, but it was still cool!

I think this was the panel I was fully sold on her character, look at that smug little shit

I will say I did find her central-ish story arc in IDW kiiiiindaaaaa boring? Mind control as a trope doesn’t really interest me so I found the whole Kitsune thing with her sorta prevented her from really being her own character for a lot, it’s not that it was bad! It just made me personally kinda disinterested. This is definitely just my own opinion, I think the moments I loved Alopex the most were when her stronger personality traits are allowed to shine and she was sorta held back from doing that for a little, also again yeah it’s just not the type of story I really go for AHA

I’m also not really fully sold on her and Raph together as a couple, but that might just be the aroace in me talking. I couldn’t understand why they liked each other because from my point of view they barely had any chemistry, and by the time they did kinda have chemistry I was sorta lost on how we got to that point. And then in the last issue I read they broke up so, LMAO? I’m not really a romance between characters interested person but I can still often connect or feel the emotions in a ship and I just didn’t for those two AHSJH whoops (the speech Raph had with Angel about her though was cute but again I was sorta still like ???)

On the topic of that though, I haven’t read further yet because the Armageddon games intimidate me, but I did like that she left. I like that they fully addressed her trauma with Shredder like fuck yeah get out of there?! I don’t know how that storyline has been playing out because again, haven’t read it yet, but I am all for the idea of her striking it out on her own for a bit (oh also the shelter she was running at the start of the mutant town arc was a very sweet direction for her too forgot to mention that-)

I definitely really like her and I’d LOVEEE to see her get adapted into more versions! It was super cool seeing her in 2012 even if she didn’t stick around for long. She’s definitely a character filled to the brim with potential that I want to see more of, it’s just that from what I’ve seen so far she hasn’t quite been given a chance to reach it yet. I haven’t fully? Dug my teeth into all of IDW, so maybe I’m missing something? But ye! That’s the basics of my thoughts anyways AHA

[humming-fly]

Meta Knight’s number one motto is “Be prepared”, and his number two motto is “If I get possessed again I better get something cool out of it”

Originally I was gonna put this poster in the background but it got cluttered so here it is on its own cause I still think it’s funny:

[lawyer-ka]

“...I can’t get no sleep.”

“...Right?!

...”

“Yeah, that sounds like a good plan. I’ll never go outside or see sunlight again. Maybe I’ll even starve before I drown myself. And then I can be buried-- no, burned-- without anyone ever remembering me.

Heh, I already sound like a madman. I’m practically halfway there.”

[mydetheturk]

there's something very haunting about this particular panel. it's night; not really the middle, as in the chapter it's stated to be 22:53/10:53pm

but it's Dark. the only light that can be seen is the sand steamer and the reflection from the lights in the sand it's kicked up. there's (supposed to be) no one around for iles and iles

the sand steamers are roughly analogous to steamships irl, with the fact that they're a ship going across an expanse it would be dangerous to cross otherwise. not that it's not dangerous, even in the sand steamer

the ocean of sand the sand steamers cross really is an ocean, dark and unforgiving and so very, very lonely.

edit: Forgot to say that the screencap is by @trigun-manga-overhaul whoops

[simaddix]

Example A

This is why making plants can be such a nightmare to deal with, and why it takes so long to make them.

This doesn't even include trying to get a custom mesh... which could be a book by itself.

These are 6 different trees, and all of them came from the exact same texture. There are different mixtures of textures you can use (color, shadows, normal maps, highlights, displacements, etc), a thousand different variations of hue, color and shading, or you can make a tree look completely different by adding a different branch to your UV image. Then there's picking apart the original texture to get that one piece to restructure the original shape, because the shape of the leaves will either make a spectacular tree or a lump of garbage.

Closeup to show how different they really are.

Example of picking apart the image to get that piece... you can see where I separated the lower branch to be able to paste it on the UV.

And here's the UV. See the side panel on the right of the screen? Those are all the pieces I've added to the original piece to give it the shape I want. That can get super confusing, btw, trying to figure out whether said piece needs to be above or under the original, erasing bits that get too layered, and the frustrating as hell part where any time you scale or rotate a layer it gets blurry. Ack.

And then you test. And edit coloring because it's way too bright. Then test. Then edit because it's too green. Annndddd test. Fix alpha because you forgot to when you edited the color and now you have shadows that shouldn't be there (or other plants, whoops).

Finally get it where you want it. Start editing billboard to match... repeat last paragraph. lol

But... it's worth it... as long as you finally get something out of it... right? :D

Give love to your favorite plant makers! They really do work for their CC lol

[kinkmom]

If Daniil was still as enthusiastic about sending letters as he was in Patho 1. :D

This same exact joke has probably been done a hundred times before.

[notebook-13]

I dunno if we ever reached a conclusion about who said this line…? Last I heard, Caleb Cook said it was Dabi but he wasn’t sure about it, and the unofficial translators thought it was Hawks because of the grammar, pronoun, and word choice.

Here’s why I lean towards thinking it’s Dabi. I’d be ecstatic if it were Hawks speaking, but there’s meaning in how Hawks addresses Jin: Hawks transitions from calling him “Twice” to “Bubaigawara.”

Two months before the hospital raid, Jin pulls Hawks aside for some advice.

At this point, it’s been one month since Hawks joined the PLF, and one week since Kurogiri told Aizawa the hospital hint. Jin has already spilled Shigaraki’s location to Hawks. Now he’s run to Hawks for help writing a mission statement, and when Hawks helps him out, Jin cheerily calls him a stellar guy:

Verbally, Hawks called him “Twice”—but in his thoughts, Hawks calls him by his full name. Coming from Hawks, this is important! He sacrificed his original name to give up any identity outside of his hero persona. His choice to discard Jin’s villain name shows how Hawks recognizes Jin outside of the villain/hero binary, as a person, in a way that Hawks can’t be. This is meaningful to Hawks.

By backstabbing time, Hawks addresses Jin verbally as Bubaigawara. So, either 1) at some point during the intervening two months, Hawks began to call him Bubaigawara, or 2) this is the first time he’s doing it.

(note that this internal monologue occurs post-264)

Hawks, along with Giran and Skeptic, is one of the few characters to call him this. Jin addresses himself as Twice, both in in dialogue with his doubles and in his internal thoughts:

(^^ though it’s possible he only thinks of himself as Twice in battle contexts. In his “I am me / am I me?” moments, I don’t recall him ever using a name/label, it’s always just “me.”)

Edit: Whoops, I forgot to actually state my point. Because Jin seems to think of himself as Twice, and almost all his friends call him Twice, I tend to think Hawks calls him Bubaigawara on his own initiative and not because Jin asked him to.

Shigaraki, Spinner, Mr. Compress, and Dabi call him Twice, too.

I can’t remember if we’ve gotten an internal monologue from Dabi that includes calling Jin by a name, though.

So…

Twice. This isn’t your fault. As always, scummy heroes are to blame.

It’s possible that Hawks reverts for this one line, and I have some muddled thoughts on why he would do that, but the simpler explanation is that it’s Dabi.

Ultimately, I don’t think the exact speaker matters much. I can’t imagine Horikoshi and his editors just…didn’t notice how ambiguous the grammar and paneling were. So, I think it was probably on purpose, and even if Dabi was the one putting it into words, Hawks feels something similar.

[jel-jel-jel]

Got any angst for spinearl here g?

Now with a happier ending

Edit: i forgot a panel whoops

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[pyvozaur]

Sleep

Yesterday’s inktober i forgot to finish, whoops

Edit: Wrong Panel Order