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I like that sketch of Mordecai reading while laying on Rocky's chest. By chance, is he listening to Rocky's heartbeat while reading?

hehehe

yeessssss

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hiii, florin! hello pspsps hi flori

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[WIP] Still busy with school but uh uhhhh,,,, :combusts:

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Happy 116th, Miss Pepper!

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In love with this rough short film animation of Rocky, it has so much character. I think this was one of the first shots they animated? He’s such a good combination of a cat and an eager young man from the 1920s

“uh— uhh… how about a- a dance?”

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💙🩵Human Rocky Appreciation Post🩵💙

RAAAAAHHGGGG He’s so friggin’ HANDSOME

I’m so normal about him.… I swear.

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I thought this rocky commission I did was pretty cute <3

him with his cute sweater 🩵

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What if I throw a Freckle at you? Yea? yeah,,,, you wouldn't like that either now, would you?

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I’m obsessed with the Lackadaisy comics way of shading/colouring! Could you please give a tutorial of how you do that and what brushes you use?

Here's a sample I used for the Lackadaisy Essentials art book. About 98% of the time, I'm not using specialized brushes - just basic soft round and hard round brushes, with various opacities.

Digital scan of the establishing shot pencil drawing - I added some some grid lines on top to double check the 1-point perspective. I didn’t include the characters here because I knew I’d be using the art as a background for more than one panel in the comic.

Initial lighting pass - This was done almost entirely by burning shadow directly into the pencil art scan. This way, I preserve a lot of my pencil lines (rather than painting over them) and the grain of the paper remains in play. This helps retain a sort of aged, natural media look despite the largely digital nature of it.

Contrast and brightness adjustments - Here I hand-painted more minute details into the rug, decor and fixtures with small diameter round brushes. I drew a wallpaper pattern on a separate canvas, then applied it as an overlay layer here too. And, of course, the characters arrived as raw pencils on new layers.

Character compositing and color wash - I didn't want to go fully monochrome with the colors, but I also didn't want to treat this like a full color digital painting. Instead, I opted for something resembling a warm-to- cool wash, achieved with a color layer on top of the grayscale base. Young Mordecai and Rose were toned to match the scene with a combination of burning, dodging and painting.

Lighting effects and atmosphere - Overlay layers can be used to push warm values into a much more saturated, vibrant place than a color layer alone can manage, and that's what I did here to create the streaming sunlight. I used a screen layer to include overexposure on bright colored elements as well. Floating dust motes in the light were added for atmosphere, and I polished the characters up with their own color and overlay layers to match the scene.

There's another, older process breakdown here on the Lackadaisy web site too, if you want more information.

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he's getting used to it

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In all his glory

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Them’s the breaks

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I like it when the blue sky does that thing

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"Married but at what cost!!" 🤣😅🖤💙

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A walk!!!... 😅💙🖤

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In love?...