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Life cycle of Pamela

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inspired by megan thee stallion's astounding met gala fit- ms. emma frost

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Hello, friends!

I reworked the ol' "Schweizer Guide to Spotting Tangents" lecture from my comics-teaching days, figured I'd share it here. If you want a free, printable PDF for yourself or to share (especially if you're an educator), you can find it at the bottom of this same lesson on my website.

-Chris

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hi i just wanted to say i just found ur blog and all ur black hcs are giving me a reason to get through my friday shift. do you have any wider marvel black hcs or is the x men ur bag?

firstly thank you so much oh my god! good luck on the shift. secondly, its like.... complicated. i started out doing mostly x-men because i wanted to do a cohesive x-men au project but as i did that i realized i had a lot of ideas for other marvel stuff. it won't all be black hcs but itll definitely be placing a focus on more diverse casting. bucky's my cap, miles is my primary spider-man, etc.

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i’ve been trying to teach myself how to draw and your art has been a huge inspiration for me, do you have any tips on how to do line art like you do?

to be quite honest i try to avoid doing proper lineart whenever possible! it used to be a prominent feature of my art but I realized i just kinda felt miserable doing it. any lines you see are either painted on top, the sketch, or im doing something heavily stylized so I'll just show my process & share some general tips!

I try to stay as loose as possible and let myself leave in some mistakes as if I were inking with a real pen and paper. Another thing I recommend is playing around with whatever brushes and seeing what sticks! I prefer a much more textured gritty line over something super smooth but that isnt for everyone so playing around with different options is ideal

Also will leave some external resources under the cut!

FRAMED INK: book about comic/storyboarding composition but still has some bits in there about how different inking techniques can change the mood of a scene.

GUIDE TO SPOTTING TANGENTS: Self explanatory. Tangents can be a real pain when it comes to lineart so its best to learn What they are and How to spot them

SPOTTING BLACK AREAS: going more in depth with laying down your black areas

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im like if someone who had a fetish for being helpless was also a control freak

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A beautiful sight for compound eyes

(Eurypterids coming ashore under the recently-proposed rings of ancient Earth)

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Just remembered that by completing the puzzles in portal you're actively having sex with glados. That was crazy

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"Listen as though I'm the voice of God or an angel talking to you. Telling you this room doesn't matter, this night doesn't matter. You're not inconsequential or a junkie. You're a bright young reporter with a point of view. There are stories that need to be told. If things ever get bad again, these are the words you'll hear in your mind like a tape playing over and over, like a song stuck in your brain. These words will hold you up and carry you. "They are your lifeline." That's a free-baser I befriended for a few days at the drսg den. He told me to get my shit together and then he Richard Pryor'd in front of me. Everyone scrambled but I stuck around, watched him burn. What's always confused me was that... You know, he said those words to me, and he was already all burnt up. Figured I'd conflated the two events. But I didn't. Because it was you. I destroyed two marriages. I fuckеd up two daughters. But I stayed a journalist. I... I was never so lost I couldn't hold down a job.

Louis De Pointe Du Lac and Daniel Molloy in IWTV season 2 (2024)

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So many Americans online don’t realize: We in Southeast Asia interact with working-class Americans far more than the rich ones. Why? Because our region is where poorer Americans actually come to work low-wage resort jobs, teach English, or retire on Social Security checks that don’t stretch at home. The ‘ugly American’ tourists? The military guys? The sexpats? Not exactly the 1% yacht crowd. But keep pretending your working class has no global footprint.

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toiling in the girl mines some more

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i said baby im a dog, i'm a mutt

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i think more people should make their ocs fans of real life media. theres something hilarious about being like yeah this is my character prince blackheart darkness of the fallen shadowlands and yes she WAS a warrior cats kid growing up.

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2 drawings for @ackee, of her OCs Naomi and Vaughn : -]

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Queen