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walmart told me to tell you that they're closed forever. u gotta stop going.

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this is probably a pretty specific question to ask and im not sure if you were asked this before so forgive me if this question has been answered already but what size do you usually have your stardew valley comics at? and do you have any advice for someone whos just starting out with making comics?

No worries! I usually use a standard A4 size for my work files :)

this is what that looks like at 100%

I'm not sure if you'd wanna go bigger if you're aiming to go to print at some point, but A4 works pretty well for me.

As for starting out...? I'll be honest, I probably don't have the biggest frame of reference here, seeing as I'm not really a comic artist first.

I would say that writing down your script and trying to measure out how much information you can convey on each page has been helpful to me. That way, before you even start thumbnailing, you'll have an idea of the flow of your pages.

Of course it shouldn't restrict you from moving stuff around in the thumbnailing process either. It's a lot of back and forth, usually.

This is of course just my way of doing it. If you don't have a script or are more inclined to go straight to drawing and figuring it out from there, initial rough sketches/thumbnails as a starting point is also completely valid. It's an iterative process anyway.

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It's literally so easy. If it's something I like, it's soul. If I don't like it, it's soulless. If I really dislike it, it's reddit. And if I really like it, it's sovl. The 'v' is important.

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Did you know it’s legal in the USA for mattress companies to put fiberglass in their mattresses? They don’t even have to label them! So if you wanna commission me so I can buy a new bed I won’t stop you

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Do u have any advice for artists who draw ridiculously slow???

draw faster

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How do you legs

Curves vs. straights baby !

I try to always think of the flow of the legs in relation to the overall posture, so getting those curves and straights into play is really handy.

I've added an extra colored line here (the green one) that I tend to do with poses that are leaning heavily, so the line of action becomes more clear and less broken up by the hip. This works best for standing poses (and is obviously not anatomically correct, it's just my preferred way of drawing bodies).

In sitting poses, the straights help to emphasize contact with the ground.

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Part three of a three part Molly McGee commission for @backuparguelles

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Part two of  a three part Molly McGee commission for @backuparguelles

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Part one of  a three part Molly McGee commission for @backuparguelles

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Everything is normal

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A 2nd version of the Finn/Steven tag team doodle...

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Sword and shield tag team!

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Yearning

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Don't know what to describe this. Some sort of art breakthrough...