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Head empty.

Donkey holding buster sword.

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I swear I can draw decent pictures eventually when I've just got a blank page, but trying to draw things in panels at an appropriate size and everything is hurting my brain.

Comicking is hard.

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It was the ink. The ink sucked. Also me.

I switched to sumi ink, much smoother experience.

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POV: You are on a date with Pyro.

Made with ink, watercolour, and fire.

I think the black paint I used on the mask was a little too dark. Maybe would've been better to use the same grey I used on the gloves. We can probably agree that grey works for a black object in a lit environment, whereas full black is for deep shadows.

The background is a whole lotta whatever. I tried that thing where you wet the paper then drip ink on it. It didn't go well.

Pencils below for those who are into that. Sometimes I feel like the inking went so badly that without the pencils, nobody would understand the vision.

Ultimately this was to see if watercolours would work well with this waterproof ink, so I'd say, this was a success.

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Tumblr wouldn’t let me upload several videos in one post, so enjoy this Quality compilation.

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I made a better comic about art engagement.

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me, a reasonably depressed edo period pilgrim: just do it. fuck me up

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So about a week ago I learn about this French artist named Moebius.

I thought his stuff had a pretty cool style so I wanted to try some of the techniques. Suddenly I'm spending a week on this Moebius inspired recreation of a poster from The Martian. (Not literally the whole week, I also started playing Arkham Knight. So more like 6ish hours every other day or so.)

Pencils and other thoughts under the fold.

Some thoughts:

The contour hatching thing I tried on the mountains can look cool, but I'm not sure it really suits me.

Don't try stippling with a dip pen. It's not worth it. At least for me, where my ink tends to dry on the nib very quickly. It was a constant battle. A fineliner might be a wiser choice. Though I wanted to use the same black ink across the whole piece so, wasn't really an option here.

I think I need to clean my scanner.

I realised as I was nearing completion on this, that screentones basically exist to replace/streamline things like stippling. And now things like Photoshop replace those, too.

My hand hurts.

My light source is so inconsistent. Just imagine some spacebirds are flying nearby, casting shadows in confusing ways.

Hey if anyone knows a good way to scan paper that's become warped, like when you do watercolour, or in this case lay down a hell of a lot of ink. Like, how to get it all flat again. Let me know.

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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Just by the by, I'm currently live, been inking a thing for like four hours, if anyone wants to witness my brain slowly melt.

Current progress:

Putting this here partly to hype myself up to actually do it. I want to try streaming some art. Social things are scary and I basically run on external validation right now, so if there's any potential interest here, that'd be neat to know about.

If not, well, I'll be drawing either way.

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Putting this here partly to hype myself up to actually do it. I want to try streaming some art. Social things are scary and I basically run on external validation right now, so if there's any potential interest here, that'd be neat to know about.

If not, well, I'll be drawing either way.

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I liked this.

There's always gonna be some jackass with a nicer hat than you, telling you that your goals are impossible and you shouldn't even bother trying.

But it's only impossible if you stop. You'll get there if you keep moving.

And then you can casually step past their corpse.

(this story will continue tomorrow.)

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First page has been pencilled.

A storyboard exists so I have an actual plan, but working out how I want my panel layouts has been a process.

I know I could just draw everything full size and then lay it all out in photoshop, but. I already know how to use photoshop. I want to learn and do it as traditionally as possible.

(Though photoshop will probably be involved for some cleanup after everything's scanned. And maybe screen tones, those are expensive.)

All that to say, even if I can't finish drawing all this for whatever reason, I'll still ink whatever I have drawn. I enjoy inking.

Those of you who've enjoyed my TF2 comics in the past, I'm currently working on a new one.

Because Valve won't.

Jokes aside, this one will be hand drawn, so there's a non zero chance I get tired and bail on it, but at least if I mention it here there can be some form of accountability.

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Fat Pikachu supremacy.

Basically did this so I could test how various things behaved with each other. Hence the design itself being all over the place.

I have learned:

Watercolour is not ideal on this paper.

That waterproof ink isn't actually waterproof until about 24 hours later.

I need to wash and wipe my pen basically before every re-dip or I'm gonna have issues.

I cannot draw circles.

Masking tape will tear my paper.

I don't like watercolour pencils.

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Those of you who've enjoyed my TF2 comics in the past, I'm currently working on a new one.

Because Valve won't.

Jokes aside, this one will be hand drawn, so there's a non zero chance I get tired and bail on it, but at least if I mention it here there can be some form of accountability.

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What if Arthur took place in the same kind of world as Beastars?

It feels cursed, and maybe it is, but why should I be the only person with this in their brain? This has been haunting me. Every time I try to think of the song Monster, my brain alters it so Yoasobi is singing "Every day when you're walkin' down the street..."

Pencils under the fold if you're into that stuff.

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Midnight. In her trench coat days.

In which I find a new dislike for correction fluid. I think I'm getting better at human proportions though. Still broken, but. Better.

(Pose reference from @adorkastock)