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it's terrible comic day theres still time

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hello! ive decided to open commissions properly since im currently in need of money to help pay for my student loans + insurance copays. please contact me either through DMs here or on discord if youre interested!

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also, if you have the money to spare, i encourage you to donate to The Sameer Project, which is helping to provide food, water, and other necessities to families currently under siege in Gaza.

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hello! ive decided to open commissions properly since im currently in need of money to help pay for my student loans + insurance copays. please contact me either through DMs here or on discord if youre interested!

TERMS & CONDITIONS

PAYPAL

also, if you have the money to spare, i encourage you to donate to The Sameer Project, which is helping to provide food, water, and other necessities to families currently under siege in Gaza.

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hello! ive decided to open commissions properly since im currently in need of money to help pay for my student loans + insurance copays. please contact me either through DMs here or on discord if youre interested!

TERMS & CONDITIONS

PAYPAL

also, if you have the money to spare, i encourage you to donate to The Sameer Project, which is helping to provide food, water, and other necessities to families currently under siege in Gaza.

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figured i ought to post about it here as well, but ive changed the title of andrew in drag on ao3 because i realized it could seem like i was trying to draw a connection between transfeminity and drag, which wasn't my intention! i apologize for any discomfort or upset i may have caused by failing to realize this sooner.

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Tutorial on drawing characters/OCs who have some sort of facial paralysis. It doesn't cover all possible variants because I was using mirror as my main reference lawl

Keep in mind that this is an introductory drawing tutorial and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People 👍

Consider supporting me on ko-fi if you find this to be helpful.

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art tutorials / books i like masterpost

ppl ask me for advice and while i always have a lot of Thoughts about art that i like to share. maybe being told "just have fun and be yourself" can be frustrating when you want actionable advice so:

these are books i love that have taught me a lot, i own physical copies and still reference them all the time. (these arent expensive or hard to find but i'll include pdfs anyway)

Dynamic Figure Drawing by Burn Hogarthe (pdf)

The Art of Animal Drawing by Ken Hultgren (pdf)

Exploring Color by Nita Leland (pdf)

and i am being completely dead serious when i say you should try the tutorials from ed emberley's books. yes even if you're a whole adult who has gone to art school. (everybody who tells me "your art is so shaped" this is where i get that shit from !!! he knew what he was talking about!!) this one is my favorite

also these books that i've learned a lot from that aren't literally "how to draw" books:

and i say this all the time but imo just doing a lot of observational drawing / drawing from life is the thing that will level you up the fastest. it's an awesome thing to be inspired by the art you love but if that's all you do you will never get out of the trap of comparing yourself to others. most importantly be gay and never give up

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his silly rabbit

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hello! ive decided to open commissions properly since im currently in need of money to help pay for my student loans + insurance copays. please contact me either through DMs here or on discord if youre interested!

TERMS & CONDITIONS

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also, if you have the money to spare, i encourage you to donate to The Sameer Project, which is helping to provide food, water, and other necessities to families currently under siege in Gaza.

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Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

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hello! ive decided to open commissions properly since im currently in need of money to help pay for my student loans + insurance copays. please contact me either through DMs here or on discord if youre interested!

TERMS & CONDITIONS

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also, if you have the money to spare, i encourage you to donate to The Sameer Project, which is helping to provide food, water, and other necessities to families currently under siege in Gaza.

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i figured if i did a series of vignettes for my first longfic thatd make it a lot easier to handle than if i jumped right into the deep end but considering how long it's taken me to work on chapter 3 of dullahan i think i deeply underestimated how much i struggle with Any kind of long term project. augh

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I've already said that my number one piece of writing advice is to read.

But my number two piece of advice is this: be deliberate.

Honestly this would fix so many pieces of bad writing advice. Don't forbid people from doing something, tell them to be conscious and deliberate about it. This could help stop people from falling into common mistakes without limiting their creativity. Black and white imperatives may stop a few annoying beginner habits, but ultimately they will restrict artistic expression.

Instead of "don't use epithets": "Know the effect epithets have and be deliberate about using them." Because yes, beginners often misuse them, but they can be useful when a character's name isn't known or when you want to reduce them to a particular trait they have.

Instead of "don't use 'said'" or "just use 'said'": "Be deliberate about your use of dialogue tags." Because sometimes you'll want "said" which fades into the background nicely, but sometimes you will need a more descriptive alternative to convey what a character is doing.

Instead of "don't use passive voice": "Be deliberate about when you use passive voice." Because using it when it's not needed can detract from your writing, but sometimes it can be useful to change the emphasis of a sentence or to portray a particular state of mind.

Instead of blindly following or ignorantly neglecting the rules of writing, familiarize yourself with them and their consequences so you can choose when and if breaking them would serve what you're trying to get across.

Your writing is yours. Take control of it.

It probably sounds like I'm preaching to the choir here because most of my mutuals are already great writers. But I'm hoping this will make it to the right people.

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You probably get asked this a lot, but how do you draw hands? Even when I'm tracing, they look so weird 🙃

I could probably go on and on and on about hands, but here are some key points I compiled! I LOVE drawing hands, and I never hesitate to use my own as a reference

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spec. spec. spec youve changed the game. i never realized your pointer finger and your wrist artery are the same. holy shit. im going to draw hands thank you

aasdjsd its not really an artery but its a useful landmark to facilitate the Flow of a pose imo

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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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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOB !!!! you are transgender