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[princesskkfish]

A much needed vacation

I think that after the events of the movie the boys wanted to see other places and see the world after it almost ending ya know

close ups under the cut

[iknaenmal]

The jade + rose fusion AKA jase by @meraki-sunset !!! She was so fun to draw :]

[hauntedriiibcage]

my take on the whole autism swag summit deal

[blueskittlesart]

hi :] this isnt really a reqest cuz it'll prob be a longer answer but im rlly curious abt ur comic process

i love all ur comics and somehow they always manage to gutpunch me- and ur composition and the way they read is always so beautiful and adds so much to the message youre trying to get across

yeah lol let's get into it! Ive spent maybe 5 or so years refining this process to the point it's at now so it's pretty much my standard procedure now. I'm going to use Now that you're gone as my primary example here since i still have most of the planning stages associated with it (my laptop does not have a whole lot of storage left so i usually delete my planning once the comic is finished lol) but i'll try to throw in some other examples too!

I almost always start with a written script. (the exception for this is longform oc comics which i find easier to write in the moment, but for my shorter character studies I almost always write first.) I use discord to write because it's convenient, but before i had a dedicated discord server for my stuff i was using txt files on my laptop which i do NOT recommend. anyway, this is what the written script for ntyg looked like:

note that some small elements changed in production, like the amount of time that had passed since link's death. the lines "I look at her and i am only afraid. i remember all the ways in which i hurt you. She's almost as old now as you were then. I cannot stand the thought of outliving her, too" were also added during the rough stage because i felt like there wasn't quite enough emphasis on aryll in the initial script, and since this was a major change that necessitated a whole extra page in the comic I went back and edited those lines into the script so I wouldn't forget them. (both these changes were made during the rough stage. i'll almost never make major script adjustments after the roughs are finished.)

more examples of my scripts; specifically the original script for totk: failure and two versions of oot: adulthood (one before some major refining and one after.) with comics like these, where i have a very clear idea in my head of the imagery i want to go along with the words, i'll sometimes include it interspersed in the script, either spolier-marked or denoted with brackets.

with ntyg and some of my other more. canon divergent? i guess? comics, there's sort of a mini phase in between scripting and roughs where I do some minor character studies to get designs nailed down in the early stages. with ntyg I already had a clear image in my mind for aryll, but the central character was link's dad, whose design wasn't quite so solid in my head. I really wanted to make sure that his design was well thought-out and consistent throughout everything, so i did a few mini sketches and studies to ensure I had his design memorized and could execute it consistently:

these are sans hair and accessories because nailing down consistent facial features was my main focus with them, and both these sketches ended up getting used as references for certain panels later on. This isn't a step I ALWAYS take with my comics, but if there's a central character that i'm not super used to drawing i find it helpful to get some practice in before jumping into the real thing!

after the scripting and design phases i move on to roughs, which I consider to be the most important stage in my process. roughs are very very quick approximations of what I want the final pages to look like. they usually don't take me more than a few minutes per page to create, and their sole purpose is to help me visualize the flow of the page and the placement of major elements like panels, characters, and dialog. this is what the 1st page rough for ntyg looked like compared to the final page:

as you can see, all i have laid out is the major text and visual elements, but it really helps me to visualize how the finished comic is going to flow. i do the roughs for every page before i start on the finals so that i have an idea of what the entire comic is going to look like before I really start finalizing it. it's important that these roughs are FAST--i almost never draw fully-fledged characters unless the pose or expression is particularly important to the scene, and that's because the goal is to allow everything to flow quickly and easily from panel to panel and page to page, and getting too caught up on one panel or element often breaks that flow. Nowadays, i have a pretty good idea of how much room my writing takes up so i don't write out the entire script in my roughs, but back when i was a little less experienced i took the time to write everything out in this stage to ensure that my dialog would fit into the space it was given without getting cramped or cutting off other important elements. doing that really helped me build awareness of how much dialog and panel placement matters and how i could use it, so this rough stage is non-negotiable for me even now!

after the roughs i go straight into finalization. I never enjoyed lineart back when i was learning to draw digitally so i basically built my art style to be understandable and visually appealing after one sketch phase, meaning there's legitimately no in-between stage between that rough and that final page, i just sort of. go for it. this is what works for me, but i think most normal people would probably find a second sketch phase helpful LMAO i'm just crazy and i need everything done as fast as possible. the finalization stage usually doesn't contain any major adjustments of script, composition, etc; i make it a general rule to keep most of the major adjustments confined to the earlier stages, for my own sanity. One thing that DOES occasionally change in this stage is my plans for color--ntyg in particular was originally planned to be completely black-and-white with no grays added, but when looking at my completed pages i found them sort of empty and unengaging without the gray, so i added it. usually if my color plans DO change it's something small like that--I'll almost never switch between full-color and grayscale on a whim because the way that i sketch for those two versions differs significantly so it isn't an easy switch to make.

anyways i hope this is what you were looking for! I'm very passionate about making comics and this process is a result of years of experimentation & finding what works for me, but i hope it's of some use to you as well!

[davejadedaily]

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[zoomzooml]

Concept sketches of Hiccup's armor for that AU with which I’m not doin’ anything.

A sketch of the "first" meeting between Astrid and this wild thing that apparently gets along with dragons. If I ever write it once it probably won't look like this, but I wanted to draw confused Astrid and Hiccup being kinda creepy.

He is just some creature.

[stupidscav]

hello chat. sparkledog riv (kinda)

don't ask why I don't know either/silly

closeups under cut,,hi

mmm highlighter

needa draw gourm more ehehdhd

can we talk about how my math teacher told me not to work on this because I wrote "bitches". girl. this is MY sketchbook, MY art, MY privacy that YOU invaded. she literally fucking sat down and READ IT WORD FOR WORD girl. what do you mean. you have to actually take the time to read that shit. I do not like her🔥

[ryctone]

She wanted to show off her prototype to impress Hollyberry, but she's way to excited to talk about it.

[rachelsquill]

royalty au were always going to become ocs eventually i honestly had been saying that from p much the start of royalty au. in my mind royalty au was already so separate from dsmp the only reason i used dsmp was bcuz a) i was into it and ctntduo were my fixation b) more ppl care abt fanart c) its easier to design characters/worlds when they r based off preexisting chars/worlds lmao

idk i get being upset that ppl have made some dsmp chars into ocs but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it is what it is

[bizlybebo]

giys it is 4 am and i am watching the combat sequence in ep 100 i am unwell jay feirn deserves so mcuh better grgrjkghrekjgherjkghekrhtekjrhterjk

[asexual-pancakes]

Found this old concept I made of tango in my sketchbook inspired by Scott Christian Sava's vampire painting. Might actually do this some time soon because my art block be hitting me and I wanna draw some angsty ranchers.

[zootopiathingz]

Guess what movie ya girl saw

[blueskittlesart]

Hello! Just a quick question do you have any helpful hints on combo weapons for TOTK?

gibdo bones seem broken at first but don't use them on anything except arrows because they break after one hit. other than that my general rule is to sort inventory by highest attack power and then just fuse the strongest horn or whatever to whatever the fuck im holding. i have seen a lot of success with lizalfos tails attached to polearms. basically makes a whip. im also partial to boss boko horns bc theyre easy to get but strong as fuck. don't even bother picking up stalkoblin arms, the highish base atk may entice you but they're flimsy as shit and will only survive like 3 hits. double-weapon fusions seem cool at first but are lame in practice. the second you get a magic rod or staff fuse a ruby to it, ice puzzles are so so so easy when you can just hold your little stick near them until they melt. hoard octo balloons and bomb flowers like your life depends on it because fusing them to a shield and then sheildsurfing lets you enter bullet time from flat ground which is cracked as hell. the second the master sword recharges in your inventory fuse your strongest shit to it bc otherwise you will try to equip it mid-battle and forget that it's only like twice as strong as it could be. thats all ive got

[galaxynajma]

Someone should buy this for Yuuta

[ghost-pasta]

thought up an au where the nature of Danny & Vlad's portal accidents change (this changes some major plot aspects) but i'm legitimately having too much fun with it.

(the comparison's with the Canon looks are for ghost form specifically. tho I may change Danny's,,,, maybe)