#about the reference...... i love that manga.......

[migurin-art]

🐺😺 kghn abo hybrid au

[ ref isp ]

[twst-mer]

[paint-it-dead]

-"Start Here" by Caitlyn Siehl

[all-my-ocs-are-evil]

Grojband, but as a band from an early 2000s shoujo manga

[beybuniki]

one thing i noticed (form personal experience and by observing other artists) is that the longer you draw and create, the more boring it gets to simply replicate references, especially when it comes to characers' fashion choices.

with bnha, i keep mine pretty simple and basic because teens ARE very trend-loyal, but mainly im just lazy lol, but when i AM motivated, i love to think about characters' personal style, what could influence them, but also more trivial things such as budget into account, which is why i love to draw Deku in basic tees or clothes provided by his school (while bakugo gets to wear ed hardy and shoto wears arcteryx). i also love to limit the items like its just more realistic to me when someone as ordinary as deku wears the same 5 crewnecks all the time

which brings me to my actual point, namely that the more frequently you draw, the more you learn to do research andto combine your findings into sth new rather than staying faithful to one reference, and i think that's what makes good art so good, being able to draw inspiratioin from all kinds of niches and creating something that feels very authentic and suspends the spectator's disbelief. sometimes i see art and i know exactly which fashion editorial or which kpop idol was referenced, and I'm not insinuating these are bad things i do that too (less frequently now but i sure did!), my point is it's kind of nice to see how ALL artist start out with rather derivative art but eventually move on to create more authentic art that is less about drawing beautiful and perfect people and more about trying to individualize them and that ALSO means giving them weird clothes, scars, asymmetric eyes, a receding hairline etc. like drawing the same beautiful character 200 times gets so boring and it's just more fun to try and make them a bit more human

[cairoscene]

after two years of reading superhero comics and enjoying them at steadily decreasing levels over time i’m happy to say that reading dungeon meshi healed me. comics can be good. art, paneling, storytelling can all be good. faith in humanity restored. anyway what’s everyone’s favorite manga

[chidoroki]

August 22nd - Happy Birthday Emma - ft: her tvtropes

[agnesandhilda]

I don't think blue lock will commit to having any undeniably queer characters in the main text (no, not even the one you're thinking of right now) but at the same time I do believe that these guys are gonna think back to these obsessive intensely physical rivalries they used to have with each other as adults and think "okay. so that awoke something in me"

[art-of-firefly]

I have to make an important call tomorrow, please lend me your strength !

[breitzbachbea]

I haven't talked about Francetto a lot lately (BUT only 5 chapters away from a finished IP rewrite, so Watch Out), but I haven't thought in a loooooong time about their weird fighting kink. Like, how they just love to sratch and bite and push and shove and actually wrestle for the upper hand, because it gives Dolco a sense of worth and superiority AND he likes Franci being evil and Franci likes harsh physicality and he likes em feisty. Plus, whatever makes Dolco happy and helps him cope. (No matter how unhealthy.)

Still the best thing to come out of this is like. The rest of Team Italy kind of knowing. Doesn't matter if Franci told any of them, they like. Know. and while Rella and Fabio tactfully, if slightly concerned at times, ignore it, the Vargas are just like. "You've got to stop fucking like that, you're gonna cost me a good man one day, Cicci." - Lovi. "Yeah, there's only so much flesh on those bones, he bruises easily!" - Feli. And Dolco is just there like "STATE ZITTI STATE ZITTI STATE ZITTI, AMMAZZOVI!!!". About to commit incredibly unsexy murder.

[kvroii]

In one of the rare times I'm sharing my 2014 art (below), here is the artwork the winter outfit for chapter 11 (above) is based on! At this time, Kori's 'fancy' outfits all contained blue (a departure from the 2013 main outfit's red and black, the color scheme it would return to in 2016 onward). This was also the start of my 'hide the other eye behind hair' phase for art, and it wouldn't be until much later she would return to her first, rougher hairstyle. It was drawn in Paint Shop Pro 8.10 with a mouse.

This also was an outfit she wore in the 2014 manga I was working on before I switched to novels in 2016 and rebooted Kori's whole story. Below is a panel from the very first chapter of that, where she is wearing the same coat. It was drawn with a pencil on printer paper folded into signatures (and bound with hot glue dont make the same mistakes i did it ruins the paper after a decade TTwTT)

Kori's story has come a long way since this 2014 outfit was designed, but I wanted to have an homage to it in the illustrations, as I've done with other old details (such as chapter 9's ribbon) and as I plan to do yet (chapter 5 has some surprises in store -- did I ever post her first ever design?)! So, she has this coat once again in her false memory vision she witnesses in this chapter. She keeps the necklace accessory (I'll talk about it sometime), and the hairclips have been reimagined as earmuffs to suit the winter setting.

...I think my 2014 self would be happy to see that I still remember and think of the older design(s), even a decade later.

[battleroyale-textposts]

[tricksterlatte]

There was this post I saw awhile back that asked what was the one thing you would get pretentious about since everyone has at least one. I didn’t reblog it at the time, but my god if I have to see any more bad faith or media illiterate surface level take about Chainsaw Man, I’m going to become the literacy devil

[chadsuke]

Books Read in 2023:

Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman (2019)

Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling (1996)

The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards (2018)

The Little Book of Lykke by Meik Wiking (2017)

American Cozy by Stephanie Pederson (2018)

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian (2021)

The Conscious Closet by Elizabeth L. Cline (2019)

My Happy Marriage Vol. 1 by Akumi Agitogi (2019)

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962)

[ID: Covers of the aforementioned books. End ID.]

[alamari-chibi]

i think everyone who reads webnovels should read them in the cheapest and lowest quality way possible because nothing brings more joy than edited MTL that makes characters' names into shit like "iron flower" "standing tall" or "brick"

[ineed-to-sleep]

I think it's fair to say that sometimes people dislike or hate their own art bc "it's theirs" and they have self image issues etc and all. But. I also think there's another angle that can be looked at here. Like, sometimes you dislike your art bc you're trying to make it into something you think it's supposed to be, not what you really want it to be.

Some of us(me included) can get so caught up in the search for approval from a community that we put aside the stuff we actually like in favor of what we think we have to do in order to be accepted, or to impress. Art is an extension of ourselves, it's an expression of our identities, of the things we love, the things we grew up with, the things that used to impress us and make us happy and that might still make us happy today. The more we distance ourselves from that, the more we might start to feel like something is wrong. Like something is missing. Like it's never good enough, and you might find yourself adding more and more things that are "supposed" to make your art look better but that never really fix the issue.

I think sometimes we have to ask ourselves: am I doing what I like, and am I doing it the way I like it? Look at your favorite artists, look at the stuff you love to see. Look at the stuff you used to love. Is that what you're doing? And if not, then why not?