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[labwebs]

@atimebomb​’s Harry has to deal with two Peter Parkers

Peter’s blood ran cold when he saw the notification on his phone. Sure, most people wouldn’t have alerts on for a website that spent most of its time attacking them personally, but like it or not the Bugle was usually the fastest when it came to reporting strange and unusual goings-on in the city. Strange and unusual... like a man dressed in green and riding around on a hovering glider. Scanning quickly through the article, Peter got a decent idea of where he’d been spotted and then sprung into action. Current project tossed aside, he suited up.

Swinging through the city, a million possibilities ran through Peter’s mind. He’d been trying to keep an eye and ear out for this universes’ version of people that he’d either met or heard about during the whole multiverse debacle. True, he didn’t have much to go on apart from names but he hadn’t yet come across anyone with the last name Osborn who had a biotech company or anything similar. Dr. Octaivus had said that Norman had taken an experiment too far when working on government contracts. Surely something like that only happened once a company was more established, right? So how had he missed that? 

Landing softly on the roof of the abandoned warehouse (it was always an abandoned warehouse) that the Bugle had mentioned, Peter figured he would find out soon enough. A cold pit of dread formed in his stomach as he started his search. He knew this had to be someone else- someone different from the Norman Osborn that he’d accidentally brought to this universe before. But the Goblin... No, he had to keep his anger in check. This was someone else. Not who’d killed May. Not who he’d nearly torn to pieces. Man, he wished the other Peters were here with him now...

Elsewhere in the city- nearby but not close enough to have heard what was going on already- an older and slightly taller Peter Parker stirred and groaned. The shift between universes was never a particularly good feeling. Especially when coupled with a building suddenly being in the way of his swinging and not having enough time to avoid a direct collision with a brick wall. Shaking it off as best as he could, he shot a web up at the tallest nearby building. Best to get his bearings- see where he wound up in the city this time...

[hinamie]

alongside someone like you

[inafallsaway]

Drawing time!

[madamemiz]

cotl peekers are now available in my ko-fi shop!!

currently have the lamb and narinder, both as matte stickers with a clear backing :3

they are $6 a piece, or both for $10! US shipping is $1 and worldwide is $4, both combinable! i also have sun and moon peekers and other dca stickers and prints still available 🥳

[adaki]

GIRLS NITE OUT >_< ((clockwork could not make it)) (wip)

[expelliarmus]

[crunchchute]

Let's play fizzball!

[rapidhighway]

HI, i'm just gonna drop this in your lap and run actually, a future AU

Part 2

[deoidesign]

How I save time on backgrounds as a full-time webcomic artist

Hi! I make webcomics for a living, and I have to be able to draw a panel extremely fast to keep up with my deadlines. I draw about 50 panels a week, which gives me about 45 minutes per panel if I want any semblance of a healthy work-life balance.

Most webtoon artists save time on backgrounds by using 3d models, which works for them and is great! but personally I hate working in 3d... I went to school for it for a year and hated it so much I completely changed career paths and vowed never to do it again! So, this is how I save time without using any 3d, for those of you out there who don't like it either!

This tactic has also saved me money (3d models are expensive) and it has helped me converting my comic from scroll format into page format for print, because I have much more art to work with than what's actually in the panels. (I'll touch on this later)

So, first, I make my backgrounds huge. my default starting size is 10,000 x 10,000 pixels. My panels are 2,500 pixels wide, so my backgrounds are 4x that, minimum. Because of this, I make them less detailed than I could or that you might expect so it doesn't look weird against my character art when I shrink portions of it down.

I personally find it much easier to add in detail than to make "removing" details look natural at smaller sizes, but you might have different preferences than I do.

I also make sure to keep all of my elements on separate layers so that I can easily remove or replace them, I can move them to simulate different camera angles more easily, and it's simple to adjust the lighting to imply different times of day.

Then I can go ahead and copy/paste them into my episodes. I move the background around until it feels like it's properly fitting how I want.

Once I've done that in every panel, I'll go back through the episode and clean up anything that looks weird, and add in solid blacks (for my art style) Here's a quick before and after of what that looks like!

This makes 90% of my backgrounds take me just a few hours. This is my tactic when I'm working in an environment that an entire scene, or multiple scenes, will take place.

But many panels will inevitably have a location that's used exactly once, and it would waste time and effort to draw a massive background for those. So in 10% of cases, I just draw the single panel background in the episode. I save all of these, just in case I can re-use it later (this happens more often with outdoor locations, but I save them all nonetheless!)

I generally have to draw about 2 big backgrounds per episode, and 3-5 single-panel backgrounds per episode! At the beginning of an arc/book the number is higher, but as the series is continuing and I'm building up an asset library of indoor and outdoor elements to re-use for the book, the number generally goes down and I save more time.

My series involves time travel and mysteries, so there's a lot of new locations in it and we're constantly moving around. If I were working on a series that was more consistent in this aspect, this process would save me even more time!

Like I said earlier, this also saves me a lot of pain and gives me a lot more options as I'm converting from scroll format to print format!

panels that look like this in scroll format...

can look like this in print!

because I drew the background like this, so I didn't need to go through the additional effort to add in the extra detail to expand it outwards at all.

Anyways, I hope this helps someone! As always if it doesn't help, just go ahead and disregard. This is what I do and what works for me, and I feel like I only ever see time-saving tips for comics that involve 3d models and workflows, which don't work for me at all! I know there's more people like me out there, so this is for you!

Enjoy!

Also obligatory "my webcomic" if you want to see this in action or check it out!

[saragrosie]

I have been sketching. So much tma. Here's some expansions on my Jon and Martin designs I've been doing.

Another note I forgor to mention is I love how after hearing Simon go "it's enough to make your hair turn white" about Martin's office in s4 many of us collectively agreed his hair turned white because of his association with the Lonely. The shared consciousness is real and we use it to play hot potato with the communal brain cell dedicated to the sillies.

Closeup of apocalypse boyfriends (also to the person who said they love my s5 Jon's fancy white girl updo: I think about that every day)

[somecunttookmyurl]

the "all customer service people are trained by management to be illiterate apes you can never get any resolutions by design dont be mean about it" crowd would faint to know there is a guy at my bank RIGHT NOW attempting to resolve an issue that would normally take a week

see. i tried to order food (having nothing of note in the house, and too much pain currently to get down 3 flights of stairs about it) and the payment failed on just eat's end.

but it went through fine on my bank's end, so the funds are tied up in "pending"... for a week. my available balance is now 95p so i can't just do it again

the bank cannot typically do anything about this until the normal time frame for collection passes and they funds just release automatically. just eat have zero contactable customer service

but it is for FOOD and there's no more MONEY and i am a DISABLED CUSTOMER so BY FUCKING GOD not on zeeshan's watch

[midoristeashop]

Long car trips mean hunch over my ipad and film dumb stupid videos in restaurants at 11pm 😍 (future me screw u idk if it’s shaky also do not perceive me)

(That one vine)

Also have the things

[tarteggs]

bought dmc on a whim last month and then got a little too into it

[monochrome-stars]

a gift for @eggr0ast !!!

this was meant to be a birthday gift but unfortunately im a bit late :-[ apologiess

but its finished now, and i present to you: The Bouny Comic

based off this textpost of mine:

[sonknuxadow]

^ my wheelchair super sonic fanart

[sarathrimsa]

faerin lothar :)