#i think im having a meltdown

[monigote001]

Okay, maybe I'm just torturing myself

I just wanna say, I'm sorry if the comic is not that great, I have never done one and I'm very awkward when I share the things of my head because I feel dumb and boring about it, sorry if it is not good, like, at all

[scoganz]

i dont care oh my god i dont care i dont fucking care

[aphel1on]

AURGH auwarghh the autistic parental trauma... the epi was wacky hijinks then dropped this on us out of nowhere... (sobs) laios... laiiiiooooos

[microwave-core]

my god i don't think i have ever seen a ratio this terrible. i am so proud of this community

[cherubchoirs]

i only say morning

[milfygerard]

i still posit thered be way less inter-swiftie drama if we all stopped writing conspiracy theories and started making short-form psychoanalytical fiction writing exercises like a normal fucking fandom

[esmes]

look at me baby, dead in my eyes it's the end of our holiday, but it isn't goodbye carry me with you all of the time eat of me baby, skin to the bone body on body, until I'm all gone but I'm with you, inside

🎥 @theriddletrades

[calvinandhobbes]

moments when louis smiles fondly at lestat. feeling normal about it for sure

[transhawks]

lots of rambling underneath the cut, I suggest reading this if you find hawks and his role in the manga interesting/worth exploring. Otherwise you'll just be frustrated/annoyed so keep scrolling.

Probably putting this into a big meta on him, but something I've come to appreciate about Hawks in canon is that he introduces a surrealty and absurdity to My Hero and I don't think that was the original intention, it just ended up feeling natural. I can't think of many characters in the manga who equally provide the same level of absurdity (incongruity, a complete lack of rhyme and reason, satirical themes, dark irony).

Like this is a very serious thing here but I think this is what really pisses a lot of people off about hawks: that the manga asks the READER to really make moral judgments on him, and while it occassionally does slip in some on him, mostly it turns it around on us to look at the things he does, in context or out, and there's always a feeling of "he can't get away with that, right?" A continuous "so is Hawks just gonna keep being like that..." "why is he like that...why does no one react", and it's CLEARLY meant to frustrate unless you begin to see it as a pattern and therefore, funny. That our moral judgments on him are very useless and he'll just continue on existing out of them? The manga does condemn him at times, but never overtly, and will then steer in a different direction with him as if to tell the reader, "No, you will not get what you expect. You will not see the judgment calls you are asked to make as a reader answered or acknowledged because there's none of that here." I just think it's one of the fascinating things about him and I'm definitely going to look more into this more.

[ozlices]

i. i just. i just think. i just think that. i just think that oz vessalius. [clenches fist and just starts sobbing from affection]

[nato-obenkrieger]

the black suits possibly the most autistic band ever. except for john he just has adhd. but everyone else. im shooting them with my autism beam. nato and chris especially

[the-owl-tree]

its so annoying to me when ppl talk abt realism in warriors when ti comes to any kind of relationships with characters

real cats don't have the conception of having a mate for one that's a human concept that we projected onto some random animals don't get me started on how cats in wc care about whether or not they can have kits because that's also insanely unrealistic for an animal

i think we can even take it a step further and stop even pandering to the idea that "realism" even matters here. they should be allowed because lgbt+ people are real, not fantasy, and that's that. i think even the most stringent, strictly realistic rp should let people be trans.

[strawglicks]

need more firesetter content of graham being horribly pathetically downbad for flint

[flamboyant-king]

Hey babes, sorry I've been dead, but I coulda been literally dead if I had not gone.

I didn't hurt myself and we're still figuring things out. I would love to share but I've already forgotten what I've learned. I hope I get more guidance and time for healing and learning on how to lead my life in a better direction than where I was. But that takes time and effort.

I hope to get some rest, get some support, and get it together. But right now, I don't think it's healthy for me to worry about art in the way I do now. I may not express it here, but trying to maintain my art endeavors/projects while there's so much bullshit going on backstage is not helping me. Especially since I'm not even obligated to do so. But trying to force myself to do something I am currently unable to do will just make me feel worse. I'll follow my dreams and passions one day, but I've been putting off the healing process for years.

So I guess it's better to get better now so I can get the ball rolling again. Why drive on a flat tire?

[luck-of-the-drawings]

REFLEX IN THE SKY, WARNS YOU YOURE GONNA DIE, STORM COMING, YOU BETTER HIDE. FROM THE ATOMIC TIDE

(messin around with (ONLY) pens and colored pencils, error correction done with paper n glue)

[thedrotter]

not-yet-dead-person

silly comic of a conversation in-game i thought was too funny not to make something proper for instead of a doodle ww

(timelapse + wip images (thus silly process commentary in read more if you like artist commentary :3)

i think the sketch looks silly and goofy and funny so i find it important to share with you the mere presence of the faces i drew on it. i drew it on top of the boxes without staying inside its borders because i find my proportions can get wonky if i draw them cropped in a restricted space. and I feel trapped otherwise and i will draw BAD!!! give me spaceeeee to go wild!!!!

the head circles are there for emotional support

very low res speedpaint because truth is the canvas was much bigger than the space where my comic was placed. i didnt account when exporting my timelapse in 720px that that tiny space would look so pixelated ... but it's able to be percieved, so its okay.

(i will now comment on my process and it is not brief sorry)

usually i would try to clean up my sketches and figure out what goes on top before jumping into linework, but since there are multiple panels and drawings i chose to jump into inking right away for the sake of brevity. i just went in with a brush that uses pen pressure and drew what was needed. i added extra line thickness and contrast in areas around the face because it helps direct your eyes there more easily that way.

according to her equipment rei has a chain belt but i only remembered it existed once I was going to color, and i did not like that discovery... I chose to ignore it to maintain my peace. i already have the color palettes for these characters figured out, and i didnt really want to think about a new element at the moment www I tend to overthink those things a lot so i skipped it

the rest is rather straightforward! not that anything else wasn't, but in here i could turn my brain off and sing. linework and sketching require mumbling so i cannot turn my brain off. just block in the characters with a solid color so i can have a mask (something along those lines,) where the color can stay inside. then just color in !!!

Base colors just had slight cell shading on the skin, and for the hair i airbrush a bit of the skincolor in low opacity near the forehead... I'm not sure what it means, but i can look at the faces easier with it somehow. i like the gentle subtlety it adds even if you cant really tell. it makes things look nice.

background was just me blocking in the color of the wall and floor, shade the wall a bit, then slap a noise and free use wood texture on top. work smarter not harder ! yet it took a bit to make it look stylistically fitting with the characters, and even now i think bottom middle panel looks odd. whatever!!!

for the middle panel i thought itd be funny if the background was a solid silly and colorful one to contrast the next panel's sketchy black one. a contrast to how the word widow is seen. on that note my handwritting is not pointy. i gaslighted my hand into thinking that it was indeed pointy in that moment so i could write "not-yet dead person" in letters that didn't seem cute. my hand did not fall for it but it complied anyway

that's basically it! I'm not sure what else i could say that doesn't feel barebones because it really is that straightforward. if you're curious I used clip studio paint for this. only special brush used was for linework (a brush named Lemon Brush), the rest used were just the default. my computer gets the least credit. it was trying to convince me a 20mb file was going to nuke it all the time and hardly let me save multiple times so i do not appreciate it