#the locked tomb

[chicaneryatelier]

Here is some Gideon art from last year!

[eledsart]

griddlehark, in bed the kiss

[nonasbirthday]

Tbh? I don't like Paul. I don't want Paul. I understand that Paul serves an important narrative function and that Paul is the best possible ending for Camilla and Palamedes given their situation, personalities, and relationship. However what I really want is for Camilla and Palamedes to attend the ATN wedding as two individual humans and for Pal to be a lightweight who loses his tie in the garden fountain after three drinks and for Camilla to do exactly one shot with the group, keep Gideon from ripping the sleeves off her dress shirt, and absolutely kill it at lawn games during cocktail hour. Since this scenario is a wild tonal mismatch for the series and also Palamedes was already dead, this was unlikely to ever happen. However Paul is the final nail in the coffin for the theoretical existence of this scene and I can't help but resent them for that

[vaduart]

they're babies. they have never done anything wrong in their life

[godliath]

alecto the first

[homeofwyrm]

Character doomed by the narrative shows Earth a plant.

[naomistares]

modern tlt au. what no alecto does to a mf

[moldofthewater]

Riding home. hurts me each time to read Camilla get hurt... and OH MY GOD it's such a well written scene, I loved it so much.

[ooctlt]

Do cam or pal ever have friends from class over? Or are they part of any clubs?

[jolyneart]

Lyctorhood ✨

support me on ko-fi

[plantboxes]

the saint of devotion

[arithmonym]

silas calling palamedes an inbred and implying that he has an improper relationship with his cavalier only gets funnier the longer i think about it. if silas knew that people shipped him with his nephew, i think he’d step off that cliff for realsies.

[foxy-alien]

Page (4/14)

I wanted to share my process for my 14 page Nona comic, This got pretty long so the rest is under the cut!

First, I start by making a script, as I'm weeding through Nona I’m drawing immediate reactions. This way I don't have to keep track of action as well as dialogue. This is the most dialogue heavy page of the comic so this one has the most detailed panel break ups. 

In this scene Alecto’s inner thoughts are my favorite part so I dedicated a lot of time figuring how to add them naturally. I especially love “The old man, Crux—the child Crux, barely one hundred years old”

Once I have a rough, and I mean ROUGH thumbnail for the page I move on to creating a digital sketch. 

Side note, you’ll notice I go back and forth from traditional to digital back to traditional. Having to fully redraw poses multiple times makes me really think about the action and what I want to include.

Thumbnailing is for figuring out panels. Sketching is for action and dialogue. I tend to show action and emotion over following all the rules of comic making. If you notice i break the 180 rule, but at the end of the day character interactions are more important to me.

I redraw the sketch on comic paper in mechanical pencil. Again I don’t trace the digital work because I want the linework to stay loose. I just focus on lineweight and contrast at this step. The dialogue is written out first then I line everything else with my felt tip pen.

I clean up the comic and replace the handwritten dialogue with a font I made out of my handwriting. This part is tedious but I really don't know how to skip it. My handwriting is too hard to read but I also need to make sure all the dialogue fits naturally, so that means doing it twice. 

My coloring process is really chaotic and can't be summed up in screenshots. 

Crazy right? I am constantly adjusting, changing, and generally making a mess and then cleaning it up when I color. Often when my colors look off to me it's because I have a contrast problem, so I check it in greyscale. 

If you want to know more I can share my brushes and techniques.

And with that I’m done! And then I move on to the next page.

[mossytrashcan]

colored some of the sketches!! yeah ik ana’s dress sucks don’t @ me it was mostly improv

[jbm04]

Should attempt to make a list of all the times Harrow initiates touch with Gideon. I keep thinking about Harrow stepping on Gideon. Kicking her in the face. Grabbing her jaw. Shaking her by the shoulders. Balling up her fists in her shirt. Like… good or bad, Harrow just wants to touch Gideon.

[homeofwyrm]

Have to try for Alecto now. This Barbie is gonna stab God.