Current Lessons In DuoLingo Land; Being Specific About Translating 写真 As “photo” As Opposed To

I am super happy to call this finished. It’s not perfect, but it’s at the point where my personal standards are satisfied at this time.

I can finally go on to another page, and probably try to learn how to do things faster, I suppose.

This is basically where I’ve ended my first Saturday Twitch stream at, minus a few minor tweaks.

I’m pretty happy with those hands, personally. :’D I’ve liked drawing hands for years, though, so getting to focus on them once again is really, really fun.

I’m thinking of holding another stream tomorrow because I also want to see THIS cover thing done, as well as the logo for this entire comic/comic series I’m slowly working on in my spare time.

I ended up finding a REALLY old high school doodle of a character I made  when I was about 15-16ish. I haven’t drawn much of him in a while.

It was my 26th birthday last week, and I decided to try to do a speedpaint of the same thing about a month ago in order to get a general idea of the progress I’ve made in the past decade. Overall, it’s definitely and improvement, to say the least, assuming I’m only given an hour or so to pop something out.

I’m quite pleased to see an obvious visual improvement at this point.

(Also, I’m totally not enamored with this character, I swear...even if he is a main protagonist in a story I wanted to write. I’ll try my best get to him later.)

So, I’ve decided to work on the roughs for an old comic project I’ve wanted to do for years, and @plaguenurse did a remix with the baby being punched today.

It’s very dark humor, and it’s like…it makes me feel bad, but it’s also hilarious, and it’s just one of those things where I don’t know how to respond to it.

As a piece of advice to anyone who ever gets involved with clients from hell that attempt to stiff you on art work, design work, etc that I wish I had learned sooner instead of assuming that being too poor to afford copyright attorneys I know meant that I had to sit here and accept design theft...

...in the United States, you can take the aforementioned non-compliant client to small claims court, assuming it falls under that threshold. Different states have different thresholds for what constitutes a small claim, but overall, it should cover most artists on Tumblr. (I say this because even at my historic design rates and the extent of work I did, I manage to fall under Florida's $5000 threshold.)

Of course, I'm in this situation currently, so that's why I bring this up. Essentially, I wish someone told me that I didn't need an attorney while working as a lower-tier designer sooner.

Trying to explain a particular nitpick I have with some typographic designs lead me to make this to illustrate what I’m talking about instead of trying to explain it in words.

Specifically, I really dislike it when people break up words like “Macchiato” into illegible crap that makes you pause for a bit, and then you’re stuck there for twice as long, trying to read what the fuck the word is. (Also, legit, I actually don’t like the Supercell logo that much, and it’s a perfect example of what I’m talking about.)

I may try to experiment with a similar square grid later on, but something more legible--because I do like how effective the economy of space is in things like this, I just hate it when it’s illegible as fuck, and I wouldn’t have made this if it weren’t for illustrative purposes.

I am pretty happy with the color scheme, though.

I’m gonna make it a point to do my streams on Thursdays, so feel free to drop on in to watch me draw and nitpick over a webcomic that doesn’t have that many pages!

I wish I didn’t have to wear glasses because I think I look significantly better without them, but I’m still quite fond of how I wear a suit.

This is my Day 1 for Inktober—and like a total nerd, I decided to draw a greyscale Alolan Muk for the theme of “Poisonous”.

I know Alolan Muk is super colorful, but I’m thinking that keeping the greyscale palette that I intend to keep for my (mostly neglected) webcomic would be good practice.

During the time that I’ve been overwhelmed with coursework and work to pay the bills, I forgot that I made this birb. It has been rescued from the annals of my hard drives after I decided to organize my files.

I’m almost done with some actual stuff I’ve decided to do over the holidays. I promise I won’t spam anyone with more terribly made typographic birbs. (I don’t even have any more terribly made typographic birbs.)