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1 year ago

Just wanted to ask, please forgive me if you've already answred this, what program do you use? Your art fucks HARD and like. I was looking at your art of the two moths over the city they die in and I was hit with the wave of "oh that looks really fucking fun actually." Like i know my art program can't do some of those effects and like, I'd love to try fucking about with them.

hi there, thank you! all my art is done in procreate and paint tool sai

because you mentioned that drawing in particular i thought it would be fun to break it down and show ppl what exactly went into each part of it so check this out

Just Wanted To Ask, Please Forgive Me If You've Already Answred This, What Program Do You Use? Your Art

sketch & lineart - the brushes come from georgbrush.club and the urban sketcher is my most commonly used lineart brush, it has a nice irregular shape. the square brush is nice for big blocky sketches.

the cityscape was REALLY hard but basically I got a photo of the skyline of florence, traced some basic building shapes, then bullshitted the rest using the vertical symmetry/mirror tool to cut down on the amount of work (so i only had to sketch one half of the city). then for lineart I turned off vertical symmetry, turned on the two-point perspective tool, and got this:

Just Wanted To Ask, Please Forgive Me If You've Already Answred This, What Program Do You Use? Your Art

the rose windows were made using the radial symmetry tool.

I didn't like it being so flat, so I used the liquify tool to make a kind of fish-eye effect (limited success tbh). I liked how it looked but the buildings in front needed something to cover them up to make the liquification less obvious...

Just Wanted To Ask, Please Forgive Me If You've Already Answred This, What Program Do You Use? Your Art

first pass colours. I felt they were very washed out, aside from the sun which i loved. I use the spectra brush (default procreate) for skyscapes a lot, I love the texture. Although the clouds were filled in using the lasso selection tool, I softened the edges using the square pencil again and added texture using true grit sampler grainy brushes. The translucency effect comes from my setting the brush as an eraser. The sun rays come from the radial symmetry tool.

Blocking in the moths' colours was done with the urban sketcher again.

Just Wanted To Ask, Please Forgive Me If You've Already Answred This, What Program Do You Use? Your Art

Something people may not have noticed is the labyrinth hidden in the sky! yeah I had a bunch of versions where it was more obvious but I found that it clashed a bit and was too busy, so I made it subtle. But yes. I searched for "royalty free labyrinth" and picked one.

The toner grit brush is one you've seen before if you've looked at any art on tumblr lately (this is such a popular brush) and it's from the true grit fast grit set. The pointillism brush is from the true grit free sampler pack, like my grain brushes.

I added shadows to the moths, increased saturation overall, and changed the clouds to a translucent blue (you can even see in the sun where I forgot to block in the sun itself because the clouds over it used to be opaque lol). Moon rays were drawn using the radial symmetry tool but this time with rotational symmetry off. I also moved the moon down closer to the moths because I felt that it was a bit far away, and this served to visually divide the drawing into three equal parts, so I chose to lean into that and divide the sky colours too, to show passing time, or an endless moment - morning, evening, night, etc.

And then the oroborous, I tried a few different effects on it because I wanted it to be very clearly separate from the main scene - I settled on a dot matrix newsprint texture, using procreate's onboard tool, and some heavy chromatic aberration. This is because the oroborous isn't real, it's purely symbolic and the moths' demise started when they became photographers so I liked the print media aspect there as well. The story itself is about grief without closure, cyclical violence, and sunk cost fallacy, while everyone explores an endless labyrinth, so an oroborous fits I think

what makes art fun to me is thinking up ways I can tell a story using just a single image. and sure a lot of it will be lost to an audience who isn't familiar with the characters or backstory but i want to leave enough in there that even complete strangers to my work will be able to construct a narrative about what's happening here, rather than it just being a cool image. that's my goal.

Finally I exported it to sai on my pc to give it a once-over. this is really important because the retina display on an ipad is oversaturated on purpose, to make everything look amazing and vibrant. but what this means is that on other screens, your work might look washed out. it's especially bad at displaying yellows! so i look at it in sai on my pc and i make minor adjustments, in this case I actually added another multiply layer on the moths and an overlay on their non-shadowed parts to increase the contrast there.

finally if you've read this far, I played a little trick with the caption of the drawing. yeah, THEY die... but only one of those moths is a theythem pronoun haver... the other has to survive. he isn't given a choice in the matter.


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1 year ago
WEBCOMICS! (read Them) 😎 A Small Dedication To The Webcomics That Have Shaped Our Indie Spheres For
WEBCOMICS! (read Them) 😎 A Small Dedication To The Webcomics That Have Shaped Our Indie Spheres For
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WEBCOMICS! (read Them) 😎 A Small Dedication To The Webcomics That Have Shaped Our Indie Spheres For
WEBCOMICS! (read Them) 😎 A Small Dedication To The Webcomics That Have Shaped Our Indie Spheres For
WEBCOMICS! (read Them) 😎 A Small Dedication To The Webcomics That Have Shaped Our Indie Spheres For
WEBCOMICS! (read Them) 😎 A Small Dedication To The Webcomics That Have Shaped Our Indie Spheres For
WEBCOMICS! (read Them) 😎 A Small Dedication To The Webcomics That Have Shaped Our Indie Spheres For
WEBCOMICS! (read Them) 😎 A Small Dedication To The Webcomics That Have Shaped Our Indie Spheres For
WEBCOMICS! (read Them) 😎 A Small Dedication To The Webcomics That Have Shaped Our Indie Spheres For
WEBCOMICS! (read Them) 😎 A Small Dedication To The Webcomics That Have Shaped Our Indie Spheres For
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WEBCOMICS! (read Them) 😎 A Small Dedication To The Webcomics That Have Shaped Our Indie Spheres For
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WEBCOMICS! (read Them) 😎 A Small Dedication To The Webcomics That Have Shaped Our Indie Spheres For
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WEBCOMICS! (read Them) 😎 A Small Dedication To The Webcomics That Have Shaped Our Indie Spheres For
WEBCOMICS! (read Them) 😎 A Small Dedication To The Webcomics That Have Shaped Our Indie Spheres For

WEBCOMICS! (read them) 😎 A small dedication to the webcomics that have shaped our indie spheres for many years. Free to read and with plenty to choose from, check them out, and tell your friends too! info to check out HERE and HERE

2 years ago
...that Your Audience Won't Hate.

...that your audience won't hate.

This is a method I started using when NFTs were on the rise - thieves would have to put actual work into getting rid of the mark - and one that I am now grateful for with the arrival of AI. Why? Because anyone who tries to train an AI on my work will end up with random, disruptive color blobs.

I can't say for sure it'll stop theft entirely, but it WILL make your images annoying for databases to incorporate, and add an extra layer of inconvenience for thieves. So as far as I'm concerned, that's a win/win.

I'll be showing the steps in CSP, but it should all be pretty easy to replicate in Photoshop.

Now: let's use the above image as our new signature file. I set mine to be 2500 x 1000 pixels when I'm just starting out.

Note that your text should not have a lot of anti-aliasing, so using a paint brush to start isn't going to work well with this method. Just use the standard G-Pen if you're doing this by hand, or, just use the text tool and whichever font you prefer.

Once that's done, take your magic wand tool, and select all the black. Here are the magic wand settings I'm using to make the selections:

...that Your Audience Won't Hate.

All selected?

...that Your Audience Won't Hate.

Good.

Now, find a brush with a scattering/tone scraping effect. I use one like this.

...that Your Audience Won't Hate.

You can theoretically use any colors you want for this next part, but I'd recommend pastels as they tend to blend better.

Either way, let's add some color to the text.

...that Your Audience Won't Hate.

Once that's finished,

You're going to want to go to Layer Property, and Border Effect

...that Your Audience Won't Hate.

You'll be given an option of choosing color and thickness. Choose black, and go for at least a 5 in thickness. Adjust per your own preferences.

...that Your Audience Won't Hate.

Now create a layer beneath your sig layer, and merge the sig down onto the blank layer.

...that Your Audience Won't Hate.
...that Your Audience Won't Hate.

This effectively 'locks in' the border effect, which is exactly what we want.

Hooray, you've finished your watermark!

...that Your Audience Won't Hate.

Now let's place that bad boy into your finished piece.

...that Your Audience Won't Hate.

You'll get the best mileage out of a mark if you can place it over a spot that isn't black of white, since you'll get better blending options that way. My preference is for Overlay.

...that Your Audience Won't Hate.
...that Your Audience Won't Hate.

From here, I'll adjust the opacity to around 20-25, depending on the image.

...that Your Audience Won't Hate.

If you don't have a spot to use overlay, however, there's a couple other options. For white, there's Linear Burn, which imho doesn't look as good, but it still works in a pinch.

...that Your Audience Won't Hate.

And for lots of black, you have Linear Light

...that Your Audience Won't Hate.

Either way, you're in business!

As a note, I know it's a bummer for some people to "ruin" their work with watermarks, which is part of the reason I developed this mark in particular. Its disruption is about as minimal as I can make it while still being effective.

There's other methods, too, of course! But this is the one I use, and the one I can speak on. Hope it helps some of you!

8 months ago

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1 year ago
The Creator's Guide To Comics Devices Is OPEN!!! Comicsdevices.com

The Creator's Guide to Comics Devices is OPEN!!! comicsdevices.com

An online library of visual-narrative devices that are used in the medium of comics and other sequential art.

Happy Halloween! I'm really excited to be finally launching* what is maybe one of my most ambitious, largest work yet. This online library is the next phase of a research project that began in May 2020, when I first mused on how comics as a field doesn't have a resource that catalogues devices used in the medium. Like, theatre has devices, so does literature, and film! So why shouldn't comics? I always had an interest in comics studies and analysis. I love reading, making and thinking comics. However most of my knowledge was intuitive - I learned comics from osmosis and experience. This is true for many of my peers. Speaking about comics as a creator is hard, because we don't have a robust system of language. When we had to speak, many of us tend to reach for the language developed for film by film practitioners. If there is language specific to comics, it's either scattered in multiple blogs or hidden away in academic journals. The Comics Devices library is meant to aggregate everything and everybody into a single hub! After exploring some multiple resources, alongside some original, independent research, here is the first edition! * The Comics Devices project is still a work-in-progress! It's not final, nor will it ever be. This is why I am seeking contributors to help build this library. Translations, comics examples, etc. There is a lot of work to do! If you are interested, reply to this newsletter or submit an expression of interest on this page.Β  Have fun everyone!! (Now time for me to melt x_x)


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1 year ago
Reminder That Loki Is Genderfluid And Bisexual And They Are Absolutely Amazing In Both The Comics And
Reminder That Loki Is Genderfluid And Bisexual And They Are Absolutely Amazing In Both The Comics And
Reminder That Loki Is Genderfluid And Bisexual And They Are Absolutely Amazing In Both The Comics And
Reminder That Loki Is Genderfluid And Bisexual And They Are Absolutely Amazing In Both The Comics And
Reminder That Loki Is Genderfluid And Bisexual And They Are Absolutely Amazing In Both The Comics And
Reminder That Loki Is Genderfluid And Bisexual And They Are Absolutely Amazing In Both The Comics And
Reminder That Loki Is Genderfluid And Bisexual And They Are Absolutely Amazing In Both The Comics And

Reminder that Loki is Genderfluid and bisexual and they are absolutely amazing in both the comics and MCU

2 years ago
Made A Movie Poster In Class. It Was Fun !

Made a movie poster in class. It was fun !


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1 month ago

nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations

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