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the couple ever

X-Men and their shirts

Part [2]

Guiding some lost ducklings back to their mum 🦆🍃

Here's the full cover, and process for getting here! The book will have spot gloss on all the 'glass' lantern/window details and title, too ✨✨

I'm still excited about a lot of the early sketches - hoping to draw them too when I have some time !!

Some extra content of the birthday post

(a realization about dialogue formatting, from a comic artist turned novelist.)

One of the first things a novice writer learns about speech tags is that they’re part of the “scaffolding” of prose. They should be largely invisible to the reader: use them when necessary, omit them when not, and be sparing in the application of verbs other than “said”. They serve only the function of clarifying who is speaking when it is necessary to do so.

Except:

Sometimes you might want to use a speech tag in spite of the redundancy. The fact that the reader’s eyes slide right over them is an exploitable property. By slicing a line of dialogue in half with a speech tag, you can force the reader to perceive a meaningful pause between two utterances—and the effect is much stronger than you might get out of an ellipsis or an em dash. Developing an intuition for when and how to do this is a huge part of learning to write dialogue, I think.

(And yes: if you ever wondered, this is exactly same the reason why comic artists sometimes “double bubble” their speech bubbles. Same end, different means!)

YOU hates terfs

Dippy fresh in the flesh

decapitated saint who carries their head around in one of these bad boys

mary magdalene

I attended a Dungeon Meshi themed dinner last weekend and wanted to share what was brought/devoured! Enjoy the comparison of what the dishes looked like irl vs the show

“small thread on drawing plus sized characters!”

Source: Ullaiin on Twitter

I'M DOING AN EXPERIMENT

To prove something to a friend, please

REBLOG IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

LIKE IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS DON’T BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

hey i love your comics and i was wondering, do you draw them digitally or by hand? if they are by hand i would be curious about the process of uploading them, what medium you use, etc., as I want to start a webcomic of my own soon and want to draw traditionally, but i'm not quite sure how to start. thanks!

Here’s what my progress looks like!First I make the “thumbnails”, which are actually A4-sized because I am absolutely unable to work on small scale. This is where I decide the paneling, and the final dialogue! I draw thumbnails either on paper, or digitally. I prefer paper tho.

Then comes the sketch! I sketch with colour pencils straight to the final paper, (I use fabriano bristol paper) where I also make the linework on top of it. Trad animation use blue pencils to make the same thing, they are easy to clean off in photoshop, leaving you with a clean lineart!

Then I draw the lineart with pencils on top of the sketch! I use B and HB and sometimes 3B pencils for dark areas. Small details I draw with a mechanical pen.

I draw on A3 paper, and then I scan it and edit the lineart on photoshop. I then upload the lineart to google drive, where I transfer it to my ipad where I colour the page with procreate!

For the font I use is ~free~ font from blambot, called milk moustache! You can download it from here; https://blambot.com/products/milk-mustache

The final page is 900 pixels wide, 72 dpi so it loads well on the internet.

Always save the original file in at least 300dpi, if you want to print it some day! 300dpi is fine for colour, 600dpi for grayscale and plain lineart should be… a lot. My files are only 400dpi because procreate cannot function with files larger than that lol!

I hope this was helpful, and I wish you good luck on comics!

Doodles feat. Dungeon meshi characters and my OCs

OCs >:)

I want this so bad… but I am broke 😔

HUNGER! is now a big physical woven tapestry you can buy here. smiling normally at you

ayo i found 2 pages with head angles of humans and animals, could be useful to anyone reading this

hoomans

animals

Dungeon Meshi Settei

Another selection of some of the better names I've come across in Regency era newspapers recently.

relationships and jobs are temporary. your shitty unpopular tumblr blog is forever

compilation of dunmeshi images saved to my computer under variations of "FOUND FAMILY REAL":