alrighty folks, i'm gonna go on a RANT here (positive)
since i'm a writer and an artist, i tend to absorb a lot of media through comics, especially webcomics (since they're free). but the thing about that is, since i'm absorbing the art of others, i use them to improve based off of comparison. so! i'm gonna hype up some artists and writers whose stories i really love, since they're on here and they have stuff they've made outside of their comics (or on the off chance that you know about me and not them, v unlikely, go check these amazing people out!!!)
Red @comicaurora has a webcomic called (you guessed it) Aurora! she balances comedy and emotion SO WELL and some of the panels are so breathtakingly gorgeous (especially towards the later episodes, it's so long). she also has a youtube channel run with a collaborater, Overly Sarcastic Productions, which absolutely rocks. i highly recommend especially for lighting, body language, and expressions on the art front, and for character dynamics and worldbuilding on the writing side of things!
@quark-art / @earth2068 has a webcomic called Earth2068! it has literally made me almost laugh out loud in a public place, which is very hard to do! all of their characters are such little goobers (positive) but it doesn't detract from the story at all! it adds to it like salt in hot chocolate (i tried it i was skeptical too trust me salt your hot chocolate). i recommend her for seeing how to stylize anatomy (especially for fat people, mr leon valakos is the ideal man) and overall design (weapons, little robot guys, people, etc) on the art side, and character distinction and worldbuilding on the writing front!
they're both so so so good i may add more to this list eventually but check these out now if you haven't already!!!
I hope the kids growing up on today's internet are still getting to share that experience of finding some out-of-context AMV featuring an implied narrative of characters they know nothing about and having it become a keystone of their brain forever
Out of curiosity, has anyone else done that thing where you really should know how to pronounce something, but you forgot, or aren't confident in it, of for some reason don't know; so you purposely say it so that the word is hard to hear so the person you're talking to either dismisses it bc they know what you mean, or assumes you misspoke? Or act like you're fumbling the word and they ask if it's that word and you can say "yeah, that. Sorry I can't seem to pronounce correctly right now".
One layer of sketchy magic hubris man from @comicaurora��s amazing webcomic! It was really fun playing around with effects for this, and I’m having so so so much fun with the current arc!!!
redemption arcs that double as tragedies!! you're a better person than you've ever been and you have nothing left to your name!!you have to rebuild yourself and your life from the ground up and you're smiling in the ashes!! you were devastated your life is ruined!!! nothing is ever going to be the same ever again you are never going to regain what you had you are never going to be free of the guilt you are never going to be able to go home there is nothing left for you!!! you are free you are more yourself than you've ever been!! fires help forests grow!!