#it'd be so easy!

[luthienmpl]

Ok but how is Thailand about to bestow upon us the fourth (that I know of) mafia-themed BL meanwhile Japan hasn't deemed to put out any yakuza-themed shows since the one they de-yaoi-fied into bromance? How is this the world we live in? Travesty. Fucking Travesty. Get your shit together, Japan. :(

#my dear gangster oppa #unforgotten night #red peafowl #kei x yaku #kinnporsche #listen they don't even have to make it dark and edgy #they can totally make it silly and lighthearted if they want #the first couple volumes of honto yajuu would be perfect for a mini series #literally just put a cute twink in some questionable fashion and make him roll his r's a lot #it'd be so easy!

[ssaalexblake]

You know what also would have been a great thing to make textual in STP S3?

Seven helping Picard save Jack with no qualms, questions, or issues because once upon a time a woman kidnapped her son and dissected him alive for his parts, she didn’t value him as a person, just as a thing he had inside him she could use. Seven couldn’t save him, was the one that in a way doomed him (he was on her radar Because of Seven, and Jack is in danger seemingly bc of something he inherited from Picard, it would leave both of them feeling responsible) and she’s not going to just sit down and watch this happen again to somebody else. 

It’s not that I think her being loyal and chill about this is ooc Without this, the lessons she learnt about protecting your own from Voyager were clearly formative to her as a person, but it would have made it Better with little to no effort or need for excessive screen time to do it. 

#that picard one #they seem to be allergic to depth that'd make it better though #it'd be so easy! #but nooooooo #like seriously i am not Allergic to nostalgia #little things like 7 having a voy statue was cute #but there is a bit of nostalgia and then there is what's going on here #i'm also starting to feel like i'm watching the wh*don of reboots #the quippy nostalgia and total disregard of women as people not worth deep stories #That kind of thing #feels like the trek aou #srsly cut one nostalgia fueled quip session/therapy talk meeting and they'd have had time for this lol

[pearl-kite]

I made a pillow!

It took four months of non-stop cross-stitching, but I finally finished a pattern I bought from @8pxl a little bit ago, and tonight in a bizarre burst of productivity I finally sewed a back to it and stuffed it into a cute little pillow! It ended up being pretty much perfectly sized for a neck pillow, but I'm a bit worried about it getting dirty that way.

I highly recommend the patterns from 8xpl's shop, there are SO many gorgeous ones to choose from. I might end up getting another one soon o3o

#cross stitch #embroidery #fiber art #fiber crafts #cross stitching #xstitch #needlepoint #needlecraft #I went so long without drawing because I KNEW if I put this aside for anything I'd nver pick it up again #because that's how I usually am with cross stitch #but I finished it about a month ago and todday for some reason was just the day that I spontaneously finished the rest of thee project #I would have liked to do a nicer pillow #like with that piping kindd of stuff along the edge? #but if I actually waited to get some of that it'd never happen #so super basic straight lines around the edges flip insid out stuff an stitch down the opening #no zippeer #it will NOT be easy to clean so I need to be careful with it #but it is absolutely a perfect neck pillow on the back of my couch right now

[tianhai03]

trying to find excuses to draw dante and leon together again <3

#capcom wont give me official danteleon content so once again i'll take matters into my own hands #(acts like i havent been drawing them A Lot ever since january) #anyways. theyre both literally in teppen it'd be so easy for them to interact but alas. #capcom is too afraid of putting them in the same room or smth i guess🙄 #devil may cry #dante(dmc) #resident evil #leon s. kennedy #allyart

[zarla-s]

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In playing a game, we bring its artificial borders weight. In creating something, we inhabit that world to bring it life.

I started Handplates during a really difficult time in my life... no matter what happened, no matter how much things felt like they were falling apart around me or I was going to lose my mind or it all was just too much to bear, there’d always be another Handplates comic to do. Like clockwork that alarm in my head would go off and I’d get to work on the next one, no matter what was happening. It was always, always there. It’s hard to believe it’s been over seven years... a few more months to eight.

By my estimates, the next comic will be the last one. It doesn’t seem real, and when it does, it just makes me sad to think about... but I guess Undertale itself was about that too. How hard it is to let go, and when it’s time to say goodbye...

(I made some long long phone calls to my friends at home And I told them where I’ve been and the places I’m going And they said, “Wow, that’s incredible, but we already know, Because of that long long song you wrote.” - [x] )

[index] [patreon] [comicfury]

#undertale #handplates #gaster #zar and friends #the human #z art #z comic #recreating my desk was a pain! this is only a fraction of the toys on it #it'd be way too busy to read otherwise #i'm not sure how easy it is to read right now as it is #everything on it is important #the rope was going to be a shining gold but then the contrast was WAY too high #i do love gaster's reaction to it just >;| #do you know how hard it is to draw someone with three fingers holding a pen #ugh the next one is going to be so long

[bumpscosity]

(1 2 3)

the second someone makes an accent that's just Holding A Big Bone i'll make these real.

#these are my favs ive made today i think #sassy speaks #fr #flight rising #pkmn #just noticing bc of the way the arms are positioned it'd be really easy to make an accent so they can hold their bones hmmm

[introspectivememories]

#if you're bear its so easy to manipulate tim drake #all bear has to do is bat those gorgeous brown eyes at tim and tim is putty in his hands #the batkids learn about this and they start using bear to get tim to do things #dick: hey bernard‚ tim refuses to stop working‚ can you come get him? #bear walking into the batcave‚ sitting down on tim's lap and wrapping his arms around tim's neck #bear batting his eyes and pouting: baby come home /please/? the bed is so lonely without you #tim stands up immediately and changes his clothes at flash levels of speed. jason retches behind them #jason: god they're disgusting #dick smirking cause he's knew it'd work: they're cute! and you're just mad cause you're not getting laid #tim knows exactly what bear is doing and he tries his hardest to resist but alas #the big brown eyes always win #dc #bernard dowd #tim drake #timber #timbern

[vinceaddams]

Most of the stuff I work on at my alterations job is suits, but today I did a prom dress for the daughter of an acquaintance, and everyone else at the prom is going to be soooooo jealous of the 40 cm deep pockets I added.

#sewing #alterations #she had a matching stole that she didn't want and asked if I could use that fabric for pockets #and fortunately the shop has a serger #and the side seams were easy to get at and it's a fairly heavy poly satin so they barely even show! #I put a giant cone of thread in one of them to see if it'd cause any weird puckering and it didn't #actually they're more like 44 cm long in total and I cut them about 20 cm wide at the bottom

[tojosuggestionbox]

Interesting. Please do elaborate.

#mine yoshitaka #rgg #watch out mr genericname patriarch #dw hes just here to have a little chat thats all #this was a filler comic for if I ever missed a week of drawing it'd be easy to put out #but like... running out of appropriate times to use it so have it now I suppose lm ao

[sergle]

Sorry bestie, but I’m 5’9 and need you to know it.

going out of your way to proudly announce your height to moi.. after I made a post saying "please don't go to my asks to tell me your height" for a height as unremarkable as 5 ft 9?

#ah the ole 'doing the thing you asked people not to do. just because you asked people not to do it'.... bestie.......... #funny every time #this ask is a tough one bc it's annoying enough that it'd be easy to block but bland and inoffensive enough to hesitate #so I'll settle for just making fun of you!! MID. #sergle answers

[deoidesign]

if i may ask, is it difficult at all to re-edit/organize the comic pages from the webtoon format to fit the graphic novel format?

on another note, I'm so happy that your kickstarter was funded!!! I love time and time again, im so excited to see this all happen <3

I'll just turn this ask into something of a guide for the process! Because yes, it is difficult, but there are also many ways I have been preparing from the beginning for this very situation to make things easier for me!

I've worked in both print and scroll in the past, and have done this transition once before for a short story, so I already had familiarity both with my goals for print, and struggles with the transition!

How I prepared from the beginning for this transition:

1: My panels are 2500 pixels wide, so they can span my page (which is 8.3x5.8 inches) at 350 DPI (which is print quality)

2: My layers are organized: Text, FX, Foreground, Characters, Background

3: I draw one very large (twice as big as any panel would be, minimum) background for my major locations, as well as drawing furniture assets in isolation. This not only saves me time when making my actual episodes, but it also offers me INCREDIBLE flexibility when making this transition to print.

These 3 things let me pull the character art to the page by itself, scale it up or down to fit my panel, and then fill in the background behind the character.

So, I read the scroll version, decide how many and which panels I want on the page for the pacing (I also keep page spreads and page turns in mind while I am doing this), and then I pull those panels over from the scroll version to the page.

Then, I make the panel borders/page layout that I want, fit the character art into it, paste in the backgrounds, do any art editing that I need, add FX, and then re-do the text!

Sometimes I do need to draw parts that are missing (shoulders or elbows getting cut off is an extremely common one) and sometimes I need to adjust facial expressions, cut panels, or rearrange panels to make things read more clearly. Since it's my comic already, I know how to do these things while maintaining the original intent, but if I were working with someone else's comic I would need to work closely with them to know what can and can't be cut.

(original panel vs an expanded version)

Another common issue is that VERY tall panels will inevitably lose a lot of information when they’re turned to pages. Identify the purpose of the panel (pacing, showing a lot of detail, etc) and then replicate that with your page layout.

examples (in order) are: scene transition, being overwhelmed, suspense, and establishing shot. All of these were a single panel in the scroll version!

Another issue when converting pages is that panel order is a lot less straightforward than when starting from print format. Conversational back and forth that's fine in scroll often messes up the flow of reading in a page (characters facing out, not looking at eachother from panel to panel, etc) and so some creative solutions are necessary to keeping the reading order.

For the first page I had to delete and rearrange some panels, and in the second the dialogue bubbles guide us to read this page in a circle. (dialogue guides through a lot of my pages lol)

And the last really common issue that pops up is that height differences can be really difficult. Usually in print this is solved with clever angles, but I’ve already drawn everything. So, I’ll either resort to vertical shaped panels, panel pop-outs, or editing a character up or down to fit into the panel.

(examples in order)

So, yes, it is difficult! But I have a lot of experience with both formats, and having prepared for this from the beginning I've been able to make the transition a LOT more smoothly than I otherwise could have.

I hope this helps!

And, thank you about the kickstarter! I'm extremely excited I'll be able to print these, the proofs I've received so far look just absolutely stunning and I'm so so so excited to get to send them to people!!!

Obligatory self promo, if you want to see the kickstarter page and get these four books for yourself, then you can check it out here ^^ It's been funded, so at this point we're just reaching stretch goals and placing orders!

#asks #anon #art tips #comic tips #web comics #comic books #comic advice #also this is just my own experience obviously everyone works differently and I cant promise this will work for you too #but doing things this way I've been able to finish about an episode (15 pages or so) every day #so it's been extremely swift (though also of course a ton of work) #thank you past me for making this so easy!!! #it'd easily take 5x as long without the prep I did!!!

[petite-phthora]

This yours?

[DP x DC fic]

[Love at first... murder? - part 12]

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Part 1

Ao3

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Somewhere else, in a seemingly abandoned building on the outskirts of the city, a figure shrouded in darkness and wearing a dark cloak plots.

In front of them is a whiteboard. It’s covered in pictures, sticky notes, and illegible texts. Some of the notes thrown about that are legible are ‘fight…’, ‘draw blood.’, and ‘DEATH!!!’.

There’s a crude stick figure drawn in the corner of the board, it’s impaled. Other small doodles can also be found all around the board.

Most of the information and pictures are connected by red strings, like you see in movies.

In the middle is a picture of 2 people sitting on a motorcycle, the arms of the person sitting in the back are around the waist of the person sitting in the front. The picture has some arrows pointing towards it and the people in the picture are very obviously circled.

Though the face of the person driving the motorcycle is obscured by their helmet, the other person seems to be heavily blushing and grinning broadly.

“Yes… yes! That’s it! I know what to do…” They seem to be speaking to themselves.

Quickly, the person scribbles down a barely legible ‘sacrifice!!‘.

They start cackling.

“Mwuahaha!”

It’s an evil laugh they’ve been working on for quite a while now, and they’re pretty proud of it.

However, the effect is slightly ruined when a fly enters their mouth, cutting off their cackling with choking as they gasp for air, grasping at their throat.

A few good thumps against their chest, with some coughing out their lungs, helps them dislodge the fly from their throat and they spit it out on the ground. They take a few deep breaths before straightening up again.

“Curse you” the person exclaims, angrily waving their fist at the fly as it flies away.

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Bruce’s face gives off nothing as he stares at the streets down below. He’s dressed as Batman, crouched at the edge of a building with Damian by his side as Robin. Spoiler, Black Bat, Nightwing, and Red Robin are further back on the rooftop.

They watch in silence as another group of the Joker’s goons passes by. They’ve been all over the city, wandering around, not doing anything obviously illegal.

They don’t stay in one place and they don’t seem to have much of a purpose. No attacks… No stealing… No smuggling or transport of goods… No, instead they’re inspecting every single inch of the city.

They don’t seem to have any weapons on them. All they’re carrying on them are some flashlights. While most don’t give anything away with their body language or expressions, some seem to give off a bit of anxious energy.

Spoiler claimed she even saw some of them climb down into the sewers earlier and then climbing out again sometime later somewhere else, but this time ‘dejected and stinky’.

One thing seems clear to the Bats.

They’re searching for something… or someone.

“This basically confirms that not even the Joker’s henchmen know where he is. He’s missing.”

“I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing”

“Good… thing?”

“It’s… something. That’s for sure.”

“We don’t know if he’s really missing. For all we know it could be a trap. What if the Joker is hiding, pretending to be missing to have us bring our guard down? Besides, how could he be missing? He’s the Joker. No one’s just gonna kidnap him”

“For all we know he could be lying dead in a ditch somewhere”

“I highly doubt that”

“Everyone, focus” Bruce speaks up, having them draw their attention to him.

“It’s unclear whether the Joker is simply hiding away or missing. Instead of focusing on the why, we need to focus on the where. Missing or not, we need to find him and get him back to Arkham. Oracle, have you managed to find out anything from the footage yet?”

“Nope, still nothing. All the files from the moment he enters Crime Alley are wiped and any attempt at recovering them only brings back corrupted files.”

 “We need Red Hood. Where is he?” Bruce asks.

“He still has his phone on silent and he has removed the trackers and cams. We haven’t placed any new ones on him yet”

“Let’s visit him on his turf then. And keep an eye out for anything suspicious in the meantime. Oracle, try recovering the missing files. If that doesn’t work, go back to the breakout footage. Perhaps he left some kind of clues about his plans or whereabouts behind there.” Bruce states.

“Roger that.”

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Red Hood has his arms by his sides as he gazes down upon the street below from the rooftop of a random apartment building in Crime Alley.

He’s lucky to have avoided the Bats so far. But he doubts his luck will last for long.

Red Hood stiffens as he suddenly feels something clamp down on his arm. As a reflex, his other hand has already drawn his gun.

He slowly raises the arm he felt something clamp down on and looks at it, only to make eye contact with a girl with black hair and blue eyes who has sunk her teeth into his arm and is now hanging off of it.

The teeth are sharp, as the girl seems to have some small fangs. They’ve gone through his jacket and sunken into his skin.

It doesn’t really hurt all that badly though, probably hasn’t even drawn much blood, and that’s one of the only reasons Jason hasn’t flung the kid off of him yet. Another reason is the fact that it’s a kid.

They both stare at each other for several seconds.

As Jason takes her appearance in, he notices that she seems rather familiar. In fact, she looks like a more feminine version of Danny, or if Danny had a twin.

The person hanging off of his arm looks younger than Danny though, probably a teenager around 13 or 14, if he had to make a guess.

Slowly, he puts his gun away and takes out his phone with his other hand, watching the random girl’s eyes follow his movements. He raises it level with her face and snaps a picture, quickly sending it to Danny and ignoring the girl’s curious gaze while she’s still hanging onto his arm by her fucking teeth.

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Meanwhile, Danny checks his phone to see Red Hood sent him a message. He opens it and is greeted by a picture of Ellie in human form biting down on Red Hood’s arm with the caption ‘this yours???’

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@i-always-say-yea   @uraniumwizard    @why-must-i-be-like-this   @griffinthing

#dp x dc #dp x dc fic #dpxdc #dcxdp #dc x dp #dp x dc crossover #dead on main #dead on main ship #Im wondering how easy/hard it is to guess who the person is #and also yes its supposed to have stereotypically comedic 'evil'/'villain' vibes #the person did that on purpose because they are dramatic and have style #also i aged ellie down a little from how old she *should* be cause i felt like it fit better #If you need a reason maybe she like ages a little bit slower due to being a clone or something idk #oh and i have a question for you all #should i make a masterpost?? #i have like the very first chapter pinned but i feel like a masterpost might be better #especially cause like i already have 12 chapters and the story is only getting longer #damn this story has gone further than expected from a oneshot lol #it all started with me just tinking it'd be funny if like #a character was basically in shock but was still like nah I cant just kiss someone without consent lol #also I said id post like 5-6 chapters and this is still only like 6k :( i really need to write more ;-; #and also if y'all haven't noticed already #all I know of dc is through fanfics and fandom posts #though I really want to start reading the comics #i just haven't really had the time nor do I really know what's good and where to start #so like if anyone has any recommendations for dc/batfam comics they are more than welcome!! ^-^

[s4ndg3m]

restocking my queue, but i wanna show u guys these right away. idk when i'll get them done (spring break's over T.T) but beware.... beware....

also planning to tack gnarpy, miche, spud, swibbledib, yum zlurplie, mach, gregoriah, and maybe some of the baddies in (doug, jeremy, scary mike) onto the list of icons to make. SO MANY CHARACTERS! really looking forward to doing the ones that kill u cus i never see anyone draw em.

#it's a lot to tackle but icons are generally pretty quick easy and painless #of straight working i recon it'd take me 3-4 days to do them all #but i can't work like that so it might take me a few weeks LOL #labyposting #labyart #my art #regretevator #regretevator roblox #roblox regretevator #regretevator fanart #regretevator art #roblox #roblox art #roblox fanart #fanart #icons #lampert regretevator #lampert #regretevator lampert #infected regretevator #regretevator infected #unpleasant regretevator #regretevator unpleasant #unpleasant #prototype regretevator #regretevator prototype #prototype #emerson regretevator #emerson #pilby regretevator

[toxictoxicities]

Good morning.

I would like to ask were will Emergence (on its first release) be displayed and how might us random idiots find it. Or am I just blind and the answer is right in front of me?

Thank you for your indulgence.

That is honestly an amazing question- for now it's only on my tumblr and twitter (when I remember to use it) and as much as I love the idea of trying to figure out where i'd upload the comic I've actually started considering making small animatic episodes to tell the story instead!

However idk if I'd need to find someone to make music and voice actors and that'd be tedious or if I'd have it just silent- or maybe you'd all prefer the comics

I haven't fully decided yet but the next comic update is on the back burner <3

I'm also working on an animatic as it is so we'll see which work flow I like more for storytelling

#toxtalk #update #comic #idk if I wanna tell Emergence through animatics or comic #bc i quite enjoy making animatics #we'll see #so far it'd just be on youtube tumblr and twitter #though I should make a masterpost for Emergence so its easy to find everything

[spicyraeman]

I have been given power..

#cyberpunk 2077 #river ward #this was?? so easy?? #I must be doing something wrong #cuz I thought for sure it'd be harder #this man is not safe #hes gonna be my new ken doll

[pianokantzart]

In the super mario rpg remake did they seriously change luigi's star wish? The tropes page says it was changed to something "bitter" wth

They did change Luigi's star wish, but I don't think "bitter" is the right adjective. Here's the original:

Here's the remake:

Maybe you can see it as "bitter" if you look at it the right way? Like... maybe Luigi is bitter about being left out of the adventure? But it struck me more as "yearning" than bitter.

In the original wish (if read at surface level) Luigi just wants to be as skilled as his brother at their day job, while in the remake he expresses a direct desire to help Mario out.

But the remake has another change! Specifically when Mario is pretending to be a statue to sneak into Nimbus Castle:

The original line did not reference Luigi at all, and just poked fun at Mario's appearance and intelligence.

If I had to venture a guess... maybe Nintendo is trying to lean toward characterizing Mario and Luigi as a tight-knit team like in the RPG series or the movie, and wanted to add some dialogue to imply they still had that bond despite Mario being off on this brotherless adventure.

Wish they had properly explained what Luigi was doing during the entire fiasco though. Maybe he was busy organizing that end credits parade?

#My theory is this: #Luigi was charged with organizing and conducting this huge parade that happened to be a really big deal #Meanwhile Princess Peach got kidnapped and Mario thought that it'd be a quick & easy adventure not worth bothering his busy brother about #spoilers: it was not a quick and easy adventure #but that's just my theory. I could be wrong. I have not played the game #I've just looked into it a lot #so additions and corrections are always appreciated #super mario rpg #super mario brothers #super mario bros #mario #luigi #askbox #anon