#kiriska art

[celestdraws]

AF attack on @kiriska!

#kiriska #butch #artists on tumblr #described art #accessible art #art fight #others ocs #art fight 2023 #af 2023

[howtobeaconartist]

Can someone pleeeeease let artists know that it's so incredibly frustrating when I buy prints and they're in weird sizes?

It hard to find frames for them.

I've got prints that are 15cm x 21cm (6"x8.2"). Juuuust oversized where I need to get a frame up with a matte.

But then I've got another poster that's 19.6cm x 28cm (7.8"x11"). Like, I can get a frame that fits, of course because it's undersized A4. But damnit it's got an ugly gap which doesn't feel right.

Please please please! I bought these things to be on display but my walls are bare because I need to spend several hours to find a solution and fit them right.

Please just stick to the international A4 A3 A2 format, or the photo size formats 6"x8", 8"x10" etc.

I want to support people, but I'm left with buyers regret when I need to problem solve purchases and don't want to "just tack it to the wall, it'll be fine".

Kiriska: This is an understandable frustration!

I've had plenty of customers ask me what sizes prints are prior to purchasing -- a totally fair thing to do if you know you want to frame it. Size has been a deal-breaker for some people.

That said, for perspective, it's often more affordable for artists to print at other sizes. For example, in the US, letter (8.5"x11") and tabloid (11"x17") are both extremely common print sizes in Artist Alley, but while frames of these sizes exist, they aren't common.

Artists still prefer these sizes though because these are sizes that are easy to print at at office supply stores or personal printers, which is what many have access to when starting out. If anything, the infuriating thing is that standard printer paper sizes are not the same as standard photo sizes.

8"x10" is close to 8.5"x11" but requires trimming, which is either extra work or extra cost.

Depending on the convention, the demographics may skew younger. If that's the case, a majority of attendees won't intend to frame their print purchases. They are being pinned or taped to dorm room walls, etc. The art is meant to be affordable -- for both the artist and the buyer. ($10 prints are pretty rare at most pop-up art fairs and farmer's market-type settings, because standard size giclee prints probably cost double that to print.)

Still, I agree -- artists should strive for more standard sizes when possible, especially if they're going to shows with an older demographic of people who are more likely to want to frame things.

That said, I've been wanting to transition my 8.5"x11" prints to 8"x10" for years and still haven't gotten around to it because all of my packaging supplies are for the former, and putting prints of the latter size in oversized packaging looks Bad, but stock levels of packaging and prints never line up that I'm not gonna be stuck with some mismatch... at some point I'm sure I'm just gonna have some prints in one size and some in the other, but that sounds like a nightmare...

#artist alley #prints #printing #posters

[kiriska]

Hmm. Still trying to figure out what/whether I want to post here directly. Recently set my Tumblr accounts to discourage all bots, since Tumblr doesn't exclude ChatGPT in their robots.txt list of excludes, which is kinda hmm when 1) they said they would, and 2) they exclude lots of other stuff. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But aside from data training concerns, Tumblr's photo upload has just been really annoying lately.

Here are some recent posts I made to my sketchblog.

#sketchblog update

[angsty-prompt-hole]

i saw you mention some ocs in that tag-the-oc that’s always on your mind. i’d love to hear a little bit about them!

Oooo yes I believe I mentioned Haven in that one. She is one of my favorite OCs and she lives rent free in my head constantly.

There's an old ask where i rambled about her on my blog somewhere but I'm banished to mobile and can't search for it right now, so I'll just ramble away again lmao. One day she'll get a proper character introduction, but I'm waiting to do that for Reasons.

The short version is that she got involved in some crazy stuff when she was in her mid-20's because her dad had gone missing, and when his body was found, there was a bunch of weird stuff with him. It all ended with Haven being tormented by an eldritch monstrosity that turned her into something less than human, an immortal being with black scleras and fractured sanity.

After that, she became a bit of an interdimensional bounty hunter and started hunting down people associated with the entity. She didn't want them to continue to harm people.

Along the way, she ended up accidentally adopting two different children (moreso she tried to get them to someone who could actually take care of them but they got extremely attached to her and refused to leave) and she befriended a phoenix named Fenris. She also had a significant other named Liam at one point, but tragic circumstances left him permanently incapacitated, which really did not help her fragile mental state.

Haven isn't her real name and is just one in a long line of aliases she's used over the centuries, and by the time she started using that name she'd almost completely forgotten her real name.

She's a very grumpy and sarcastic person and tends to come off as excessively violent, aggressive, and hard to work with, but she does have a softer side. It's hard to get to, but it's there.

She appears in a lot of my WIPs (Rot and Ruin and Kiriska's Story being the main ones, but she cameos in a lot of other places) and she does have her own thing I'm planning that isn't really a writing thing so it's never really talked about here, but it goes through her backstory and what happened to her that led to her being turned.

This is what she looks like (art by @birdy-the-artist ):

Her metal hand is a prosthetic, and the heterochromia was also a physical side effect of being turned. Originally, both of her eyes were hazel. The dog tags she's wearing belonged to Liam.

#answered #impaledlotus #haven #i could talk about her for days i love her so much #there is so much wrong with her but shes trying her best #and this is just the bare bones for her she has So Much content that ive come up with #she also has connections to a ton of my other ocs because of her constant traveling between worlds #also ive been dying to show off the artwork birdy did of her for DAYS #i love it so much its literally one of my favorite things #birdy made her hot and i love that for her

[bugbyte]

OKAY SO, some sort of Twitter disaster seems imminent, or at the very least, Something Not Good, so after like, biting my nails over this for weeks (though it feels like a hundred years) I think I know (sort of) what my plans are going on from here.

I’m going back to using my blog/art/whatever site (radiochio.com) as the hub for everything it was always intended to be. Stuff from there (blog posts, art, whatever) will most likely end up crossposted back to whatever the social site of the moment ends up being. But ultimately that will always be the main place everything originates from. I can always hook it up to crosspost basically wherever I want it to, and has the added bonus of being something I control, so I won’t have to worry about losing it all in the future. I got away from posting there because I wasn’t sure what I wanted the identity of that site to be, and it’s kind of meandered around in terms of branding, but no, enough is enough and that’s going to be the go-to place for my stuff. A lot of this decision comes from reading through a bunch of Kiriska’s articles on website and social media stuff, mainly this one. They have a lot of good posts on the topic, definitely recommend.

I’m really hoping I can somehow re-cultivate my audience and get them to come back there, but that’s an ongoing process and we’ll see what we figure out.

As far as social posting: I’m…not exactly giving up on it, but I am giving it the side-eye. That’s where most of my audience has come from, so it’s not nothing, but again, I like having all my posts and content under my own control. I have a bad feeling about Twitter in the long term, and I’ve had difficulty matching the success I had there on other sites. It won’t stop me from trying, and I have gotten a small trickle of folks following me over here and a handful of other places, so I don’t think it’s completely hopeless, but, again, uncertainty! I’ve got a running list of links on my website so if Tumblr isn’t your ideal follow spot, something there will be, or heck, follow the RSS on radiochio.com and you’ll never be out of the loop.

Comics will be staying on their own domains, but I’ll probably start popping up update posts on radio chio so there’s, once again, a central place to find all that stuff. I thought about moving everything to the same domain but it’s messy and confusing.

So, tldr;

Radiochio.com is going to come back to being the main hub for everything I make/do/whatever, and is the most ideal place you can keep up with what I’m doing

I’m not leaving social media, but I’m going to try and be better about putting my proverbial eggs in multiple baskets from here on

Nothing is really changing with my comics and where they’re posting, but again, following them on their own sites or on radiochio.com is going to be the best way to follow them

I cannot stress enough that RSS is probably going to be a very good friend to you in the very near future. I wrote an article about it last year if you have no idea what it is! It’s really useful and cool and makes Twitter and social media irrelevant if you do it right!

#twitter #blog #radio_chio #follower comic #messenger comic #rss #webcomics

[talesofnovembria]

@souloutofphase​ continued from here:

“Ah….Sorry. I didnt mean to be rude….everyone else has screamed though. So….maybe its best if I dont turn around….” He said as he stepped back into the shadow of the trees.

“I wouldn’t really consider that being rude.”

She remained where she was, though a tiny grin moved over her face, “Yes, because a human sized wolf walking along the road isn’t at all strange, or frightening.”

Her tail swayed gently behind her, “But I will not force you to do anything you don’t wish to do. Just know you don’t frighten me.”

#bitch in armor - salena #reply #souloutofphase #kiriska art

[mayakern]

my half of an art trade with @kiriska !!! their OC Qhurai, who was SO fun to draw!

#artists on tumblr #art #kiriska #maya draws things

[ghostlycorvid]

July 3rd’s Artifght theme ended up being friend’s characters! @kiriska @hachiquius and @ratshien this go around!

#ghost arts #artfight #ratshien #hachiquius #kiriska #monsters #bats

[lycisca]

Art Fight attack for @kiriska!

#neopets #neotag #shoryu #dragon #art fight #art fight 2021 #team steampunk #lycidraws #2021

[yutaan]

A shaded commission of @kiriska‘s characters Niru and Zacchi, plus an Emotionally Significant willow tree! I made papercraft art of this couple some years ago, and was very excited to revisit them in a different medium; their story seems so interesting and their designs are gorgeous. :D I struggled a lot trying to figure out a dancing pose that I thought would suit them, and I’m so pleased with how it came out. It’s all about the barely-brushing hands and the warm soulful gazes, y’all!!

This ended up being one of my favorite commissions of 2020, so it seems fitting that I post it just before the year comes to a close. Here’s to 2021!

#digital #brush pen #dancing #couple #my art

[starlitskvader]

SO as you can see by my icon I finally watched Over The Moon this weekend and loved it! 

Some spoilery thoughts: 

The Pros

Absolutely gorgeous design - the costumes, the characters, the environments all look amazing! The soft natural feel of the Earth scenes contrasts beautifully with Lunaria; I don’t want to call it Oz-like, because it’s not really, but it has that same vibe of shifting to something wondrous.

Also the art shifts for the legend of Chang’e, the way Fei Fei’s designs creep into the scene, all of those touches.

Rabbits!

All the songs are really fun and it never feels like they packed too many in.

The characters are all really endearing - even Gobi, who is a character type that is always in danger of feeling superfluous and cloying (lookin’ at you Olaf) is a lot of fun!

The way the plot flows has a refreshing feel - it’s very much a fairy tale, but doesn’t shoehorn itself into fairy tale solutions... instead offering up the possibility of new tales. I like that a lot!

The Cons

A few things felt a little rushed; it could have been about fifteen minutes longer to give us just a bit more development of Fei Fei and Chin’s sibling relationship, a little more of the connection between Fei Fei and Chang’e, and more of Bungee and Jade’s relationship so it feels natural for Bungee to stay with him. (I think we could sacrifice a few minutes of the very long Biker Chick sequence to make that happen, if the movie feels too long with that extra time.)

And of course my eternal gripe...

(art by Kiriska)

Seriously how does every single major production keep fucking this up

Anyway though, HIGHLY recommended and I need those Jade and Bungee plushes I’ve seen photos of.

#over the moon #over the moon spoilers

[vireosy]

character portraits drawn for Art Fight 2020

characters belong to Colonel / @kiriska / @daarka

#art fight #art fight 2020 #team sugar #coati #birds #gatordog #digital #drawing #portrait #full body #painting

[howtobeaconartist]

Hello! I wanna ask about how should I set my canvas resolution for printing 5x5cm acrylic keychains. Some said I should keep it to the original keychain size, and some said it's a good practice to always make it bigger like twice the size so I'm not sure which one I should follow lol. Though I do understand that I should make the DPI to 300/350 for printings and preferably draw it in CMYK (not a fan tho.) Thank you!

Kiriska: In general, it doesn't hurt to go bigger, though this is mostly so you can repurpose the art for various applications. If you don't know what you plan to use the art for when you make it, it's better to err on the side of bigger.

However, if you do know what product the art is for, it may be better to just work at 300 dpi at your final dimensions.

The one downside of working bigger than you need is that you may end up putting in detail that won't really show up in the product. If you tend to work at 100% canvas size, but your canvas size is significantly bigger than your end product, a lot of that 100% detail won't show up when it gets printed.

Which is better may end up being dependent on your style though. If you tend towards fine details, it's probably better to just work at your final size. If your style is simpler and made of big solid shapes, it probably won't hurt to work a bit bigger, and then if you later decide you want to use the art on something bigger, your art may already be able to accommodate that.

#file size #artist alley

[kiriska]

New art and a dumb story.

#birds #robins #american robin #birds with words #blog update

[catsbeaversandducks]

Hi Monica! I just wanted to stop by and say that you are an amazing artist and your comics are really funny! You are such a great person!! -With Love and Support, The Positivity Angel

Thank you, but they’re not my comics! :)The wonderful artists are Hannah Hillam, Jim Benton, ZiziFothSi, The Oatmeal,  Missangest,  Lucas Turnbloom,  Art by Moga,  แมวบิน,  Twisteddoodles,  olivedanedraws, Eat, Sleep, Sniff, boobercomics, sarahseeandersen, Cat & Cat Comics, theycantalk, kittypat-daily, Murrz,  Pet Foolery,  Elín Elísabet, kiriska,  Introvert Doodles, SeeBangNow, The Touring Test,  Scribbly G,  Nathan W. Pyle, Jan and Odee, Catsu the Cat,  The Good Advice Cupcake,  Extra Ordinary Comics,  Scott Metzger Cartoons,  Alicia Herber,  一神.Ethan,  Vernessa Himmler,  Kasia Babis, Hey Komik, Lucy Knisley, Never Stay Dead, pdlcomics, Sanesparza, warandpeas, Snow Sez, scribblyg, catversushuman, and many many more.I just share and spread their amazing work. 💖

#comics #cats #artists #art #illustration

[fox-teeth]

Because I've been posting a lot about cons on my social media lately (hi anyone who saw me tabling at FZFNYC or wandering MoCCA!), I wanted to make a post about something that's important to me: paying it forward and helping people new to the indie comics scene, including the con portion. 

 So, I tabled at my first con recently, and in the lead-up to that I did a lot of research...one thing I noticed is that the vast majority of advice for tabling--especially advice for newbies or that reviews specific cons--is geared towards creators going to anime cons and primarily selling fan art prints. That advice is not always going to be relevant to someone selling original minicomics at an indie comic con. While the anime con community is much bigger than the indie comics one, I still feel like we can do a better job putting information out there for newbies that need guidance. 

If you’re someone that tables at indie comic cons, one way to help is sharing reviews and data about cons you table at. Here are two places you can do that:

First up is Kiriska's Convention Artist Survey, which collects and publishes anonymous data about US and Canada cons from those that table at them. In 2017 only 2.2% of the entries were for indie comic cons, but we have the power to bump up that percentage for 2019! Here’s a link to the 2019 survey, which you can fill out once for each con you attend this season.

Second is Artist Alley Confidential where you can leave in-depth reviews for cons, with the choice to be anonymous. This one covers cons all over the world, and you can leave reviews for cons you attended in previous years. Many cons have few if any reviews!

I'm going to be reviewing/submitting data for all cons I table at this year and I encourage other cartoonists to do the same and to share these links with their con buddies. I also have a twitter thread version of this post you can share. Let's make things a little easier for the next crop of indie comics newbies!

#artist alley #comic con #indie comic con #indie comics #yes I am on a soapbox right now