destiny-islanders:

I always write out the scripts for my comics before I draw them. That way I know exactly what I’m going to put in every single panel– what expressions to draw or poses to use. (Sometimes I write out Tumblr/Twitter captions, too, so I won’t forget them while I’m working.)

I’ve recently tried to limit myself to eight panels per comic so that I can post them on Twitter without having to cram more than two panels in one photo. Because of that, I have to edit myself down a lot and cut dialogue. Rip some of my jokes U_U

Let’s use my newest doodle comic as an example:

Once it’s written, I draw everything, panel by panel. Typically, I sketch and draw the line-art for each panel before moving on to the next one.

Sketch!

Line-Art!

I usually wait to start coloring until I’ve drawn the entire comic. When I’m drawing comics with panels where the only thing I change is the expressions, I make sure to put faces and limbs on separate layers! That way, I can delete the changing parts without having to worry about cleanly erasing them from around the other line-art.

Then I color! (With repeat panels, I merge all color layers together and transfer them to the duplicates so that I don’t have to color essentially identical panels multiple times.)

After I’ve colored everything, I look for backgrounds. Sometimes they come from screenshots I capture myself, and sometimes I find them on Google. Tbh at this point I’ve been working on the comic for hours and the end is in sight… I just want to be done hahahaha

Then I lay out the text… A lot of the time, the characters have so much to say that they cover up outfits I poured a lot of time into drawing ;___; But it’s gotta be done. This is also when I add extra details like motion lines, arrows, etc.

Rip Prompto’s coat pockets. The last thing I do before I consider a comic done is messing around with the color a little bit with filter settings. The same comic may have panels with different filters depending on time of day, location, or mood!

And that’s about it! I’d say, on average, comics this size take me between 5-7 hours.

tiny-librarian:

marzipanandminutiae:

in the most general aesthetic terms possible

1600s: most witch-hunts ended in this century. no witches were burned in North America; they were hanged or in one case pressed to death

1700s: the American Revolution. Marie Antoinette. the French Revolution. the crazy King George. most pirate movies

1800-1830: Jane Austen! Pride and Prejudice! those dresses where the waist is right under one’s boobs and men have a crapton of facial hair inside high collars

1830-1900: Victorian. Les Miserables is at the beginning, the Civil War is in the middle, and Dracula is at the end

1900-1920: Edwardian. Titanic, World War I, the Samantha books from American Girl, Art Nouveau

1920s: Great Gatsby. Jazz Age. Flappers and all that. most people get this right but IT IS NOT VICTORIAN. STUFF FROM THIS ERA IS NOT VICTORIAN. DO NOT CALL IT VICTORIAN OR LIST IT ON EBAY AS VICTORIAN. THAT HAPPENS SURPRISINGLY OFTEN GIVEN HOW STAGGERING THE VISUAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ERAS IS. also not 100 years ago yet, glamour.com “100 years of X” videos. you’re lazy, glamour.com. you’re lazy and I demand my late Edwardian styles

I just saw people referencing witch burning and Marie Antoinette on a post about something happening in 1878. 1878. when there were like trains and flush toilets and early plastic and stuff. if you guys learn nothing else about history, you should at least have vague mental images for each era

zet-sifo:

Mmmmmh

askwagonoverwatch:

[[Sorry I couldnt think of what they could be doing at the moment ;u;]]

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