yeah spontaneity > perfection is so important here. part of why I'm doing more digital these days since I can keep underdrawings super loose & improvise the final lines. trying for something between pratt & sloppy era nihei

kid me used to believe tintin characters dressed all old-timey & drove old cars for the vibe of it, like in indiana jones. but no the comic is just old

'ways of drawing that are fun' might be an obvious answer but will take some ppl a lot of time to get there. would suggest doing a lot of stuff w o the pressure of finishing something big – sketching, short anthology comics etc – & if u can't find joy in that even, maybe go be a dentist or something

If you’re cool and swag and lucky you can get it in one but otherwise the way to figure this out is experimentation. I had to try so many things until I finally finished something in like. 2019 lmao. Things that didn’t work: Ways of drawing that’s hard+boring Diligence Stories starring my ocs lmao

after writing and drawing the third skill of making comics is weathering the slog, and ultimately finishing it, and this is the hardest and most important part lmao. and needs to be practiced just as hard as the other two. and you’ll get better at the other two by practicing the third

can't wait to draw the Guy

I wish there was a way to tell young beginner cartoonists looking for promotional advice that they need to stop putting all their energy into marketing & work on their comic instead without sounding like a total bitch. my love, there is nothing to market

they have all sorts of things on here

I have a vague sense the reason I decided to tie this guy's backstory into another character's backstory is cause ppl online seemed to find him hot. that & after giving the 12 immortals a flashy 2 page intro in the 1st volume I have to make them relevant in some more immediate way

as per the simon roy 'pick some random place names off a map' technique. which of these goan towns would make a good surname for our boy (redacted). could go look for more, idk

Coral & hydroids, lobster, collection, sea star

Anemone, clump of animals, serolid isopod, octo

god this panel. so happy this Indonesia sized megacity is canonically going to be destroyed by magic

re: today's controversy (the helmet): remembering how I wanted to write something on like video game art deco as a dominant aesthetic in sf/fantasy media back when I watched Arcane but also remembering how someone got mad at me for suggesting there was art deco in Arcane so maybe I'm out of my depth

& am continually impressed w you guys' commitment to being like the xerox parc of nerd media. saying this w love

Santa @peow.bsky.social came early! Merry Christmas to meeeee

IG nonsense, pt. 1

decent not-expensive vpn options. need it for just 1 specific thing (signing up for the criterion channel)

PEACE (1993) Oil on Canvas - 20" x 14" This has become one of the most popular images I created for the family holiday card. 1/2

in a place mentally where I have like 20 other films on my to-watch list before I get to the Avatar sequels but I also 100 percent understand why Cameron keeps on making them & tbh were I him I'd behave similarly

I don't do a lot of drugs (alcohol included) cause this is invariably what they make me feel like

本当にどこを取っても美しく、内容もファンタジーですが華美過ぎず静かでめっちゃ好みです 著Linnea Sterte( @decassette.bsky.social ) GARDEN OF SPHERES(出版:Peow @peow.bsky.social )

anyways. sorry. will proceed as usual. though it's getting harder & harder drawing this comic in cafés & on trains as I have done so far. at the same time, nothing much happens, in the comic. idk

Realized it’s been a while since I posted my Bronze Age Fellowship of the Ring so here the lads are again

重版とあたらしい帯となった単行本の献本を頂きました📖 あらためて選出してくださったみなさま、読んでくださった方、編集・装丁、関わってくださったすべての方本当にありがとうございました わたしが今年読んだおすすめの漫画は『A Frog in the Fall』です🐸

re todays main topic of discussion: you can focus on the ugly things in the world (jake paul's face as his jaw shatters) or the beautiful things (fascinating back musculature of the guy punching him)

speaking of crabs. sad hell comic has been updated, on patreon

V excited to read this. From the brilliant @decassette.bsky.social.

no but srs this crab has anime eyes. moe crab

Look at this crab I found the other day🦀 It was way too cute.

crag or craig (as in, which is the better spelling)

Four more oil paintings by Lu Jian Jun (b. 1960).

Went to @thebeguiling.bsky.social at lunch and only picked up comics by god-tier cartoonists as is my wont: new stuff from @decassette.bsky.social and @davidlapham.bsky.social plus old stuff from the latter and Jack Cole.

wish I could explain to my psychologist I'm not 'just procrastinating' & that making a schedule is impossible cause I genuinely don't know what ppl will be demanding from me a month from now

the concave buttock is real & underrepresented in art but no need to gender it. is my 2 cent in the ongoing debate

SEASON'S GREASONS

I spent a delightful afternoon with A Garden of Spheres yesterday. It is a beautiful book and the color pages are stunning. The story odd, sparse, and scattered. I ate it up. Lots of cool dragons too. Look I'm easy.

I've gotten to the part where they fuck & now I have to figure out how the rest of the comic happens. I'm so good at this

someone give me this kind of money. I'd buy a house near Kew Gardens & an apartment in Rio I could migrate to in the winter. I'd pay 1 of the guys that sort of draw like me to draw my comics. these purchases aside I'd log off & never bother anyone again. could do all this for 1/10 of this sum tbh

IN IRELAND!!!!!

ms paint goblin head

how do I make something that isn't just a worse version of what other ppl are making

Jeff spitting facts! Gonna parrot this-- when I was teaching, I would tell my students to not look solely at what other concept artists/popular illustrators were doing to inform their own designs. Go to your local museums and galleries, look at different mediums and fields, broaden that reach.

treated myself to world heist and garden of spheres by linnea sterte. everything is just so yummy and amazing to look at, i still think she is rly my favorite comics artist ever (i already thought that after garden of rot and a frog in fall but she just keeps getting BETTER somehow)

there was some sort of flying monster somewhere in Dread Delusion the previous guys-from-the-work-discord game & inside sources (work discord) tell me at some point this creature was a 2d picture of an attack helicopter

the cat (he sits on the water boiler for warmth)

me at a friend's place (she has a cat): I know I pointed this out just five minutes ago but have you noticed there's a cat here

in better news: picked up linnea sterte's ( @decassette.bsky.social ) phenominal new book, Garden of Spheres yesterday. i was too broke when @peow.bsky.social did the kickstarter but thankfully @floatingworld.bsky.social ordered a bunch and i was able to snag one