My most strongly held comics opinion (I hesitate to say "opinion," because it's a fact): lettering should be the first finished thing done, not the last. Done after (or along with) roughs and finalized before pencils. Pencils and inking should be done AROUND the lettering.

Some BETTER LETTERER for you. And before the inevitable "that's not how I do it" replies, keep in mind that, by and large, this is how it's done in pro American comics (Marvel, DC, etc.) I've worked for all of them. More tips: blambot.com/pages/letter...

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For anyone that uses Neocities, sharing this from the Fediverse. It looks like if you've got adult content on there, potentially discuss said content, or even just us it for your art gallery... You might want to download your full website and be ready to move just in case... Fuck censorship!

Been a year. Time to repost this.

This, actually works. For me at least.

💐 CONTRIBUTOR LINEUP 💐 Pressed Between Pages' is now in full bloom! Please give all our newest florists a warm welcome as they start to put together a bouquet of their fantastic works! 🧵⤵️ 1/3

HEY ARTISTS LOOK LOOK FASHION HISTORY RESOURCES!!!!!! fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu

There's a lot of folks who are afraid to start their webcomics because they don't want it to look 'ugly' or don't know if they're ready yet" but... You just need to draw it and have something ugly and potentially 'not ready' That's the secret to starting a webcomic!

I've slapped together approximately 173 pages of material that aims to teach programming a personal website with HTML and CSS to artists, animators, writers, music producers, etc. F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨ Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne More info below 👇

reposting my latex/vinyl/shiny clothing painting tutorial! [ #art #tutorial #study ]

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ARTISTS ! passing this along from nottwitter - google doc by @rachelcartistry.bsky.social of 300 free commercial use fonts x.com/rachelcartis... direct link to the doc: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I feel like yapping... Some small notes I want to post on the blog but I am realizing I have A LOT OF NOTES. Might have to make it a series.

"You have any tips on perspective?" -> this is gonna seem horrible at first but box drawing exercises in perspective 😭!! ive grown to enjoy doing them lmao and i can def see improvement vs when i just tried winging it tel.straw.page #askandtel

alright squad it's time to teach bsky a thing I learned off Twitter before it stopped being Twitter how to (somewhat) AI-proof your ao3, a thread by chief 🧵 (repost to save a fanfic author etc etc)

IT'S DONE! Do you use CSP or Photoshop? If you use CSP here's the thing! If you use Photoshop, Let me know I'll send you the File

The Creator's Guide to Comics Devices is OPEN!!!!! comicsdevices.com An online library and meronomy of visual-narrative devices that are used in the medium of comics and other sequential art. 🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨

[COMMISSION] The magic of doing it again

[COMMISSION] Brush: assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail... Default CSP airbrush Default CSP Blur

[LADS:R] Womb

Depending on the the emotion you want to evoke, lighting is the key to selling the vibes.

@teaberryblue.net's starter pack of comic book editors! go.bsky.app/NRzurK9

i don't have a tutorial per se...i used a custom work skin! and i used a modified version of this code for the text messages specifically, and i altered the code for my purposes: archiveofourown.org/works/643484... there is an explanation of how to set up a custom work skin in there!

seconding this and conveniently heres a link for the pdf versions drive.google.com/drive/folder...

okay this is HUGE??? (clip studio) For lineart specifically (monochrome stuff), if your layer is in "color" mode, liquify tool will most likely blur it during transformation... If you set it to "monochrome" first, IT STAYS CRISPY 🤯🤯🤯

Composition devices in art can feel a little too simple to be true. Wdym I can just align these objects to form lines to lead to the focal point? Seems sus. But when I analyze my favorite artists' works for composition specifically, these little things are just absolutely everywhere. It's amazing.

A reminder that small press/indie comic creators may use Blambot's indie fonts (those listed with a $0 license option), free of charge in print or in webcomics--even if you're making money with your projects!

The best #watercolor tip I ever learned was to paint with only 3 layers, max. Base gradients (lighting), detail gradients, fine details/shadows. This keeps color vibrant and teaches you a lot about layering! So, here’s the three layers that made up my recent study~ 🐠 #ArtTips #ArtTutorial #Art

It's finally done! 🤍✨ I've tagged and archived ALL 670+ of our free pose references! These are the references you see me post to socials, including our Pinterest. This library will be updated each pack launch, and more filters will be added. It's just a little library for now, but she'll grow.

All you newbies drawing their first comic and haven't printed their comic before: 300 dpi, CMYK colours, bleed and safety, 0 0 0 100 K black text on a separate layer. Make sure you have all of these on all of your comics files, otherwise you'll end up like me having to fix 660 pages of my webcomic

Time for another reference dump! This zip file contains 2,566 photos (6.58 GB) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art arms and armor collection. I tried to focus on the types of details you don't see in most available reference, like hinges and fasteners. Enjoy! drive.google.com/file/d/1emF3...

if you find yourself gravitating toward some way of drawing, say, eyes, or noses, or flowers, or architecture...etc...instead of trying to back out of it and "normalize," lean in and make it your thing for a bit. stop fighting yourself!!

Did you know you can drop your obj Feather app 3d sketchbook file in Clip Studio Paint and Move around your model there and create a perspective grid based on your own model?

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▶️ Creating an Art Feed + Advanced Tips! This #tutorial is based on SkyFeed v0.10.0 and is for artists setting up personalized Art Feeds on BlueSky. I used this guide as a basis (kai-blueskytips.carrd.co#one) and added some additional tips! All images have alt text for full context.

go.bsky.app/RbsaF4W PACK ONE! I have been asking folks in discords to give me their handles, but this is something I will try to keep up with during my time on bluesky!

Aye just a reminder that if you want to easily organize your art to use hashtags. Not only do they actually get you exposure on this site but if you have the hashtag in your bio, people can press and hold it to see any posts you’ve made with that tag!!

【Bluesky投稿画像サイズ】 ・１枚投稿→どの比率も見切れない ・２枚～４枚投稿→１：１のみ見切れない （その他比率は１：１にトリミングされる） ・画像は４枚まで添付可能

I‘d say a good base shape is this kind of trapeze. This is often what I start with. I have some small tutorial on top and some messy speedpaint below. The rest is details. Study the shoes you wanna draw. Sneakers have specific structures and so do boots. Study the stitches and different parts.

write everything down! every thought! when i'm compiling my notes later i'm always finding stuff i forgot i figured out, like oh, hell yeah, that was a great idea, good thing i WROTE IT DOWN ❤️‍🔥

a maybe less obvious one for comics is that if you're only doing the writing, try your hand at thumbnailing 10 pages or whatever. it's not about the quality of the art! it's about learning how to pace, how much text and activity you can fit in a panel. it's about getting a feel for it!

1. Ask/write down questions about hazy aspects of your story 2. Then, spend some of your down time in silence (commute, chores, shower) with those questions. 3. The brain hates unfinished tasks: it will allocate a lot of resources to solving plot holes, character relationships, pacing, etc.

for comics: generally, characters can only take ONE action per panel. If your script has someone walk into a room, pick up a pencil and start writing in one panel, that's going to be impossible to draw* *some exceptions apply.

here's another comic script one i learned back from my webcomic days: Try to end every page on a "mini-cliffhanger:" some anticipation of more that will get your reader to flip/click to the next one. Also: if printing physical books, every odd-even is a two page spread. Keep this in your mind.

I did some layout analysis for different comics, and then I figured they’d probably be helpful for other people too. It’s really interesting how cartoonists can use different methods to create a sense of subjectivity or wrongness or slow time.

like, just to expand on the Idea, I feel like graphic novels are so much about limitations--limited time, limited pages, limited avenues to explore backstory and scenes that don't get you closer to the end, limited amounts of characters or side plots you can write satisfyingly in the space allotted