Hello tapastic!

[hatmouse]

Hi there everyone!
I'm fairly new here on Tapastic. I joined almost a month ago, but I haven't been able to post on forums, but it seems like that bug has been fixed, so here I am to introduce myself!

My name is Carmen, but I also go by the name Charlie! I currently consider myself asexual/aromantic, but I'm still trying to figure myself out. I'm fine with using any pronouns, so use whichever ones you think suit me! I love art with a passion, and I hope to go to University for a fine arts degree after I graduate. I currently don't have a job, but I frequently volunteer at my city's art gallery, which is super fun! The people there are lovely, and the exhibits are always amazing.

I'm 16 years old, and i live in Canada. I have a lot of ideas for a lot of things, but because of my ADHD it's hard for me to focus on one project and stick with it. But I'm doing the best I can, so please bear with me!

my favourite games are Animal Crossing, Pokemon, Neko Atsume, and Fire Emblem Awakening! I love Nintendo games with a passion, and I occasionally do fanart of games I love.

I am a traditional artist, and I can't do digital art to save my life. ;v; But I love doing traditional art! Sometimes I do ink drawings like this. And sometimes (but not very often) I draw with pencil, like in this! But my main medium is pencil crayon. A few examples are here, here, and here!
In fact, I do my whole comic, Type Masters, in pencil crayon! Granted, that makes it a bit hard to have regular updates. The pages usually take a long time to line and colour, and I do not have a scanner at home. So usually I have to take a bus downtown to scan them at a public library. So unfortunately, page progress for my comic is fairly slow.

but i'm still very proud of it! As I said before, I have a lot of trouble with sticking with one project, but my devotion to Type Masters has stuck around for longer than any other idea I've had. It's a huge record for me, and while the comic is mostly just practice to get used to the format of comics, it's a huge accomplishment for me.

Type Masters is a comic that takes place in a world where humans have types and attacks, just like Pokemon! However, humans are fairly weak, and can barely stand up to a basic level 10 pokemon, even if the human has maxed out their power. But every generation, one person is born for each type, and they are able to fully master their powers, even to the point where they could take on a legendary pokemon!
So all eighteen of the Type Masters work together to stop injustices from happening, but not all is what it seems! The comic starts out fairly nice, but I have a lot of plans for death, tears and tragic backstories. :3c

I started the comic almost a year ago, so the art at the beginning is fairly outdated, but I hope everyone likes it!

So, how about you guys? What are your names? Your favorite games and movies? Your medium of choice?
And are there any other traditional artists out there? What's your usual process of creating your comic?

[Robosaur]

wowowow! Welcome to Tapastic, Hatmouse! (that's such a cute name ahaha ><) My name's April and i'm 15 years old. I'm a Disney fanatic and my favorite games are MajorasMask, Harvestmoon, and Neko Atsume! I do mostly digital art and i'm the author of the webcomic "Slide to Unlock" . I started off doing everything (thumbnailing and such) digitally but, i'm now trying out traditional because it seems to be faster. I also checked out your webcomic and i really like it! I dont see many traditional comics because they tend to have low quality scans but, i found yours to be just fine! You definitely got a great concept of paneling and backgrounds! I can't wait to see more

[hatmouse]

Hi, April!! it's nice to meet you! Ooh, I forgot to list Legend of Zelda! I love Majora's Mask too, and Twilight Princess will always have a special place in my heart. And your art is so lovely! The way you colour is lovely, and your art style is adorable!
And thank you so so much!! I'm so glad you like it, and that really makes me happy! I've always been a bit worried that the scanning wasn't good enough, so thank you! ;v;

[Robosaur]

Aww i'm glad you like it! I've always been a bit selfconscious about my art >//< Twilight Princess was actually my first Zelda game! Not a lot of people liked it so i'm really happy you did ahaha~

[Sanz]

Hey person ! Im the author and artist of Los Esmeraldas ( I have adhd too. I know the feeling of not being able focus.. getting distracted too easily...forgetting one thing and moving to the next...sucks sometimes. But its nice to meet you! And Your art style is VERY beautiful. If you want to look at my comic here it is https://tapastic.com/series/Los-Esmeraldas its a sci fi about an alien terrorist bent on destroying the government run by humans.

[hatmouse]

ahhh April, your art is amazing though!! Great job! ;v; And yes, it was my first game too! My sister always played Windwaker and I always watched her when I was little, but Twilight Princess was the first game I actually played. I've actually been replaying it recently!

[hatmouse]

ahhh thank you Sanz! Your comic looks super cool, your art style is just so amazing and detailed! And yes, working with ADHD is hard, but at the same time, I feel like I wouldn't be who I was if I didn't have it. So even though it makes things harder, I still like that part of me. ;v; Even if it makes my math grade loom really unimpressive..
And thank you so much!! I've been trying my best to experiment with colours and different kinds of shading and stuff, so I'm glad it looks okay!

[hdvictor]

Always happy to meet a fellow Zelda fan. Hello Charlie, my name is Victor (obviously.) I love your art and your comic sounds very interesting. I'm a bit confused about something though, is Type Masters going to feature Pokemon as well or were you just making comparisons?

Anyways, I love Zelda and Mario games as well as most racing games. As for movies I like the Back to the Future and Indiana Jones trilogies and anything from Christopher Nolan. I have my new comic Random Time Encounters but I'm not a great artist like you. My heroes just entered into a Zelda realm so I'm excited for what's upcoming.

I have a simple process for creating it. I usually start with a pencil sketch of each panel, then I scan them and trace the lines with Illustrator. Then I load those line drawings into photoshop to color everything in and add text and anything else it needs.

[hatmouse]

Hi, Victor! Thank you so much! Your comic is very nice as well, it seems really fun!
And yes, Type Masters also includes Pokemon in it! Here are a few that have shown up so far!

The Pokemon themselves aren't a huge part of the story, except for a couple legendaries. But they still make very frequent appearances!

[demthorshie]

Hi Charlie and welcome to Tapastic! My names is Deanna but I go by Cosmosgirl here at Tap. Your style is really nice, I love how soft the colors in your drawings are. I find that it's become a lot less common to see comic artists using a traditional means to color their artwork with so you're style is definitely refreshing! I used to have to do the same sort of thing with my art back when I didn't own a computer or a scanner, I had to use the school library believe it or not, so I can definitely relate! And believe me, my comic here at Tapastic is like the 3rd comic i've done already, I was working on 1 for about 7 years and just needed to create something different xD!

My webcomic here at Tapastic is a fantasy-romance genre comic known as Cosmos Song. It's done entirely digitally, so the pages are drawn on tablet using Manga Studio and colored in Photoshop. I've been thinking of one day getting back in to using colored pencils and pastels like I used to do, switching to digital art throughout the years was a good decision for me but I don't want to forget how to create things through traditional means either!

[R.n.P]

Nice I like that there are other traditional artist out there like me n I usually draw 15 pages a week but I'll soon reduce the amount cuz of the doctor saying its increasing my work level so I myt do my comics monthly soon. Plus I love Call of Duty but unfortunately school doesn't let me play like I want to.
Here's my comic if you wanna see it
THE LAST SAMURAI

[hatmouse]

Hello, Deanna! Thank you so much!! ;v; Your art is beautiful as well, it just looks so warm and relaxing in a way! And yes, I haven't looked around a whole lot, but I haven't really seen a whole lot of traditional comics here or on Smackjeeves. It's a little disheartening, but hearing you say that makes me feel much better about it! ;v;
And yes, I would use my school's scanner, but last time I tried to use it it didn't work! Maybe next time it might, I'll have to try it out again next time I'm able to.
And wow! Three comics! That's amazing, you're so talented! And Cosmos Song looks so nice, I'll definitely check it out when I have the time. And I think you should definitely try out some traditional art! I feel like pastels would go beautifully with your style!

[hatmouse]

Hello fellow traditional artist! Nice to meet you!
And your comic is very nice, you have such a nice art style. It looks super cool!

[demthorshie]

Thank you very much :3! I used to really love working with pastels and colored pencil, sometimes crayon as well before I went digital. I feel like my coloring style is the same as before, just different medium hehe xD!

Yeah, it is a little sad to see the massive shift from traditional to digital. I do favor both mediums, as they both have a lot their pros. But it can be a little disheartening to see less and less traditional artists in the online sphere as the years go by.

[Mikayi]

welcome!
I'm new here too, I joined about the same time, and happy to see the forums up, there's so many new people and old ones on here that are so friendly! so I'm sure you'll make a lot of friends on here.

I saw that you are Asexual/aromantic! that actually makes me happy to see someone else is! although I think often I go to being biromantic. I often use 'em' when talking to people, I get both masculine and feminine pronouns, I'm not to bothered with either one. but most people use the term "oppa" or "hyeong" for me.

I do love Nintendo games, but I also like playstation too because they recently have it sold as 'unlocked' so I can play my Korean games on it.

I use traditional medium often enough, I love my color pencils. and I draw on paper, ink then scan. Otherwise I use the computer to tone/color. most of the time it takes me 5 pages just to get a page drawn the way I want. I wish I could draw well on a tablet. lol but I love the look of your art! very lovely . and your drawings are cute! I love the facial expression in the last panel.

I have a few comics on this site but they are BL more Fantasy then Romance though, and extremely bizzar. TT.TT
https://tapastic.com/series/Nemution-Pobae
https://tapastic.com/series/inner-heart
https://tapastic.com/series/indomitable-spirit1
they are not at all popular, but I love drawing so I share them when I can.

WELCOME ! I hope your welcomes are warm!

[Kura]

'ello fellow Canadian. (Albertan here)

People call me Kura and I currently work on No Future and Raven Wolf I'd work and a whole bunch more if I could but physical limitations and time restraints and all that.

I'm a big fan of strategy games, JRPGs and platformers. (Though other game types are pretty fun too, I just like a lot of games...)

I used to do must of my stuff traditionally, but I can no longer do traditional art because of arthritis and have been gravitating over to digital because it just hurts less.

[UrMom]

Hello Charlie, welcome to Tapastic! My name is Dani, I'm also an aro/ace, and normally prefer gender neutrality. When I was your age I also loved art enough to want to make a thing out of it, then I realized I didn't want it to be just another source of financial frustration, but it's cool you're so passionate about it. My favourite video games are the SNES Yoshi's Island, Super Mario All-Stars, Banjo and Kazooie/Banjo and Tooie, Spyro, the Myst games, Zoo and Roller Coaster Tycoon, Eternal Darkness, LoZ: Windwaker, and I will admit to enjoying Duke Nukem Forever and Child of Eden. (there's a lot more, but I can't remember them since I haven't had time to play games since I got out of high school)
Favourite movies are Hugo, Life of Pi, Serial Mom, Hamlet 2 (because it's set in my hometown), Blazing Saddles, Kung Fu Hustle, Black Snake Moan, Cannibal! The Musical, Shaolin Soccer, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, Big Fish, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Redline, Triplets of Belleville, Trolls 2, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Kung Pow, Princess Mononoke, The Fifth Element, The Land Before Time, The Rescuers Down Under, Tokyo Godfathers, Watership Down, What Dreams May Come, Welcome to the Space Show, The Brave Little Toaster, The Secret of NIMH, Paprika, and that's all I can remember right now.

I'm a traditional all the way person, tried out digital in my later high school years which had decent results(Don't click that unless you're alright with gore), but it wasn't enjoyable in the slightest so I went back to pen and paper. I normally work with pens, and coloured pencils, but my favourite colouring tools are copic markers; thanks to how the price has inflated since I was a kid I only ever us them on rare occasions. When it comes to the comicing process, I thumbnail until I get a layout I like, do a rough sketch and ink the gutters in right away, draw and ink in the content with a blue pen, colour everything in then reink the parts I want to stand out with a black pen. It normally would take about 20 or so hours if I were to do a page without any interruptions, from start to finish.
Currently I have two experimentation projects, one isn't on here and is on hiatus for revamping, and the one I'm posting here is called Void: A Guide to a Healthy Relationship. I've been on the fence about calling it a LGBT+/MOGAI comic since there's no romance in it despite the comic title, but I guess it technically is. Don't read it if you don't like NSFW stuff like blood, violence, and all that not so pleasant stuff.

Sorry for the text wall, it was nice to meet you. I'm sure you'll make friends, there's a lot of friendly people here.

[foxowl]

Welcome to Tapastic! I'm Charlie, I live in the UK. I also have ADHD so yeah, something in common even if it's a sucky thing ahahah. I'm currently making A Town Called Mort and I can related with the sticking with projects problem omgggggg and remembering where I am with the comic ahahah.
I saw one of your pictures is undertale! I haven't played it in a few months but I still really love that game. I also like pokemon too! So excited for Sun and Moon!!
Your comic sounds really awesome, I like storylines that start out chill and then becomes more and more brutal!

[Sanz]

Thanks ! I feel the same way about adhd. But thats ok we are who we are i wouldnt change a thing

[niinasalmelin]

Nice to meet you Carmen, I hope you'll enjoy your stay here in the forums/tapastic overall
It's great to see you put a lot of effort into your art and pages. Full colour comic is a whole lot of work I know and I get grey hairs when I even think about doing mine with colour pencils so kudos to you!

I'm Niina, a finnish lady, who also considers herself as asexual. I don't think about it too much, since I'm not looking for relationship at the moment or see myself in one in the near future. My nintendo experience is mostly watching other people play mario when I was a kid, but it fas fun for me. Later I did almost finish Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker and got pretty good at Mario Kart. I really enjoy games but finding time and money for them is whole different thing. I'm mostly into movies (used to be big horror buff but after a while you've just seen it all) and comics (of course :D).

I'm also mostly traditional artist, who's trying to figure out digital art, but with baby steps. If you're interested, I have two comics here in tapastic, both in mystery genre. Numb is my main project, slow burn odd story with ghostly stuff, which updates every week and Little tales is more of a collection of short stories I come up with and update there from time to time. Do take a look if you're interested!

Again, WELCOME and I try to cut this off now because it's already wall of text It was nice to meet you!