CloudyMagpie

Cloudy Magpie

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Ah, so you've caught me lurking! Hmm, oh! What's that over there?
* runs *

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Jun 17, '17
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Aug 24, '23
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I love this! He's so cute!

Something similar for drawing is line-of-action.com. you set your time limit anywhere between 30 seconds to 10 minutes. when the timer ends, it skips to the next picture. It's how I practice quick gesture drawing sometimes. It's pretty fun!

Sounds like it could be Twistwood tales? At least by the plague doctor description

I agree! you don't have to write serious stories, but I think maybe a better wording for taking your work seriously is to take it sincerely? (maybe? little help?) Whatever tone/mood that may be, embrace it. Do not be so afraid of internet trolls that you twist your stories and characters into some…

TBH sometimes I do this but forget that A was ever an option. Then when I've gone down the list of B-Z iterations unable to get the right wording down, I look back at my oldest drafts and remember A was an option all along! Sometimes I iterate too many times that the original meaning is lost and the…

Is one long serialized story the format you're going for? So far I'm getting Saturday morning cartoon vibes like The Powerpuff Girl with the way you're describing everything. They have episodes just being pre-school girls, or saving the city from kaiju, villain POV episodes, the list goes on. It s…

Haha, yea, things are mostly back to normal now, but we did go a few weeks without buying eggs in CA. prices got up to around $8 for a dozen. Honestly, that was around the time I started noticing you promoting your comic and I thought it was very funny timing!

I made this little Razor a few years ago in the Hey Arnold style. [image]

how about a name randomization tool? just punch in your settings and generate until you find something you like. or browse for specific themes, origins, etc I like behindthename.com but I'm sure there are other websites with similar uses :smiley: These are the ones I got on my first round. [image]

I feel like this is how artists end up with a bunch of different hobbies, lol.

As a reader, I typically keep the bookmark for the series. If it's a series I really liked, I'll still go back and re-read it occasionally, even if the author has stated they will not rfinish it. Going on Hiatus has definitely helped renew my excitement for my comic. I posted the last page in 202…

Eek! I love stuff like this! I'm not in the "I've been drawing the same characters for over 20 years" camp yet, but I'm well on my way at about 12 or so! My high school art! [image] 2015 vs 2022 Sonny [image] Early designs of Sonny and a character that would eventually become Roach [image] t…

Cloudy to represent my daydreamy, head in the cloud personality, and magpie because I love birds, and those little guys don't get as much love as crows, jays, and other corvids (which I also love)

I will put him up as a sticker this weekend, just for you! lol

I started using this little watercolor bird dude in 2017. it's been my icon everywhere since then, and I still really like it so I don't really plan to change it anytime soon. (if I did, it wouldn't help me be recognized here especially since I barely post!) [image]

I still really like this piece from last year! it's just quiet and sweet and I had a lot of fun playing with the glowy colors. :heart: [image]

This is my absolute worst drawing ever. of all time. [image]

When I was like ten, I had a fear of spontaneous combustion. Idk haha. I was afraid that I would suddenly burst into flames and leave behind a pile of ashes and no one would ever know what happened to me.

My younger brother helped me color parts of my CTA entry. He also helped me come up with some of the visual gags and improve pacing in other sections. It's funny, I always feel weird talking about my characters and my story with anyone irl, but he is just so casual about it, it makes me feel like ma…

Sonny: [image] Badger: [image] Roach: (I could not have found a better picture; the eyebrows are perfect, I'm still shocked) [image] The author: (a mass of shaggy black hair) [image] Bonus: I drew this dog AU a few weeks ago [image]

You can always delete comments or block users if they start getting too weird for you before showing your IRL friends. Or if you really don't want to moderate a rowdy comment section (assuming you ever do get a strangely large influx of this sort of dog smoochiness?) you can even turn off comments c…

I had a rough day at work yesterday. They asked if I'd help out with one of the more physically intense jobs at our warehouse and I agreed. I was so sore when I got home and I was NOT feeling up to going back today, but just as I'm getting ready, THEY OFFERED TIME OFF! WOOO! so I took the day off to…

So a little gag at the beginning of my comic (which is on, like, super hiatus right now so I feel kinda guilty even talking about it :sob: ) was for my character Roach to just hop onto Sonny's back for a random piggyback ride. But as I've drawn and written for them a lot more lately, it almost seems like…

I don't know if this is helpful or not as someone who has never seen or read the stories you're using as inspiration. But I say go with what you're envisioning! even if you're afraid your work is too derivative, again, I've personally never really seen anything like, and to me, that sounds cool…

[image] Characters: I've seen some artists design and share SO MANY characters and they always look great! I have like, six main ones for my comic, and I struggle to design new ones, haha. Ideas: One of the things that keeps me sane at my day job is coming up with ideas for things to draw or write…

I wish I still had time to make animations! most of these are from a few years ago. this one was for a contest this was just for fun so I never finished it. I just wanted to get the movements down [image] This one is definitely older. everything moves and shifts around too much, haha [image]

I'm really sorry about this whole situation. Please try to get some rest though. hopefully, you can resolve this problem even though it might take some time. :heart:

can't help with the first one, sorry! the second one sounds like "here it comes" by orangeplum https://tapas.io/series/Here-it-Comes/info :grin: