Leyelle
Leyelle
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Hola and Howdy, I'm Leyelle, an 18-year-old Dominican-American author and poet. Outgoing and aggressively precocious I was published for the first time at 15 and was the 2023 Turnill Prize winner.
I try to include things I like to see in other art styles! 
I love bright colors, bold lineart, and high contrast between dark and light colors. I'm definitely not satisfied, because there are a LOT of things I need to work on... 
But I'm improving slowly and that's really what matters to me. [imag…
For some reason I never saw this comment 
but yes, he’s 21-22 throughout his storyline. He’s just a little guy. This reminds me, that arcane study was probably what inspired me to work on simplifying some of my character’s hair (especially Victor) because at some point later I edited the hair arca…
I have a very cartoonish Disney-like style since I've used How to Draw Disney Characters books to improve my drawing skills. [image]
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Promote all of your beautiful works in this thread and I'll leave a comment and like on one of your episodes. I'm looking to get my reader engagement up and I'm sure you all are as well. Let's get views together! "The Moonlight Manifesto" is a sci-fi comedy strip about philosophy, rebelion against…
I still draw in a very cartoony style, because I draw very quickly and I want to be able to capture details without too much technical precision. I also like things to be super expressive, because that's always appealed to me whenever I looked at other works. Here are a couple characters I creat…
She is Surypa, the female protagonist of my comic 
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These are quick headshots i drew of a few of the main characters that I created for my new sci-fi series, "The Moonlight Manifesto", which I just launched on here. The first two (Zhryra'kai and Vaelora) are humanoid aliens while the other two (Lizzie and Yuri) are human characters. [image] [imag…
Action scenes are so tough to pace! Were you satisfied with it in the end? I've had so much writer's block recently that everything is tough, but emotionally when a character dies, it's heartbreaking.
Yeah… he was drunk and she enjoys messing with people.
That totally depends on the readers, not Tapas. If my stories resonate with people and they become a lovely, loyal sub, and my readerbase grows, they usually follow me to my newer works. They are the ones who unlock and donate ink, not Tapas. Tapas acts as an advocate. They and I promote in ou…
I think nowadays... researching what is popular to that platform. There are a lot of competing ones—Wattpad, Webnovel, Ritoria, Royal Road, KDP, etc. Each one is unique (and The Beginning After the End came from Royal Road originally!) with its own tropes and fanfics. Thankfully, what I liked was …
When I originally started making Recollections of the Prince it was just a side project I didn’t care about much (it also had a different title) then I got invested and had to redo things proper and nice-looking for my own sanity. [image] [image] His face is kinda funny in the og XD An even better …
🥹 It’s beautiful. He does look like Snape haha. (Her hair is always judging) For your’s, all I can imagine is blue hair guy singing “Pizza Angel” (from silly songs with Larry) and then realizing that there are people watching him.
I need practice lol so I'll sketch your characters. I'll be doing either bust or full body, but if you haven't drawn them just give me a description of what they look like and I'll try to whip something up for you. I won't be able to get every single one of you but I'll damn well try. Also if I thin…
[image][image][image][image][image] Here mine. It's been baking all day. [image]
"Your snakes are freaking me out." "Keep your hands to yourself or I'll let them bite" [image]
Man, Ian would be really excited if that’s what she really said. XD Unfortunately for him, Mev can’t read and doesn’t appreciate books like he does.
"Aww that's a cute little purr! "
"I'm sorry... if this purr isn't cute enough for you... 
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"Don't be so hard on yourself my love"
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I only subscribe when I read and when I interact with the person in the forum
And we're back. Two more for @DasIstWunderblyat and @Krysteena. [image] Some more of my characters for consideration. This time, some that ended up in an actual comic: [image]
Silkie chickens always make me smile from the heart. Of course, I mean living silkie chickens, not the ones on a dinner plate.
Redrawing 5 pages because I made the mistake of not making character sheets 
After page 5 I realised that I didn´t like the face of the side kick and the clothes of the characters. I messed up the shoes in several panels, was too lazy to do the pages again, then made them all black and it looked ho…
Why can´t you draw digitally right now? Digital drawing has a lot of advantages and I love it, but I feel like I´m getting more done when I draw traditionally and I´m more focused. I also love the feeling of pen on paper. I scan the 5 pages today and I´ll color and clean them digitally. I´m too…
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I think the most unrealistic part of my stories is that everyone is fashionable 
I feel like it’s hard to find just someone in a plain t shirt and jeans in my world. But I love putting everyone in nice little outfits!! Or weird fashion too. But it’s statement still 
I can’t help it, I think I made t…
Going back to traditional art feels great. I will continue to draw and sketch digital because I enjoy it and learned a lot in the last 10 years, but being able to draw a page with pencil and ink feels different. The good thing about it is that I can´t zoom in and I´m also limited with how tiny the …