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if you're still looking I have a bunch of pre-80's-ed kids in my own 80s comic ^_^ Your pages are really getting more period from your first post I remember in this forum : D good work! my 80s kids, for use at -- https://tapas.io/series/martyryouth
Damn that's totally the same way I feel. Its like working on a comic with a small following just out of passion is 'frivolous' when I could be working on the 'big deal' jobs out there. It totally sucks feeling that way, because it does mean nothing is fun, and I'm on that burnout path too : P Goo…
totally- I think that's any studio in general- games or otherwise. Games studios just have a massive burnout rate. To be fair, I probably draw the most outside of work out of our art team, it just hasn't been comics. Mostly I've been trying to build up a super generic 'game art' portfolio in case I …
@joannekwan If I didn't live by myself that is the Ideal Life you've got ; ) But yeah, my job pays for me, my rent, health insurance, transportation, my cat and also those impromptu amazon purchases, so sadly it just has to come first. Ugh @Kaykedrawsthings OK SAME!!! This isn't freelance, I'm st…
Here's a bummer of a topic for you guys-- when have you had to choose between your FT job and your webcomic? Does making the choice mean you're a 'lazy' creator? I've 'abandoned' my comic for a few months, which really sucks, but out of the blue my day job has become way more profitable/higher pr…
At a certain point, science is somewhat close to magic. If you had to explain to someone from 1600 what your smart phone and the internet are, the end result would be essentially "it just works. It's magic." That said, science fiction is called "science" fiction for a reason- and that's that it sh…
Wow I never figured that this kind of 'this is popular' talk would start to get me really uncomfortable but I think it's getting to that point on the forums, eh? O _ O I guess something that concerns me about this 'anti-BL' stuff is that ..... BL writers are your fellow creators. I'ts nice to …
I don't know anyone who I've seen improve through 4chan critique. In theory it's a great idea, you could get honesty because of the anonymity, but the fact is that people just want to be rude. The only people I know who post there just make porno art, with terrible anatomy and no one cares so long a…
I like when I get comments that are like 'I remember my dad showing me this band!' or 'I've been to a concert like this!' I like having a comic that's sort of nostalgic for people, but at the same time quite dark and sad. It just helps when people have the nostalgia from personal experience, so I…
I looked through your pages, and thought of a few more things that could help. I think some of the silhouettes of the character designs can go a long way. The overalls on your girl is a nice touch, i would bring the waistlines higher, and give the pant legs a taper so the body shapes overall go b…
I have an 80s comic and there's a few things I do to make everything pretty obvious. I think your designs are getting there, but lacking some specificity that'll make it '80s' and not modern. Your kiddo's glasses are both square with a wire frame. The 80s glasses are really particular with the c…
I was first cognizant of the idea of 'style' when I joined deviantart as a kid, which isn't a great place to start. I was really interested in mangas, but I never read any, except Tezuka ones so I copied that and really copied a lot of native American art I'd had around me as a kid. (there wasn't mu…
I think you can be good and not original and make a very good living off of art. Think of every single advertising agency that needs people to copy trademark art, or do inbetween animation frames or arrange things other people draw on a newsletter. Being good will make you comfortable and safe and y…
all streams have a delay! Picarto is shorter than Twitch's 15 second delay, and there's nothing you can do. It's built into the sites. The only way to stream without delay is through a Google hangout with friends. You'll have to do headphones/headphone mic probably to get rid of a lot of the echo…
I've only gotten two subscribers off Twitter and they were coworkers or fans of my company not me : D I think if you're looking to suddenly become popular because you've done a few tweets you'll be dissatisfied. That said, Twitter is fun and its nice to talk to friends. I use it mostly to promote th…
If you're new to 3D and not sure you're going to use it often, Autodesk has free software (I think its called 123D? lol) They're reforming it into other apps, so you'd have to get it soon, but it's free, compared to a lot of other expensive software. Basically if you're going to be tracing stuff, fr…
BL tropes bother me sometimes. I don't like reading a comic where all of a sudden it gets sexy for no reason or it has guys calling each other 'cute' and making noises like 'uwaaa' : / Sometimes I really enjoy a stereotypical BL but not the sound effects. Fancomics make me kind of sad because I c…
My public school was urban so we had very prison-like circumstances with metal detectors at the doors, intercoms to be let in if you had a doctor appointment, and a school cop. The cop would hang around and break up fights and also did drug education. Twice a year we did a lockdown where the police …
explicit drug use is the biggest one- the rest i tag/warn for pretty well when it comes up i think :3c but I think sometimes i forget to make drugs nsfw pages. there's visible needles, lines, etc, which i know can sometimes cause an itch in ppl y _ y there's also some child abuse mentions and fascis…
I have a comic with many nice LGB kids in it https://tapastic.com/series/martyryouth If you promoted it, though, I think there's enough drugs and Bad Stuff it needs a disclaimer for mature/nasty content :3c but it's very largely about growing up gay!
ah thanks- that last paragraph gives me a challenge, which is sometimes exactly what I need to pull thoughts together. I probably am leaving it as a narrative to a little too late in the story. I have discovered a tendency within myself to get awfully long winded, especially because my pages don'…
I know this is England- I was kind of inspired by it because it's so accurate. I actually even thought of making my story set in the UK but I didn't want to deal with Thatcherism and Americans tend to really get British slang wrong, so I decided to stick to familiar shores. Thanks for acknowledging …
Nice- I think you and I have sort of reached the same conclusion to a messy answer. I think a lot of my apprehension comes from the fact that my current comic was never supposed to be a webcomic, just a small project to be shared among likeminded friends until a friend persuaded me to try out tapast…
Hm, I think what I worry about is just anyone upset that they could be confronted 'out of the blue' with a narrative about far right subcultures. Lots of people look to comics for escapism, and I don't want to ruin that for anyone, especially because I think a lot of my readers have an inclination t…
Hi all I've got an odd conundrum that's come up in my writing. A year ago I started my webcomic after some odd encounters in my daily life. I decided to make a somewhat-political comic about the old Reagan years in the United States, and wanted to create a narrative about radicalized far-right yo…
I make video games fulltime : 0 Some of my titles are Drawful 2 Tee K. O. And... a lot more that I did less art on. The ones above are all my art, so they're cooler to show off : D I also do illustration, fine arts, and I'm recently spending a lot of time doing creative writing for publi…
If you're in the states, and have a decent idea of what you want, Dell Outlet sells refurb computers and tablets for real cheap. Some of them have custom parts that make them really nice and a really good deal. I used the outlet to get a desktop, but I know they have surfaces, usually, and for a low…
I think you need a little of both to lead the reader to the proper conclusion, but not make it feel obvious. If everything leads to one conclusion, everyone will expect the conclusion. If there's only red herrings and the actual conclusion is never hinted at, the reader will feel cheated. I've bee…
[image] I did this one today, it was really fun : D it goes: mine, Hell(p) Meat and Bone , Amaryllis Drugs & Wires
I have the same problem! I have to check the page I'm posting like 5 times, sometimes doing last minute changes several times after not liking the preview and all that.. After I post I just try not to look at comments, which is ok because I dont feel fearful, but then I frequently just forget to eve…