popsiclestick
popsiclestick
somewhere on a barge on a canal deep in the misery of southern england tapas.io/series/SARGENTUM
i write and draw SARGENTUM, where a hapless lad in alternate Britain manages to make a drunk deal with the local bog witch in exchange for immeasurable powers, chaos ensues
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Magic in SARGENTUM is roughly classed into levels! My comic takes place in a pseudo-historical fantasy Britain, and I've drawn in real world folklore and folk magic. Most magic is seen as kinda picking apart and 'reweaving' the strings of reality, and it can be done in several ways! [image] 1) Th…
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[image] (this is actually an early release, OOP) this is from my pseudo-historical fantasy comic, SARGENTUM! My main boy, Archer, has got himself into a right pickle. As in, he's in jail
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@IndigoShirtProd & @ninjashira thank you very much!!! god this site is like tumblr in that every update just gets Worse and Worse
also for the record i'm logged in!
so i've been a regular creator on tapas for years but due to uni, i've had to take 6 months off while i finished my course. in the meantime, the site's changed it's formatting to uh. whatever this is meant to be, and i KNOW this sounds RIDICULOUS but i can finally update my comic and for the life of…
thank you!!!!!!!! :0
[image] [image] [image] [image] a small sélection of pages that were alright rly from my comic SARGENTUM https://tapas.io/series/SARGENTUM
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aa love this!! literally who he would be if his circumstances were better, haha
a famed beast-king of the western wilds, and who, despite his terrifying exterior, can be rather charming [image]
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[image] my comic is set in an alternate universe britain! i based my map off real kingdoms that did once exist in these places, some being celtic kingdoms, and others being part of the later anglo-saxon heptarchy. most of these place names are still in use to varying extents to this day. i did us…
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hi! i know there's a lot of responses here but if you have the time, i'd love it if you looked at mine! (the first chapter is definitely a learning curve, but i think that's always the way with webcomics)
this vision in purple is the latest sargentum page! sketch, anyway (i tend to do each scene in a different colour scheme, depending on the location/mood/time of day, and it really helps to use an under colour) [image]
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nah, not pagan but I'm really interested in the old saxon and brythonic religions though! i grew up just north of london (herts, rip) and while we grew up with some typical 'folky' stuff (maypoles, morris men (lmao) etc), i think there's so much more that we've just sort of lost interest in and fo…
i used to feel weird about that, but a friend showed me the wonders of google sketchup and to be honest, i never looked back. if i were to be producing a nice illustration where the art is the showcase then yes, i feel (for me anyway) it would be better to copy a ref than trace. however, for my co…
england- grew up in a village so i couldn't escape the maypole, lmao. also, Jack in the Green is a traditional celebration of the coming of summer (represented by a guy dressed up in a bunch of leaves as a Green Man) which is pretty massive thing in a bunch of towns, especially Hastings (or so my fr…
Look, my guy, as creators, we owe you nothing. We work our socks off to produce fresh new content for basically no compensation (unless you count the couple of pennies from ads/tips lmao). If we didn't do that, there wouldn't be anything for readers TO read. I'm all for listening to both sides of t…
[image] [image] these are a couple of old turnaround/outfit ideas that i did for my comic. I change my characters clothes from day to day, but they tend to stick to certain colour schemes which help reinforce the character, I guess? They tend to wear similar things most days - like with Archer, t…
thank you!! glad you like it!
[NSFW warning - although not sure if artistic nudity counts, and it's only the nips?) this was my latest! it's Orelie from my comic, SARGENTUM. it was a pencil drawing, which I worked on in 8B (Daler-Rowney 8B pencils are my love) and tried to keep as neat as possible, which was hard as i'm natura…
i think they were just promoting some non-american comics? it's always nice to have a shoutout. not rly sure where you're coming from?
To be honest, I read the dialogue out in my head and figure out the beat of the conversation, and decide from there. I did use to avoid full stops, but now I vary! It really depends how the sentence was said - an offhand comment, or with finality and expression. People's speech varies, and I change …
i don't, as subs come and go like the wind - i find that tapastic, for all its reader interraction, still feels like a fairly impersonal place and people will subscribe on a whim if they're interested, and unsub a day later if they find the said comic isn't for them, which is ok! it's the way things…
I much prefer the classic page layout, as I'm all about getting my work in print - getting to hold my comic in my hands is a big thing for me! I'm not a fan of all the white space in a lot of vertical comics, although a lot manage to avoid it! Tho to be fair, I'm always aware of my crowded looking p…
For SARGENTUM, I use pencil and paper to sketch out my pages, as I much prefer the control I have in traditional art. I then scan it into Photoshop, where I paint it in - I use Kyle's Dry Brush Pack, (especially the Nupastel and Conte Alias brushes) it really adds some nice organic texture to my wor…
a looot of herbal teas, haha. i also like port in the evening sometimes :>
the first and last from SARGENTUM, i hope my pacing has got.....slightly better haha [image] [image]
[image] here's the latest for SARGENTUM!
I draw SARGENTUM in photoshop, but i much prefer working in traditional media - so much so that i pencil my pages on paper which i scan in (i find it hard to draw well on a tablet) and use downloaded brushes to try and create a traditional effect to avoid the clean digital look. digital is fast and …
i've just finished my first chapter over at SARGENTUM and it's so SATISFYING? like, i can now say that the first '''arc'' as such is complete! i've drawn a whole chapter! holy shit! (to be fair, in my terms that's pretty big as the chapters in my comic are around 50 pages long)