thepenmonster
The Pen Monster
I draw sometimes.
Josh can we stop with this pity party. "I dont know why I made this of why im posting this..." you dont need to include that. Its not necessary. "Even if I am the only one who still cares..." with all due respect Josh we did care at some point. "I'm sorry I got upset at your suggestion..." …
This is a rare one: An image that I started and finished in the same day. Kind of had to, as it goes live tomorrow. As usual I wasted way too much time with textures that only ended up getting lost when I reduced the image to Tapas size... [image]
That´s an option for me too, I have done all my last pages with pencil and ink and it was more fun and I´m faster that way, I also think that traditional ink looks better. I could still use digital tools to clean the pages and get the pages ready for print
My version of the "Nostalgic songs to listen to late at night when you're anxious and can't sleep" 
HOME by Daughtry STRIPPED by Depeche Mode TEAR GARDEN by IAMX
Honorable Mentions: GASOLINE by The Weeknd TEARDROP by Massive Attack
The end of Trespasser Chapter 02!
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The end of Chapter 02 is drawing near folks! Just 3 more episodes! So if you haven't caught up yet with the story, then there's no time like the present and click that link below 
Good morning, this was a lot to color 
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A HUGE thank you to @llobucervallince for the AWESOME render! 
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Thank you my friend! 
I really dont want to be that person, but I feel like you post the same topics over and over again without really changing anything. In terms of the picture, the birds and colors are fine. However, the shapes of the architecture feel quite inconsistent. Im thinking of the windows in particular. T…
Tapas doesn't usually count views from yourself, at least not that I've noticed. If you were logged into your account, then consider those views genuine! Also, with 17 episodes, you'd need to view every chapter at least four times to get that many. Congrats, 300 views in one day is pretty good!
If the characters are children or teens, the only excuse you need is that their parents care about them! It's becoming more and more clear these days that giving smartphones to children is like giving them cigarettes or booze.
In large part I think it's because most of the genre's conventions were defined in the era before personalized mobile phones.
I'll let you know my opinion on AI art if any is ever created. Right now there are only AI generated images.
Once again, the gen ai machines are using copyrighted material without compensating the copyright owners. That's what their models are built on. It's not inspired, not a single chord progression, the whole damn track lists of whole swats of musicians fed into the slob grinder. When another musicia…
For me, definitely Takehiko Inoue, his art is just on another level [image]
Because it's easier than learning how to code a website, cheaper than paying for a web domain, and gets more visibility than just having a random website of your own off in the corner? Also... Making comics is fun and even traditional publishing doesn't get you much money anyway so no one successfu…
I remember redrawing them for helpful notes awhile back: [image]
I have done that many times, and have had my husband pose for me as well. Especially with hands. I suck at hands as badly as AI does, though at least I usually get the finger count right.
I do this all the time. Not only for body ref but also environments/objects etc
I have a lot of selfies of myself in specific poses for art purposes. Can vouch for this method, haha.
This was a fun drawing exercise! And that's a very helpful reference on how to make different panels, I'm gonna put it in my folder with my other drawing references. 
[image] [image] [image] [image] For the last page, I included two things I like: when comic artists practically use the panel as a su…
This is actually gonna be really helpful for me, because in the chapter I am working on, there is a big, BIG speech that an employer is giving to his workers. Although, I know I wouldn't be able to do some of these, because he is set to be on a canopy, and the workers down below
Challenge accepted. Here's the last page i drew. It's the hand drawn part before I add, greytones, textures and word balloons in photoshop. The challenges in this page fit's Wally Wood's almost exactly. The writer has a bunch of characters just yappin' at each (ok one monkey throws a sweaty shirt…
another thing that need to be hit on is the background has to match the characters. If you draw cartoony characters like I do, having super realistic 3D model backgrounds give your pictures a sticker look. Like the characters are stuck onto a picture they don't belong. The tone of the artwork should…
I used to create highly detailed, fully colored comic backgrounds, but it was incredibly time-consuming—sometimes taking over 10 days just to complete a single page. [image][image][image] Maybe you could try what I do now: keep the characters in color while using simple black line art for the ba…
I've been reading webcomics since before tapas and webtoons existed and all I can say is that I prefer episodes short enough so the author can create them sustainably and eventually finish the story ^^ Sure, I'd love to have long updates of a story I'm interested in, but usually this means the aut…
I think the romance category is pretty big actually. romance is a popular genre
Except Q104 rarely plays any Priest… even when they were sponsoring the concerts a few years ago!