I Think I Get The Appeal Of Crack Ships Now

Hay, as an artist what's your fav part of making a new oc? Is it character design? personality? Or somthn else?

This might suprise you, but personality is king for me! Most times, I start with a personality that I think would be fun for a character and build a design around that. If it's not a personality, I'm basing a character around it's a concept.....like what if Dr. Fate from DC had the personality of the Joker? Or what if there was a graffiti artist ghost?

I did not expect people to like my old Madoka art this much! Here's my devil Homura I made to go alongside Madoka. I remember having a lot of trouble with perspective.

Goddess Madoka. A little old, but I still love it!

"Hey there, little buddy!"

Rebloging this to remember to make an oc based off of this silly funky hat.

Pastel Confetti Chrochet Clown Hat //  PeachyBabbiYarn

Here is my ghost oc Ari! She's a graffiti artist who died in 2005 by falling off of a building. Her hobbies include parkour, refusing to move on, and out running the grimm reaper.

Why are people following me? I literally haven't posted anything??? Are you robots? Is that what's going on here???? I think at least one person is a robot but the rest seem real.

Again, I ask dear agents of The Fears...

WHAT IN THE HILLTOP IS HAPPENING IN THE MAGNUS PROTOCOL

I'm relistening to Archives while Protocol is going. Keeping myself aware, keeping myself informed, remembering details and thinking about things in Archives later seasons and putting it with the early seasons. SO TELL ME FUCKIN WHY IN ARCHIVES EPISODE 19 THEY'RE ALREADY FORESHADOWING THE RULES OF PROTOCOL!

So remember, Episode 19 is about the priest who goes to Hilltop, then 20 is more about him and what he did. He investigated Hilltop because a lady said she was possessed and hallucinating and her body was straight up not acting how she wanted it to act until she died. Then Mr Priestman starts having problems, feeling things, hallucinating things, and eventually in 20 he's found cannibalizing some people. Remember these details please because:

Mentis, mind. Written in latin upon Hilltop road. The same place which possesses the Crack in everything.

Now for Protocol:

Mercury and Sulfer are parts of the Tria Prima. Sulfur represents the soul and mercury the mind.

Mentis, latin for Mind, in Hilltop, where The Crack is.

Sulfur representing the soul, isn't it so strange that a Priest is there to save a girl's eternal soul from a demonic possession. A Priest who's soul is also now corrupt and unclean because of cannibalism.

Damn if only there was some sort of tie into cannibalism and demons in Protocol

Oh wait

The latest fucking episode. Episode 24 of The Magnus Protocol.

Cannibalism, Demonic Children, Altered Reality, just like 19 and 20 with Demonic Possession, Hallucinations that don't line up with reality as if the people are shifting back and forth between the two dimensions, and of course, cannibalism.

These motherfuckers wrote such a tightly wrapped story, it's so fucking beautiful and I cannot handle the connections and parallels and glory of it all

Thank you for coming to my ted talk

My money right now is either on Lena or Celia purely because they know a lot. I changed my mind about Lena not dying early due to several people pointing out the track record of bosses surviving the horrors.

I love how almost every single major character in The Magnus Protocol is giving off death flags.

Sam? He's looking into things he shouldn't be while refusing to believe Gwen and Alice. That's gonna bite him in the ass eventually.

Alice? Until recently, she's been covering her eyes and hoping everything will be fine. Hopefully, it isn't too late for her.

Gwen? She's too proud to let go of a job that has almost killed her. She can't keep getting lucky.

Celia? She knows too much. That fact alone puts a target on her back.

Colin? Haven't heard from him in a while. There is literally someone on this website counting how many episodes he's survived.

Freaking Teddy? The guy who left the hell hole that is the Office of Incident Assessment and Response in episode one? He keeps coming around the office because he mysteriously can not find a job since the one waiting for him after OIAR fired him almost immediately.

Everyone besides Lena feels like their one wrong move from dying.

How I save time on backgrounds as a full-time webcomic artist

Hi! I make webcomics for a living, and I have to be able to draw a panel extremely fast to keep up with my deadlines. I draw about 50 panels a week, which gives me about 45 minutes per panel if I want any semblance of a healthy work-life balance.

Most webtoon artists save time on backgrounds by using 3d models, which works for them and is great! but personally I hate working in 3d... I went to school for it for a year and hated it so much I completely changed career paths and vowed never to do it again! So, this is how I save time without using any 3d, for those of you out there who don't like it either!

This tactic has also saved me money (3d models are expensive) and it has helped me converting my comic from scroll format into page format for print, because I have much more art to work with than what's actually in the panels. (I'll touch on this later)

So, first, I make my backgrounds huge. my default starting size is 10,000 x 10,000 pixels. My panels are 2,500 pixels wide, so my backgrounds are 4x that, minimum. Because of this, I make them less detailed than I could or that you might expect so it doesn't look weird against my character art when I shrink portions of it down.

I personally find it much easier to add in detail than to make "removing" details look natural at smaller sizes, but you might have different preferences than I do.

I also make sure to keep all of my elements on separate layers so that I can easily remove or replace them, I can move them to simulate different camera angles more easily, and it's simple to adjust the lighting to imply different times of day.

Then I can go ahead and copy/paste them into my episodes. I move the background around until it feels like it's properly fitting how I want.

Once I've done that in every panel, I'll go back through the episode and clean up anything that looks weird, and add in solid blacks (for my art style) Here's a quick before and after of what that looks like!

This makes 90% of my backgrounds take me just a few hours. This is my tactic when I'm working in an environment that an entire scene, or multiple scenes, will take place.

But many panels will inevitably have a location that's used exactly once, and it would waste time and effort to draw a massive background for those. So in 10% of cases, I just draw the single panel background in the episode. I save all of these, just in case I can re-use it later (this happens more often with outdoor locations, but I save them all nonetheless!)

I generally have to draw about 2 big backgrounds per episode, and 3-5 single-panel backgrounds per episode! At the beginning of an arc/book the number is higher, but as the series is continuing and I'm building up an asset library of indoor and outdoor elements to re-use for the book, the number generally goes down and I save more time.

My series involves time travel and mysteries, so there's a lot of new locations in it and we're constantly moving around. If I were working on a series that was more consistent in this aspect, this process would save me even more time!

Like I said earlier, this also saves me a lot of pain and gives me a lot more options as I'm converting from scroll format to print format!

panels that look like this in scroll format...

can look like this in print!

because I drew the background like this, so I didn't need to go through the additional effort to add in the extra detail to expand it outwards at all.

Anyways, I hope this helps someone! As always if it doesn't help, just go ahead and disregard. This is what I do and what works for me, and I feel like I only ever see time-saving tips for comics that involve 3d models and workflows, which don't work for me at all! I know there's more people like me out there, so this is for you!

Enjoy!

Also obligatory "my webcomic" if you want to see this in action or check it out!

"What I'm about to say here stays here....."

Inspired by the song Rotten Heresy and Chocolate by PinocchoP