Impromptu Doodles and Character Ramblings

Doodles of inspiration, comic samples, and random bits of silliness.

[stuckinapril]

I’ve had tumblr for 4 years but some of you bitches have had it for a decade. It’s time to seek penance

[stuckinapril]

wait I’m curious now . Reblog this with how long u’ve been on tumblr for. Dating back to ur oldest blog ever !!!

[doomedbythenarrative-comic]

Still ran kinda late. It has been... busy.

So anyway, here is page 2.

[doomedbythenarrative-comic]

So, I restarted this comic with the idea of starting to post a page a week. I figured it would be easy since I would just reuse the redrawn comic pages from (15) years ago to start, to save time and let me work on the rest of the page redraws ahead of time....

Then I decided this comic needs to be in color, so I couldn't post the redraws anymore. Now they all need to be in color AND I'd honestly fixing some of the slightly less old art as well. BUT between work, work, family, life in general, lack of sleep... well, it's been much slower going than I'd like.

So I've made a "responsible" decision. There is a lot of pre-made lore to this comic, some which may never make it into the comic, as well a lot of history to its creation. Between posting comic pages, I'm going to feed some background info on the world, characters, creation/creators. I'm going to include with it either a current doodle or some old artwork (I have plenty on hand.)

So, below is a quick sketch of a rare moment, Sparkkie being thoughtful and quiet.

Enjoy the moment of silence.

More info to come every week.

Thanks for reading!

[doomedbythenarrative-comic]

Page 1.

Phew, finally managed to get this finished. After deciding to rebrand the comic and go from grayscale to color, I made the grand decision to actually update the redrawn pages (from 2011 - original under cut below) to be in full color. The art is pretty much the same as when I'd redrawn it. The details and coloring all of the details... well, this is why I'm posting this a week and a half past when I'd wanted to.

These will take a little longer than expected for a while. Also, I can see where I should have been better with the shading and clean up (always our worst critic,) but I know I'll get better as I keep going with these.

Anyway, enjoy the rereleased start of the rebranded comic Doomed by the Narrative!

Redraw done in 2011.

And the very original version of page 1 drawn in 2001. Marvel at my ancient artwork.

OoooOooooOooooh!

[doomedbythenarrative-comic]

I'm not quite ready to post the start of the comic... I've made some additional decisions that means it'll be a little bit more until the first one is ready.

But in the meantime, I want to keep to a regular weekly posting schedule, so here are the sneak previews of the first 3 cast members sketched out for their description pages. These, too, will be reposted once they are complete.

Enjoy!

[doomedbythenarrative-comic]

Part of the rebranding/refacing of this comic is going from a purely greyscale format to full color. So... I needed to make a color palette. Also playing around with shading techniques. Turned out even better than I'd expected... WOW!

Ahem... anyway. More tastes of things to come. Plus a sorta Meet the Characters (Though I have even better plans for the REAL Meet the Characters when I get that done. Mwahahahaha!!!

[asterrwritess]

Non-writers never seem to understand the fact that characters have free will.

"you made them, just make them do what you want!"

I can't SUSAN.

[doomedbythenarrative-comic]

Reviving a comic started way too long ago (25 years 🫠). Updated artwork per page (might even dare to share the original art alongside the new version of the pages.)

[animegart]

I'm doing it! Im bring back my old webcomic, under a new name and definitely updated art. Wish me luck!

[animegart]

It has been a long time, and a long time coming, but I'm bringing back my old web comic - hopefully better than ever. Definitely planning to bring back the fun, the silly, the fantastical absurdity...

Same adventure, new name, stay tuned...

[nightvales-voice-moved-blog]

April Fool's!

We replaced your bloodstream with thousands of bees. Also, your bones. And your skin. And also your hair. You’re mostly bees, I don’t know how you didn’t notice that.

[pizzacastella]

HAPPIEST BIRTHDAY TO MY BESTIE IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD @humanshapedstress !!!! i love you here's wonderwall

[bananonbinary]

one of the hardest things to learn as a depressed former Gifted Kid™ is that half-assed is better than nothing. take the 50%, 40%, even 20% job. scrubbing your face is better than not taking a shower at all. picking up your clothes is better than never cleaning. nibbling on some bread is better than starving.

DO THINGS HALFWAY. NOW YOU’RE 100% BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE BEFORE.

[redheadhatchet]

One of my college professors used to say “anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.”  I didn’t understand that for years because I didn’t do anything poorly, I couldn’t do anything poorly, I had to Do Everything Perfectly.

But brushing your teeth for 30 seconds is better than not brushing them at all when that 2 minutes seems exhausting.  Doing ten minutes of yoga is better than 10 minutes of sitting when 30 minutes of cardio sounds impossible.  Changing my clothes is good when a whole shower is impossible.  Standing on the porch for a few minutes is worth it after being in the house for three straight days because I don’t have the energy to go anywhere.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly… because doing it poorly is better than not doing it.

[resetium]

someone please hit me over the head with this post every day for like the next week thanks. a mention, a reblog with text, a message, something.

[animegart]

I made a thing. Might turn it into a button/keychain. Maybe a shirt? It'll be variable by the t-shirt design/flag.

What do you think? (PS. If you don't like it, don't look at it.)

[danganronpatwinfates]

Hey yall message from spade and @i-am-a-watermelon, We know the new president has some (if not all) of you worried, especially trans people, and we're here to tell you that, Are series/channels/tumblrs/etc is a safe space for everyone. not only for trans people, for everyone.

[imdebatingdeletingthis]

yall are safe here as well

[i-am-a-watermelon]

You are valid :]

[aniconist]

when people are like “he’s not even attractive you could find a guy that looks like him at any gas station” i’m like….. well you see there’s beauty everywhere actually

[what-even-is-thiss]

You can also find a sunset at a gas station

[thriftedspacesuit]

time to break out my favorite photo I ever took

[pid-widgin]

[animegart]

Celebrating my eldest's birthday with some doodles by request. (Cake on Me sung to "Take on Me".) Other celebratory images starring Black as White characters.

Happy Birthday @i-am-a-watermelon !!