Dave Lung

Comic Book and Variant Cover Artist and inker; Illustrator of the Spandexed; The Unslept; Protector of the Artist Alley; Breaker of Pencils; First of His Name

[davelung]

I am still so proud of this piece, proud to have completed it. I would say, it’s not just my favourite piece of 2022, but one of my favourite pieces I’ve ever done, not because of any aesthetic, but my pure emotional attachment to it. I’ve told the story several times, in person at a few Cons, and on different social media platforms. It humbled me, and the response was even more humbling.

Morpheus: Dream of the Endless and Matthew Cable India Ink on A3 Bristol

[davelung]

It's been two years since I almost crossed over, two years until I became one with the universe. Two years since I drew this, beginning before I was hospitalized, then finishing it after I was released. I was in no way healthy, and I thought my time here was limited, but, I survived. I dug deep, hands shaking from weakness and fever, but, I pushed on, and I made something that was so dear to me, and so we'll received by you all. You've humbled me with your live for this piece, and I am eternally greatful for it.

[davelung]

A little Diana of Themyscira I doodled at last month's Comic Con Dornbirn! I always love drawing Wonder Woman whenever I get the chance!

Mixed media on A4 Bristol

[neil-gaiman]

I've noticed that people have started spreading the 1992 Good Omens script around. Please don't. If you've got it up, please take it down. There's a mess of serious and real legalities involved, and I don't want to have to start being a dick and asking for copyright takedowns and all of that, and I don't want to have to regret letting it out into the world. Just take it down, unshare, delete links. Thank you.

[davelung]

Alrighty then, I used one of those Random Wheel thingies for a bit of inspiration for this one. "What's Harley Holding": A bomb, a rubber chicken, a Dreidel, a mallet, a pie... Moral of the story, do not use one of those while partaking in adult beverages while watching the OG Child's Play movie!!!

So, here's my classic costume Harley Quinn holding a murderous Joker "Good Guy Doll"!

[davelung]

It's not too often that I get an opportunity to draw my favorite Teen Titan, so I just jumped at the chance with this blank variant, and I am super chuffed with the way it turned out!

Raven, daughter of Trigon

Microns and Markers on Dawn of the DC Titans Blank Variant

[davelung]

Thank you @blkrose96 and everyone who got me to 100 reblogs!

[davelung]

Time. Space. Reality. It's more than a linear path. It's a prism of endless possibility, where a single choice can branch out into infinite realities, creating alternate worlds from the ones you know... Follow me, and ponder the question... What if... In a galaxy far, far away?

Vader: The Herald of Galactus

Pencil, pen, brush and India ink on A2 Bristol Board

[neil-gaiman]

Hi Neil! Didn’t think I’d ever try reaching out but here goes: I’ve been working on a film script idea for years now, but living with all the possible plot details and resolutions in my head for so long, I have no idea what route to take?? I’m even second guessing the protagonist’s career every other day, as if that truly matters for the actual, non-work related message I want to tell, but it feels like if I don’t have every single thing thought through and decided now (which keeps me from the act of just starting to write it all out), then it won’t be a good enough story. Any advice for getting out of the story in your head and finally putting it onto paper, despite not knowing all the plot points yet? Thanks, and I hope you have the most amazing unique 2023!

Keep moving forward. I was just writing something that had a chunk in the middle of stuff I knew nothing about. I knew that I didn't know enough about it. So I wrote an "I don't know what I'm talking about" version of those four or five pages and kept going. Then when I got to the end of the project in first draft I did my research, did some online research then talked to a friendly expert and realized that I didn't need half of what I'd written and now I knew what I could (and should) lose.

And often once you've written a first draft you specifically know what you need to find out.

[davelung]

This is so true even when writing comics. I was over thinking my latest project, I had the idea, but, I have the visuals in my head, not a script. I couldnt think of the dialogue, so, rather than scrapping the project, I've just started drawing, and will add the dialoge after I'm finished the visual aspects. The "Marvel" way! LOL

[colleendoran]

COLLEEN DORAN ILLUSTRATES NEIL GAIMAN

Solo exhibit at the SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS in New York City. More info at link.

[neil-gaiman]

March 22nd to July 29 Colleen's art for Chivalry, and some of her art for Snow Glass Apples will be on display at the Society of Illustrators in NYC and you can (and should) go and see it!

[davelung]

Colleen’s work is just so stunning!

[davelung]

"I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously."

Happy birthday, Andy Kaufman

[overfalls]

IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST

OR ‘PEAKED’

BUT PIQUED

‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

[owlbearcounter]

THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY USEFUL THANK YOU

[ranetree]

ADDITIONALLY:

YOU ARE NOT ‘PHASED’. YOU ARE ‘FAZED.’

IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.

ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME

‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’

THANK YOU

[tassiekitty]

BREATHE - THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE

BREATH - THE NOUN FORM

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE

WANDER - TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY

WONDER - TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)

[fairywails]

DEFIANT - RESISTANT DEFINITE - CERTAIN

[melancholicmarionette]

WANTON - DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)

WONTON - IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING

[proletariatbitch]

BAWL- TO SOB/CRY

BALL- A FUCKING BALL

YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT

[soggywarmpockets]

AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.

THANK YOU.

[everylineeverystory]

*slams reblog*

[leonawriter]

IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.

[penbrydd]

SLEIGHT - DEXTERITY, ARTIFICE, CRAFT (FROM ‘SLY’) SLIGHT - VERY LITTLE, FRAIL, DELICATE

IT’S ‘SLEIGHT OF HAND’.

[maverlok]

[celynbrum]

DISCRETE - SEPARATE, DISTINCT, PARTED

DISCREET - SUBTLE, STEALTHY, DIPLOMATIC

[othercat2]

BORN= existing as a result of birth

BORNE= carried or transported by

[typesetjez]

LIGHTENING = to make something less dark in color or to lessen its weight

LIGHTNING = bright flash of light during electrical storms

[obervation-subject-753]

{This is quite helpful. Thank you Rebloggers.}

[ask-the-dancingdreamer-archive]

((adm: I just want to add-

Loose- untight

Lose- opposite of winning))

[ask-the-awesome]

((ALSO: A fun trick -  Affect = Action  Effect = End Result ))

[ed-edward-blackbeard]

There = In that place

Their = belonging to them

can’t = a contraction for cannot

cant = a tilt or lean at an angle, usually to accommodate accessibility

[gossip-girl-of-middleearth]

Me thinking that this is child’s play and that I know it all already:

Me realising there are some things I didn’t already know:

[inthememetime]

TO- GOING ONE PLACE TOWARDS ANOTHER

TWO- 2, A NUMBER BETWEEN 1 AND 3

TOO- A DESCRIPTIVE WORD, THE MUSIC IS TOO LOUD, THE SHIRT IS TOO LOOSE.

[the-haiku-bot]

TOO- A DESCRIPTIVE

WORD, THE MUSIC IS TOO LOUD,

THE SHIRT IS TOO LOOSE.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[phanboyo]

I’m gonna add

ROGUE: CRIMINAL/REBEL/VAGRANT/ETC

ROUGE: RED MAKEUP

it’s rogues gallery, guys. Not rouge gallery. You’re making me think batman has an extensive lipstick collection.

[broadminded]

If you’re talking about a weapons CACHE, it’s pronounced cash.

If you say cashay, that’s how CACHET is pronounced which means prestige and does not mean a collection of items stored together in a hidden/inaccessible place.

[therobotmonster]

NO ONE IS ‘PREJUDICE"

PEOPLE ARE “PREJUDICED”

[foreignobjecticus]

If he’s not moving, he’s STATIONARY.

If he’s a fucking space pencil, then carry on with STATIONERY.

[dduane]

If it’s wet precipitation falling out of the sky, it’s RAIN

If it’s someone ruling over people, it’s REIGN

If it’s holding back someone from (or getting someone to stop doing) something, that’s to REIN [them] IN (…as if you were using REINS on a horse)

[dduane]

(and oh yeah)

If you’re telling someone they’re going to have to reconsider an opinion or course of action, then they have ANOTHER THINK COMING

(because “another thing coming” makes no damn sense whatsoever unless they’re in some kind of monster movie, ffs)

[petermorwood]

Just adding:

HOARD - (n.) a collection of stuff, (vb) to collect a collection of stuff.

HORDE - (n.) a collection, group, mob or host of people, often unruly or barbaric.

PEEL - (n.) the outside skin of fruit, also (archaic n.) a tower house, sometimes spelled PELE; (vb) to remove the outside skin of fruit; by extension, usually as PEEL OFF, to remove clothing, but also (aviation) to break away, one aircraft at a time, from a larger formation.

PEAL - (n.) the sound of several church bells ringing together or in sequence; (vb.) to ring bells in this manner.

BREACH - (n.) a break or opening, usually in a wall; (vb) to make such an opening, also a whale rising clear of the surface of the sea. (The words BREACH and BREAK are distant relatives.)

BREECH - (n.) the bottom end of a gun-barrel, where it’s loaded; also (BREECH PRESENTATION) a baby being born bottom-foremost; also (n. pl.) BREECHES, a historical style of trousers ending just below the knee and (archaic vb) to BREECH, to dress a boy in breeches (adult clothing) for the first time.

English is…  Complicated.

[neil-gaiman]

And my favourite recent one,

It is “TO ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES” and not “TO ALL INTENSIVE PURPOSES”.

[comominimo]

Marcel René von Herrfeldt. “Fume”, 1925.

[davelung]

Some Sketchy Madness - Cesar Romero as my favorite Clown Price of Crime! Pre-con commission from a few months back

[mahmudasrar]

Tsrif tsop fo eht raey!

[davelung]

Taskmaster commission Work in Progress

[sciencefictiongallery]

Virgil Finlay

[davelung]

Stunning piece

[stazjohnson]

Strontium Dog: In The Dead Doghouse, pages 1-5.