Kasper Swain

I'm an artist that loves anime, video games, transformers, and all kinds of other nerdy things. This is my personal tumblr, so if you're more interested in artwork, click on the "Art Blog" link below!

[aurorapunkart]

Finished this just in time for con! Every iteration of Handsome Jack from the Borderlands series. <3 He quickly became one of my favorite fictional characters!

You can get an 11x17″ print here~

[midwintercomic]

Guess what, everyone??

WE’RE OFFICIALLY FUNDED!

Thank you all SO much for contributing, liking, and sharing this campaign every step of the way. It means the world to us that you were willing to support Midwinter!

We still have a little under two days left, so let’s make them count! If anyone’s willing, share the campaign on social media one last time so we can get a boost. Any extra money will go towards working on Midwinter for longer and gives us a nice buffer just in case anyone ends up cancelling!

Thank you again <3

[midwintercomic]

>> OUR KICKSTARTER IS LIVE <<

Midwinter is a long form indie comic that meshes the cyberpunk and fantasy genres with a pinch of horror.  You can go in expecting magic, cyborgs, mutants, and everything in between! It has its fair share of action and intrigue, but the characters are what’s most important to us and they’ll be driving the story as it progresses.

Back our Kickstarter now to get copies of the comic, great merchandise, or be featured in the comic itself as a background character!

Want to learn more about Midwinter first?

Check out our website: https://midwintercomic.com/

[a-sarcastic-fish]

Felt like drawing some fanart! The top is Leadfoot from the webcomic Backlash by @biteghost And On the bottom is Nox from the webcomic Midwinter by @deus-nocte I’d highly recommend both comics, they are A+

[shinelikethunder]

can we please bring back “in poor taste” as a concept

Because at some point it got folded in under “problematic,” and now every damn thing that has Unfortunate Implications or deals with sensitive topics indelicately enough to raise hackles or gores somebody’s sacred cow is treated as a grave injustice or a threat to society. Online activism culture has lost the vocabulary to express “this deals with touchy stuff in a way many people might find inappropriate, and you should probably avoid it if insensitivity on this subject gets you angry/upset, but it’s not promoting hateful ideas or demeaning people or affecting anything but my opinion of the creator’s sense of tact.”

[foxyfandoms]

I think this really an important post. We’ve fallen into such a rut of “everything is right or wrong, no inbetween” that stuff that’s merely in poor taste is conflated with things that are actually offensively malicious.

[qlazzarusgooodbyehorses]

this is so well worded like i been trying to say this for awhile thank you

[chicklette]

Damn. This is the thing.

[queeranarchism]

I also kinda dislike that people started saying ‘problematic’ when they could be specific about what someone did wrong. It becomes this vague scary thing that someone ‘said something problematic’ and you don’t know whether they passionately defended nazis or made a clumsy joke about retail workers. And because we don’t know what someone means but we do want to be safe a lot of us just assume to worst and avoid people labelled ‘problematic’. This makes is a very effective tool to bully out people for minor flaws and to reinforce purity culture and disposability culture. 

[midwintercomic]

Kayla Swain is creating Midwinter | Patreon

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Hey everyone! I completely revamped our Patreon and now we have some great new rewards and a much more solid foundation for organizing them!!

For those who don’t know, we are a team of creatives producing Midwinter, a cyberpunk fantasy comic that you can read here.

What’s new:

$1+ Read new pages & see concept art before it goes public $2+ Monthly Character Q&A–Patrons pick the questions! $5+ Free Sticker or Bookmark $5+ Access to a PDF Library of ALL our current content $10+ Free bust sketch done by me! You can request anything!

For more information on how the Patreon and these rewards work, check out our new PATRON DIRECTORY.

Patreon is the best and most direct place to support us on an ongoing level. This money helps us fund the business and pay our team wages–anything helps!

And if you can’t contribute financially and still want to help, give us a reblog and tell people why you like us.<3

[weeb-potato]

How to write a morally gray character:

Have their ideals be right but their methods be wrong

Make it seem like their dastardly methods are really the only way to achieve the goal for the “greater good.”

Have them develop from a flat antagonist to a well-rounded protagonist

How to not write a morally gray character

wah my childhood was hard

[aurorapunkart]

Just realized I forgot to upload these!! Look how pretty these charms came out!

Really pleased with them. You can buy them now on my Etsy:

Chise & Elias (Ancient Magus’ Bride)

Kikyo & Kagome (Inuyasha)

Kaori & Kousei (Your Lie in April)

Goliath & Elisa (Gargoyles)

[thechekhov]

I made a thing! I was thinking about this for a few days - because I realized that when I was young, I was also frustrated about being given the same advice over and over - without really knowing what it meant!!

Here’s 5 techniques which I have done before which have helped me grow as an artist, which are good for 5-minute warmups or just straight up challenges for your sketchbook! 

Obviously, these are not the ONLY techniques - they’re just the ones I find most fun! And maybe they’re not the most ‘correct’ ones out there, but it’s better than another comic about practicing more, right? 

Good luck to everyone on their drawings!

[thecaffeinebookwarrior-deactiva]

Honestly, as an artist and illustrator myself, seeing all the posts yelling at newbies to “practice” is so frustrating to me. It feels condescending, and would have had me running for the hills in no time if I was just starting out. This is much more helpful.

[m7angela]

♪ it’s raining paladins ♪

[thebirdroads]

the best trope in media is: “characters turn on the lights, see the monster, and immediately turn the lights back off”

[birdnerd18]

[plusultraaa]

who do i have to fight in order for nana to be inko’s childhood role model because i am READY

[queenoftheantz]

We had an interaction assignment, and GUESS WHAT I DID!!!

[the-button-harlequin]

relatable

[kougyokushairpin]

another attempt at Boku no Hero Academia textposts

[glalitites]

inspired by this because it was just too perfect for these nerds 

[deku-smash]

“I’d love to change the world,

But I don’t know what to do.

So I’ll leave it up to you.” x

I’m really happy with how this came out. just season 1 clips from BNHA, hope you like it