Foolsmask's Random Stuff Blog

Artist, RPG/Tabletop Gamer, Ally, He/him, Cis/?, INTP, foolsmask.deviantart.com

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after 4 years of drawing webcomics, this is my wisdom:

start now. now. now now now. or else you'll never draw this damn thing

it's fine if you don't have the entire story figured out yet, it'll happen naturally

draw what you want to draw!! webcomics often run for years, so you better work with something you like

don't overcomplicate things. a simple, efficient work flow is your top priority in order to stay consistent

bullshit some things. trace background refs. reuse poses. draw your character's face from different angles and just copy paste it in to save time. be smart about your work baby

take breaks if needed. webcomic burnout is real

sometimes, a panel or a page looks bad. shit happens. move on

lettering is actually really important and super hard to pull off

it's your comic. do what you want forever!!!

I'm begging you again to work smart, not hard. reuse backgrounds. use brush sets for webcomic artists. trace 3D objects. use 3D models to pose your characters

you may need hours or days to draw one panel, but people will look at it for 5-8 seconds. keep that in mind

a simple background is better than no background at all (avoiding the white void increases the quality of your work by a ton!)

sometimes the anatomy needs to be a little off to make an interesting shot/panel. that's fine, don't worry about it too much

at least 2000px canvas and 300 dpi for good quality results

it's okay to stop by the way. it's okay to move on from a project if you no longer find joy in it

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[marzipanandminutiae]

“you don’t like the proliferation of terms like Unalive outside of TikTok because you realize that you’re aging out of youth culture and it makes you uncomfortable!”

no I don’t like it because there’s something INCREDIBLY dystopian about being forced to soften terms for basic parts of the human experience like death and sex (and even more so terms for oppressed minorities- call me a “le-dollar sign-bian” and I will bite you) purely because advertisers and corporations demand it

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

The idea that young people are getting used to not being able to speak in public about sex, queerness etc without talking around censors, and see this as normal and not a problem, scares me tbh.

[crippledanarchy]

The fact that people are so comfortable with being censored that they Voluntarily censor themselves on words and topics that aren’t even being limited is a terrifying sign

[transcyberism]

I hate to be like the “THIS IS JUST LIKE 1984” guy but. there was literally a thing in that book where you had to say “double plus ungood” instead of “bad” because you weren’t supposed to talk about bad things. if you told me ten years ago that “unalive” was a word that George Orwell had coined for Newspeak I would have believed you.

[foolsmask]

I'm torn on this subject to be honest. I sympathize with everyone above me in this thread. It gets annoying. But I'm not as convinced as some seem to be that this is a big evil corporation forcing Newspeak and censorship down our throats.

The fact is language evolves. I think in the Internet Age, where trends come and go on a wide scale in a matter of days, we see it rise up more often and spread faster than we are used to though. In previous eras it could take months or years for new words and phrases to catch on. You might have no idea what the latest slang was in the next city over until it got on TV or that new family moved to town.

I remember as a kid watching Back to the Future. In that film, the main character Marty is in highschool in 1984 or something. When he travels back 30(ish) years and meets his older scientist friend Doc Brown from that Era, he uses the phrase "This is heavy." several times. Doc points out he keeps saying it and asks if something has happened with gravity in the 80s. It's just a phrase Marty uses to mean "This is a difficult concept to deal with." The phrase still exists today in 2026. I would say it is wide spread and well known, but not used all that often.

As a kid on the internet, the words we can't say on YouTube and TikTok now were everywhere. You could say "kill" or "die" or "suicide" without restriction. But then a few wealthy or influential people had bad things happen to people they cared about and companies started getting sued. They didn't change the language standards because the government came down on their heads, but because the user base, the customers who paid them, objected to those words in a moral panic. It was a lot like "The Satanic Panic" in my opinion. You can't use those words anymore on YouTube because Google doesn't want to fight legal battles over wether somebody saying "kill the enemy" in a video game review caused a mass shooting at the mall. It's a lot easier to bow to the moral majority on the small things than it is to fight a million little battles.

Another example is shows like Battlestar Galactica and Firefly. Both shows from the early 2010 time wanted to protray "realistic" or "gritty" characters in their own way, but Standards & Practices wouldn't let them. They tried to substitute in other words like "frak" and "gosa" but this was before widespread clip sharing so it never truly caught on. Sure this looks like it comes from the FCC, but ultimately, it was Middle America, or a the wealthy & influential portion, that told them what "the people" wanted.

So I again, I find it annoying but I'm not sure we can place the blame fully on government supression. It's more likely the fault of billionaires.

[plain-flavoured-english]

As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".

So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

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Excuse me???

[ruffboi-mags]

you are right and you should say it.

[instantduckninja]

Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?

Absolutely not

You know who would try that shit?

Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?

You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?

[fluffmugger]

The last thing Penelope's suitors ever see:

[foolsmask]

I haven't read the script, obviously, but I love Jason. He could make an amazing Odysseus if they wrote him to be a bastard the way they should.

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There's a line that goes all the way from my childhood to you

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[orphanedsource]

the place I work at remodeled these split gendered restrooms into “inclusive restrooms” and never told us what they meant while construction was ongoing. I need you to know every atom of potential criticism or whining that could’ve happened disappeared when people found out this meant we got 10 fully separate private bathrooms with sinks inside. I’ve not heard a single person crack a joke about the inclusive signage. this is the world TERFs are trying to steal from you

[revcleo]

This is called a "superloo" and terfs are actively trying to steal this from you, in the UK they changed bathroom regulations to mean new buildings have to prioritise gendered toilets rather than build superloos.

This also upset a lot of architects and designers who like the superloos. They're also typically more like small rooms rather than having doors you can look under.

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