Smeggedoff's Scribbles

[kintatsujo]

was randomly thinking abt that ask I got when I reblogged the “make assumptions about me based on my art style” a while ago that was like…. “you read a lot of circa 2002-2006 gaming webcomics when you were younger” and my essential response was “No I was a 2002-2006 era webcomic that’s why there’s some style similarity, I didn’t really read the gamer ones at all” lol 

and it got me going “huh what WERE some of the webcomics I read back then anyway” so here’s an abbreviated list

Obviously there were a number of the ones that are still well known and updating now; Megatokyo and EGS being the main ones I can think of

Alien Dice, which is actually still updating on SpiderForest and which I keep meaning to catch up on (sort of a twisted up mon story)

10K Commotion, a webcomic about DDR that had this sort of cool sloppy style I’ve secretly coveted ever since (but I’d kind of established the style I was heading toward with LOP already so I never did much about it)

Demonology 101, whose creator now works on ATLA comics among other things

Boy Meets Boy, this BL sort of newspaper strip style thing that eventually moved on to Friendly Hostility, and I’m still following the creator here on Tumblr

A number of really weird anime-inspired comics that I didn’t get half the jokes in because I was kind of sheltered, lmao

So many furry comics.  Like tbh I don’t even remember the names of half of them but most of them were slice of life and some of them I’d be batting out of younger-me’s hands because the authors were pieces of shit and I didn’t have the tools at the time to pick up on that =X

also I did a lot of random archive trawls where I’d accidentally lose the comic in some way after hitting the end, oops.  

This is all stuff I basically devoured starting my senior year in high school (2003-2004) because as I noted when I answered the ask in the first place, I didn’t actually realize it was A Whole Thing until certain people were pointing out “hey you could put YOUR comics online”

It’s kind of wild to me how some people take webcomics as a concept more or less for granted these days.

[geordiescrawl]

Ah I remember the 10k commotion too, I found it complete but I read it multiple times. Interesting to know Alien Dice is still going too.

[steven-universe-official-deacti]

Reblog with your very first anime

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Originally posted by timmersdrake

[themoonandaddiction-deactivated]

I don’t remember which one it was but it was one of these three

[pyriteandchaos]

[tracobuttons]

Not even joking!

[d-structive]

Is either this one, “Supūn Obasan” (I don’t know the english name) or Saint Seya. I frankly don’t remember.

[van-arts]

Dudee Doraemon was a very big thing here since I was around 4/5 years old XD

[septicz]

it makes me cry tO THIS VERY DAY

[strawberries-n-bumblebees]

[theuniceon]

[notacreepergamer]

Inuyasha man. I was always jealous of Kagome for being able to touch those lil ears

[authoratmidnight]

I mean, I didn’t know what anime was at the time (I was like uh, 5?) and it was the Dic dub, but this was basically my childhood.

[entamewitchlulu]

of course pokemon and the like were sort of the first, but my first where i was fully aware that i was seeking out anime?

[kintatsujo]

I’m sure this explains a lot

(I’m not old this is what they shoved into the 6 am slot when I was smol)

[geordiescrawl]

[thewatchercleric]

D&D ask meme

1. A favorite character you have played.

2. Your favorite character that someone else has played.

3. Your favorite side quest.

4. Your current campaign.

5. Favorite NPC.

6. Favorite death (monster, player character, NPC, etc).

7. Your favorite downtime activity.

8. Your favorite fight/encounter.

9. Your favorite thing about D&D.

10. Your favorite enemy and the enemy you hate the most.

11. How often do you play and how often would you ideally like to play?

12. Your in game inside jokes/memes/catchphrases and where they came from.

13. Introduce your current party.

14. Introduce any other parties you have played in or DM-ed.

15. Do you have snacks during game times?

16. Do you play online or in person? Which do you prefer?

17. What are some house rules that your group has?

18. Does your party keep any pets?

19. Do you or your party have any dice superstitions?

20. How did you get into D&D? How long have you been playing?

21. Have you ever regretted something your character has done?

22. What color was your first dragon?

23. Do you use premade modules or original campaigns?

24. How much planning/preparation do you do for a game?

For DMs

25. What have your players done that you never could have planned for?

26. What was your favorite scene to write and show your characters.

27. Do you allow homebrew content?

28. How often do you use NPCs in a party?

29. Do you prefer RP heavy sessions or combat sessions?

30. Are your players diplomatic or murder hobos?

For Players

31. What is your favorite class? Favorite race?

32. What role do you like to play the most? (Tank/healer/etc?)

33. How do you write your backstory, or do you even write a backstory?

34. Do you tend pick weapons/spells for being useful or for flavor?

35. How much roleplay do you like to do?

[geordiescrawl]

1. Compendium “Penny” Worblehat, a character from a game in which Nazi Germany invaded Oz and Penny was a library foundling that joined the new Dorothy (a french resistance member) on her journey to rid Oz of the terrible Not-See’s

or possibly Trinket Tinker, a strongheart halfling Artificer from mini-eberron, squire to Violetta the Violent, famous for solving many plots due to the dm forgetting I could sacrifice xp to cast spells beyond my means.

2. Violetta the Violent, a strongheart halfling princess and anti-demon ranger from “mini-eberron” played during a planescape game. Famous for rolling ones while out drinking, and also one rolling a one on her first save from fear against a pit-fiend (causing her to use a rod of ropes to grapple gun up to her hawk companion and fly 5 miles away)

3. A letter was sent to our Dhampir Sorceress asking her to meet a person in a bar, the signed name was of a famous Dhampir bounty hunter, no-one suspected it was a trap. it was hilarious.

4. Currently running a dresden files game set in greece. Currently playing in a custom pathfinder setting, a custom 5e setting, and a dresden files game set in mexico (same world as the greek one)

5. The Simbul, Elminster’s ex-girlfriend

6. A player successfully putting a roc to sleep while it was directly above him... and me (¬.¬)

7. carousing check you say?

8. An encounter from Skull & Shackles in which a hanging corpse suddenly jumped to life, paralysed a party member, used them as a ladder to un-hang themselves, and then ran off into the jungle yelling “freedom!”

9. when ridiculous things produce stories that last for years

10. shocker lizards have a fond place in my blackened heart, and I hate swarms of things.

11. I’m lucky enough to play weekly right now thanks to roll20, I do prefer tabletop in person though.

12. “Do it [unfortunate swear]” came from us taunting our Dm into dropping a pit fiend on us. “Buy the talking moose head” self advertising talking moose head

13. Caterina, Life oracle (formerly Juju until her hordes of undead became too good and she was rebuilt on agreement with the DM) and nicest person you will ever meet. Michael, aasimar void-kineticist like spiderman if he shot gravity lasers, makes everyone want to punch his face repeatedly. Morwenna, dhampir sorcereress, team mom, inventor of the ‘breakfast special’ and general driving force of the current plot. Nyx & Vael, Tiefling spiritualist and phantom of envy, best cook, princess of hell. Jim, not-elf archaeologist, unhealthy obsession with books and traps

14. eesh, too many, such as the shackled city party with a revolving door (lethal campaign, but good), the planescape game with the notable halflings from way above as well as Lunk (half ogre barbarian) and didymus (swashbuckler of some sort).

15. crisps and chocolate usually, or whatever’s cheap during the tesco run.

16. have played both, currently only play online, prefer in person.

17. roll twice and pick highest for hit die, everything else has been grandfathered out by edition changes.

18. currently our spiritualist has adopted an electric squirrel named Ratatoskr, my oracle uses to have a monkey who had a puppy of his own, but they were killed by vampires. Caterina wrote them a strongly worded letter afterwards.

19. Michael is unlikely to roll above 5 in any combat.

20. a friend in high school introduced me to it so like... 17 years?

21. yes, as it lead to out of character arguments, otherwise, not so much, I can take my lumps.

22. blue.

23. I tend to run pre-made modules because I suck at planning, my Dm’s all run their own stuff though.

24. bare minimum.

For DMs

25. nothing springs to mind, I run modules so my players tend to be more or less well behaved.

26. sadly don’t write my own scenes (for d&d), I did enjoy springing a still-living Heracles on my players after most of them had become determined that a resident ghost was Herc, their reactions were priceless.

27. not usually

28. when the modules call for it or if no-one in the party wants to play a healer, Sister Charlotte Benedicta, valley-girl cleric in her hot-pink full plate with her pump-action crossbow will be remembered

29. combat personally

30. kind of a mix

For Players

31. artificer love those spreadsheets, race is variable, maybe tieflings

32. dps

33. I usually use the giantp 5-min backstory for forum games, but I tend to wing it for roll20 games and flesh it out as I go

34. being useful

35. depends on the mood I’m in and the medium, voice almsot none, chat quite a bit, forum posts some but not a lot due to the finicky format

[geordiescrawl]

Behold! the glove puppets my Bard made of our other party members, because facilitating making fun of other party members, that’s a good use of time and money

[transhinsou-deactivated20181204]

me: [hasn’t got nearly enough skills to draw characters consistently]

me: [still can’t draw backgrounds]

me: [can’t finish projects to save my own life]

also me: i wanna make a webcomic

[kintatsujo]

Lissen Frond

You make that webcomic

I don’t care if you give up after ten pages

I don’t care if you give up after five

you gave it a shot and that’s the important thing

And if you DON’T give up

You’ve given yourself a REASON to learn to draw characters consistently 

You’ve given yourself a REASON to learn how to do backgrounds (my advice as a webcomic artist who didn’t used to put backgrounds on anything: References and floor plans)

You WILL IMPROVE as an artist even if all that happens is that you manage to draw the main character the same way or you finally figure out a ¾ camera angle. 

Making a webcomic is one of the best things you can do for yourself as an artist as long as you keep remembering to have fun

Go forth

Make that webcomic

[geordiescrawl]

Second. I’ve read before that drawing a webcomic is like steroids for your art. Probably one of the most encouraging things you can do for yourself is to take a look at the first page of a long-running comic like say, gunnerkrigg court, and then the latest page.

[ryuutales]

Reblog if you’re a self-taught artist!

I’m curious ^^

[geordiescrawl]

An updated picture of ZZ from the D20modern game I’m in, ZZ now has two whole levels of Technomage and has a bit more magical heft

[geordiescrawl]

Still refining the design, what can I say I find drawing Gula really fun, and drawing is practice right?

[geordiescrawl]

Gula again, though due to the manifestation of her power being her cure Pakuriana-kun, I changed her surname to Di Mare.

But the curse strikes again as the character’s power-set got denied as written, this is why you draw character art after the game begins Geordie, duh.

She ended up a little curvier than before and it was only partially intentional, oh well.

[geordiescrawl]

Gula Barton, a mage for a Fairy Tail game a friend is planning to run, tried to do some new stuff, not all of it worked out, but c’est la vie.

Gula use Gourmet Magic, allowing her to chow down on the spells of other mages

[geordiescrawl]

I decided to rework some stuff like the lineart, the hair, the terrible space layer etc.

[geordiescrawl]

Some friends and I were messing around with the random generation in the newest edition of magical burst and mine resulted in Universal Diva Cutie Nagisa. Nagisa things being a girl is a burden, her journey started when a huge sinkhole opened in town and she gained the powers of sadness and donned the Red Concerto outfit. Her fondest wish is to become the worlds greatest singer and she battles Youma with her universal Ribbon to achieve this.

As usual critique would be appreciated, especially on colour palette. 

[geordiescrawl]

So this is my character ZZ fro ma D20Modern game. She’s a human(ish) ‘wizard’ from the dungeons and dragons dimension who’s been adjusting to modern life for oh, about three weeks now.

Wizard is in quotes because she’s currently mainly bluffing it with three cantrips a day due to most (read almost all) of her power and memories being leeched by the dimensional journey.

She spends most of her time hanging around the living room watching cartoons and eating pop-tarts and depleting our flatmates stash of twizzlers.

She recently started making enough money to buy clothing from this dimension. Her choice of fashion is... questionable.

But anyway, I wanted to try out a new pose this time, I think the feet are a little off but I’m happy with the finger-snap. The last two were mainly messing around with colour palettes and blending

[geordiescrawl]

Kaguya Irome! Again! This is about 40% the same image as the last one but I essentially redrew the bottom half.

The Impetus for this change is some commentary from my flatmate about the legs, leading to me realising a youngish character shouldn’t have bangin’ hips, then I went and looked at some Naruto characters (Ino, Sakura, and Tenten primarily) and realised that Kishimoto girls have really tiny pins!

So since I was going for an emulation of his style, here we are :)

I’m pretty happy with this overall, even after having to redraw the feet.

Whaddya think?

[geordiescrawl]

as promised, now with colour. I also tweaked some things.

edit: A friend commented the hairline might be a bit high so obviously I went a bit overboard and it all got a bit... card game anime. Still, I kind of like it, maybe without the braids though. hmm.

edit edit: much different this time, sort of. tryin a different hairstyle, colour, lightened the skin tone a bit, messed with the teeth a leeeeeeeetle bit. hmm.

Suggestions? Critique?

[geordiescrawl]

Woo, sudden influx of inspiration in the form of another M&M naruto game recruiting so here’s Kaguya Irome in her new “a little less obviously ninja Jinx” edition. Featuring her new rib karambit style ‘Honesuki’ (a type of japanese boning knife) used as hair decorations and her ‘Daitaito’ (lit Hip sword. I hope. You know how these google translate things go, prolly means wax elf or something).

Oh, and I actually tried to ape the Kishimoto style with this one, how did I do?

Gonna try and colour this tonight or tomorrow (early night due to 5am start, boo) so look forward to that.

[geordiescrawl]

Trying to get out of this funk and post more. I figger a non-terribad way to start that is to post some unfinished stuff. mo’ content is mo’ content amirite?

Anyway, this is Zee, who is pretty much my go-to character for anything 40k. In this incarnation (from about a year and 3 games ago) she’s a khornate who actually started out as a tzeenchian sniper iirc. 

honestly I planned to touch this up and maybe finish it, but I can’t make heads nor tails of the layers (label your stuff kids)