the great paper mountain

aspiring comic artist ! current favorite stories- deltarune, vagabond, how do we relationship, better call saul

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my original comic, "dust" pages 1-8!

link to pages 9-18 below ⬇️

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happy pride month!

i realize its been a little over a year since i started this blog and i'm happy to say my art has actually progressed a bit! i don't have anything to post here really but i am excited to say i will be participating in artfight this year, and i've also made great progress on the prequel series for dust. pictured below is a work in progress reference sheet for dustin's dad. currently, my strengths are anatomy and perspective, and my weaknesses are color, rendering, heads, hands, detailing and composition. im very happy to say i will be improving on all these things as i continue work on the dust prequel, which is on track to be much higher quality in writing and illustration than the one-shot.

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a little sketch i did. i normally dont do fanart but i just love deltarune sm and i wanted to capture how the light world felt to me at the end of chapter 4.

ive also been inspired by utdr fan comics and fan art on this site recently and so i wanna throw my hat in the ring! not necessarily with au's or comics atp but who knows what the future holds.

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pages 9-21 of dust, my original comic!!!

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pages 9-18 of dust, my original comic one-shot

link to pages 19-21 below ⬇️

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10-minute portaits for class

[stoay]

Water boy

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cute😻😻😻😻

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eh.... eh. gotta get stronger...

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How do u. feel abt big women

i love women of all shapes and sizes... i am very passionate about women.

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Is there any true escape?

maybe!

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a little something i did for an art class. main goal was linear perspective. i want to work more on plants and foliage.

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I tried making a WEBTOON account again today; ran into the same problem as last time. I want to upload Dust, but when I've tried to create an account on webtoon it just says "A system error occured. Please try again in a moment." I've tried turning my wifi on and off, reloading the page, etc. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do to get it to work. I guess I'll figure it out eventually. In the meantime, I'll try tapas or globalcomix or something. Who knows at this point.

Anyway, I've been working on this snail for about 2 days and it's been an interesting experience. It's not done, but I'd like to finish it soon and do more color studies like this in the future.

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ho ho ho merry christmas

I've been saying that during winter break I wouldn't do any drawing so that I could recover from working on dust, but I've found that now, when I have nothing better to do, I want to draw. All my friends are busy with family for the holidays, and so I haven't had much else to do besides focusing on myself. It's not like I'm still drawing with all my free time; I'm not even drawing every day (or at least, it doesn't feel like it). Either way, though, it's more than I anticipated. Maybe more than I should be drawing. I have a lot of self-care to catch up on, I can't just draw and play video games all day.

Pictured above is a study I've been doing on and off for a few days. It's so that I can improve the diversity of my faces-- by shape, weight, age, ethnicity, etc. It's something I've wanted to work on for a while now; being able to make faces that are all realistically distinct and identifiable with age, ethnicity, etc. while still being cohesively stylized is a major goal of mine.

You can see I struggle with certain things-- the top lip, the nose at some angles. This study will be continuous and iterative. I'll draw many faces many times like this until I can confidently make any face of any specific person make sense and fit with my style.

I'm gonna upload dust on webtoon, tapas, and probably some other platforms later on. It's completely done at this point. Soon...

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this is page 2 of dust. i'm awake at 3 in the morning thinking about it. i've gotten all 21 pages, as well as the cover page, completely inked. i bought a drawing tablet a few weeks ago and this is my first major foray into doing complete digital work. it's been a lot of trial and error; i feel like i'm throwing myself at a brick wall. i think for my first properly grayscaled comic page, it's not a bad start. i believe as i continue page after page, the quality will improve, the same as when i did penciling and inking. i'm a little uneasy at the prospect of doing this 21 more times, but i have to do it. it'll be done by december 18th at the very latest, but my goal is december 15. once i complete this project, i know that i'll be able to continue making fully realized creative works, mainly in the form of comics.

it's a bit amateurish and rough around the edges, but i can't help feeling some nervous excitement when i look at it.

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october

If I were a better artist, I wouldn't feel guilty that my room is a mess.

I don't say this because I want an excuse to leave my room messy. I'd be unsatisfied with it either way, but what I mean is that I think most truly great artists don't really have their shit together. I want to get home late at night and throw off my work uniform and go straight to my desk to finally put some idea I kept all day onto the paper. To be so enveloped in my creative process that everything falls away for a little while and I can be completely in touch with myself and my passions-- that is art to me. To realize the next morning I stayed up too late and I don't have time to clean my room anymore because I have work again. Certain passions don't fit neatly into capitalism.

There's somebody in my life who I consider a great artist. I won't tell them this, because I don't want to make them think I don't understand the future progress they'll make. Realistically, they're still in the early stages of the path they've chosen, and out of respect for that I won't place them on a pedestal. I've seen the work, though, sat next to them and participated in their process, and I'm taken by it. Watching them work, and seeing the results of their labor, does something to me on a spiritual level. I feel that we were made the same way, and I want to be able to say it openly. To do this, though, I must prove that it's true, lest I compare a less-than-fully-committed hobby with someone's life's work.

I'm taking a comics class this semester. For my final, I want to turn in a complete, fully realized 20 page short story. It will require a lot of labor. My first page took around 5 hours, and would've taken maybe 30 minutes more if I'd finished it. From today, I want to create at least 1 more page of this story per week until it gets closer to the deadline, at which point I should be adequately prepared to do multiple pages a week. The story is called dust, and I will post it online when I'm finished.

I don't know if this can prove to me that I'm the same as that friend I talked about, but either way I think it will bring me closer to that spiritual feeling. That I'm meant to do this.

P.S.-- if my friend is reading this (you probably know who you are) please tell me so I can make an even bigger fool of myself attempting to apologize. Thank you for sparking my passion; hopefully I can keep the fire alive.

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late TwT

im late oh gosh oh man... i didnt post in august im so cooked...

i was gonna post something in august but ended up procrastinating it into early september. I'm a fool. anyway, i have been writing and drawing more, and my creative spark has been relatively consistent. I did an admittedly small amount of studying in august, but some is much better than none. I'll post some of my drawings on here before september 10 to prove it. I'm also going to start posting drawings here more often so I can document something to show, mostly so I dont have to feel like im all bark and no bite. I did a lot of cool stuff in august. Hopefully i can do more and more cool stuff by the end of the year. I want to read more books, play some cool video games, do some volunteering, and make serious progress on one or more creative projects.

Next update will come within 6 days!