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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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!

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:p

looks like my autosave from last night got deleted, so this post will be a little more brief than originally intended.

some things are happening in my personal life right now that will be taking up most of my attention until they're resolved (or at least partially resolved). During this time, im not going to be in a headspace where i want to prioritize things like artfight. I'll finish my 1 attack and ill half ass a ref image for my artist sona but I want to affirm to myself that it's fine to set these things aside when shit hits the fan.

Other than that, I want to start drawing and writing daily. Daily practice is something I've never taken seriously, but recently I've realized that reaching my goals and working on comics is not viable if i can't draw every day (not just once or twice a week when i feel like it). I'll start by drawing and writing every other day-- if i only write on one day, i'll pressure myself only to draw the next day, and vice versa. if i do both, great. i'll see how this goes and if i need to change my approach. My method for this starts today-- i wrote a poem yesterday, so i'll draw today. I'll post an update next month on how this is going, and on any modifications i'll inevitably have made to the routine.