Where My Furries Who FW Historical Fiction 23 - she/her/it/its This is my art blog :) Mostly drawings, but sometimes there will be writing or edits or possibly even something else
idk if this is quite what i want it to be & i might try it again some other time but illustration for another one of my dream stories
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and the story, which is not my favorite from the collection but whatever. its a dream converted into a short story (extremely short, in this case) so it doesnt make a huge amount of sense
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I remember seeing a fish so big it scared me.
I only saw the shadow, of course, lurking just under the surface of the murky water beneath the bridge. It seemed impossibly big for something passing through a little New Jersey college campus. It seemed like a sea monster.
I staggered after my neighbor, a brace on each leg preventing me from keeping by his side. I don't think he entirely knew who I was, or maybe he did and he just didn't want to be associated with someone who wasn't quite as cool. He walked just a stride ahead of me, sometimes matching my pace, sometimes hurrying forward with an uncomfortable glance over his shoulder. I don't know why I was so determined to keep up with him. I suppose I just didn't want to walk back to the dorm building by myself.
He slowed down after a while; maybe he felt bad seeing me hobbling along trying to keep up. We walked side by side and we chatted. We hadn't really talked before, but we'd seen each other around plenty; we lived right across the hall from each other. My legs ached as we started up the gentle arch of the bridge. A group of guys stood by the rail at the top, laughing and joking around and talking about fishing. I thought about the fish.
"I saw a fish so big it scared me once," I said as we walked inside. It was dark and cool in the lobby of the building, a nice contrast from the hot sun that had been beating down on us.
"Well, haven't most people?"
"It was like..." I thought about the fish, and suddenly I couldn't remember how big it had been. A few feet? Several? As big as a car? As a bus? I could see the shadow in my mind, passing ominously under the surface of the water, but I couldn't place it in an environment. To tell you the truth, I couldn't even quite recall where I'd seen it. I could see its silhouette, long and broad, with a snout like an alligator's, twisting and gliding through murky green. It swam behind my eyes and I swam before it, absolutely nowhere.
I returned from my mind to find myself alone in the lobby, my neighbor having slipped away while I was lost in thought. I suppose it didn't matter how big the fish had been anyhow.
Ooooh new comic I’m working on that I suddenly decided to make so we’ll see how it goes and also idk how long this is going to be, but I’m very into phm and ironlung rn so um. 😁 Under the cut some close ups!
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
can we appreciate how difficult it is to share writing. it asks of people the monumental task of taking the time and effort to read something, and then by nature anybody who does read it must spend more time looking over it than they might a drawing which makes it feel much more daunting to share in my opinion, and knowing somebody is becoming intimate with every little grammatical error and clumsy sentence structure your naked soul has to offer is still somehow preferable to being ignored, which tends to be the more likely outcome
like its not just difficult in the sense that its scary and embarrassing. its also difficult in the sense that its way harder to actually share it with people than a picture they can just look at quickly because it requires them to do the work of receiving it. Your Writer Friends Are Brave And You Should Appreciate That
I’ll never understand why anthropomorphic animal cartoons like Robin Hood and Zootopia will go to the trouble of creating character designs that are meant to be understood as “attractive” or even “sexy” to the human audience but explicitly avoid showing interspecies romances between anthropomorphic animals. Why is THAT weird but, like, trying to make rabbits recognizably sexy-coded to humans isn’t?
Sometimes, sure, but why was Maid Marian a fox in Robin Hood? There wasn’t anything particularly “foxlike” about her personality, and it would make more sense for her to be a lion. They made her a fox only because Robin was a fox and making her something else would be “weird”, but I don’t think the wolf cop or the chicken maid or the lion prince were actually meant to represent race.
The best inter species couple is Kermit and Miss Piggy as the Cratchits in A Muppet Christmas Carol, because all their sons are frogs and all their daughters are pigs, as God clearly intended.
In which Captain Amelia (left), an extra terrestrial anthropomorphic cat, had hybrid babies with Doctor Doppler (middle), an extra terrestrial anthropomorphic dog, whom also gave birth to the babies
I always thought that in muppet movies like muppet Christmas Carol the characters are played by the muppets (so kermit is acting and playing the role of Bob rather than being him) so the kids in that film would just be other acting muppets right?
Happy Valentine's Day to the little guy who's lived in my head through high school and college, waiting for me to put his story together.
Leans in to whisper He wasn't even a cat when I first thought him up. He was just some little Mexican guy from 1954. Literally nothing has changed except for his species bruh
(Close-ups under the cut!)
On god I will get better at scanning my photos. I guess I'll just have to post him again oh nooooo
✦ REPORT FORM, < download >. a simple promo or graphic template. it's a police incident report form. sized 540x740px; you can use any font and write whatever you want.
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