Inimeitiel

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Hello new followers and welcome!

This is sadly just a side blog so I’m following mutuals back with my main (its-inimeitiel) which is inactive and probably full of embarrassing old stuff.

I’m a little inactive due to work rn but I’ll be back with posting soon.

Thank you so much for your support!

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Mysterious huge off putting baddie I think I pulled by being cheerful and a very good hunter 🥰

@ivanhoenineteenninetyfour

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Mysterious huge off putting baddie I think I pulled by being cheerful and a very good hunter 🥰

@ivanhoenineteenninetyfour

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Congrats on your new comic and good luck with the tour! I was wondering if you already know whether youre doing tours in other places too? Hi from vienna :)

Hello and thank you! We’ll probably be somewhere else in autumn but I think after this one and another couple things in Italy we’re pretty much done until the end of summer.

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I recently bought a copy of Rebis and there's three things I'd like to share!

1. I recognized the art style as soon as I picked it up from the shelf, before I even saw the names on the cover and that got me very excited. People from The Internet, found in my local bookstore?? Wild.

2. It's gorgeous, it's so good, it's a beautiful story wrapped in beautiful artwork and it greatly inspires me to make my own first comic - thank you both for making it.

3. This is the third time in a row that I picked up a graphic novel for the gorgeous art and it ended up containing a story about transness - which I'm sure says nothing about me or my upcoming appointment at the gender clinic 😂❤️

Hello and thank you for your words ♥️

1. Amazing ahaha. I think of myself as an internet artist because that’s honestly like the background of my whole generation of peers but surprisingly enough I’ve discovered I am also People from the Bookstore to some that find my accounts after buying my books ahaha

2. Thank you so much for liking our story, it’s great to know it is so inspiring ♥️

3. Heheh must be signs from the universe 🧎🏻‍♀️

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Is Rebis a trans girl? She's very beautiful.

She is indeed a trans girl. Thank you! ♥️

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Heyooooo!!! Would you ever do another dtiys? Just discovered your old one and would looooove to take part if you ever do another one❤️ I loved seeing everyone else’s renditions!!

Hello!

Ehhh I don’t think I will (in the foreseeable future at least) because idk, I feel like dtiys where something that worked back then but wouldn’t in the internet art community of today.

If you ever want to draw any of my (or mine and Irene’s) characters feel free to though! I’m always really happy to receive fanarts 🙏🏻

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Rebis and Elia

I share them with @ivanhoenineteenninetyfour

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Hi! I’ve been such a fan of your work since my uni days a few years ago and reading that you wanted to be an animator feels so relatable. I went through that path and while I found enough jobs I recently realized I really don’t like it and would rather pursue illustration and comics.

I wanted to ask, if you don’t mind, what format do you use for your panelings? I have CSP and the last time I tried it for a job it was a mess because I don’t really understand the sizes for comics ans it was so heavy.

I’m so afraid to start over at 26 even with experience in arts but your work is so passionate that it inspires me to try and do my own thing too.

Thank you!

Thank you so much for your kind words. It’s always nice to hear people understanding what they really want to do with their art. It’s literally the only art advice I believe fully: do what makes you feel comfortable. It doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t challenge yourself and your skills, just not forcing yourself into something that’s not “yours” and gives you more headaches than satisfaction.

To me anything with an a4 setting and 600dpi resolution works fine for comics. The standard file I use was given to me by my publisher and is 4087x5811 px. Color profile should be cmyk if you’re going to print your work and rgb if it’s for online publication. I’m not really an expert in these technical areas so I’m sorry if this isn’t the most detailed of answers.

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Rebis and Elia

I share them with @ivanhoenineteenninetyfour

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Wait I just noticed scars in Elia’s hands….. are those from… previous attempts?</3

Hello, no those are just scars on his hands coming from his way of life. He’s cutting his left ring finger specifically and its the first and only attempt.

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Hiya! I’ve loved your art your years💕 Your style is so beautiful and impressive, not only bc of your impeccable style but how you seem to be able to draw almost anything!

Do you have any advice for drawing things you’ve never seen before? For example, I live in a tiny city island and unless I leave the country I’ll never be able to experience a forest, or fields, meadows or animals in nature… but I really want to be able to depict them in my art and tells stories… so I’m really curious about your process! Thank you so much for sharing your work, it always brightens my day!!<3

Hello! Thank you so much for your kind message ♥️

I understand your concern and the only thing I can tell you is that thankfully we live in a world where the internet has made almost anything accessible. We can watch documentaries, movies, read about other people’s experiences and feelings about places that are unknown to us and empathise with them even without experiencing it first hand. Of course we’re better suited to best tell what we know personally but I don’t think it’s a problem if we don’t!

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Thank you for sharing the story about your art journey, it’s really… grounding in a way, and somewhat relatable. Even though you didn’t end up going down the animation path (me too girl, looking at my peers exhausts me already😅) do you still practice animation on your own? Would you ever post them?👀

I never got to the actual step of animating anything and I kinda lost interest in the wish to try during the years. So no, I don’t practice and I have nothing to show sadly haha

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Hiii, I love your artistyle and I was wondering if you have any tips for how you choose colors for your illustrations? Both your comics have beautiful colored envoriments (especially when they are affected by fire lightning) so I was wondering how you archive that harmony in your art. Thank you 💞

Hello! Thank you so much for your kind words.

My process with colouring is actually quite simple: a layer for flats, one for shadow and one for light. What changes is the colours of light and shadow that are mostly chosen by instinct.

I can recommend two books about colouring that might be helpful to understand better because there’s really a lot to say and I don’t think I’m the best at explaining:

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May we know more of Elia? I know he's not your oc but maybe his creator can tell us something? Pretty please? He seems very interesting

Elia is actually also my oc, I share him with @ivanhoenineteenninetyfour and we created his story together.

I’d love to tell more but depends on what kind of questions you had in mind because it’s a story we’d love to develop into a proper published comic in the future so anything could be a spoiler. So if you have any specific question about him feel free to ask and I’ll see if it can be answered!

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Elia tried in many occasions to get rid of the looming darkness following him all his life, maybe this time he will succeed.

These are 8 pages I made for fun based on a prose script @ivanhoenineteenninetyfour wrote last year about our character. I rarely post full comic pages so I hope that you will like them.

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Did you ever consider a career in other art avenues? Like storyboarding or animation haha, or was being a comic artist always your goal?

Yes, I was pretty sure I wanted to be an animator.

So sure that while I was finishing high school I was also trying to get ready to go study in Canada, but for a number of reasons (mostly bureaucracy and the fact that I’d have a gap year and didn’t want to) I decided to try comics at least for a year. I liked it more than expected, learnt more and more about the animation field and understood that maybe it was better like that for me. So stayed in comic school until the end of the whole course and luckily had a cartoonist job before it ended.

I contemplated the concept art career but understood I could actually do the kind of concept art I was interested in without a degree (more stylised character design and generally stuff that doesn’t require strong digital painting skills). Glad this became a side job because friends who are in it have it worse with ai than any kind of artist I know and it really sucks. Also contemplated illustration while I was still in school but luckily comics gave me enough skills to be able to work in that field without properly studying for it. I’m not the best but it’s enough for cover art jobs.

All in all I think visual art is kind of “intersectional” and the rims of each field are blurred and fused to the rims of the other…don’t know if that makes sense.

Comics gave me the means to see my characters moving into their story, and that was what I wanted the most. So while I was unsure at first, even after ups and downs (very low downs believe me), I now think they’re the best decision I made. 🥲