I have never been wise

Header gif by ainokiseki Maddi. INFP. She/hers. Really queer, really nerdy illustrator. My art blog is suchbluesky. I have a fascination with birds and wings. I draw a lot.I tag personal posts with "don't mind me".

[wovi]

[taydivorce]

*reading tarot* ouch! ten of swords. you mustve gotten stabbed a bunch of times recently

[taydivorce]

*flips next card over* by the devil

[gvalesdraws]

picture "raimond davinos' genes never stood a chance"

[hannibalsjuicyass]

Scariest kitchen thing

Kitchen knife

Oven

Stove

Vegetable Peeler

Vegetable chopper (the kind you slam shut and the pieces all drop into a tub)

Vegetable slicer (same as above but for slicing)

Blender

Garbage disposal

Electric skillet

Somethin else

Voting ended onMar 10

[mynameismad]

I've been getting back into comics while I wait for more info from my concept job, and I thought I'd make a post about something very important to me, which is COMIC PANEL VARIATION and HOW TO THINK ABOUT IT.

Also, yes, before you ask, these rules can absolutely be broken. I strategically break them to create a noticeable shift or flow in the storytelling, like so:

You can also probably make your own set of 5 IN 5 rules! I like to draw facial expressions and backgrounds and hands (like a masochist), so my 5 in 5 is definitely geared towards that. If you like to make more quiet, introspective comics, you could throw in a panel with NO DIALOGUE every 5 pages, or a mood panel with no characters, for example!

[ngoziu]

Oh my God, Mad is updating us with more comic paneling insights and advice???

I’ve handed that first slide alone to dozens of sequential art students over the years and have used it to diversify my page layouts. And that new bit about making your own “5 in 5 rules” is also profound. Thanks for this, mad!

[havingapoemwithyou]

Worm Moon by Mary Oliver

[girljeremystrong]

ever since i was a little girl i've been mad as hell

[sewer-swan]

robin hobb is one of my favourite fantasy authors for her portrayals of how social edifices can absorb people and twist them beyond the ability to perceive the truth. even fine people, and even protagonists. she's also fantastic with human interconnectednes and the ways people live within fear and neglect and loneliness. her work seems to utilize every human secret that other writers consider too tedious, too distasteful, too harmful to agency, and she spins gold out of it.

[sewer-swan]

yes. you love robin hobb.

[babylon5-deletingsoon]

maybe i like it when a female character is deeply flawed and responsible for countless deaths and so on and so forth. more female characters should be deeply flawed and responsible for countless deaths

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

ttrpg games are insane and make you insane in ways that are fundamental and irreparable. sometimes the best piece of fiction you will ever experience will happen to you and your friends over two to five years of your life. it will be your work and their work and yet somehow exist between and beyond you all. there will only be like three or five of you in the room and nobody else will ever be able to experience this in the way you did. it will be ephemeral and immediate and it will occasionally make you feel so bad you see hell. fuck. what a concept

[suchbluesky]

Revisiting this fanart of mine from ages ago. These fools.

[mage-rites]

gotta finish fools fate reread and then start making fanart again

year of robin hobb rereads. it’s excellent

[mage-rites]

111 grams of homegrown Japanese indigo. yay!

[suchbluesky]

Burn my tomorrows.

this illustration started in like. 2019 when I approached illustration so differently than I do now and I never considered it finished enough. found it in my files because I got nostalgic for Bee and Assassin’s Fate and decided that I gotta post it somewhere.

[efoxgirl]

It's get killed with swords monday

[throwingmenthols-deactivated202]

“denied the catharsis of punishment” is an underappreciated but hugely effective narrative consequence imo 

[unabashedlyseveresandwich]

#it’s so tasty and it comes in so many flavors#does the character self-loathe and feel anguished by what others intended as an act of forgiveness and grace?#does the character know they need to change but sort of madly wish they could trade the unceasing exhausting improvement journey#for a flash bang of slate-clearing repentance so they don’t have to *think* about it anymore?#is is a creeping horror as the character realizes no one is going to punish them because everyone else still thinks what they did was okay?#does the character have to live the rest of their life just feeling ever so slightly untrusted by everyone with no way to stop it?#sorry for leaving pretentious tags on tumblr dot com it will happen again 

Peer-reviewed tags by @annabelle–cane

[hotelcrying]

https://stopproject2025comic.org/

[ladytuarach]

This is amazing !!!