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↑ A thumbnail of a panel for my non-series of Starfire/Red X comics I never mean to continue but seem to do anyway. I’m posting this super quick thing to get it out of my system (too busy right now), but there’s a rough script done for this (non-)installment so I’ll remember it.

There’s bonus stuff and commentary on the tag itself, but here’s the main (non) continuity:

If there are missing parts, check out this post on Patreon (free to read). A lot was deleted with the tumblr purge so lots of nudity was removed.

Order of events:

The Lesson (Comic)

Can’t Sleep Love (Comic)

Must Be Dreaming (Comic) [NSFW-ish?]

Lighting (Comic)

I Like You (Comic; made after/inspired by Special Delivery but takes place before it.) [NSFW]

Special Delivery - A drabble written by Kryallaorchid, inspired by this post’s pic/upcoming comic! 8)

The Date (Pic)

Earthquake (Comic)

Need (Comic) [NSFW] Deleted from tumblr; Compiled in PDF on Patreon↗️

Give Me Fever (Comic) [NSFW-ish?]

New Year’s Kiss (Comic)

Laundry (Comic) [NSFW-ish?]

Stay (Pic) Deleted from tumblr; Compiled in PDF on Patreon↗️

Dime Que No - Written by encontrasuya

His T-Shirt - Starfire sketches from encontrasuya‘s Dime Que No Deleted from tumblr; Compiled in PDF on Patreon↗️

The Death of Him - A shot of Starfire from encontrasuya‘s Dime Que No [NSFW] Deleted from tumblr; Compiled in PDF on Patreon↗️

Sleep (Comic)

I Love You (Comic) [NSFW] Deleted from tumblr; Compiled in PDF on Patreon↗️

I’ll See You (Comic)

It Was So Obvious, page 1 (Comic - cowritten by pg-chan)

Will He (Comic)

A Moment With You (Pic)

You Are Damaged! (Comic - cowritten by PG-chan)

Throwing Words Back (Comic)

Women Like You (Comic)

X = 8===> !!! (Comic/pic only)

X = 8===>!!! (Story and pic)

No Gloves (Comic) [NSFW-ish?]

Our Ship (Comic)

Costumes, 10 years later (Pic)

(or if you’re curious) Order of posting:

The Lesson (Comic)

Must Be Dreaming (Comic) [NSFW-ish?]

A Moment With You (Pic)

You Are Damaged! (Comic - cowritten by PG-chan)

Lighting (Comic)

Special Delivery - A drabble written by Kryallaorchid, inspired by this pic/upcoming comic! 8)

I Like You (Comic; made after/inspired by Special Delivery but takes place before it.) [NSFW]

Laundry (Comic) [NSFW-ish?]

The Date (Pic)

No Gloves (Comic) [NSFW-ish?]

Earthquake (Comic)

Dime Que No - Written by encontrasuya

His T-Shirt - Starfire sketches from encontrasuya‘s Dime Que No Deleted from tumblr Compiled in PDF on Patreon↗️

The Death of Him - A shot of Starfire from encontrasuya's Dime Que No [NSFW] Deleted from tumblr; Compiled in PDF on Patreon↗️

Our Ship (Comic)

Women Like You (Comic)

New Year’s Kiss (Comic)

Give Me Fever (Comic) [NSFW-ish?]

Sleep (Comic)

X = 8===> !!! (Comic/pic only)

I Love You (Comic) [NSFW] Deleted from tumblr; Compiled in PDF on Patreon↗️

Stay (Pic) Deleted from tumblr Compiled in PDF on Patreon↗️

Costumes, 10 years later (Pic)

X = 8===>!!! (Story and pic)

Need (Comic) [NSFW]

It Was So Obvious, page 1 (Comic - Cowritten by pg-chan)

Throwing Words Back (Comic) Post-Tumblr Purge:

I’ll See You (Comic)

Can’t Sleep Love (Comic)

Will He (Comic)

pinkuchama

(SORRY if you just saw this, I forgot a comic!)

Been hanging onto this because it’s so tedious/ difficult to edit on mobile; should be (finally) updated now so you can read things even if they were deleted from tumblr 🙃

#The Nonseries #starx #comics #masterpost

What Am I Up To?

I was tagged by @mistresslrigtar ! Trying to sleep, let’s do this.

Currently Reading: White: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau - The western cultural history of the color white. Did you know that the concept of white = blank wasn’t a concept until the advent of the printing press? Love his series, I have all of the English translated color books.

Last Film: This Woman is Dangerous (1952), starring Joan Crawford. A lady gangster who is going blind seeks surgery and redemption for her crimes, it was all right. 😅 Don’t date your surgeon like this movie suggests, that’s really unethical.

Last Show: The Ranma 1/2 remake on Netflix 🤍

Last Song: Tonight by Luna Sea. RIP Shinya 🙁

Coffee or Tea: Both. I literally order both together.

Sweet or Salty: Salty a f!! Oh, but chocolate and ice cream get a pass.

Currently Working On: I’m relearning how to draw, and it’s… a lot. Kry’s next book cover. A bunch of NSFW comics to actually get to the look of comics I want to make (lol I wanna make weeb style comics 🤣), a bunch of traditional stuff, my Inuyasha fanfic (I am!!), a certain number of animal paintings (traditional media) I do every year for the same commissioner, my editorial Illustration style. I’m doing it all. Sorry I don’t really post right now. I’ve barely inhabited my studio/office in the last nine years, and I’m trying to come back. Very sleep deprived, I have to watch it.

I truly did forget how to draw as comfortably as when my kids were first born but I’m much more intentional now! My knowledge never went away but the practice did. Idk if there even is a career out there for me to return to anymore thanks to AI but it’s just wrong that I haven’t really drawn much. AI won’t take that from me and I almost let it. Almost quit art, it was rough for a while.

I don’t wanna tag anyone, please consider yourself tagged if you see this. Idk if most of my followers are even on tumblr anymore, since I never looked at the count (and still won’t). 🤣

#meme #art rant

chechula

honestly, it seems that for most of the people is digital drawing much quicker than traditional? How is that possible? When you can constantly erase/change brushes etc! I am so overwhelmed by possibilities…

while at traditional drawing- once I can’t erase anymore….then you have to work with whatever you have :3

lucybellwood

Newer artists often ask me about drawing traditionally with this horror in their eyes like "What do you do if you make a mistake???"

Meanwhile I'm over here going "How do you live if the system you're using operates on the false promise of attainable perfection???"

#it’s okay to mix them #and maybe everyone should at least once #digital is great bc you can control every pixel but it takes a LOT of work to imitate the nuance of traditional #as traditional marks just fall out of my hands and the imperfection is perfect #the synthetic taper of the digital like is very frustrating when trad media is intuitive and immediate #art rant #ahhhh I should take out my gouache and pens

Okay-- do I still remember how to be a fangirl?

#the legend of zelda #link #totk #botw #loz au

I've been aggressively getting used to drawing once more, and it feels like learning how to walk again sometimes (oh my GOD drawing the Master Sword is tedious 😆)

#the legend of zelda #botw #totk #link #loz au

allthingswhumpyandangsty

yes, I’d love for my ship to be canon too, but I feel like fandom culture today focuses too much on “my ship must be canon or else I will be a bitch and harass people about it” energy that we’ve lost the main point of shipping two fictional characters together, why we do it in the first place, which is that it’s fun. it brings us comfort and joy. and even if the ship isn’t canon, we have fan contents, so many amazing fan art and fanfics. you can create whatever you want about them. make them kiss. make them yearn for each other. make them confess their love under the rain.

“but it’s not canon” THEY ARE ALREADY FICTION. canon or not. they are a fragment of imagination forged by their canon creators, meaning YOU can create your own art about them too.

canon = art made by canon creators, they created it, it’s out there, it exists, it’s valid.

fan contents = art made by you, you created it, it’s out there, it exists, it’s just as valid.

#lol this is the blog this post really needs to be on #I should pin it lol #fandumb #art rant

Ugh, I miss fanart! I'm still constantly staring at all my favorite projects. Every fan project I've worked on still manages to haunt me 😆

Honestly thought I forgot how to draw for a while, because it seemed like my skills dipped, but life was just severely stressful. This entire year sucked ass. Things have at least leveled out-- it only took eleven goddamned months, lol.

#diary #artist life #ZELINK AND STARX ON THE BRAIN #A LITTLE INUKAGO TOO TBF #go tO BED STUPID

felixfeliccis

Art challenge where you have to finish what you're making

felixfeliccis

Obssesed with this comment

#crying #artist life

mortalityplays

the whole point of a zine is that it's cheap to produce, amateur and homemade. if you're being asked to apply to participate in a print project, it is not a zine. if the final product is being printed and bound professionally, it is not a zine. if you are being asked to enter into any kind of licensing agreement more complex than "my work can be reproduced as part of this publication" it is not a zine. nine times put of ten if the final product costs more than $5 you have left zine country. im so serious about this.

mortalityplays

this isn't snobby gatekeeping or imaginary semantic problems or whatever, this is an issue that has come up irl at cons and zine fairs local to me and which keeps coming up online. people who show up to trade fairs selling professionally printed $15 anthologies as 'zines' have a direct impact on the people trying to sell their $3 chapbooks at the next table over. submission based kickstarter projects that bill themselves as 'zines' exploit the connotations of amateur, punk production values to induce creators to work for less and eschew formal guarantees and protections they are entitled to.

leog4u

my favorite zines have all been $1 or free and printed on highlighter paper. i used to pick em up from a book store in chelsea that sold predominantly self published work, and had sections for zines. Some were about how to eat cheap in the city when most of your paycheck went to rent, others were talking about the best drag performances in town, and plenty of DIY stuff. all of them had the same unique quality: nobody but the author and their collaborators could've made this, and they wanted to make it easily accessible to the community

i kinda hate that the word that was used for extremely personal and cheap works is applied to essentially art books of your favorite anime OTP

mortalityplays

hi! sorry, real quick:

grab a piece of paper and fold it in half like a book

write "im indifferent to zines" on the cover

write "i've never been able to buy one" on the first page

write "and i'll never be in one" on the second page

write "just want to be a hater today" on the back

congrats you're in a zine! if you like you can photocopy it and sell it to art students, fellow haters, or anyone with a sense of humour. I'll buy one.

theliltchirurgeon

ive been saying this since 2015! all my illustrator friends kept submitting to them (and gettin in which i was proud of) but they... werent zines. they were like massive books with grandiose color schemes and gilded bossing. i couldnt afford them even. zines are oft free or traded and they arent about how pretty a picture you can make.

the first zine idea i found was in a book i checked out from the library (id never remember what it was. it was about cartooning i think and had a section about chibi style lol) that had a little section on taking one sheet of paper, marking it into eighths, cutting a line in the center of the page and folding it over for a quick eight pages. like this

this makes printing soooo easy too. id love to see these floating around places

iwanttodance

So I scrolled past this post and was thinking the same thought I always do when I see people talking about zines, which is basically ‘zines are so cool, I’ve never made one because I don’t think I have anything interesting to say in one, but I should make a zine someday if I ever have creative energy again’ and then it gets added to my ever growing mental list of things I want to do but don’t end up doing (I have spent the last several years struggling so hard with my depression that I can’t seam to create anything at all)

And then I thought, hey I have a piece of paper by my desk I should at least follow that diagram and fold it, that way I’m halfway there even if it’s blank and sits on my desk for months, and then 5 minutes later I had this:

Now I’m just holding this little thing I’ve made in my hands and I love it so much

So thank you to this post for inspiring me to make something today! Even if it’s just a simple silly little thing I’m going to treasure it

relevant-wikipedia-articles

molotovblogtail

Amazing! Not only did I not know to correct pronunciation of 'zine', but I also had no idea that they connect black history, political activism, the origins of the Kirk/Spock ship, and feminism. Such a powerful force in history these little homemade magazines.

smiirp

There is great info about zine making here but… OPs definition of “zine” is just… unnecessarily restrictive and outright wrong ... Zines HAVE ALWAYS included the full range of publications from 8-page sheets that get photocopied to full colour fanart collections. The term zine derives from “fanzine”. The first fanzines were collections of amateur sci fi art and writing. Sure, zines encompass a much wider array of publications now, but that does not mean we change the definition to cut out what we deem to be too “professional.” (Also hint: something being classified as a zine has less to do with how it’s printed and more to do with who it is published by and how it is circulated. But you have to first understand that there is a distinction between printing and publication to grasp this.)

A zine does not have to be made by only a few authors, or DIY, or sold for under $15 to be classified as a zine. Zines are their own medium with their own unique history and their own diverse ecosystem, why would you want to strip that complexity away? You can inspire people to make their own and inform them how to do it without bowdlerizing the whole form and bulldozing over all the connections between the different groups and purposes zines have served and continue to serve.

mortalityplays

thanks for the bad faith reading. you're wrong, btw.

I aready said this isn't a semantic thing, but you if you really want to go there: 'zine' is a shortening of fanzine or magazine and the concept of a 'fanzine' itself is directly derived from a style of independently published magazine that has roots at least as far back as the Harlem Renaissance and arguably the political pamphleteering of the french and american revolutions. but the actual point I was making is that the entire ethos of zine making originates in an effort to broaden access to publication, and we are losing that.

am I saying nobody ever slapped a $20 cover price on a zine before the 2020s? no! am I saying no influential underground publication has ever made the crossing into fully fledged magazine? no! am I saying I will come to your house and punch your teeth in personally if you use the word zine in a way I find objectionable? no! I'm saying the trajectory of commercialisation, professionalisation and lost knowledge is not only stripping foundational meaning from the form but directly harms the viability of low-overhead zine production. just look through the notes of this post for dozens of people saying they'd never heard of the homemade zine before this post, that they'd been burned by high production 'zine' projects and soured on the whole concept as a result. no equivocation: this shit is killing the medium.

but hey, maybe the $15 zine is the norm and I'm just pearl clutching because I don't like genshin impact or whatever. let's look at the cover prices of some historically important zines at launch:

oh sorry, my bad, these aren't 'fanzines' let's try again

mm but of course the very first fanzines ever published would be cheap and amateur, the form was still being figured out. what about the one everyone on tumblr loves to call the birth of fandom:

well fine, but what about zines that deal with serious social issues? that involve research, outreach, even risk on the part of the creators?

believe it or not (or refuse to believe it) but the history of zines is not the history of bag-getters. accessibility has always been the lifeblood of the form, and that includes financial accessibility.

I have zero fucking power to wave a wand and magically exclude everyone whose projects I think are tacky from using the tem 'zine', but what I can do is appeal to people to remember that being asked to submit a portfolio for consideration is the exception, not the norm. gloss covers and kickstarter tiers with vinyl keychains and custom wall art is a new and alien graft on a very old medium. being treated like a subcontractor on a 50-person art collaboration that will only be affordable to middle class kids with middle class disposable income runs entirely counter to what used to be the definitional feature of zine making. sure I'm being intractable. I think we should all be a lot more intractable about this. we saw what happened to webcomics.

#art history #tbh I wanted to release my facomics as zines bc the DIY part is essential to fandom for me #posting to the web = $0 (practically)#my heart says zines should be at-cost as well #and if I ever get too pissed abt ai scraping I'll be walking around cons with armfuls of zines I guess #fandom

atlafan

NEW PATREON TIER PROMO!!

as many of you know, I have a Patreon where I post exclusive fics not posted on Tumblr. Since creating my Patreon in 2021, I have only ever had one tier. Now I have two! The original Official Patron tier is now Official Patron - Basic. This is still only $5.00 a month, and you will still have exclusive access to fics, nothing is changing for this tier.

The new tier is the Official Patron - Premium, which will be $8.00. I'm running a 25% off deal between now and the end of January where the tier will only be $6.00 for your first month! The discount code is FB1B6

What do you get with the Premium tier?

Okay, so sometimes I get writer's block. I want to be producing what you all want to read. At this tier, you can now request specific fics you want written by me!

Only people in this tier will be able to read the requested fics. Anyone with the Basic Tier will not have access to these.

**Disclaimers:

#signal boost

Thought my son was playing outside, but he snuck up on me and goes, "Mom? What are Link and Zelda doing?"

"....He's shielding her from arrows. In Hyrule field."

And he said, "Oh! That makes sense." and left.

#totk #the legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #zelink #link #zelda #rip me tbh

God, you know what I hate?? About most of my studio art education (HS/early college)? They make you paint on massive fucking canvases thinking that’s the be all and end all of painting supports as if this the 1800s Paris Salon but then I go to upper division art college and illustration board/gessoed cotton printmaking paper not only EXISTS, you can stick it in a scanner to reproduce for print! You can stack many in a flat file or a portable portfolio! It’s not that goddamned canvas texture I hate so much!

You do not have to line a garage with excessively large canvases and heavy wood panels from that fucking figure drawing class that made you have so many of these goddamned paintings of some naked old dude in your home like you were stalking him. If I could time travel I’d tell my younger self all of this.

#art rant #artist life

pinkuchama

Steve Blum telling ATLA and LOK jokes as Amon at Anime Expo.

kohnnor

MY LIFE HAS BEEN MADE I CAN DIE IN PEACE I CANT EVEN MAKE ANY SOUNDS ANYMORE

nemira-the-mercenary

((:KLWEMNFDVAIPKDFLJNCVLZDKSAKJDSHXDCksljdhcbjklzdmx))

bbanditt

I’M CRYING. I’M CRYING EVERYWHERE.

alphonsing-deactivated20131231

I’M DEAD I AM REBBLOGGING THIS FROM THE GRAVE YOU HAVE SLAIN ME

eunoia--euvoia-deactivated20120

UNDEAD.I AM A ZOMBIE TYPING AND REBLOGGING FROM MY GRAVE.

rozlux

I HAVE LOST THE ABILITY TO CAN jgskdfgdhfg

lunadonna

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR EXISTENCE, STEVE.

firelords-honour

The fact that everyone saying they’re dead are now actually dead. Steve Blum deactivated those blogs himself

#everyone saying that needs to be a video I think it already was like the same week #lmao I was so mad I posted this to the wrong acct back then #there are more videos somewhere #maybe on my personal #steve blum

I just learned that Faber Castell Polychromos cores are slightly harder and best for fine lines while Caran D’Ache cores are softer and designed to go into the paper more (for blending/gradients) and since these are the two brands I use I’m gonna have to inspect that more! Memory lends that way; I grew to prefer FC and have a tendency towards fine detail

(Ofc use what you can get; I’ve been lucky to use nice stuff because I had access to my dad’s materials as a kid and we weren’t rich, like, at all but valued nice art supplies very highly. I understand this isn’t everyone’s situation)

#art info #color pencils #artist life #art materials #Youtube

succubusboyfriend

being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five

succubusboyfriend

someone: oh yeah, do this exercise during your warm ups! it’ll help

me: my what

suave-eddboy

thepioden

What’s up I have an actual college degree in art and I was never ONCE taught to do warm ups.

sparksel

when i was in undergrad, it was kind of mentioned in and offhand way that we should do warmups, but we were never shown what that meant. And, y’know, we were young so it didn’t matter so much.

Being older now and having an art job it’s…kind of essential.

So: a quick primer for those of you who are like ‘ok but how do i actually go about doing this warmup thing.’

1) you may be tempted to do ‘a warmup drawing’ which is just a drawing that will take longer than it needed to and probably be frustrating and kind of bad because you didn’t warm up first. It’s tempting but always a trick your brain is playing on you! Do not trust!

2) warmups will vary based on what feels good to you/what task you’re about to do/what motor skills you want to practice. That being said, some good standbys:

a) circles. Just a whole page of circles on whatever drawing surface you’re going to be using, whether that’s your tablet or your sketchbook or a drawing pad on an easel. For these circles you should make sure that you’re drawing from your shoulder and not your wrist. In fact, you want to be drawing from your shoulder rather than your wrist most of the time! forever! your wrist is delicate please preserve it!

In order to ensure that you’re drawing from your shoulder, when you’re holding your pencil or whatever drawing tool you’re using, the only part of your hand that should be touching the drawing surface is part of the last two fingers–some people prefer the finger tips, but I tend to favor the first knuckles. Either way, the fingers should really be ghosting over the surface, providing guidance rather than support.

I usually start with big circles and then go to smaller circles and lines of ellipses, and then try to fit circles and ellipses inside other shapes i’ve already drawn as a precision exercise, but i don’t do that unless i’m feeling loose

b) spirals! i don’t always do spirals, but if i’m stiff and the circles just aren’t cutting it, spirals are a good fall back. I start from the center and work outward, going both clockwise and counterclockwise until i feel comfortable with the whole range of motion. Some people really care about getting perfect spirals but for me it’s all about making sure i’m comfortable with how i’m moving so who really even cares about how the spirals look. Not me!

c) lines! straight lines! in parallel! i do a mix of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. These are often more from the elbow than the shoulder, especially if I’m working on a smaller surface. For this exercise, I recommend holding the drawing tool perpendicular with the surface

d) connect the dots. This is a precision and accuracy exercise and takes two forms. The first is to draw two dots and then draw a straight line between them. The second is to draw three dots and draw the curve that connects them. This sounds a lot simpler than it is in practice. Take time to ghost over the line you plan to draw before actually committing to your line. (I don’t always remember where I picked up my warm up exercises, but I’m pretty sure I got this one from Scott Robertson. His how to draw and how to render books are very technical but also accessible and worth checking out)

e) cubes, spheres, cones, and cylinders. These help get your brain into a more volumetric space. I draw multiples of each, rotating the forms around, and I’ll often take the time to do some rough shading on at least a few of them

f) spidermans! This one is really good if you’re going to be storyboarding or working on dynamic poses. Just fill a page full of spidermans doing all sorts of acrobatics.

g) beans. I don’t do beans too much anymore, but I know a lot of people like it so I’m mentioning it here. Fill an area with different size bean shapes without lifting your pencil off the paper.

h) short medium and long line repetition. draw a short, medium, and long line on your page, and then draw directly on top of them 8 to 12 times, doing your best to exactly trace what you’ve already drawing. Repeat with a wavy line. I’m bad at this one, which means I probably need to do it more.

And there are lots more options too! Hit up youtube to see what other people recommend, put together your own go-to list, mix it up when you’re getting bored, etc.

This is a long list, I know, but I usually don’t take more than 10 to 15 minutes to warm up, and I can warm up one handed while I’m drinking coffee, so, multitasking hurrah.

Sometimes I’ll advance to a precision warmup and find that I haven’t loosened up enough yet; it’s totally ok to go back to an earlier exercise! Also, all of this has the added benefit of kind of ritualistically getting you into the drawing mode so even if I’m not feeling it before I start, by the time I’ve gotten to the end I’m usually Ready For Drawin’. Brain hacks.

so, yeah! that’s a lot of words, but! Warmups are important! Save your joints, take less advil, do better drawings!