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June Ko-fi doodles part 2!

#the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all #aya osawa #mitsuki koga #fushigi yuugi #Hitkitsu #mistakenly saving the villain #Yu Wuhan #SVSSS #tianlang jun #I unintentionally grouped all three 'serene posed' characters into this batch but I am rolling with it.#Thank you for the wonderful doodle prompts this month!#I was delighted to be able to finally draw the notorious green yuri...I will be *back* when the show is finally out.#Admittedly I have not read past the 20's chapter wise #But it is extremely charming!

Woe! Flower Man Upon Ye!

#deltarune #deltarune spoilers #ralsei #flowery #animation #This man has single handedly beamed so many new vocal stims into my life. Be it into my own brain or my friends.#It was extremely hard to pick just 7 lines for this animated comic.#I went with the top lines as suggested by said 'cursed by the flower man' friends but some honerable mentions:#'They're eating my flesh!' 'Hey guys!' 'I'm sorry once again I kept a lady in waiting' 'Ja-Kidding!' 'That's my dreams'.#Toby Fox knows how to make a silly little guy who follows you around and drills holes into your brain.#He can't keep getting away with this.#I also have been chewing on the Ralsei and Flowery interactions and implications for the last week and a half.#They're tied to the same undertale character parallel.#They're foils of each other in terms of both being aware and trying to follow a 'hero's prophecy'#One deems himself the supportive role. A game master who has set the scene for the players but is unable to truly partake in the story.#The other sets up his world and casts himself as the hero - alongside his friends and loved ones.#Ralsei hating the guy is both a hilarious callback to undertale lore and...Flowery is once again the twisted power fantasy.#The person he *could* be if he didn't force himself to play by the rules. The happiness and freedom he isn't able to have.#Chapter 5 was really good. I will be back to draw the other flowers.

June Ko-fi doodles (part 1): Let them cook!

#MDZS #Wen Ning #ATLA #Appa #Limbus Company #Ryoshu #Once again; thank you all so much for the support on ko-fi! I love making silly doodles like this.#Especially when some of them end up having a common theme.#This month we are thinking about cooking!#No dungeon meshi doodle requests (YET. Still waiting on a few people to send a prompt!) but in spirit...we are cooking.#Appa feels like he should be easy to draw but I couldn't quite get him right! Argh! Another time...#I don't think he's going to be in the new ATLA show/movie though...I hope I am wrong.#Wen Ning's apron is a reference to a fic (per request!) and says 'mandatory head kisses for the chef'#I think he would love the grill. It would give him purpose and fulfillment.#Also - since in PD-MDZS canon LWJ doesn't (YET) know how to grill - It would round out the party skillset.#Ryoshu...Well. She will cook a plate of F.U.L.G. (Fucked up little guys). It's art first and food second.

Do you have any tips for scanning traditional art to digital and making sure the quality is alright/looks good?

I have talked about some tips in the past, and I am planning on making a video to go over my process, but as general advice:

Use a flatbed scanner; Some phones can have good image quality but the angle and shadow distortions are inevitable!

Know thy Scanner! All scanners have quirks and benefit from setting adjustments to compensate for low contrast, artifacts, over saturation, or faded colours.

My greatest 'traditional to digital art' hack: Adjusting values post scan. Duplicating and multiplying the scan as a 'layer' in an art program (fading opacity based on need) helps fix 90% of issues with the ink looking ‘washed out’.

Paper/media quality matters: Some paper and pencils/inks just scan better than others...

Colour: There will be transformations in colour upon scanning. There is no tip for this other than to experiment and prepare in advance!

Visual example of the difference these tips make:

I hope this helps!

#art faqs #ask #I have memorized/written down my settings and values for different scanners that I have used over the years!#Sometimes I will experiment with different approches to see if I like the outcome.#I have one scanner that washes out the darks - so extra contrast and multiply layers are essential.#Another scanner of mine makes the colours very saturated and Leaves a ton of artifacts! So: Higher Brightness - Lower Contrast.#I only know this through playing around with the settings! It took a long time - and I'm still learning.#It does suck to have to spend so much time drawing and realize you still have more work to do - but it is worth it.#Colour transformation is especially wild. Fun fact; about 50+ comics of PD-MDZS has them with purple hair -#-Because it scanned as grey digitally! And I preferred the colour over my actual grey at the time.#Dead serious about making this into a video. I have a script written and examples ready to go.#I love traditional art too much to stand for the ways in which people do NOT let their work shine as brightly as it could...#Most important thing to mention at the end of this: This is merely *my* method.#Everyone will have their preferences and strategies! If taking a picture of your art and uploading it raw is what you have to do...#I can...appreciate...the value in your approach...I can hold the blood back in my mouth...Your art is still beautiful...

Love how you're named poorly drawn mdzs and then proceed to draw some of the most conceptually amazing and experimental comics I have seen. AND THEN do another one that is SO funny.

Love ya

I welcomed you into my little cave to show you berry fingerpaints of stick figures, only to pull out my big hammer of 'Drive to Improve' and chisel of 'Silly Jokes'. And I will keep swinging!

#ask #The curse of growth is that one day the container we began in will no longer fit.#I wanted to improve past stick figures and I did.#I am known equally for my art as my tag essays. So not even 'drawing' is accurate...#And I draw for lots of other stories too! Not even a MDZS only blog anymore!#It does haunt me! But not out of shame. Mostly just a 'How did I get from there to here?' feeling.#I mean it when I say I am going to keep swinging my hammer! Sometimes I miss! But I think it is worth it to keep going.#These stone walls are full of scratches and mysterious stains...But with time and the right tools...any wall can be overcome.#Art used to be a terrifying wall to me. Unconceivably impossibly to even approach.#I still feel like I'm in a cave. But one that has a nice sign that reads 'funny jokes' above it.#Occasionally peeling off to reveal underneath it says 'Overthinking in the tags'.#Thank you for the kind words and the ask anon! I wish I could have made you a silly cave doodle...but perhaps next time!

adding myself to the list of people asking you to sell printed/bound copies of the mdzs comic when it’s complete

Delighted to say that I have been looking into printing the comic!

It may have to exist as a free, downloadable and printable PDF to avoid copyright, but there appears to be a loophole with 'pay for production'.

I will likely do a 'soft run' and make a mini-zine with some comics, to see what the process of ordering and shipping is like first.

#ask #As always; it is extremely flattering to know that people want to have a physical copy of my art with them. Thank you!#I want to make it as accessible as possible. Any zine I ever make in the future will always have some digital version as well.#And you bet I'm self-sacrificing enough to pay a decent chunk out of pocket to keep costs as low as I can for those wanting a physical copy #At this current moment I'm very locked into the last stretch of making the comic.#But I have been activity chatting with friends who have zine and bookbinding experience. It's not just empty talk!#A trial run with something smaller scale is definitely what I need to do first.#Lest I get overwhelmed with the amount of shipping I have to do.#Though I am admittedly built different. I am a committer. I will not run.#And it would be one season at a time. 3 volumes total!

Un jour, je serai de retour près de toi.

(One day, I will return to your side)

#poorly drawn mdzs #better drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #wei wuxian #Kudos to everyone with a keen eye who noticed that these three recent pieces were connected! Full piece be upon ye!#My Non-MDZS knowing friends saw this piece and commented that it was 'A really poignant depiction of heartbreak.'#Which is a completely fair interpretation. Sequentially speaking...that *is* the most logical reading.#Of course the wonder of art is that the viewer can take whatever message they want to from it.#Regardless of authorial intent - if something speaks to you inside of someone's creation - then it is a valid reading of the work!#Perhaps I am gnawing on too many stories told with non-linear time...I will muse on how to communicate these ideas better...#The point here is that they are both holding what they think is the end of the line. A last vestige of what could be.#The middle is the present! The entanglement! It wasn't about reaching the end of the thread but meeting each other in the middle.#Most importantly...Finally I can use this quote outside of tags.#I truly *cannot* do this quote justice. The context in which you read it in Disco Elysium is essential to why it knocks the wind out of me #The scale of the melancholy is admittedly softened when applying it to a relationship like this but I'm going to do it anyways.#Because they truly do hold the spark that quote wants to ignite.#That the grief will not consume us. That the love was always worth it. Mourning with have a morning.#It isn't about waiting and being rewarded for your faith and patience. This is a defiance of loss.#One day I will return to your side. I will die and our spirits will meet again.#I will be close to you once again; At your side. I will not forget you in this life. I will not forget you in the next.#Love truly was possible in the next life. As new people. It is not too late to live.

#260: Sunshower Kiss

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #wei wuxian #I have been thinking about what to do for this scene for a very long time.#And one of the things I knew I wanted to capture was the feeling of 'Sunshower'.#Not just because it is raining in the scene and this moment is one of joy and elevation (like the sun peaking out during a rainstorm)#But more broadly speaking - There is something very special about the sunshower.#The downpour of cold water suddenly becoming so bright and golden.#The way the world looks so different. Despite there still being rain. Despite having seen it in both rain and shine.#A sunshower happens when there is perfect timing between the clouds and the gaps between them.#All circumstances aligning into a moment where you can see the world a little differently. A little more special and wonderful.#The previous kisses were misalignments. Dreary rainstorms of regret and scorching sunlight of unreciprocated desire.#And here and now - in this big damn kiss moment - This is their sunshower.#A moment where it all lines up. I see and hear you. I have and can hold you. I love you and you love me.#I have returned to your side. You have returned to mine.#Of course I had to do something a little extra as well. I couldn't pass up the chance to do a study of Gustav Kilmt's The Kiss.

Dungeon Meshi Season 2 is now offical!

Back to Dungeon Cuisine in October 2027!

#dungeon meshi #izutsumi #senshi #laios touden #marcille donato #chilchuck #It's been a while since I drew Dungeon Meshi fan art! After seeing the announcement yesterday - I was filled with inspiration once again.#(Less so that I don't have inspiration for more Dungeon Meshi art. More so I don't want to spoil it for those waiting for S2!#I have quite a few friends who are still reading the manga and have yet to catch up after all.)#This series will forever be dear to my heart and I am hyped for the next season.#...Even if it is over a year away...It is fuel to persist and hang on during the dark times ahead.#And I definitely want to draw more dungeon meshi between then and now.#I can already see that I'm rusty with their designs and body shapes...this shan't do...#This series is a eternal flame in my heart and the news has poured gasoline upon it.#Perhaps I'll do a re-read and do some additional comics of scenes I didn't get to during my weekly dungeon meshi art days.#Ah!!! I'm so full of excitement! It's hard to organize my thoughts properly!

A 2mm hole in the world.

#mdzs #wei wuxian #better drawn mdzs #Back at it again with the Disco Elysium quotes and crossovers with MDZS.#I suppose I can’t exactly untangle the two in my head and heart.#Both series gave me the engine to keep my life moving forward. And I will one day make that crossover story.#Stories about stories. Narritives about confronting narritives. Places and people that hold broken memories.#I will urge you again. If you have yet to play Disco Elysium and have capacity for a story that will rock your sense of self-#please play disco elysium. It’s so easy to play it for free (if that makes a different for anyone).#Pitching generational masterpieces aside; I once read a theory about the 2mm hole in the world #Specifically that 2mm holes were often associated with holes in the heart.#Be it metaphorical or litteral - there is something so devestating in the destruction a little hole can rend.#A tiny tear in the world. Tucked away somewhere nobody should go. A place that of rememberance that can only be seen as a place of tragedy.#Perhaps it can also be a person. Tiny and insignificant in the face of a world population of billions.#But you are the hole in the world. A ruinous thing #And in the heart…oh how large 2mm suddenly seems when it is a hole in the heart.#The first death is in the heart. It will always be love that drives us to our darkness.#(Something about this piece…feels familliar…doesnt it?)

The Confession

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #jin guangyao #lan wangji #lan xichen #jin ling #Apologies for wildly oscillating from serious to silly comics.#This is the big confession scene! We're finally here! At the crux of emotion and honesty!#And yet I just can't stop laughing at the sheer misfortune in timing of Wei Wuxian confessing his feelings:#Lan Wangji *just* walked into the room.#Jin Guangyao is hosting the most menacing tea party and using WWX as a hostage (via wire to the throat).#LXC is still emotional and a bit pissed off. Jin Ling is doing his best to not make any noise.#WWX does not care. He is going to have this damn confession! Right! Now!#It's a great confession. A messy but honest expulsion of all the feelings he tried to deny.#'I like you. I love you. I want you. I want a future with you in any way you will have me.'#The two of them are finally aware they are on the same page. In so far as they want each other as more than just friends -#But the attachement they have is 'I'll take anything - but let me be clear - I want you in your *entirety*."#It was fear and shame that kept these words coming out sooner. Fear to break what they already had. Shame for all the words left unspoken.#It's beautiful. And it has the most baffled audiance to witness it.#Poor JGY just wanted to have his 'at the precipice' monologue and this guy will not take his threats seriously.#(I have a full page of possible confession dialogue for this comic. Somehow it was not as easy as I thought...#I could have gone a lot more NSFW but I think I struck gold with 'saddle up ponyboy'.#And then I inked it incorrectly and wrote 'pony up saddle boy'. Which is objectively funnier and more accurate.#I just think that these two have the strangest psychic link when it comes to matching each other's freak. LWJ knows what he means.#No one else does. And that's beautiful.)

I love that on your latest LWJ art there is 33 red lines!! It’s such a nice detail 💖💖💖

Also I love your character analysis in the tags!!

Thank you for noticing! I do my best to include little details like that in my art whenever I get the chance. Sometimes I'll point it out in the tags, and sometimes I leave it up to readers to find B*)