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Magpie | full time comic artist | he/him | trans, disabled, and gay

[wheelofwebcomics]

Read 'Lights End' with us!

We're having our book club for Lights End on the 16th and 17th May!!!

Check out the comic here: Lights End on Comic fury And if you want to read it with us or be part of future bookclubs,

JOIN HERE! --- discord.gg/ksM6sJFGBR

[deceptifunk]

playing with pngs like dolls and putting knights in situations ...

give all yuor money to the date knight kickstarter im not being paid to say this im jsut passionate.

[wheelofwebcomics]

New week, New Wheel! Now reading Gingerberry by Artavenue

Check it out here:

Gingerberry

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And join our Online Book Club on Discord here!:

A community of comic creators and readers hosted by the team behind the indie comic, One Time Taxes! We're always reading something new. | 2

[nekosaws]

nothing against office lady yuri. im a fan myself. but we need more warehouse worker girl yuri. blue collar yuri in general honestly. its not fair

[wheelofwebcomics]

The Fall

By: Melontine Genre(s): Fantasy, horror, drama Links: Comic Fury 5 chapters; 124 pages | Ongoing

What is The Fall about?

“A once vast community of forest sprites has been reduced to only a handful of surviving members. These remaining sprites must navigate their own fears and the end of the world that’s slowly becoming more and more dangerous for them.

Slow paced environmental horror that might have you forget the type of story you’re reading. Follow these whimsical little characters as they deal with grief, change, and a potentially doomed narrative. Can they defy the odds and make it to the other side?”

At a first glance, The Fall appears to be a whimsical story featuring characters that go about their day-to-day lives almost blissfully. However, it’s evident from the beginning that a long shadow hangs over the characters in this world. While the whimsy never fades, the shadow darkens over time, creating a sense of dread. With intricate character dynamics and artwork that could easily fit into a children’s book, The Fall is a comic that continually leaves the reader wondering about what may happen next.

The comic features a cast of characters known as sprites. Only an inch or two tall, each sprite appears to be based on a different thing that can be found in nature, such as tufts of grass, petals, or twigs. Each of them is presented in bright colors and an art style that I can only describe as soft. The main character is Tuft, a light green sprite that clearly has a lot hanging over their head. They greet the remains of their community, and some characters are far happier to see Tuft than others, who appear to blame them for some sort of tragedy.

There are six members of Tuft’s community at in the comic, but this number has the potential to dwindle over time for a wide variety of reasons, leaving Tuft to grapple with the possibility of being alone. The community they love so dearly will not survive at this rate. So, what can they hold onto instead?

Conclusion: An amazing start to a comic that leaves you wanting to read more, it has 5 chapters so far and is moving on to its 6th so it is a perfect time to read and catch up and see where this tale of isolation and fear will end!

The Fall was discussed in our discord voice call this 17th Jan with our largest call yet, if you'd like to join in future comic discussions or bring your own to the table,

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[reanimatedmagpie]

hello we made a part two of the whole comic me and death are making

BURIAL AT SEA

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[reanimatedmagpie]

Hey!! I absolutely love your work, your art, comic, designs, etcetc are just.. so SO good. ALSO, I was wondering if you possibly had any art resources? More specifically art resources for someone that’s just starting out. I would love to get into drawing but there are a million videos and books and articles out there and I have no idea where or how to start.

Art school would be amazing but gosh dang it I’m broke </3

first of all ive never gone to art school proper, or any real amount of college at all for that matter either, its not terribly hard to get ahead of your peers who do with proper work ethic and knowing where to look for, the 'self-taught' label is becoming increasingly arbitrary because the internet's made it all easier than ever to access if you know where to look

admittedly i was starting out at a very different time in the internet and speaking a different language, so i cannot quite recommend what i was using when i started between language availability and modern expectations of say video quality, however! i do have some pointers

at a glance channels like proko [though more so the older videos] are pretty handy but also

i can tell you what to look for and general principles

if youve not already, look up and commit to practice the way youre supposed to hold the pen for art. genuinely good for your artwork, but, more importantly, helps you strain your wrist less. considering especially in the beginning artwork can take a long time, you need to get into those habits early. look up wrist exercises while you're at it and try to warm up your hands before starting. it is genuinely exactly like sports you cant skip the stretch. /

look for specific things. 'get good at art in 10 days' is the same as 'get fit in 10 days' even if its not impossible to learn some very useful fundamentals in that time, you know thats not what they have for you. you need to be looking for things like 'color contrast' 'muscles of the leg' 'how to do cleaner linework' when searching on the internet /

I would avoid short form content or even just shorter videos altogether or anything with a super flashy presentation for anything but like, simple software tricks, that stuff is not really usually interested in teaching things as much as its here to get algorithm points. it used to be a lot less of a thing and i feel sorry for people that are learning with this so saturated in the space ngl definitely steer clear off pinterest too. they wouldnt need to cocomelon you if they had something useful. did you know straight up art lecture recordings are out there btw? /

if you want an overview of a broad variety of things you want a book. yes i know. they are all fairly useful i would personally say and if you do not have a library in your immediate area, did you know the internet archive lets you borrow books digitally if you have an account? for human anatomy i really recommend the morpho series, for animals my go to was Gottfried Bammes, and i cannot recommend the Understanding Comics and Making Comics for sequential art, but generally speaking, books often want to appeal to people that are just starting out, so most of them that have a technical drawing aspect at all will help a beginner in some capacity. if you dont yet know which ones are 'good' i generally recommend looking into ones that mention the author is an art professor in the back /

important note: sometimes people consider the text on the page in those books as filler and Only look at the diagrams. that's not the case, you do in fact learn things if you read it /

also when reading those books take care to not just copy down the process but try your best to understand why. its not so much what it looks like so much as the thought process behind it /

use gesture drawing exercise tools like sketchdaily.com [if you do not wish to see nude models make sure it's filtered to clothed] if you do not yet know what gesture drawing is, that's a keyword to look up /

The secret sauce to drawing any creature is its bones and muscle. Trouble with faces? draw some studies off of photos of replica skulls. struggling to get what the hell is happening with the neck? look up a diagram of the neck muscles. a lot of 'anatomy for artists' resources are ultimately just translations of the scientific fact, so if youre not finding anything good there, go to the source! ive been doing that a lot lately. /

watch speedpaint videos! i know they dont come up as often on youtube naturally anymore but you get a Lot of insight into things from watching people whose art you like [and even don't like!] draw /

Draw real life things from real life. your pet or perhaps family member or friend, strangers on public transport, buildings outside it doesnt actually matter what just that you do it. photographs lack real life depth information most people's eyes can capture irl /

i know it can be kind of difficult these days but you shouldnt discount or ignore traditional even if you are not planning to focus on it. understanding of irl art mediums is really valuable even if you plan on being primarily digital because the less predictable nature of them builds confidence and helps you be more present among other benefits. its one of the many reasons youre not gonna find life drawing classes that allow students to just whip out a tablet /

hang out with your artist peers! ideally in spaces where people are actively making something like OCTs[Original Character Tournaments], game jams, even fandom spaces can work though i do not recommend that last one so much because they tend to be less interested in you as a person and more just seeing free art of their favorite guy and arent very friendly to beginners ngl. best find spaces specifically for original work, people tend to be more supportive there.

there really isnt a strict order in which you have to learn things. you can in fact go all in on turtle anatomy for a while if thats what interests you, why not, etc. but some good places to start are, in no particular order

anatomy of the face

anatomy of the torso

rotating cubes in 3d space [volume and perspective. generally not that scary i just find people overthink it a lot and get anxious]

how motion works[even if youre not at all animation inclined]

composition, color, contrast

various linework techniques, various panting techniques

mammal anatomy, bird anatomy, reptile anatomy, bug anatomy's nice too

basic plants, basic buildings, basic machinery

Anything deeper than that will be dictated by your own interests, this is just what would make you a very adaptable generalist. look up references whenever you struggle, study things you find visually cool, let your interests guide your research for the most part

but also, if i were to call Anything my big cool piece of advice, it's don't just sit around and aimlessly wait for your art to get 'good enough' to do something cool. start some little projects [and i do mean little. like under 5 pages of comic, a silly animation to a Short sound byte etc] and look up what you Directly need for them try your best. like a one day project, then a three day project then maybe a week long one, etc dont go right into anything long term right away, get practice finishing things first!

[youd be surprised what comics make you draw too, my last thing just had a random model t car in it for fun]

Because nothing, and i do mean nothing will teach you to make art in practice quite the same as making even a tiny project featuring the thing you want to learn

[depsidase]

[kianamaiart]

will there be lgbtq characters?

all of them

[lastoneout]

People don't like to admit it bcs cringe or w/e but Homestuck really did revolutionize the webcomic as a storytelling medium and I am endlessly frustrated that before webcomic artists could really stretch our legs fucking webtoonz swooped in, set a new, more restrictive standard, and then monetized and monopolized the ever living fuck out of the concept of The Webcomic until it drove away anyone who couldn't be a professional quality manga artist for free, and now the only webcomics that actually feel like spiritual successors to Homestuck are so obscure they're basically cult classics that you have to beg people to read.

Like it's just so wild to be in high school and see Homestuck be like "we're using like fifteen different artistic mediums to tell this story bcs we can" and be really fucking inspired by that, only to grow up and see basically every webcomic ever have to conform to One Single Standard or fucking perish.

[lastoneout]

Actually, I realized my real point here: we all need to make our art weirder. Please make weird art. I want more stuff like Prequel Adventure and 17776 and MyHouse.wad and I want it now. Capitalism thrives on conformity. We must be weird at all costs.

[princelydisaster]

tags via comic artist @goodmorningmistermagpie :)

(tags read: #use comicfury fuck webtoon #fuck tapas too they’re not getting out scot free either #comicfury has stealth URLs too so many comics you’re already reading may be actually hosted on there btw #it lets you upload up to 100 pages at once and allows anything legal to post on the net so long as it’s properly flagged)

[goodmorningmistermagpie]

Yeah it rocks, it's ran by one scalie guy for the last 15 years without a mind for profit [your ads are off by default and you can either turn them on to support the site or place your own to earn own art revenue] [Thanks Kyo]

it also has a solid readerbase, a new-updates-first front page, and a decent search meaning that even new comics and comics on hiatus get some readership even with zero promotion!

[it's also a very reasonable search system that's nice to use and find what you want! and yes default sort of recently updated]

And yes, so long as you use their V - violence N - nudity S - sexual content L - crude language [all can be mild or otherwise for a red or orange mark] even full on pornographic content tm is perfectly good to post as you can tell by the flags on screenshot

whether you post it or not I would greatly recommend since it's a very nice reading experience as well

it will notify you about new pages and keep the 'new pages' badge on a comic for as long as it takes you to get caught up, and automatically take you to the newest page you haven't seen, so no losing your place or missing new pages!

the badge also stays even if the pages aren't 'new' per se but if you haven't read the whole comic yet

this also means people can go on hiatus and then come back without taking as big a readership hit as other platforms which is really nice

I haven't updated Since March for financial reasons, yet ~50 people or more a day look at my comic regardless and i am by no means a big artist whatsoever

[on tapas by comparison 50 views would be a good Upload Day amount instead, like come on]

But yes let me tell you about the mass upload thing because it rocks

look at that! up to 100 pages indeed

so that should make moving a comic really easy!

[it also keeps page order intact regardless of the order in which images load. supports .gif images. doesn't have a page size requirement]

then you can auto-set a schedule ! how nice

there is info you can fill per page including hovertext beloved

you can also set individual date adjustment if you'd like, add keywords for SEO, and put down transcript of the page

i've had my own comic on CF for a Good Long While and it's been great

also yes the stealth urls! you get a few options but none of them are like https comicfury slash comicname, nice and professional. You'd be surprised how many of these you'd catch in the wild with these if you're already a webcomic reader

also if you are smarter than me you can edit your html and css to your heart's content, otherwise there are default templates you can use which are perfectly fine

[simontesla]

Reblogging this thread with the comicsfury info 'cause it looks like an interesting alternative.

Homestuck being the multimedia thing that it is requires a certain amount of know-how to execute. You're going to be writing HTML, CSS and JS (or using tools that output them) to be able to run in a browser (now that Flash is gone). I don't think Webtoons can be exactly blamed for that specifically, since allowing arbitrary HTML/CSS/JS is a great way to get your site hacked, and it's non-trivial to write authoring tools that allow for that kind of interactivity or multimedia expressiveness, in comparison to image-a-day hosting. Since this kind of stuff sits at the intersection between art and coding I'm very much not surprised that it isn't more common. People are making games or interactive fiction instead if they have that skill-set.

That said, encouraging RSS adoption by comics or other serial works reduces the need to depend on any one site, as people could then subscribe to updates with their own RSS reader instead of relying on a sign-in to a single webcomic site for the same.

[reanimatedmagpie]

[main blog time now since this is a Conversation] yes 100% yes, use rss tools, that's just about the best way to make sure you can keep up with people's sites if their other socials go down.

There are also security measures that sites that let users customize their profiles and pages safely [old DA, Toyhou.se and yes comicfury] to at least have html and css available which lets you do a lot if you know what you're after!

CF does actually even allow at least some javascript by the way! That's how people are able to place comicad ads on their comic

There are templates but in actuality you are fully allowed to wipe all the code that comes with those and code your page from scratch if you were so inclined.

It even allows you to remove all references back to comicfury if you so choose, Kyo expressed that he simply wishes to have a place for people to host comics.

it is always best practice to simply have your very own website, but for people that for one reason or another can't pay for hosting or know enough code comicfury is genuinely the best you got for free hosting of web sequential art

and if you aren't contractually obligated to exclusivity and can't do a website, I would strongly recommend everyone that hosts elsewhere to put up a mirror there.

you know, just in case. Don't put all your eggs in one basket and all that.

[reanimatedmagpie]

Hello! ive been forgetting to post here honestly but me and a friend made a Whole Thing go read it here

A community for collaborative character creation and trading, worldbuilding and roleplay.

[impsynia]

tiktok stunt haha funny. please talk about the ice raids

[impsynia]

even though theyre officially starting on tueaday once trump is in office the raids have already started in central california since sunday and idk where else. people havent been able to go to work becuz ice is literally patroling the streets and targeting places where majority brown people work. please keep aware and talk to ppl in your life who might not be

[ssfancypants]

[reanimatedmagpie]

and now, after the incredibly high strung audition here's some of her in a pretty dress because someone deserves a little identity crisis /positive as well

[reanimatedmagpie]

Hello! ive been forgetting to post here honestly but me and a friend made a Whole Thing go read it here

A community for collaborative character creation and trading, worldbuilding and roleplay.

[reanimatedmagpie]

dead rat doll thing :)

[reanimatedmagpie]

[dungeon coursers HARPG] magpie's "brief" detour into horse art part 19

[reanimatedmagpie]

[dungeon coursers HARPG] magpie's "brief" detour into horse art part 18