HIII! I'm Vinny! He/They prns. 20 years of age. This is a sideblog for @bearloonz!
This is where you'll find me posting about my oc project SO BELOW (in all caps because i think it is cool.) It's a post-apocalypse, grungy cyberpunk story about a group of weird girls getting into fights and being dysfunctional together.
You can find info about the primary characters in this story on my toyhou.se page! My asks are open if you have any other questions, I love the opportunity to share!
I’ve started streaming on twitch to encourage progress on the SO BELOW webcomic! Come check er out!
A quick BYF and tag directory under the readmore!!
This blog is generally rated 16+. There will be suggestive talk and art from time to time, though images will be tagged properly and anything that goes above the range of "playfully risque" will be marked as such. I do draw a lot of nonsexual nudity, though. There's lots of boobs here. I'll tag anything with a "partial nudity" tag but that's about it. hashtag free the nipple or whatever.
PLEASE NOTE: I believe any topic is capable of being explored in fiction, even ones deemed "problematic." Yes, even that one you're thinking of. However, I also believe that different topics deserve different levels of respect when depicting them, and that depictions cannot be shielded from critique due to the nature of it being fictional. If you claim to be "proship" or hold the belief that "fiction doesn't effect reality" or whatever, I do not care for you. I will block freely if you don't first.
This story is a somber love letter to the complexities of people and their relationships, however ugly it gets, and I don't care for the idea of it being interpreted under the lens of indulgence in difficult topics just for the shock value of it being ~ problematic ~
I'm always open to conversations about respectfully engaging in difficult topics. I hope this can be understood by anyone engaging with my work :)
TAG DIRECTORY:
SOBELOW.png -> Art tag! Used for art made by myself as well others
SOBELOW.txt -> Text tag! For any text related to the story.
SOBELOW.aes -> Image tag! For pictures that I think look cool and fit the vibe of the story.
clownspeak -> Text posts that are just me talking, not necessarily related to character information.
character tagging -> I saw an interesting or funny post and it made me think of my character
input quastion for those who might be knowledgeable: Ive got all of chapter 1 thumbnailed atm, need to move onto sketching. I've started loosely sketching the first two pages and am thinking about working on those to completion to sort of get a feel for the full sketch -> paneling -> line -> color process. do we think this sounds like the correct approach to take. yes or no or bald.
like the betrayal’s always going to be worse if they cared about you and it didn’t matter. someone discards you because they didn’t give a shit, then you can be angry about that, you can feel vindicated in that, you can get over it. but if they can look you in the eyes and say “I love you. I would make the same choice again.” You will never sleep peacefully again, is all.
Do you perhaps know where SO BELOW will be hosted? We want to stop using tumblr as much but don't want to miss any SO BELOW content :]
planning on cross posting to both this blog and comicfury!! Nothings set up over there yet but there’s a link jic :—) Maybe one day I’ll be fancy enough for a whole personal website but I’d have to figure some stuff out first hehe
best trope: "ugh I guess I'll tolerate you for the time being, but this is a conditional, tactical alliance, and the second I get what I want, we're parting ways" to "you are the only good in the world and I will protect you to my dying breath"
Today I will be drawing pictures .. ko-fi dono headshots to warm up and then intending to wrap up the final thumbnails for chapter 1 of Web Comic . And MAYBE THEN…. Some sketching of the pages …… who’s to say…… come find out….
if ger crank and rosie had access to modern music libraries, what would be their favorite albums...
idont knowwwww < guy who doesnt know shit for fuck about albums. im a one song per artist guy.
how about this friend queen. im going to give you their favorite genres and You giveme an album. (silly) youre a music liker more than i am. Ger would really hyperpop and vocaloid music, crank is an old dad rock fan, and rosie likes bolero and love ballads. the more u know . pointing up emoji.
you motherfucker. you cant just say that to me. making me do your damn homework WEL OKAY FINE!1!
CRANK
very dad typa stuff, but on more universal dad rock level. my dad listens to the pixies and the talking heads, so my experiences aren't universal, but im tryin my best here as a guy who realllly fucks with dad rock. like a lot. i felt like this was a very decent range from base hard rock into metal, with megadeth leading into some very classic metal thats good as a first intro as well as the classic ac/dc+ guns and roses one-two, ending aerosmith probably being the stuff that crank would play if she had control of the aux. shit rules! I do think if you introduced to primus it'd Do Things To Her (good or bad depending)
GER
As a frequenter of the hyper-pop genre and its works, alongside being a vocaloid enjoyer as well, i wanted to find stuff that i appreciate on a vast spectrum from noise level to the type of beat, as well as the queen of transgender vocaloid music, JAMIE PAIGEEE as this is probably my favorite album of hers. that being said transgenderism and queer spaces are really important in hyperpop and electronic music spaces, so some healthy skoches of that are good to have. something id like to imagine ger would really like this genre thats trying to say something important as well. and then theres 100 gecs.
ROSIE
my local jazz radio station is a real treat for playing lots of varieties of american jazz but! also a lot of latin jazz and bolero. they don't ever show the song names. or artist names. so i had to do everything by ear. i think Rosie is a big sucker for old 50s style bolero, lots of very beat heavy listening from romántico and el corneta but also some melancholy nostalgia from virginia lopez of course. and i do think while she enjoys old stuff and pledges to it she enjoys the late 90s style salsa too. its REALLY hard not to enjoy some celia cruz, she is NAWTT immune.
things I am learning while drafting this damn comic:
-I would put gaps in the script that just says <dialogue goes here> and assume I could figure it out on the fly. I cannot. I need to have at least a basic dialogue written out. It can change in the thumbnailing but it GOTTA be there
-I keep trying to make the first panel of every page an establishing shot and it’s gunkin up my compositions. Workin on dat
-I am so scared to have to start drawing action scenes oh my hod. Guy who’s never made a comic before voice what if it was a fighting comic < booboo the fool
-my projected chapter 1 was TOO DAMN LONG . The actual chapter 1 is gonna be taken from the first third of what I had written down initially . Break er up.
A SMALL HANDFUL of headshot requests to fuel my evil deeds!! thank u to everyone who sent in a funny character :--]
I asked for rqs specifically so i could test out some example art :--] I'm opening a little mini-commission slot over on ko-fi for headshots to use as warmups during the stream this weekend! got five slots open so if you like this look and want ur pictures drawn live on camera.... well... smirks.... follow my link why dont you....
Commissions Open! Click to see Vinny's commission menu.
I will write my stories as intended and only hope the desire to see characters shipped together is indicative of an appreciation for their written relationship and complexities therein
what was the thought process behind crank's design and mask/head specifically? :0c
ive mentioned it before, but originally I designed Crank just because I really liked masked characters! Way back when she was first conceptualized it was actually a really big mascot head that she wore...
I had always been adamant that I didn't really want to give Crank any sort of face reveal. i don't like when masked characters get face reveals its almost never awesome or cool. For the longest time i didn't really do anything with this other than "im not gonna show her face"... but eventually when I landed on "well what if she just doesn't have a head," it caused a neat spiral of events.
because like... Crank not having a face to reveal. Crank having this very cutesy aesthetic to the bear head. These are both things I initially did just because i Wanted To and it Looked Cool. But as the writing of SO BELOW got more focused, I actually had to work backwards from her design in a way that I don't usually have to. There's a lot of questions that need to be answered!
For a while Crank was just a cool stoic butch because i like cool stoic butches, but the questions posed by the Implications of her design have really helped me iron her out into a more complex character over time. What does it mean to be a character who is so reserved, but looks so... out there? Who doesn't really attempt to cover up? What are more non-traditional ways to showcase a character with body image issues. What does it mean that she's never tried to change out the pink heart look on her new face.
