Comics and Despair

The official Art tumblr of Steph Vinke

[character-creation-resources]

Calling all artists!

If your commissions are open and you do draw OC’s, please reblog this post! 

If you are not an artist but know of one, please reblog this and tag them or just mention their url in the tags! 

And hey, even just reblogging helps! I will be keeping a comprehensive list of artists who can be commissioned to draw characters/OC’s on the blog!

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Stumbled on some art I'd forgotten to post from last year. @kittyconcarnage with a Bag of Holding Dogs. #doodle #watercolor #forgottendrawings

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A silly short comic in response to a role play between Valdis and Jim @dave_pen_derr and I did. ... I should really think of a tag for our OCs since that mostly what I draw ... #rpcharacters #worldofdarkness #originalcharacters #doodlecomic #vampire #dhampir

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More doodles of various OCs , the first fellow I don't think I've ever drawn or even mentioned before haha😅 (technically he isn't ours - he's from World of Darkness canon) In order they are : -Goratrix - Caine Candy -Meghan LeFey - Valdis :B I swear one day I will actually write out the story these characters go along with ... but there are so many of them... and it gets complicated 😰 #originalcharacter #worldofdarkness #doodlesofinstagram #vampirethemasquerade

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Just a collection of miscellaneous doodles I've got in my sketchbook right now. The first one is character design for one of my classes the others... are just shenanigans. Mostly Bendy and the ink machine doodles, a cuphead and a cameo of the little kid from Little Nightmare. #doodles #doodlesofinstagram #characterdesign #bluepencil #bendyandtheinkmachine #batim #cuphead #cupheadmemes #littlenightmares #mugman #bendy

[reconditehill]

Have you heard of that town...?

“There are a lot of strange stories about Recondite Hill… Things you might have heard mention of slither in the dark of the quiet streets, stalking the poor unfortunates of this hamlet and some things you probably haven’t heard of stalk the outskirts of this place.  This book is a collection of stories about the strange beings that lurk on the edges of nightmares and reality in Recondite Hill.”

What?

This is a horror comic anthology set within the above mentioned bizarre town, Recondite Hill where all manner of strange things are rumored to happen. It is in essence a love letter to those weird local stories everyone hears tell of. Stories about monster sightings, unexplainable events and forbidden places. 

Where?

Where is Recondite Hill? Oh.. around the  South Western North Eastern region of the Americas. It’s up to you what the geography of the area looks like- likewise the town itself can look however you’d like too, it can be any size of settlement from tiny farm town to bustling suburbia, totally your call. 

When?

The when of the story is very much up to you as well, pre-colonization to near future is fine- we aren’t looking for hard sci-fi though so try to stay within ~5 years of this date.

Who?

For this anthology we will be focusing on stories about creatures, and by that I mean non-humanoid entities. This can be anything from slightly human shaped creatures (bipedal) to completely inhuman. What we aren’t looking for in this book are stories about human killers/stalkers, and human shaped monsters ( re: slightly altered human shapes like Sadako or Slenderman.)

Important Stuff:

APPLICATIONS ARE DUE BY 11:59 November 24th

Limit three submissions per applicant.

This is a comic anthology, please do not submit pitches for illustrations, prose, or poetry. 

This is a paid gig. Participants will be paid $10/per page. 

Please only submit pitches of your original creations, as much as I love creepypastas pitches about them will be automatically rejected.

Submit Here!

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So excited! This is the first year I'm going to follow the prompts , and I'm planning to make them all themed around @dave_pen_derr and I's vampire characters :3c #inktober2017 #inktober #artchallenge #october

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Hey everyone, been super busy with a lot of life junk- some good ; new house, new job. And some terrible- I'm one of the people affected by the equifax hacking... so it's been pretty eventful. Between all of this I've been slowly chipping away at commissions- this one has been finished and sent out already, hopefully it won't be delayed because of Irma... :/ #commission #furry #batsona #fruitbat #bat #watercolor #traditionalart

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A bad week comic... #comic #vent #ventart #5mindrawing

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currently reworking the site , sorry for the mess :I

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A teaser image for my entry in @dapper_cap 's #nomiddlesliders Zine. Trüllbus is coming for you and he's bringing DQ

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Another watercolor commission from FWA I'd forgotten to post o|-( these are paintings of the commissioners wolf Druid from dungeons and dragons. #fwa2017 #painting #watercolor #dungeonsanddragons #druid #wolf #fantasy #commissionedart #traditionalart #tabletoprpcharacter

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Here's a commission if forgotten to post ! This is from a fellow at FWA #traditionalart #illustration #watercolor #artistsofinstagram #commissionedart #instaart #painting #faun #satyr #fantasy #fwa2017 (at Atlanta, Georgia)

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Hey! It's been a while since I last posted, I've had a pretty hellish past month and a half so I haven't been doing much aside from classwork. I mad this as part of a assignment and thought I should share. #darksouls3 #art #fanart #medievalmanuscript #aldrichthedevourerofgods #lordofcinder #scadatlanta #watercolor #illustration #traditionalart #instaart #artistsofinstagram (at Atlanta, Georgia)

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Haven't been drawing much outside of commissions and schoolwork - and even that's taken a hit because of some pretty heavy stuff happening all in the span of a week and a half. So here is a couple of sketch cards I made for fun today - I went with @dappercap to fan fest down in Colombus and I made a couple cards for people down there too- unfortunately I didn't photograph any of those... anyway I've rambled enough hope you like the cards. #nitw #nightinthewoods #nitwmae #nitwgregg #nitwgerm #nitwbea #nitwangus If your interested in owning these drop me an email- they'll be going for $25 for the set.

[melgillman]

Grants, Fellowships, and Residencies for Cartoonists!

Hey comic-makers!  Looking for funding or short/long term studio space to help you make your comics?  I put together a list of grants, fellowships, and residencies with an established, positive track record for accepting cartoonists!  (There are also many, many arts grants/etc. out there that have not accepted any cartoonists yet, and I absolutely encourage you to apply for those too!  But I’ll be limiting this list to ones that already have demonstrated interest in comics.)

I’m sure there are ones I’m missing, so feel free to drop me a line if you know one I should add!  I’ll keep updating the list periodically :)

GRANTS

Creators for Creators

Cupcake Award

The Dash

Fund the Change

Grants for the Arts

Grants for Artist Projects (GAP)

Guggenheim Fellowship Grants

Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities  

PRISM Queer Press Grant

Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize

Society of Illustrators M Prize 

Speculative Literature Foundation

Sustainable Arts Foundation

FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES

Boston Public Library Writer-in-Residence

Catskill Center Artist in Residence

Comic Art Workshop

The Comics Workbook Rowhouse Residency

The Cornish CCS Residency Fellowship

Donaldson Writer-in-Residence

Inbound and Outbound TRANSIT

Kaunas Comics Residency

Maison des Auteurs  

Sitka Artist Residency

Sundress Academy for the Arts

Thurber House Graphic Novel Residency

Trailer Blaze Residency

Tulsa Artist Fellowship  

US National Parks Residencies 

Last update: 4/11/2017

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Happy earth day! Here in Atl with@dappercap at the #sciencemarchatl (at Candler Park Playground)