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Child-me was hilarious And also dyslexic. :P

[Image ID: A 3 panel comic, drawn on paper in a very sketchy simple cartoon style in pencil. The first panel shows a child with long hair looking at a paper in profile view. A caption that reads: Helo Mr. Koogarla, hu r u? I seam tow b iss selin eveiting. kan u elp? Meant to be read as “Hello Mr. Koogarla (uncertain if misspelled or not), how are you? I seem to be miss spelling everything. Can you help?” The second panel shows a teacher at a desk looking at the paper and the child looking up at him. He says “This is horrible” (horrible is miss spelt as “horrable”). The third pannel zooms in to the child again, and they say “You could say it’s my special language.” (special is miss spelt as “spesal”). End ID]

[Image ID: A 4 panel comic in the same style, with slightly cleaner lines. The first panel shows a child with long hair from behind, watching a box & antenna television on the floor. The television is indicated to say “The New and Improved-”. The 2nd panel is a front view of the child, looking to the side and saying “Mom can I have one?” The third panel, shows the child looking up at an adult with long shoulder-length hair from behind. Mom says “No”, and the child says “But you don’t even know what [it] is.” (The panel reads backwards and the word ‘it’ is not actually present) The fourth shows the mother facing the child, both in profile. Mom says “Neither do you” (neither is miss spelt as ‘neather’) and the child says “Good point.” End ID]

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*comes out as aspec*

*comes out as asepc*

*comes out as asepc*

*comes out as asepc*

Person: “So, have you got a boyfriend/girlfriend yet?”

Me *tired of continually coming out to The Same PeOPLE*

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Oh good it looks Much better under the flash.

(Painting in the dark with my tendency towards darker paints tends to make things.... hard.)

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what does >w mean ? is it supposed to be a face ?

>w<  face.

(tumblr likes to cut off the ‘<’)

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Can I please have a hug? I would like that very much.

Come ‘ere and lemme squish you.

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I saw your drawing of Patton with wings and PLEASE TELL ME HOW DO YOU DO CLOUDS?!?? TELL ME YOUR SECRET!

HEhehehehehe OK So there’s this tool called Airbrush (I use the free version of Sketchbook btw):

Very useful for fluffy soft things and shading. (I pretty much almost exclusively use Pencil and Airbrush and a select few custom brushes.)

I drew two different types of clouds So, here we go:

Cumulus:

light outline of the general shape (don’t use white. I suggest light grey, grey-blue, light pink/orange/purple, for various times of day/lighting. storm clouds are simular, but use dark grey, dark blue, dark purple, or, maybe, red or yellow all these color variations will change the mood and what time of day it might indicate. For Patton’s I used mostly light pink to indicate early morning/sunrise)

Fill lightly with differing weight throughout, let your intuition guide you honestly.

I then go to the lowest line weight in Sketchbook

and outline again

Using this general stroke pattern:

After that, I kinda just play around, fluff things up and add more definition and define where highlights are

(honestly, you can leave it here, depending on how dense you want your cloud to look.)

After that, I get a darker color (again usually not black or dark grey, a greyish-dark tone of whatever light color you had initially works very nice.) And fill in the areas that will have shading.

Clouds do follow the rules of 3D objects and shading, they’re just….in the sky. Depending on the time of day, the sun can hit them from behind, above or to the side. Know where the sun is and you know where to generally place the shadowing. Add the darkest shadows to the base of the cloud.

After that, I go back to either a very light color, or white, and add more highlights and fluffiness.

Cirrus (honestly these are my favorite kinda clouds?):

With these clouds, you’ll wanna start with a slightly darker color, and make some curvy lines.

bring in the highlight color and go back over a few areas

Then it’s time to break out the pencil tool! get a highlight color, and go over the highlight regions, in a somewhat similar pattern to the cumulus cloud.

Also doing this general pattern & light crosshatching works nicely on these.

That, and:

I have cloud-pen-tools downloaded. :P (although I usually use them as a base to build up on)