#glitz babbles

[glitzbot]

Could u show how ur process of ur making comics? Its so stylized and charming im amazed at them 🥺

thank you so much, this is so sweet!! and sure! I'm happy to give you a lil peak behind the curtain at my process

under a cut cause I'm a rambler ✨

every comic of mine starts with a script first! it's not anything too fancy, mostly just the dialogue jotted down in a very inconsistent fashion, like so

and once the fun of writing some sassy stolitz banter is over, next comes the most difficult part imo... thumbnailing the layout

the thumbnail is just a messy ass sketch of basic bitch shapes to work out where I think everything is gonna fit. it's probably not very legible to anyone but me. I mean just look at this shit

once I got that down, I scale it up to fit the page and lower the opacity. then before I do any proper sketching, I get that text in there. oooooh yeah! do those text and speech bubbles and panel borders first babes, TRUST ME. that shit's a time saver

then you can sketch AROUND the speech bubbles, instead of having to sketch -> add text -> oh shit the text is bigger than I thought, now I have to alter the sketch -> rinse repeat on multiple panels and cry

so after that, I'll do a first pass sketch but like yikes I got so damn lazy with one?? wow. it's not always like this I promise

here's an example of another first pass sketch as PROOF, sometimes there's more detail

aaaaanyway if I'm in a real rush, I'll skip to inking, but USUALLY I like to do a cleaner second sketch first like so. it makes inking waaaaaay easier

so yeah after THAT comes the inking. it's usually all in black (I color the lines at the very end, typically) but I did not feel like undoing all my hard work for this screenshot sowwy

after it's all nice and inked, I color using the typical comic book flatting method. flatting is easily the most boring part, but alas, it must be done

I use the fill bucket tool in Clip Studio Paint all on the same layer and yeah the colors look wonky as shit right? that's cause it doesn't matter what colors you use, you just have to be able to grab the areas you want later using the magic wand tool (so you can see all the backgrounds on each panel are a different color to keep them separated, for example)

and that's what I do! after the flats are done, I create a new layer and use the magic wand tool to select and color each area properly. minimal shading, because I hate rendering most of all, so I keep the colors pretty flat! I color in some lines after that and call it good!

I hope this was insightful in some way and made sense! I don't know if I'm any good at explaining things, so if you'd like more clarity on anything, feel free to ask and I'll try again! 💖

[glitzbot]

OK I'm going to start cross-posting my art here, sooooo everyone who's following me for transformers art... I am apologizing in advance (more TF art in the future IS possible, it's just not what I've been drawing lately)

excuse the mess while I reorganize some things, change my icon, etc

PLEASE feel free to unfollow, no hard feelings! but if you do decide to stay, THANK YOU and I hope you like stolitz helluva boss

[glitzbot]

HAHAH I WISH I was some kind of time wizard, but the truth is I have been drawing these stolitz comics since March and just never got around to posting them here

[glitzbot]

I don't know if anyone is really still following me considering I basically left this blog to sit here and collect dust...

BUUUUT that's okay!

I wanna revive it anyway, I miss putting my art and ideas out into the void that is the internet.

And I've fallen back into Transformers lately, so it just feels right. Also Twitter sucks lol

So if anyone's still here, PREPARE yourself! or feel free to dip out, it's all good!

[glitzbot]

I've been inactive here for a long while, but I gotta say, I'm really missing tumblr lately

how're you all doin over here? ♡(.◜ω◝.)♡

[glitzbot]

sounds like it’s possible to recover your blog even if it does get deleted, but I haven’t plugged the other places you can find me in a long time anyway SO!!

I’m also on twitter and instagram if anyone would like to follow me there as well  ˚ʚ(´◡`)ɞ˚˙

[glitzbot]

still thinkin about that last ask and YOU KNOW WHAT I’m just gonna go ahead and try to color in Sai in the same style I do for PS. stay tuned

[glitzbot]

sooo for those who are (understandably) leaving this site, here’s another reminder of where else you can find me:

twitter | instagram | etsy