#lammergeir

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Mount Kazbegi, as viewed from the town of Stepantsminda, Georgia

Taken March 2025

[knighthearts]

Hi! I've been wondering, could you ever show examples on how you make your thumbnails and even comics? I've been aspiring to create my own but i've no clue how to make them good-- most especially not as good as yours!

sure!  i can try

first off i wanna preface this by saying i have the script fully completed before starting thumbnails!  while writing the script, i try to picture in my head how i want the shots to go so i have sort of an idea of how to do the thumbnails when i get to them

i’ll use doppelganger chapter 3 for this example:

now my thumbnails are pretty clean, but yours dont have to be!  in fact, i recommend doing them as quickly as possible; theyre not meant to be clean sketches for the full page. theyre supposed to help you figure out layouts of panels and speech bubbles and stuff!  so you can be as messy as you want as long as you understand what’s going on and are able to use it when sketching the full pages

i generally try to thumbnail a chapter at a time but sometimes thats hard because i go REALLY slow when working on thumbnails. its just hard for me for some reason; thumbnails are the hardest part for me because i have to think up and draw everything from scratch. full pages are easiest because i already have thumbnails as a starting point and all i have to do is basically trace over my thumbs (and clean them up ofc)

oh also!  i tend to put things on different layers. the page border goes on one layer, speech bubbles on another, panel lines on another, the actual character/panel sketches on another, and backgrounds on another!  it seems a little complicated but it helps me keep everything organized for when i copy/paste onto the full page

overall these shouldnt take much effort and should go by fairly quickly!  honestly dont be like me LMAO i make things too clean. im trying to get better at that 

if there’s anything else u wanna ask about feel free!  i hope this helped some!

[sgpsketch]

SGP Series 1 #90

...and CUT!

Yup, that’s where the comic stopped. I dunno, I just never got the hang of battles, for some reason. I mean, look at all that empty space I just threw away! I’m the same with movies--I often tune out if it’s too much more complicated than Inigo vs. the Man in Black.

In contrast, I skip to the racing sequences in Speed Racer, and the pod race is the only part of The Phantom Menace that holds my attention. Maybe I should draw a racing comic??

COMING SOON: Initial SGP

[sgpsketch]

SGP Series 1 #101

I never said this dude could count =p

[sgpsketch]

SGP Series 1 #89

I spent a few hours(!) translating this into Japanese, including Kansai dialect =p

Thanks, Grandma and Grandpa, for not teaching Dad the language so he could teach me, vs. me struggling to learn years after it’s even remotely easy to absorb!

(I actually don’t know if it’s correct--no one has bothered to “well, actually” or @ me)

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Bearded Vulture or Lammergeir

Gypaetus barbatus

Gypateus translates into Vulture-Eagle, it's the only species in the genus. Barbatus means bearded. 

Family: Accipitridae (majority of diurnal birds of prey)

Fun Fact: Bearded Vultures are carnivorous, but the majority of their diet are bones (85%) they also feed on carrion while younger. They are cold blooded killers dropping tortoises and small mammals from great heights, as well as forcing large mammals off cliffs. They then wait for other predators to pick the carcass dry so they can enjoy the bones. They have an extremely strong ph for stomach acid allowing them to digest bones in less than a day. They have been known to take large bones to ossuaries, which are designated places they drop their bones too big to swallow releasing the bone marrow. 

Habitat: Desert and mountains ranging from Southern Europe to Central China including parts of North Africa and the Himalayas. 

Ecosystem Role: They help keep their ecosystems clean by feeding on rotting flesh. They also kill animals that feed other predators and eat the remains they won't touch.

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