#protip

[panashunic]

wanted to put more effort into this but im tired LOL pastel edit yugi punk edit ryou GO !!!!!

[jaypentaghast]

"Ah, nothing could hurt him now. Not dreams or plots. He was Armand's child."

[todays-xkcd]

We were going to try swordfighting, but all my compiling is on hold.

Crowdstrike [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[White Hat is addressing Ponytail, who is crouched on a moving office chair, holding onto a rope tied to Cueball, who is riding an electric scooter.] White Hat: Hey, aren't you supposed to be working on the— Ponytail: Sorry, that's all on hold today because of the CrowdStrike thing.

[Caption below the panel:] Protip: as long as you're not actually in charge of fixing the CrowdStrike thing, you can use this excuse for pretty much anything you want to do today.

[stevelieber]

Comics is a marathon, not a sprint

As a depressed younger artist, my storytelling sometimes suffered. I just couldn't conjure up the feelings & images that the story needed. Over time I found some strategies for staying professional even when I wasn't feeling it.

1. When too down to do justice to the stuff that needs energy, do other stuff. Taxes, erasing, booking travel, laundry, scanning.

2 Break down the job you can't handle into smaller jobs you can. Is the thought of a whole book too much? Thumbnail a page or a scene. Design a character. Ink backgrounds.

3. Bring in a helper. A collaborator or assistant doesn't just lighten the load. Their enthusiasm can be contagious. Increased momentum helps, too.

4. Learn to recognize your green kryptonite. For me, it was drawing tight pencils for someone else to ink. I was working with great people, but I just hated drawing a pic for someone else to redraw in their own line.

5. Embrace tools that make your job easier. I used to be anti-photoref. I drew a perspective grid for every gun or vehicle and constructed it anew. Using photoref and 3d models meant I could save all that time and energy, and use it for making better storytelling choices. Your energy is finite. Spend it wisely.

6. Understand the emotional goals for a page. "I need reader to feel scared along with Jimmy" vs "I need the reader to laugh at him being scared." I'll write those goals on a post-it as a way to remind myself what I'm aiming for. This helps when I have to steer towards a feeling via pure technique.

7. Improving my technical chops over the years helped a lot with this. When basic drawing was no longer a hurdle, I had more time and energy to conjure up feelings.

I recognize there's some danger in talking about this stuff. It's easy to believe that the only acceptable public face is that we're always excited, always operating at 100%.

Yeah. Right.

Every artist I've ever spoken to has had to deal with this. A comics career is a marathon, not a sprint. We all have our own ways to keep going.

[flowercrowndnp]

don't cry, craft

[ghoulish-art-tendencies]

“Two star-crossed lovers reaching out

To the beast

With many names”

- He Is by Ghost

[saylenatseaart]

TW: BLOOD!!

friendship is nothing without creativity!!!

[hollow-head]

Walmart sells men's size S mid-thigh length swim trunks, which fit if you usually wear a women's size S and don't want to suffer the indignity of women's bathing suit bottoms this summer.