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comicaurora · 2 years

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Hello Red! I'm happy to say you've inspired me to start drawing comics, but the biggest issue I've encountered is that it takes actually forever. I'm always really happy I did it when I'm done but it's hard to convince myself to start when I know a couple panels is gonna take me days. So I was wondering if you had any advice regarding streamlining the process for time efficiency or keeping up motivation for long projects, and, if you remember, how long a page took you when you first started vs how long it takes now?

Hoo boy. Yeah, I can help out with that. The very first page of the comic took me, if I'm recalling correctly, a full week. No other projects or pages, just this.

A lot of work went into details that are frankly impossible to see, though I am still glad I did it, both as a learning experience and because I felt like I owed it to Vash to do it some justice before I squished it in twelve pages.

Hell, if you look closely, you can even see the cavalcade of little visual errors I missed because I didn't have it in me to do a seventeenth cleanup pass after a week straight of drawing tiny houses. Getting faster meant I'd have more energy left to polish the pages and get them looking nicer.

The process of getting faster has been kind of a fits-and-starts situation. Drawing that many humanoid figures over and over again eventually means you just get better at the parts you're less sure of, so the process of lining the pages has gotten rather faster since I don't need to burn as much time getting the character poses and lines right. Currently, depending on page complexity, I can fairly consistently get 3-5 pages fully lined in one night. Backgrounds have also gotten faster, and I tend to do those in large batches, sometimes filling out entire chapters with location backgrounds and skyboxes because the scene location isn't going to change and that makes it easier to keep it consistent.

Initially my backgrounds were both more complicated and worse-looking, which is a bad combination.

I ended up deciding between chapters that painstakingly lining a bunch of background trees probably wasn't worth the effort, and worked on finding a shortcut that would work better. I ended up doing something a little more lineless, a shortcut I initially discovered because I didn't want to plug in my drawing tablet and was playing around with things I could do with just my trackpad.

It was simpler, faster, not too jarring, and it meant my clearly-lined foreground figures were more naturally visually separated from the distant background. Win-win-win.

For the style of coloring I do, I tend to shade before I add color, though this is a shortcut I didn't figure out until something like chapter 6. This process is also pretty fast, all things considered, though I've had a lot of practice doing this kind of cel shading which is why I can hammer out a lot of pages' worth of shading quite quickly.

I like working in batches of about one scene, often broken up into subgroups of 4-6 pages at a time, so I can't give a front-to-back turnaround for an individual page - but I also think this kind of assembly-line process has sped up the process overall and makes it more fun for me, because I can storyboard basically as far in advance as I want to, which in turn makes it easier for me to motivate myself to keep going, because I know there's all kinds of good stuff I'm looking forward to drawing down the line. There's some good shit I'm excited for in Chapter 21, and bursts of enthusiasm on the storyboard end of things often translate to enthusiasm on the page-finalizing end which makes it easier to slog through even the tedious bits.

As a bonus, working ahead means the story's got a better chance of making sense and having good pacing when it's read back as an archive. Another win-win.

Overall the greatest optimization tool I can recommend is just working on the project. There's no better way to identify the parts that feel unnecessarily slow and could be changed, or the parts of your art you're unsure of that need polish to get more speedy. If you're planning on publishing the comic anywhere, I recommend building up a buffer beforehand - something like the first chapter (or in my case, first three chapters) will give you a very good sense of what parts need more practice or improvement as you move forward. And it is genuinely easier to motivate yourself to continue if you have an audience giving you positive feedback and/or panicking at what you're doing to their darlings.

#asks #art stuff #writing stuff

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buddhaamitabha · 4 months

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Recently begin adulting more. I got a job so I haven't been active as much as I wanted too, been a little quiet other than occasionally reblogs, but I'm still in the groove of things in terms of artwork. Still drawing, sometimes writing little things.

Thankfully, it hasn't taken that much of a physical or mental toll on me, just tired most of the time, but nothing ridiculous or anything like that!

Aww, it's OK if you don't have any Buddha stuff. Don't you dare feel guilty! The fac that you're feeding us any stuff at all is a blessing. Your stuff is worth waiting for. *throws money at you like your on a striper pole*

AWE AMIGO! I'm just a little mrrpy meow meow, please your compliments will strike me dead!

OOOOOOOOOO adulting is so hard hah, I hope you're catching some breaks whenever is possible! taking a long and nice breather every now and then should be mandatory /hj

WORD? You did more of those cute Vash drawings??? Or for another interest maybe? I'm glad it hasn't killed the creative drive!!!

The muses are too whimsical sometimes fr,

I'M SO GUILTY, I WANNA ART LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW but I have so much to do it feels like a never ending list I SWEAR rabbid artist noises

Still, can't do anything about it until I'm in a better place 🤷‍♂️

NOT THE POLE DANCING ASHBAHHAHAHAHAH non-ironically I've roleplayed as a stripper once it was stupid funny 🏃

Uhu like you'd mind being sent straight to either Hades or Poseidon, I'm guessing heh /j

Never stop being this lovely, I still think about those questions and drabbles you sent back in my other account! A shame I lost them, I might browse your blog to find the precious' sometime soon 👀

#talking #I swear everyone I meet here is so sweet even when we don't click very well after a while #I APPRECIATE THIS FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT

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asthecrowrambles · 10 months

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having oc thoughts and it'll be a while until i start writing it or drawing it out so. yeah! plot so far..

it starts in a world that's essentially filled with magic (named superpowers after old comics) in a sci fi thing after some radioactive thing started mutating everything on the planet but that's not really the point (more world building to be done, u might see this idea scrapped)

and there's this big company called whitecliffe industries running a lot of things on earth after rich ppl jumped ship to "live among the stars"(?). they steal the work of tala magboo bc they're intrigued by the fact that her AI displays signs of budding superpowers and after a while of fucking with the code, jackass and ellen are split from it :} sorta. idk. not a coder<3

anyways typical government experiment running free after years of abuse in the name of science, the twins escape

stuff happens, they get separated, jackass splits off and makes friends and ellen... doesn't :). well, she does find preston half dead in a sewer after being attacked by another escaped experiment (a parasite that lives in her eye socket)

stuff happens, jackass at first cool with supervillainy that ellen proposes as a way to get revenge, but due to morality being swayed by friends and also the horror of murder he backs out

ellen gets bitter, stuff happens, she and peter fuck(?) more stuff and OH NO jackass killed in virus addled anger :( but this is where ai superpowers from earlier??? kick in???

i haven't figured it out Yet but my thought is that jacks death jumpstarts ellens superpower, and she unconsciously uses both it and jacks power to create a timeloop

the thing about it is that she Forgets, just like everyone else so things keep repeating

but as time goes on and time becomes more compressed and folded in on itself, the previous realities sorta? bleed through? and memories come back more and more?

i want it to end happy with a character corruption then healing arc for ellen as she realizes that actually Friends Are Good and Don't Lash Out At People You Love (Because You Might Kill Them). idk? its hard to explain but like. think knives and vash sorta thing except ellen only wants to kill a company's worth of humans and not every human ever

#IDK. THINKING ABOUT THEM #anyways just wanted to share this :}#maybe give a Bit more context to my little guys..#i might take outt the time loop aspect but who knowg.#also jackass dying might be triggered by smth else?#mostly just thought the cain and abel instinct would be fun ^_^#crow rambles #aurumocs #my ocs

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100wordanime · 6 years

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There’s no doubt that Madhouse is a bit of a powerhouse when it comes to producing anime. They’ve got a large number of fairly big titles under their belt and the quality of so many of their productions is undeniable. That isn’t to say they don’t have any misses and those will need to be looked at eventually, but today is about celebrating my favourite five titles by Madhouse and this was one hard list to put together because I really did want to add a lot more than five. Ultimately I’ve tried to assemble titles that I think represent the range of shows that Madhouse has out there as well as ones that are truly just fun to watch.

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As always, I’d love to see what you would include on your list so be sure to leave a comment below with your favourite madhouse anime.

Please note: There will be spoilers below.

Honourable mentions: No Game No Life and Death Parade.

Number 5: The Irregular at Magic High School

This anime title didn’t have the broad appeal that a lot of Madhouse’s titles have but if you happen to like the story this anime is a really good one to watch. For a magic highschool setting this anime pulls out all the stops crafting a believable world where magic has been integrated with technology and with Madhouse’s attention to detail and great animation has really been brought to life in a truly beautiful manner. Whether the spells are simple or complex, the end result is gorgeous to watch and the fights are exciting and fluid. I really enjoyed this anime for its world building and I think I’m glad that Madhouse was behind this one because in the hands of a different studio it may have ended up decided less than impressive.

Number 4: Ore Monogatari (My Love Story)

I really love My Love Story because of its quirky take on the traditional high school love anime, but again I think part of what makes this show so special is the way it has been put together. The story itself is interesting but without the visuals and animation there was every chance this show would fall flat. Yet every scene draws you into the show and the characters and ultimately watching this is a pure joy.

Number 3: Trigun

This is one of those shows where the story takes awhile to get going so it is a good thing we have fantastic visuals (even if they are a little dated looking by today’s standards) and some really fluid animation to keep us engaged in the early stages where the show presents like a screwball western. Once the story gets going and the transition to dark sci-fi kind of takes over it is impressive how the show manages to remain cohesive but all in all, this is one of those slightly older shows that is worth watching. Vash the Stampede is a hilarious and tragic character who will often leave you scratching your head but when you get right to the end he will step up when needed.

Number 2: ACCA

No surprise that ACCA made my list given it was one of my favourite shows in 2017. It is a slightly off-beat political thriller (kind of) but also has a very laid back tone. Anyway, it all could have been a big mess and yet it became an anime that really held my interest assisted by its distinct visuals and very cool jazzy sound-track. While I wouldn’t describe ACCA as beautiful, it is quite a distinct looking anime and the animation suits the style fairly perfectly. It isn’t as flashy as some of the other titles on the list with less in the way of actual action to show off the fluid animation madhouse has a reputation for, but it certainly has style.

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Number 1: Death Note

Alright, it is a little bit older and from an animation point of view again there aren’t the impressive physical fights to show off just how great it is, and yet this show managed to make writing in a book look intense and amazing and created a visual tone that carried even the weaker parts of the story to fairly lofty heights (there’s a reason this anime is on most people’s must watch lists). With an opening that grabs your attention and is filled with visual symbolism echoed within the show itself (at least the first opening, let’s not discuss the second), and an intensity to every scene that is hard to come by with so many shows striving not to take themselves seriously, Death Note is well and truly worthy of my number one spot on this list even if the second half of the series isn’t exactly flawless.

And that is my list for this week but be sure to check back next week for a new list, or you can check out all of my Top 5 lists here. For now though, I’d love to know what you’ve put on your list.

Thanks for reading.

Karandi James

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