hey! your art is very very good and all of your comics are spectacularly laid out! are there any general tips or tricks you use for your art? ty!
Asked by Anonymous
thank you!!!!! im gonna give Two (2) tips about comics that helped me quite a bit in different ways!!! one about coloring stuff easily!!!! one about comic layouts!!!!!
First is!!! The Flatten+Multifill plugins for photoshop!!! They allow you to!!!! just copy your lineart!!! And it fills in the colors!!! All you have to do is bucket fill the actual colors you want!!! No more spending hours outlining your lineart and not coloring between the lines!!! im bad at explaining!!! here’s an example!!!
lineart!!!! what the heck do you mean i gotta color all those little parts!!!! thats gonna take me hours!!!!! so i duplicate my lineart!!!! put white under it!!!!
enter multifill!!!! bam!!!! i just click on the plugin and it does this!!!!! I dont have to color all those myself!!!! all i gotta do is use the bucket tool on those!!!!
then!!!! flatten plugin!!!! this one’s not free if its used on a big file but its so useful!!!! that way when i color in i dont have weird colored lineart!!!!
i havent had those for long but GOD it is. so useful. so fast. i cant wait to use it on my next long comic this is gonna save me HOURS perhaps even DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!
second tip!!! comic layout tip!!! I’m actually!!! real bad!!!! at comic layouts!!! well maybe im good at them but!!!! its not something that comes to me easily!!!! UNTIL!!!!!
i bought @millionfish comic FRUITCAKE (among…. many others…..) but THIS ONE IN PARTICULAR…. see this one has This Comic that is very good, but in the physical version it starts??? with them saying they designed a simple template for this comic that’s been the base for every comic they’ve made since AND I SHALL SHARE IT WITH YOU
like DUDE!!!! THREE GRIDS OF 2x4. YES. GOOD. LOOK AT THEIR COMIC, BACK AT THE TEMPLATE, BACK AT THE COMIC, BACK AT THE TEMPLATE.
ive used it for some comics!!!! look:
(reminder: rule of thirds, always good)
THIS IS……… SUCH A GOOD TRICK…. CHEAT…. TEMPLATE…… WHATEVER, so heckin useful, and now, my child, and i was given this knowledge and today on the day of your wedding i am passing on…. this knowledge….. to you
i cant tell which is my favorite part. the frantic pulling of the hose as its getting sucked into the sky like a spaghetti noodle, the random “OH YEAH BABY!”, or the guy just chuckin a rock into the fire tornado at the end as if that’s gonna show it who’s boss
Definitely the guy running towards the tornado with a rock, like a knight into battle.
Mythbusters ended too soon. I feel like The Cask Of Amontillado is exactly the myth they would have tested.
Like, figuring out how long it takes the mortar to dry. Finding the maximum amount of time before knocking down a recently built brick wall. Establishing the best place on a recently bricked wall to topple it and escape.
And then, doing all of that while drunk.
Mythbusters, you left us too soon.
actually, they made that episode – I have a copy of it in my basement, wanna see?
olaf is the prime example of a genuinely bad character who did a few good deeds in his life and doesnt get redeemed because of it. the baudelaires did not mourn for him. they buried him because to them, they felt thats what they should do. they still hated him. count olafs ending is not an excuse to crown him your “uwu precious angel who was misunderstood.” he is a bad person who had a few good moments. dont romanticize his abuse of the baudelaires just because he carried kit to the island.
I think they buried him because watching a corpse decompose is traumatizing and unhygienic. Plus it would not smell good at all.
Burying him was more their gift to themselves than any commentary on his worth as a character.
