Muffin

@malicemuffin.bsky.social

Art, magical girls, comics, and space. https://malicemuffin.tumblr.com/

You will be ahead of so many comic artists if you learn lettering. Even if you don't plan to be a pro letterer, it goes a long way in improving your composition when you're considering how the reader's eyes will travel through the page. It's part of comics grammar. Just doing this goes a long way 👇

"Arrange speech into a diamond shape. Small words and phrases on the top and bottom, big phrases and words in the middle." This is visually represented by soft purple horizontal lines in a diamond/kite shape.
Katie Croonenberghs Art@kamakru.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hey artists, let's share some helpful things in the community :) 🎨 What's one tip or trick you would give a new artist in your chosen medium? (Or just in general!)

“I better not write this thing I love, or else jerks might interpret it the worst way possible—” Fun fact: if you ever hear this voice, you are legally allowed to beat it to death with mental hammers.

So, we need to talk about webtoons(the company) has done to webcomics Over the past 7 or so years, we've seen this absolute shift in expectation, migration, and stagnation in the webcomics sphere which applies to style, sustainability, and the platforms grip on readers and creators

Io! Didn't feel like rendering her amo box or gun. She shows up in the latter half of chapter one. This is the third time I've redesigned her and I think I'm finally happy with the result.

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I changed chapter one around so now I need to finalize the design for two Celestials 😭 Here's the Celestial Kochab! I really hate coloring but I figured out a color scheme just in case I make colored chapter covers. Next up I gotta design Pherkad who is... A Man. I have not drawn men in years..

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Making a comic is like. Wow I'm having so much fun! Oh no the character is off model. Fuck I have to draw Scenery. I love drawing comic pages. I hate drawing comic pages. Everything I make is awesome. Everything I make sucks. Phew finished this page! On to the next. Wow I'm having so much fun! Oh n

it's that time of year where I frantically throw away all my story outlines and start from scratch I think I need to reach out to writer/artist friends and brainstorm so I'm not just stewing in indecision.