One Hundred And One Art Styles

Earth was doing just fine with a mostly nitrogen/carbon dioxide atmosphere and everyone was happy to go on living in anaerobic bliss and then cyanobacteria suddenly hit the scene, altered the atmosphere composition so that there was a ton of oxygen gas and killed practically everything (97% or more of all species on earth).

They decriminalized ALL drugs. Every single one. Yes, even that one. If you get caught w. more than a 10 days supply (what ever that means) of any drug you meet in front of a Doctor, Lawyer and Social worker about drug addiction. They may or may not give you a fine but essentially there’s no penalty.

AND IT WORKED! ADDICTION RATES DROPPED. HIV RATES IN INJECTION USERS DROPPED. DEATH BY DRUG OD PLUMMETED.

but then suddenly ZOOP

I SURE DO. there’s a lot to cover, so these are just the must reads (and a couple that maybe aren’t… really essential at all but are super enjoyable nonetheless).

as robin: 

robin: year one

the new teen titans 

batman: dark victory

two face and scarecrow: year one

teen titans: year one

as nightwing:

the tales of the teen titans (the judas contract story arc specifically)

batman: year three

batman: a lonely place of dying

nightwing (it’s a long mixed bag of a series, so if you don’t want to read every issue i’d just rec volumes one and two to learn the essentials, and then tomasi’s run (v1 and v2), which is my favorite)

also maybe gotham knights if you’re interested in the bat family

as batman:

prodigal

batman: long shadows

batman and robin

black mirror

gates of gotham

The Evolution of Wonder Woman

going through my old art gave me so much embarrassment, I hope you’re happy. i don’t want to hear anyone say anything about the things I used to be interested in, is that clear??

Alright, I started drawing when I was 11 with a series of comics called Aje Ville. 

This is the front page to the first comic of it. Obviously, I didn’t know how to draw (or spell) well back then, and all I ever drew were stick figures. I have like 7 notebooks full of this comic series. I worked on it for about a year and a half.

I think every young artist goes through a phase where they draw like this.

Then once I stopped making Aje Ville, I got into The Penguins of Madagascar and made comics for that (literally I had to go through stacks and stacks of Penguins of Madagascar angst comics, it was awful). 

About maybe a year later, I started changing the style to something simpler. 

And as time went on, the style got cutesy. At this point, it had been about a year and a half since I started drawing penguins.

Eventually, I got tired of The Penguins of Madagascar, and I started making my own stupid af comics again for a short while. I had a problem, though. Since I had only been drawing penguins, I had barely any practice with drawing people.

Just as I was entering high school, I got into Homestuck, and it’s also the same time I got my first tablet and started digital art.

And then for some reason I started drawing in this horrible style that I hate with super long, thin necks and super wide shoulders and ugh I just do not like it. Also I started to use color pallets for the first time.

At the very end of my freshman year, I started getting into Hetalia and when I drew it, I tried to draw in a semi-anime style which was just a terrible, awful idea.

After that, I started drawing in a cutesy cartoony-chibi style.

Then there was a time where I started making half-assed semi-portraits.

And I started going back to the kinda anime style but it looked less awkward.

Then I started doing a more cartoonish style.

Then I started doing really cartoonish styles.

Then I flipped it back and started using a more realistically-proportioned style.

And then I took the last 2 styles and pretty much just mixed them together. I still draw in this style.

However, more recently, I’ve been drawing with palettes again.

voice off camera: Hey, Ron.