Create a Machine to Thrash Your Own Ass

Soooo, fun question for you 💜

Say I am HYPOTHETICALLY in talks with a company to run a limited edition limited time only Plushie campaign 👀

How many of you would buy a 20cm $29.99 plushie of your Sister Anemone to help make one of her biggest dreams come true? 🥹

I will be donating proceeds from the plushie to the Le Bonheur children's hospital charity foundation, so you will be basically getting a plushie for donating to charity~

oh we stan

start now. now. now now now. or else you'll never draw this damn thing

it's fine if you don't have the entire story figured out yet, it'll happen naturally

draw what you want to draw!! webcomics often run for years, so you better work with something you like

don't overcomplicate things. a simple, efficient work flow is your top priority in order to stay consistent

bullshit some things. trace background refs. reuse poses. draw your character's face from different angles and just copy paste it in to save time. be smart about your work baby

take breaks if needed. webcomic burnout is real

sometimes, a panel or a page looks bad. shit happens. move on

lettering is actually really important and super hard to pull off

it's your comic. do what you want forever!!!

I'm begging you again to work smart, not hard. reuse backgrounds. use brush sets for webcomic artists. trace 3D objects. use 3D models to pose your characters

you may need hours or days to draw one panel, but people will look at it for 5-8 seconds. keep that in mind

a simple background is better than no background at all (avoiding the white void increases the quality of your work by a ton!)

sometimes the anatomy needs to be a little off to make an interesting shot/panel. that's fine, don't worry about it too much

at least 2000px canvas and 300 dpi for good quality results

i get this question all the time. here are some tips

✨ commit yourself to working at least ten minutes a day.

now you might say, “adrienne that’s not a lot of minutes”, and you would be right. but it’s not about working only ten minutes. it’s about actually getting yourself started.

starting to work is hard. who wants to work on anything?? so give yourself a small goal. ten minutes. that’s easy. and then, most of the time, you’ll find out that you do want to keep working longer than ten minutes…!!! and so you work for longer. and you are doing it. and you’re happy.

and some days, you might really just work ten minutes. and that’s great, because you’re ten minutes farther than you were before

✨ give yourself constraints.

sometimes your idea or project might seem really big. there’s so different ways this could go! the vastness is scary!!! what should you do?!?!

and the answer is to give yourself some constraints. some rules to follow. maybe a run of your game can only be 5 minutes long. maybe you can only make sound effects with paper and nothing else. or maybe. your game can only be in black and white

and from those constraints, 1: you’ll feel like you have a path to follow, and 2: your project might??? usually be cooler??? because you’re trying something new!!! you’re doing something weird!!! you gave yourself a weird challenger or theme, and you’re building on top of it!!! maybe the whole world in your game sees in black and white. what does that mean about your world. wow

✨ show your friends

working on something in your corner might be fun. but sometimes it’s a bummer. and you might need some feedback, or at least some compliments…!!! then show it to your friends. there’s nothing better than getting excited about you and your friends’ projects

✨ never give up. unless you want to

take breaks

✨ get those references and good tutorials

I'm just a big sap who wanted an excuse to draw some cute neck kissing between these two, so I made a whole comic. Enjoy!