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Chapter 7 of Drag Path written by @grim-hawkins

I'm speechless. you. you bring me joy

imagine my surprise when i crawl back outta my corner to post ch9 of drag path and suddenly there's a whole ass comic by the one and only melts, what the HELL and it's BEAUTIFUL it's literally everything i could've dreamt of

thank you for blessing us with this magnificence

so glad you like this comic I tried my best to do that beautiful scene justice 😭

Part 2 || Part 3

Hi everyone I made another... otnwas storyboard... I just really love this story okay

@jjackfrost I can never thank you enough for writing this 😭

credits:

Jack and Hiccup - @santathegrey

Snow Queen - @khaotiklly

Emily - Keeb

Hi thank you for the ask!!

I don't think I've consciously decided to work on efficiency as a skill? There's still things I do that are very inefficient (bad habits... and lack of knowledge about the programs I use... there's definitely tons of time-saving features I'm neglecting)

But as for efficiency in deciding what to prioritize when drawing, I think it might just be a sense you build up over time, like when you draw a character enough times you know what details/shapes are essential to keep and what's free to change. Doing timed gesture studies help with training your mind to put down only the shapes that give the most important information right away imo. Also live sketching in public, since people move fast you're left without the luxury of constant referencing and so you have to pick out key features super quick

When it comes to storyboarding, because there's so much drawing involved, you don't want to exert too much energy on redundant frames... though i still indulge too much sometimes o(-( anyways I don't think its so much choosing specific frames, it's more of drawing a new frame only when something new is happening. action -> reaction -> action and so on... and because the frames go by quick, it's important to keep everything instantly readable (there are ways to lead the eyes to where you want the viewer to look at through composition, background, poses, lighting)

@xiulric I did not see the third ask before posting asjkdfhsjddhf 🤦🏻‍♀️

ok for the flight sequence, I had a good understanding of how to draw toothless because I drew him obsessively as a teen (as well as hiccup and jack lol) and that's by studying screenshots and the artbook... Living with cats helped a lot too. I also looked up skydiving videos as reference.

I basically always do study sketches to get the hang of drawing a character. First drawing of them never looks right and that's normal even if it's embarrassing to look back on sometimes 😭

For kaeya's bartending animation I compiled a lot of reference videos and picked out the movements I wanted him to do, and then put the footage together. I reduce the frame rate of the footage to 12fps and have it on a corner of the canvas for reference while I draw (I don't trace over it because the anatomy/proportions wouldn't make sense on kaeya, and I still need to apply animation principles for the movement to feel smoother. I adjust the timing and spacing sometimes so it feels better)