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DK, I’m an adult, any pronouns

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Mostly reblogs, sometimes original posts

Art blog: @drawing-mtp

Inbox is open, I'm a bit of a hermit but I do respond :)

(also your comics are really cute and they totally count)

Do you draw traditional, digital, or mixed media? Ever considered switching it up?

I currently use both traditional and digital media to make art generally, but comic-type things I mostly do digital because I enjoy the level of control and the ability to save my progress without leaving papers everywhere. But I only got my first drawing tablet when I was... 19? Okay, way longer than I thought! There's a certain level of improvisation with trad media though that can't be replicated on the computer, so what I draw traditionally tends to look very different from my digital art. I'm okay with that, but I don't really have the patience (or space. or time) to make too many physical comics atm.

Do you have an idea for a comic that you don't currently feel ready to tackle, but hope to pick up in the future?

There is a set of OCs I've had for a long time that I'd like to write about, but the nature of the comic I want to make with them would require writing extensively (and somewhat formally) in my second language, which despite studying and using it for half my life I don't feel confident enough to do on the internet. So it stays in the back burner for now.

Share a comic of yours you want to talk about more!

Originally answered here about a different comic but I also would like to talk again about this one a little bit. It's the longest thing I've made (or at least shared) so far and I have thoughts about it.

On the more self-critical end: I'm surprised it was well-received because it was very much written with little planning and took about five times longer than I originally thought it would. And it shows. If I were to do it again, I'd try to tighten up the story a little and plan better so that it feels more cohesive. I'd also spend more time on backgrounds, but I'm going to give myself a little grace for having had to improvise putting snow in a setting that does not get snow and for which I still hadn't totally solidified what I want the layout to look like. Baby steps.

That said, I do feel some of the most improvised panels were also the best-executed, particularly when it comes to facial expressions (I'm not a very emotive person irl so it's important to me to convey expressions as clearly as possible). You can't tell me this isn't hilarious:

I also learned a lot about how I could streamline the process for multi-page comics, and how to deal with more than two characters in a scene at a time, which is very difficult! So I'm glad to have spent some time practicing that in spite of the steep learning curve to put everything together. Hopefully, with perseverance, the next long comic will be slightly okay-er!