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I use Photoshop on my pc! And yep since they used to work together(?), they'd have some of the same tools.

@cheat-codesans

Thanks so much!! Also thanks to everyone else too for the hugs <'3

@proctor-dorkchop

@eaudecrow​ @chatxkilluaxnoir​

I’m so sorry I’m getting to these so late, my brain wanted to organize the thoughts regarding to this topic first, but I decided to start typing it out and will try my best to explain my process to you!

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I had an idea one day which was something like “US!Pap dressing up as UT!Pap” that became “A skelebro impersonating the other”, which resulted in this phone doodle in April 2016 (and then later considered a sans version)

Then I wanted to make it into a story, so I began to think of some sort of a beginning, and an end, which are kinda easier to think of than the middle part. In fact I’m probably still thinking of how to make the middle better haha

I knew from the start that I wanted to do a crossover between Underswap and Undertale, and have a skelebro from one universe impersonate the other. And for trippy, inter-universal travel to happen, I had to think of a reason for Swap to activate his time machine, which is usually a last resort.

So here I figured out and established a setting that I wanted to start off in:

Starts in Genocide route in UnderSwap/Undertale where Frisk/Chara doesn’t return. US!Papyrus lost his US!Sans to Frisk. He killed them but now he's moping around, waiting for them to RESET... but nobody came. (Well... he did say if Frisk truly was their friend, they wouldn't come back.) There's no RESET. US!Sans never comes back home. No one does.

Which left me with this summary for the story:

“US!Papyrus snaps in his timeline and accidentally travels to UT where he ______.”

At this point I didn’t know how I’d end it, but I knew I’d loosely follow a route in Undertale where he’d end up [REDACTED], so it wasn’t like I was working completely from scratch in the first place for this story. I was never good at making things up from scratch, so working off of something that already exists i.e. doing fanart makes it easier. At the same time, I didn’t want to be unoriginal, which is hard haha ;;

Since he was going to the classic UT universe, I knew he’d have to interact with the characters there along the way before he finally reached the end.

So while keeping all that in mind, I finished typing a first draft of the entire story.

Yes, I typed the ENTIRE script for the comic before I started drawing anything.

Which, honestly? ...I think you’re supposed to do??

But when you’re young and just starting off comics, it’s easy to be impatient and to want to just work off the top of your head as you draw your comic...

I literally can’t do that though, as proven by my old comics that I never got around to drawing more than 2 pages of before I didn’t know where I was going. It’s also why I’m terrified of attempting the kinds of tumblr comics that swerve based on asks from people haha! I really admire the people who are able to do so.

I actually typed all these early thoughts here when I posted the first SwapOut page

Anyway after typing the first draft of the script, I finally let myself start the thumbnails. My script was divided into how much I thought would fit in a comic page as I typed, so I drew a thumbnail based on each divided section.

For example :

(these thumbnails are usually posted in the $2 tier on my patreon!)

The way I type my scripts is not standard at all, so if I know how I’ll draw them, I type their actions with their dialogue mashed together x’D But usually I’ll just type the dialogue by itself and keep going, spacing them out for each page. Also it’s good to arrange them so it helps the page flow naturally reading from left to right. (same with drawing as well!)

After that, I kinda use the thumbnail directly as a sketch nowadays (cos i’m a lazybones) and go straight into doing lines (or a more detailed sketch if the thumbnail is too rough/vague)

And that’s pretty much it! It took me a while to choose a page for an example haha but I think this is one of my favourites

As for Chapter 5, all the new pages were actually the scenes with Swap blasting his blaster! They weren’t originally planned in the script but I wanted to add more to the comic rather than him just enter the void and get out haha

I think a page probably takes me two days if I already have the thumbnail ready and I’m working on it straight without breaks, but I’ve been doing more of those which honestly makes my life on this a little easier (less grumpy and more relaxed yes please)

Again sorry this took so long to reply to! I’m also thinking of doing a more detailed tutorial thing for my Patreon but I feel like I already explained most of it here haha ;; Maybe more red flow line examples of my pages? idk

thank you very much ❤️ think i’m struggling a bit more mentally nowadays and my back acts up every now and then still but... i’ll keep chugging.

thank you again!

aw you guys <’3 thank you so much for loving my work! i always hope i’m doing enough whenever i do post them ;w;

i usually update Sundays 11.45AM/8.30PM EDT whenever i have a page //

@pigster-derpington​

i guess it was a “what if” situation? xD it was back when undertale comics like Aftertale and Insomnia were going on and it made me want to finally do one of my own.

i think it was after i finished typing Gotta Go Under (a sonic x undertale fanfic) that i wanted a new project to keep me busy. at one point i started wondering, “what if one skelebro dressed like the other?” which then became “what if one... impersonated the other??” and doodled this early concept on my phone. (i do know about the glitch with the ghost papyrus tho haha!)

i’ve always loved comics and had some practice in it, including in school. back then i already knew it was crazy to do a full comic based on this simple concept cos it was predictable but... i knew i wanted to at least finish one long comic at least once in my life. the script has now evolved leaps and bounds from the first draft i typed four years ago, cos i just keep working on it all the time, even now aha come to think of it, i put SwapOut’s anniversary on sonic’s birthday :wheeze: whyy did i do that but wow time flies when you don’t have time to do SwapOut ;;

again thank you everyone for sticking around and reading this drawn-out comic! thankfully i have somehow finished another page ready to go this sunday. no guarantee i can keep up any kind of pace, so i really appreciate all of you for your patience ♥

Aw thanks! I always loved the concept that a Papyrus would still care about a Sans, no matter what universe they’re in.

As for Sans’ powers, Swapper here was stunned by Sans’ arrival, more by the fact that his ‘brother’ is alive rather than his powers, but he probably had some time to rewire his brain to remember that Sans would have teleportation and such in this universe like he does before he had to properly respond to him haha. I feel Blue wouldn’t have teleportation powers, seeing that Swapper has that role in their universe already.

I used to stream almost weekly back when I worked on pages regularly but it got exhausting and now I stream when I can, which is pretttyyy random and spaced out. Glad to know people enjoy them though! I’ll try to do them a bit moree

@stupidtoiletbrick @oivatank

Yes, maybe and yes :D For real tho if you’re talking about the Sans Comic TV dub, part 7 is already up apparently! It’s short sadly because they’ve near caught up with the latest pages, but it’s still amazing!

@akami-yamazaki @helloiamatrashcanboi

HAHA imagine a multicoloured gaster omg he’d look so whack Gaster is such a mysterious entity, all we see him as is he’s kinda all black and white so imagine the complete opposite *wheeze* As of typing this I’ve heard he’s an easter egg in Deltarune so his appearance is kinda confirmed?? But I personally haven’t seen it yet haha

And yeah he probably would’ve stood at attention under normal circumstances lol

@azy-arty​ @pinkiepie1117 

Aaaa thanks azy!! Absolutely love your art! Hope you’re still doing well, this is superrrrrrrrr late ;;;

I’m trying t o sleep earlier and still failing epicly a year+ later, it’s p much the only way a slow person like me can get anything done ;;;;;

First of all:

Sorry it takes me SO long to get to thesee its literally been more than a YEAR. I’m not good at replying in general but it’s also majorly because of how tumblr works. I prefer to keep my blog in such a way that you wouldn’t have to scroll too much to see a recent page (also it’s easier for me too) or get a whole buncha notifs from me answering a whole buncha individual asks.

I’ve literally had these on my mind for months now and I keep putting them off cos its such a big chunk to organize and answer. I’d end up working or getting distracted a billion times, gotta find some way to fix this... maybe a separate blog for SwapOut pages? Maybeee. Anyway!

Not at all! There are AWESOME dubs of SwapOut already!  As long as you credit me and put links back to my tumblr/dA/etc in the description/video, feel free! And share em with me so I can see them too!

Iiiii assume you were talking about this page *wheeze*

@oivatank​ @mistytheguardian​

The duo in all their gloryy

@pe0pleallergy-2​ @approximately12lbs-of-ducks​ @pinkiepie1117 @jesse-aster​ @nopersdopers​ @tkskull93

Ahaa thank you so much everyone!! QwQ Glad you love how I’m drawing things!! I’m just trying my besttt \;;w;;/ 💖💖

@erakin​ @superblueluver​ @samdragona 

Much thanks! I wish I had all these good things on my wall somewhere so I can see them and remember them and keep pushing onnn

There’s gonna be another BIG influx of asks I’ll reply to, along with more recent asks (and also bday wishes from last month) so look out for those it’ll prob take another long while also I suck at this so much aaaaaAAAAAAA hope when I finally catch up on these I’ll actually reply to asks as they come in somehow

at this point i’m just showing all you lovely people from my old inbox haha thanks everyone for your asks!

ayy anon i think i googled how to do it, had something to do with editing the html of your blog theme!

also @yeehowdy-2-point-0 ‘s reaction to this page *wheeze*

aw thanks anon!! we haven’t done anything like a collab from what i recall but i’ve drawn a thing or two for them in the past <3

@cryptologicalmystic HAHA i honestly didnt consider this but it probably did happen in some way!

@dragonlover1128  answered this in a previous ask! they were swap’s! sorry i forgot to put this together!

@anon in that page, swap starts off sympathizing with “pap” for being treated unfairly which went into him asking if he could smoke. he probably took the scarf flip as a coincidental “response” and was amused by it, whether it was really pap or not, he doesn’t mind. he might’ve just needed to get things off his chest and goes on talking to pap as if he’s there.

@akami-yamazaki RAD!! i bet it will |’3c altho honestly, i forgot how much echo flowers could repeat back owo;;; we’ll see how i’ll carry that out later!

@anon aw thanks and i’d imagine so! but im not completely sure what it would be, i haven’t seen anyone else state what it is either. if i had to guess, maybe it’d be something like a dessert... strawberry shortcake?

@anon yes haha

@oivatank *whEZ* i’ll buy that!

@delightedrabbit​ @kirango-rouge​ @8unnylover​ @superblueluver​ @metasactreon​ @skythealmighty​ @anon @anon @anon @anon @anon @anon @anon

as always thanks everyone for your well wishes and kindness!! ❤ appreciate it immensely <3 im not sick rn thankfully, hope it continues that way!

believe me, it’s just as hard for me as it is confusing to you guys! *wheeze*

but yes, currently in SwapOut, Chara (aka the current kid in Underswap) is being taken over, or possessed(?), by Frisk (aka the first human in Underswap).vice versa for Frisk in Undertale!

whether the current kid from Underswap is actually a good or bad one… well. we’ll have some backstory to show it, but it’s at the very end haha.also remember that Swap calls his kid “Frisk” because he’s never heard Chara’s name till now, having done purely genocide runs all this time.

as for the “player” element (i.e. us), i don’t currently have it written in the whole script… it would make it more interesting but i wrote it this way just to keep the story simple enough for me to execute as best as i can…. which means its also cos i’m not good enough at writing to do that kinda story *whez*

but even though the first human is named after the player in the game, like how the player controls Frisk the human around Undertale, they control Chara in Underswap… so for SwapOut you can assume that… Chara’s the player… this is so confusing does this make sense i know the player = the first human in the game but… ???? this is spiraling but hope you get what i mean!!

anyway new page in 15 mins!!