#webcomics day

Happy #WebcomicDay! To celebrate, We've released a full behind-the-scenes breakdown of visagecomic.com. Check out how @spiremint and @evegwood planned our gorgeous queer romance comic from start to finish! Read the whole breakdown here.

The characters' outfits were originally inspired by medieval beekeepers, who wore robes with a wicker mask to protect themselves. We knew Seneca and Mordecai had to have completely different outfits because of their jobs, but it was also important to build clear silhouettes and shapes to differentiate them without being able to see their faces. All their personality would be shown through their clothes and acting, so their designs had to be perfect. Spire was tweaking them right up until drawing the first pages!

We collaborated on the script, each with a shared document open on our computers and discussing as we typed. We have been writing together for a long time and that means our scripts don't need to be overly detailed; Spire can envision what Eve describes, and Eve trusts Spire to take a description and bring it to life. Each bulletpoint in our script was a separate panel, with just enough necessary information.

We also thumbnailed together, as we are both comic artists and visual thinkers. "Thumbnailing" is the planning stage where you lay out what each page looks like.

Once the scrappy thumbnails were finished, Spire would go back in and refine them himself into clearer thumbnails to reference while he sketched the pages. We didn't stick 100% to the script; if we felt a page needd an extra panel, or a scene needed an extra page, we added it. Sometimes it's hard to judge pacing by script alone.

Happy #webcomicday ~~!

If you weren't aware, I draw Glimmer, a fantasy comic that takes a different interpretation of isekai through the lens of grief, friendship, and love.... by exploring what would happen if you got reborn into your d&d campaign as your tabaxi character 83

Start reading online: glimmercomic.neocities.org?pg=1#showComic

Or fav on your preferred mirror site!

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Glimmer on Fables

I have been working on Glimmer almost every day since late 2023. It's my labor of love and my main passion project right now. I'm putting a lot of my soul and humanity in there. Maybe as a way to fight inauthenticity in this age of AI, maybe as a way to work out some issues when i dont want to go to therapy, maybe just because i enjoy drawing cat people (who always seem to look like they're having an episode of existential dread).

I'm not home (on a trip right now with family), but I still want to talk a little bit about my process, so I did what I could to find some wip shots 🧡

Plus, I'd also like to update my extremely patient readers with a little taste of what's to come!!!

Step one, of course, is writing.

When I'm writing I have four documents open. A "dump" document, a "yes this!" Document, an outline document, and a drawing canvas!

In the dump document, I put ANYTHING. complete stream of consciousness. The 'yes this' document is where I put anything useful from the dump document, and the outline is, of course, the outline. The drawing canvas is for me to sketch out problems and ideas and get sort of a different angle on things, since I can't really visualize.

Once I have a book completely written, I start thumbnailing!

My thumbnails pretty much look like this. Text, sketchy poses, indications of expression and maybe environment...

I thumbnail the entire book at once. I don't let myself do any edits on it until it's done, but I take note of edits I'd like to make! Then, once the first draft is out, I edit.

I'll move entire scenes, delete whole episodes, bring in bits from the end to have proper foreshadowing... Etc! It's a long process that makes my arcs feel much more complete and something I can be really proud of.

I can only do this when I'm really ahead, though, so that's why I've been on a long hiatus!!! I was forced to work without my process for a few arcs, and the difference is so huge to me that I refuse to let myself do it again. It makes a loner hiatus, but work way more worth waiting for!

Next step is lineart!

Yes, I skip sketches! I go right into lines.

I save every head I've ever drawn, and that lets me copy paste in a basic head angle. Then I redo the face, fix up the hair, etc. so it fits my panel, and then I draw the rest of the body!

This seriously saves me so much time, but less so for the drawing (i still draw a ton of heads and I'm very fast) and more just for helping me skip sketching entirely!

Then I do character flats, which since all my lines are closed that goes pretty quickly (slowest part is Steve's hair, I refuse to use a brush cause every one I've made looks terrible!!!)

And then I draw the backgrounds!

Which, I keep layered, clean, and HUGE so I can use them throughout the arc.

I used to feel bad doing this, but then I realized... It's not like backgrounds "change" irl. So why make them change in my comics...? It saves me so much time, but it ALSO lets me put in more detail per background! I draw probably 3 very large backgrounds per episode like this, and then I draw maybe 5-10 unique backgrounds for single panels per episode as well. I save these too, but they're rarely re-used.

And then my panels are done!!!

So there's a bit of my process for you all!!!

Happy webcomics day 🧡🧡🧡

And here's my comic, if you haven't read it and want to see the end result of this process, or if you have read it and would enjoy a re-read with the extra knowledge:

Or, if you would prefer books I have those too!

Happy to elaborate on any step, as well!

Comic process pics.

Yes, my thumbnails are probably way too detailed.

Set in Scotland in the Victorian Era, the story follows Miriam Pierce, a woman who is going through a really rough time right now. Her fiancé fell to his death off a cliff, and the next guy who showed any interest in her fell down the stairs and died. Has she been murdering these men and getting away with it? Or is she under some sort of curse? Either way, the rest of the town wants nothing more to do with her, and her father has disowned her.

Yet despite — or perhaps because of? — these rumors, Florian Doré has taken a great interest in Miriam. Florian is a mysterious bachelor who has recently moved from France to a nearby manor that is now completely covered in roses.

Florian is handsome, and suave, and charming... yet he seems to have a barely-hidden nasty streak, and he is obvious about his disdain for religion and morals.

What does Florian want with Miriam? Is she really cursed? Has he actually saved her in her moment of crisis, or will Miriam regret accepting the invitation to his manor?

I don't know any of these things yet, but I definitely am intrigued! I hope I've gotten you intrigued too. And if you'd like to have a soundtrack, it seems appropriate to have The Devil's Trill Sonata playing while reading along.

Hello! I'm Quinn aka Jerboagoat and this is the official blog for my webcomic, END OF THE FOOD CHAIN!

EOTFC is a horror-comedy semi-interactive sort-of-anthology chaotic amalgamation of a webcomic about MONSTERS! By leaving comments, you can influence the story and even ask questions to characters directly-- but not everything will go according to plan.

There is no update schedule, sorry! I work best without hard deadlines, but I do my best. Updates are presented as individual mini-chapters, with all the pages of an update posted at once. There's only two updates so far, with more to come!

EOTFC will contain many types of horror, with especially blood, gore, body horror, insects, and the consumption of humans being commonplace. For this reason I'd say it should be at least 16+. Hosted on Comicfury, but may be added to other sites at some point!

READ HERE!