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Happy #webcomicday! GYMPUNK is a Pokémon Sapphire Nuzlocke following Hal, who finally gets to follow his dream and become a Pokémon trainer...at 30 years old? GYMPUNK updates every Friday on Comicfury! > https://gympunk.webcomic.ws/

The most wonderful time of the year... Webcomic Day!! Time to spend all day reading webcomics.

...And if you're looking for a body horror/gay activities comic to add to your RSS reader, let me tell you about Ultraviolents! Two men use underground bloodsports as therapy. 300+ pages, updates every Tues/Thurs.

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

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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).

Happy #WebcomicDay!! :D

This year we're celebrating the process of making pages... so below the cut I've got a bunch of pictures sharing how I go about making pages of my evil post-apocalyptic workplace sitcom, Cargo!! :D

So! My process!!

Writing-> I think sometimes there's pressure to "write" your comic a certain way, I see people talking about script format and stuff a lot. That really doesn't work for me, though! I write my "first draft" script in short scenes on scrap paper, in whatever order they come to me. Sometimes a scene will just be one or two lines, and then a little description of what I want to happen in the rest of the scene.

Later I type the scene up, and write the "connective tissue" that fits between the disjointed scenes so they all flow together like they ought. I don't do page breaks or even character tag or action notes hahahaha I like it to be as BASIC as POSSIBLE so it's easy to edit. And since I'm the person drawing it I can almost always remember who's supposed to be saying what lmao

I edit a lot, but the most major editing is also probably the last bit... when I letter my pages usually I realize "they would never say that" and so I end up rephrasing everything. My art brain is sometimes waaaaay better at phrasing hahaha. Like you can see in the finished page for this script I rewrote like basically all of it, and actually went back to the original "sketch" script in a lot of places.

Thumbnailing-> my thumbs are really big, I draw them with markers on printer paper and keep them in a binder!! I like to thumb scenes in batches and I also usually write my dialogue on them, just so I can read through them before (and while) I draw to get a feel for how the pacing works. :)

Sketching-> OH sketching is also really hard for me! I don't have a good visual imagination so it's really important for me to make sure I have good references. Last year I was especially focusing on setting.

My comic is set in Florida. I'm lucky in that I used to live there and still go back to visit sometimes, so sometimes I can gather my own reference images! But more often I start on Google Maps or Zillow, trying to find buildings that have interesting features or the right kind of "look" for what I want. I'll also look up other interesting elements, my comic is set in a post-apocalypse and I'll research home gardening and things like that which people would probably have.

For example, in this set in chapter 7, I used Google Maps images, photo references of indoor hydroponic gardening, and like, 90's-00's hacker computer setups haha. Also my BFF Roomstyler.com, where you can make 3d house interiors haha!!

Lineart-> I LOVE lineart it is my favorite!!!! I sketch and ink two pages at a time, and it usually takes somewhere between 10-12 hours to do both steps.

I actually think my art looks best when it's just lineart... but I think my STORY is better with color, like it makes it clearer and easier to read and it has a better atmosphere HAHA.

Colors-> I think it usually takes me 4-6 hours to do 2 pages (I haven't timed myself as consistently as I time my lineart and sketching). I have a big file with small copies of my previous pages that I color drop from, and my characters are all flats only. The limited palette that I use is also really handy, it streamlines coloring a LOT.

Finishing Touches-> aka I steal mercilessly from my one true love, my internet home, the beautiful and blessed Wikimedia Commons

I put lots of overlay layers on my art! I like textures so having some strange little textures or pictures on things makes my art feel a lot more finished to me.

And finally my very most favorite ✨finishing touch✨ is the bright colored/patterned gutters that I use. Here are some of my favorites that I've made and used in the past!

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!

It's #webcomicday which means I can talk about Ultraviolents even more than I usually do!!

UV is a near-future body horror erotica comic about two men using blood sports and body mods as therapy. If you like toxic men banging out their personal demons, give it a read!

Happy webcomics day!

Decided to do something different and post a timelapse of the last couple of pages of my webcomic Ruinous Fortune