im guessing you're referring to @vcreatures-team's mascot - thank you!! i didn't come up with the original design myself, but honestly this ask inspired me and my team member @torifloop to finalise their design and make a ref sheet!! if you haven't seen it yet, it's on the team blog now, here:

good question! i don't consider myself the best teacher ... my default answer would really just be to keep drawing. draw things badly. heck draw things badly on purpose. maybe that would be fun? as long as youre working on the skill you will passively improve! it's also hard to give generalised art advice, i think, because everyones goals for art and the medium they choose to work with will be different, but i guess if you want to follow a similar avenue to me...

i spent a lot of years carrying paper sketchbooks around with me, and maybe one or two pens, a classic writing pen for lines and a coloured marker for blocking in shapes or colours, no pencil (or if i did use a pencil, no eraser), just scribbling stuff on the pages whenever they pop into my head. i also used a small sketchbook with dotted pages instead of plain, it helped keep the mentality that it was unserious doodling, small pages also mean that if you realllly hate a doodle you can just flip over to the next page without wasting too much paper!

now i eventually moved to digital art, if that's a step you've already made, great! if youre not there yet but considering it... i personally really reccomend starting with a cheap screenless tablet to both test the waters and also really help train your hand eye co-ordination with the screen. both this and pen sketching should, with consistent practice, really help you improve line and shape confidence !

but my other big tip is absolutely look at a lot of tutorials, but do not take their word as gospel. i struggled for a good while trying to follow art guides and recreate styles in a specific way to the T, but over time i found that the best way to develop my own style and enjoy drawing the most was to adapt things to what i enjoyed the most. for example; i hated doing precise lineart on a new layer over my sketch because i thought the sketch always looked better than the lineart, so i quit doing that and now i just use the eraser to clean up my sketches a ton so they LOOK like lineart, which felt really unconventional to me at first and not something i thought was even an option early on! but its fun!

i hope maybe this offers some insight? these things might not work for you at all, maybe i'm just rambling, but i think these are the key things that come to mind as pivotal points in my own art journey and act as cornerstones for my progress, so maybe they can inspire you too!

I'm a bit leery of offering this advice, since you've said you already have the first 13 pages made, but I think it is useful, just, in general. (And I've never had any opportunities yet to apply it myself, since the only long-term project recently that's gotten off the ground is a game mod that I chip away at randomly, which can't be broken into discrete stages... had to get it out of my head somehow.)

Thanks for the insight! It's really cool to hear some thoughts/feedback/advice about this!! I guess maybe it would help to hear some more about my current plan/thoughts...

Early Sunset Halos is admittedly not something i am expecting to dedicate all of my time to, nor have a strict schedule for, it's kind of a passion project i can do on the weekends etc, and it'll probably stay that way unless it reaches a point where it pays the bills better than my commission work does.

All those 13 pages mentioned *have* already been uploaded to my ko-fi/webtoon/comicfury pages too, this isn't a tumblr-exclusive project but I'm aware that comics can be really popular here so I figured why not post it! The only difference is that with how this site works its much more suited to drip feeding pages one at a time (both in terms of practicality, needing to manually update description 'next page' links, and due to the real-time social-media style feed).

The complete pages make up chapter 1, and generally i'm preferring to release chapters at a time since each is it's own contained interaction, and therefore if there are larger breaks between chapters then it isn't *as* disruptive to the flow of the story (i hope...) Currently, my aim is to create at least 3 chapters, which will then be enough to create printed physical copies of this comic that I can sell from my home~ all three of these chapters are scripted, but need artwork. In terms of the grander narrative, I have outlines set in place for 8 chapters, but this is also flexible and the story could either end after those or continue depending on where things are by the time we get there

hiya! totally valid question, there’s a few reasons;

whilst most of my artwork isn’t suggestive, it can be sometimes and i accept suggestive commissions occasionally, so whilst it isn’t common i don’t want to have to worry about posting that sort of stuff

i prefer to keep age rating consistent across all my platforms for easy and simple cross posting etc, two other big aspects of my content are my discord community server and twitch streams, where discussion and conversation often does veer towards 16+ content, even if it’s not featured in my artwork

media classification aside, it’s preferable for my own comfort to set a level of maturity with my community