Did my first ever wood carving the other day, in a fun workshop we did with the department. I decided to attempt a fish, and gotta admit I'm a little proud of how it turned out for it being my first time!
Here are some WIP shots as well as the final piece.
#MastoArt #WoodCarving
Blitzed through my 🦐 Shrimp Goss zine pages and have achieved a new level of Shrimp Genius. Extremely niche interest zines...4eva...
My #nsfw 18+ #webcomic updated with 2 new pages last night! We get a bit of insight into Adam's obsession/revulsion with demons... 🔞🔞🔞https://asmodrawscomics.com
This is a flip through of my most recently completed (2020~2022) shiba notebook (made by wai/belugachop 🥰 ) which became mostly WRITING and very little drawing. I also taped a lot of stuff inside it for the first time and it became a bit unruly to use hahaha 🤣
#YAKUZINE
For the fans of the video game series #yakuza #ryugagotoku ❤️
Here's a free/digital 92p b/w fanzine by @ittybeatty @PowersWithin and yours truly
✨ https://dirchansky.itch.io/yakuzine
We excitedly released it on May 14 because it's our favourite character's birthday today 🤣
When I make my own comics I don't write a script like this at all.
I half write and then move into thumbnail, write as I thumbnail, thumbnail and then write...it's a mess 🤣
A well done script is a great communication tool for everyone involved. What stuck out to me was to make the dialogue easy to copy paste for the letterer. I suppose I've also been in the role of doing all those things (editor, writer, designer, letterer, etc.) so I can also think about what direction I would want.
Steenz and Camilla Zhang made a comic script template (based on feedback from folks in industry)
https://www.oheysteenz.com/scs-template or at https://www.camillazhang.com/standard-comic-script
When I wrote mine I adapted it from Fred Van Lente
https://www.creatorresource.com/anatomy-of-a-comic-script/
Mine ended up being pretty similar to what they have above! Considering all the stakeholders that have to use the thing.
This comic has gone through a lot of changes...in both execution and print size 🤣 At first it was 5"x 5" and I was going to just print B/W. I inked half the pages under this assumption.
Then I thought about doing riso...then...it just turned into a full colour monster and I'm regretting how CMYK will destroy the bright colours! Now it's A6 size to minimize print costs, so that meant I had to rejig all the pages I already inked to fit a new ratio.
Anyways, don't be like me 🤣
#mastoArt
Vida Cruz on "We Are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist"
https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/non-fiction/we-are-the-mountain-a-look-at-the-inactive-protagonist
I didn't realize there's a word for this! I am also...a frequent writer of inactive protagonists 😂 guess it makes sense for reasons mentioned in the article—marginalized characters' conflicts in stories = everyday living (instead of grandiose events like non-marginalized protags) 🤔
Posts on Mastodon, also known as Toots, have a privacy setting.
You can change a toot's privacy while writing it by clicking on the privacy icon. Depending on what the setting is, and depending on how you access Mastodon, privacy will look like a globe 🌐 🌎 or a lock 🔒 or a group 👥 or an envelope ✉️ or an @ sign.
Pick the privacy you want before you publish a toot, as you can't alter it later (unless you delete the toot).
You can also choose a default privacy setting in your account settings. New toots will automatically use the default privacy unless you change it.
On the website, go to Preferences > Other > Posting Privacy, choose the default privacy you want and press "Save Changes".
On the official app, go to ⚙️ Settings > The Boring Zone > Account Settings and then log into the website.
Been practicing some more collage + mixed media with #CuratorPrompts26 and I gotta say I love how vibrant you can get the colours with this method. Made using paper from magazines plus acrylic paint.
Doing a lot of administrative work, including updating and laughing at my OC page which is a mix of people and weird creatures/animals 🤣 gosh all this art is so old but I can't bring myself to redraw 30+ character images ☠️
Also IDK why the spacing is so weird, it's just a default template from Automad, which I am enjoying as a free flat file CMS https://automad.org
At this point I try to not futz with templates and just deal with my never ending content
I refilled a Pentel pocket brush pen cartridge with Platinum Carbon Black (totally different waterproof ink brands 😂 for pens) and it seems to work! No clogs after 8h of being in the brush pen. Which is good because then I don’t have to buy more cartridges.
Started inking poss comics. Haven’t inked IRL in a really long time. Mega failed and forgot that I can’t erase under china markers without it being smudge-central🤣 will pass it off as intended chaos. Bendy drawings 4eva #mastoArt
I've been yearning for the flowers to bloom, so while they are slowly popping up all around, I'll just draw some of my faves myself 💛
I don't *really* practice calligraphy, but I found a place that lets you generate a guideline/template (custom space, slants, etc.) to practice your own!
some useful hashtags
#FediVision fedi's answer to the eurovision song contest
#FantasticFedi showcase why you like the fediverse
#FediTips give advice on fedi
#AskFedi find out how fedi works
#np now playing music, maybe on https://funkwhale.audio/ an integral part of the fediverse
#Volunteer if you are looking to help out in fedi
#MastoArt showcasing art
#SmolWeb a rejection of Big Tech's web domination
#FediFriday because it's Friday
#MutualAid mutual aid
#fedi for all things #fediverse related
💭 storyteller / comic creator living on the lands of Indigenous people in 'Canada' http://native-land.ca
she/any 👻
feel free to respond to toots respectfully. 👊 #fountainpens, #bookbinding, #zines, #webcomics, #comics, #houseplants, #yakuza (game), #tamagotchi