I had the exact same dream
The anglerfish mermaid. I actually used her in one of my NSFW comics.
I mainly shave because not doing so overshadows what I want people to focus on. I actually like the look of hairy pits, on myself and others. I don’t request that anyone else find them attractive. Heck, you can even find them personally gross. But when I’ve spent eight hours sewing a dress and that’s all you can comment on? Problems. Seriously, just keep those comments to yourself. Sometimes I shave, and sometimes I don’t, and both states are fine, and could you please talk about my awesome dress and fantastic hair instead.
This is what I drew today. Hm. Productive.
I feel fine. Really. No, seriously. Er, at least I did until everyone I know started asking me what’s making me upset.
Pretty much everyone who talked to me at TCAF (of which there were a LOT of you!) said something about me looking exactly like my cartooney self portraits, and I really do think that’s the best appearance-based compliment I can receive.
Thanks so much to all the TCAF people who made me feel special and didn’t seem too weirded out by my accidental caffeine overdose that caused me to vibrate and talk way too loud and fast.
Conversations with Myself: Innocence
I really had this conversation in my head just now. Despite 7+ years in news, there are some startling moments of incredible innocence coming out of me.
I’m going to Toronto Comic Arts Festival this weekend. I don’t have a booth, I’m just going to hang out, but feel free to come up and talk if you see me.
I’m so excited! (Even though I have to wake up at 6am to drive there.)
The real question is, do you want to start a webcomic because you love making comics, or are you in it for the babes and piles of money?
You have to be in it for the babes and piles of money. That is the only reason to do it. “Liking comics” is not a good reason to start a webcomic.
cmacmac asked you: How do you make the gradations of color in your line art? It is very pretty. (and if you do it in artrage is it possible to do something similar in photoshop?)
I do it in Photoshop. You actually can do something similar in ArtRage too. But I’ll show the PS version.
So, you draw your lines.
Then you click the “lock transparent pixels” button in the layers panel.
Then you use the gradient tool and drag it around on the lineart. It’ll only effect the areas that already have pixels.
I used to use layer masks for it, but this is simpler and faster.
I hope I didn’t ruin all the magic. I’m sure all of you were here because of my gradient lines and now you have lost interest. What have I done?!
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