I keep getting asked about this digital inking tip and I thought I'd reupload it.
If you work analog, uh, try, uh... layering a bunch of vellum on top of your lightbox. Idk
It’s all “calm down son, it’s just a drawing” until someone on the other side of the Internet is minding their own business drawing fanart with their friends, then all of a sudden the racist nerds gotta shit their pants and call in the bigot parade
Everyone deserves better. Artists deserve better compensation for their time and skill, and readers deserve better work made by healthy artists who aren’t breaking their bodies for crumbs. I’m not saying anything new here, obviously, but Jesus.
We all say "take care of your body" as an artist–– but you might not know how to start. I like this book. It's a great resource to have for anyone who spends a lot of time sitting at a drawing table!
Black artists, black LGBT artists, Black women, can’t just exist on this website without getting terrorized for no reason... blocking and reporting these assholes and never giving them the time of day ever again is the least you can do
“Manga artists would never” etc etc response to the ComicsBroke hashtag is so funny to me. They would. And have. Just say you don’t care about the people who make your entertainment. It’s easier.
Hey! Help me make rent and buy some cheap art. Win-win!
Get my award-nominated horror comic THE CONDUCTOR as well as a couple other zines–– including a lookbook of Ashley Tisdale's y2k red carpet outfits and a celebration of CATS (2019) all for 5 USD.
I saw a post from a pro about how artists shouldn’t hold “emergency commissions” and should instead Simply Get A Job— and thought back to the week before I got my first book deal, when I got a rejection email from the local convenience store for being under-qualified
@ComicNerdSam
Sam I'm begging on my hands and knees to stop doing so much hatching. I am now going to compare you to an artist that does no hatching at all. By the way the artist makes smoothies out of poor people but never mind that part.
ppl are always saying things like "we can't provide air conditioning, water treatment, etc to the needy. The environmental impact would be outrageous" ... now corps are generating 3000 gigashits of electricity per second so a fella on a PC can generate cartoon tits every so often
remembering the time I said “the world already belittles art so much, so you shouldn’t do it to you own” and someone on IG messaged me like “OR… we could understand that some people hate their art and you can’t tell them to stop 🙄” ok. My bad