September 14, 2014 11:25
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September 14, 2014 11:04
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A fun style guide I made for the "gore" in the game.


Some paintings to show how textures should blend together along with the small plants that get painted with the texture.


Since I’ve been playing Wildstar so much here lately, I thought I’d celebrate with a little concept art dump!! Some of the many random things I drew during my time at Carbine. Also I’m sure Andy Cotnam, Mindy Lee, or Johnson Truong probably had a hand in the concepting of more than a few of these. What a super talented team I had!
STAHP. CORY. STAHHHPP.
(just kidding never stop)
September 13, 2014 14:50
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Two Weird Old Men! (And their puppets)
Me & Matt Chapman goofing around between takes for the credits tag in Sock Opera. For those of you that don’t know, Matt Chapman writes on Gravity Falls (Co-wrote “Into The Bunker” with me) and also makes a hell of a good McGucket puppeteer. (Oh, and he’s also Strong Bad, incidentally)
Puppets by Puppet Extraordinaire Nicole Mitchell (Her blog: http://dearquatty.blogspot.com)
September 13, 2014 14:47
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September 13, 2014 14:34
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In my view, the entire purpose of a comic script is to communicate what you’re thinking to your artist! So anything that supports that will do the trick. I’ve seen some of Alan Moore’s scripts for Eddie Campbell on From Hell and he’ll have parts where he’s like “Okay this actually won’t show up on the page at all but here’s some cool backstory and here’s where I’m going with this” which I love: the more an artist knows your intentions, the better the two of you can work together.
My scripts are pretty straightforward: usually just a listing of panels, a scene description, and then dialogue, like
Panel 1:
Marceline is standing (well, floating) with her hands on her hips, clearly upset. In the background zeppelins are crashing out of the sky and into the Candy Kingdom. Candy citizens are running around, screaming. Buildings melting like candy, liquid sugar pouring out of water towers, etc. A candy disaster!
MARCELINE: I thought I said “NO RAPPING ALLOWED”, Jake. Now look what’s happened!
Panel 2:
We pull back to see that Marcy’s floating behind Jake, who was clearly in the middle of beatboxing, not realizing she was there until just a minute ago. He’s frozen in place, eyes wide, hands still in front of his mouth.
JAKE: Uh
Panel 3:
Jake turns around to face Marceline and shrugs, smiling weakly.
Panel 4:
Marceline, hugging Jake.
MARCELINE: Aw, I can’t stay mad at you.
A lot of people do scripts differently: some include lots of panel layouts (I generally don’t unless it’s critical, since the artists I work with are AWESOME and always come up with really great ideas), some write it like it’s a screenplay, etc. There’s no wrong answers here: as long as your script communicates clearly to your artists what you’re talking about, it’s a good comics script.
One final piece of advice is to write out your script, then leave it for a few days and come back and read it again. If what you read isn’t like what you remember imagining, add whatever detail you need to your script until they match up!
September 12, 2014 18:22
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Agito Cosmos t03/ work in progress ! Fights, palmtrees, pirates, monkeys, guts, blams, everything’s in it !
September 12, 2014 09:55
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King Baby says No
I’ll be honest here, I don’t know if the proper word is Lay or Lie
edit: it’s lie!
September 7, 2014 18:15
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in the tumblr tagging system, unsourced artwork is considered especially heinous. on this blogging platform, the users who source these felonies are part of an elite task force called the source your fucking artwork unit. these are their stories.
September 7, 2014 01:42
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“The Butter Thief” I did this comic a while back for “Explorer: The Mystery Boxes”
September 7, 2014 01:35
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Marvel Anti-Bullying variants for November
Oh my god.
Oh my GOD.
These are beautiful. I’m buying all of these.
EDIT: Here’s the full list of October/November Marvel titles with Anti-Bullying variants: Rocket Raccoon #4, Hulk #7, Guardians of the Galaxy #20, Avengers #36, Inhuman #7, Captain America #25, Legendary Star-Lord #4the Gamora one ;_;
September 7, 2014 01:32
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September 4, 2014 22:33
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GENE LUEN YANG TO COMIC CREATORS: DON’T LET FEAR STOP YOU FROM WRITING DIVERSE CHARACTERS
In a speech at the National Book Festival at the Library of Congress last weekend, The Shadow Hero writer Gene Luen Yang threw down the gauntlet.
Yang challenged comics creators to overcome their fears of bring criticized for inaccurately portraying characters who are different from them — in terms of race, gender, or other identifying factors. In brief, he told writers to do some research and get it right, but first and foremost to step outside themselves.
Here’s a brief excerpt:
We’re afraid of writing characters different from ourselves because we’re afraid of getting it wrong. We’re afraid of what the Internet might say.
This fear can be a good thing if it drives us to do our homework, to be meticulous in our cultural research. But this fear crosses the line when we become so intimidated that we quietly make choices against stepping out of our own identities.
After all, our job as writers is to step out of ourselves, and to encourage our readers to do the same.
(Source: comicsalliance.com)
September 4, 2014 22:31
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Older painting I did of Clementine from Eternal sunshine.
September 2, 2014 08:47
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I think vladamir putin looks like max from max & ruby
THIS POST IS A SIN
September 1, 2014 11:13
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fantasyscribblings: As an aspiring author with a wide character base, I have to ask. How do you ensure that you give your characters enough time to be established without overwhelming your readers? (Also I love your comics)
I guess what you do is remember to focus on the important ones. With a large cast, you’re going to have main characters and support characters — they can’t all get equal time or it’s gonna be a big soupy mess. Some folks are going to be there only as crowdfiller or to give the main characters someone to talk to or bounce off of.
August 31, 2014 22:54
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gettin’ real at dinner
Thank you all for your kind words about Graveyard Quest’s ending. We will see a physical release of it eventually, just not this year. Next year. Definitely by next TCAF at least.
Friday I announced that I’m starting up a new comic: an adaptation of the original Pinocchio story! It’s gonna be good. Starts up on Sept 15th, right after SPX, which I will be at with Topatoco.
(Source: gunshowcomic.com)
August 31, 2014 22:45
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Here is a new comic that may be something, but who knows!
August 31, 2014 22:41
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How I feel about the X-Men movie franchise.
pppffffttt
well you’re not wrong
Most accurate thing I’ve seen all day!
This is true. However, I like the fact that unlike The Avengers, the X-men movies at least HAVE a protagonist. I’m not even a big fan of Wolverine but it’s better than having a movie that’s not really about anybody.
August 31, 2014 14:35
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Hi, I'm Tim Lai! I'm a cartoonist living in Ontario, Canada. I like drawing cute and colourful things. This blog is a hub where you can find all of my Tumblr, DeviantArt, Flickr, Blogspot, and other posts in one place.
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I write and draw Lemon Inc., a comic about a seven-year-old who wants to be a business tycoon when he grows up. Until then, he runs a lemonade stand. You can read it at www.lemon-inc.com.
I have done some professional web and graphic design work, including designing the website for the webcomic, Just Joel. I'm also a member of the webcomic collective, Ink Bomb Comics.
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