a demon possessed me but now im possessing the demon. driving that mf like a gokart

busting my ass trying to do as many comms as possible while staying 7-8 comics ahead of schedule in some attempt to both survive financially + have any time to do things that aren't comics or commissions (but are still unpaid work) this year. at least i get better with every drawing

i love the moment when people realize achilles color scheme is black and blue and then look at me reproachfully, realizing theyve been the victim of a bad visual pun this whole entire time

for some reason it wasn’t even the practical effects that put me in a coffin it was seeing all the layers of lighting, shadows, reflection, other effects, that had to be animated onto every single character in every single frame. imagine convincing yourself it was possible to ever finish doing that

anyway. forget all that. i bet whatever non-pattycake shit that goes down between toons in that universe is crazy. roger and jessica were probably getting out the jackhammers and anvils on each other. no that’s too obvious it was more insane than that for sure

look into how they animated on this movie if you want to feel your soul leaving your body. we're never getting another one like this. they're hiring all the guys with that kind of brain now and making them do frozen 16 instead of putting them on a fucked up playground that kills you

heartwarming! this dumbass still does perspective grids the old fashioned way

sometimes i wish i had the thing that is inside some people that makes them work so damn hard. any animator at all automatically works harder than i do, i think. that is so many drawings. i wish i wanted to do that many drawings

richard williams animation makes me feel a bit ashamed like yeah i could never love my characters enough to put them on 1s for the length of a feature film

roger rabbit

good every single time

Tonight, my #HelloFromHaloHead dreams are coming true.

#TomodachiLife

anyway i need the audiobooks to stay sane right now because i am, regretfully, coloring foliage again.

“Then I have to believe you,” Fanny said, relaxing, “though I’m sure it must be your doing if he’s reformed. You always did have a way with you, Sophie. You could stop Martha’s tantrums when I couldn’t do a thing with her. And I always said it was thanks to you that Lettie only got her own way half of the time instead of all the time! But you should have told me where you were, love!” Sophie knew she should have. She had taken Martha’s view of Fanny, whole and entire, when she should have known Fanny better. She was ashamed. Fanny could not wait to tell Sophie about Mr Sacheverell Smith. She launched into a long and excited account of how she had met Mr Smith the very week Sophie had left, and married him before the week was out. Sophie watched her as she talked. Being old gave her an entirely new view of Fanny. She was a lady who was still young and pretty, and she had found the hat shop as boring as Sophie did. But she had stuck with it and done her best, both with the shop and with the three girls – until Mr Hatter died. Then she had suddenly been afraid she was just like Sophie: old, with no reason, and nothing to show for it.

to give "sometimes it turns out not to be" some specific airtime, i really love the new perspective that sophie's sudden aging gives her on her stepmother. she suspected her stepmother of exploiting her (per fairytale rules) but as an old woman, is able to reevaluate the situation from a new angle.

it's so deftly and matter of factly done that sometimes you really don't realize til the end of the book whether a situation even was abusive or not (sometimes it turns out not to be!), and you sometimes realize it at the same time as the character suffering the abuse. really great stuff

revisiting some diana wynne jones books in audiobook lately. as someone with little interest in writing family dynamics i really notice when someone is great at it. i love her fervor for both the good and bad therein. she writes startlingly natural family abuse so deftly despite the fantasy settings

it should have been me....

dunno if i have a name in my head for the current one. Mars Madness would be good. considering it's literally march right now. that's fun

TEH DAY OF ALL TEH BLOD

sorry the names are cringe that's why theyre memorable. i do that a lot. i call the second day of my period this in my head. sorry that is just what stuck to my brain and stayed there

saw someone post their fake chapter titles for their comic and laughed because i also do that in my head. there's achillesquest, boys' night, no one expects the money laundering arc, chloe's terrible horrible no good very bad day, and some others that i shall keep to myself

(looks at this again) also the tree roots being spaced differently in the two bg drawings is a balm for my soul big time.

screencap from Bambi

screencap from Bambi

screencap from Bambi

screencap from Bambi

sometimes i feel so worried about cheating space/shapes/angles even though THAT'S WHAT CARTOONS ARE FOR that i go watch disney scenes and find their cheats until i feel better. shot 1 bambi you could NOT take 4-5 steps backwards and fall in the water there is no room!!! (extremely happy about this)

anime girl crying meme . png

having to make another fucking drawing of a tree

i need to get up and drink 12oz of water immediately

vending machine (WETLY)

vending machine (WETLY)

vending machine (WETLY)

vending machine (WETLY)

i think when i was drawing this i was thinking about pictures on the sides of vending machines that are trying to show you a picture of some fruit that is about to be made really wet

splosh (wetly)

this is the wettest picture anyone has ever drawn

i'm like every other comic artist on earth (wants to draw the characters, is pissed off that comics require backgrounds) i just also have certain things i HAVE to make look like that or else (???)

drapery rendered like that for no good reason

always find it funny when people say you can tell what an artist is really interested in by what they render the most or whatever. idk im not INTERESTED in drapery (or trees or glass or water or whatever) i just have an inexplicable demon inside of me that forces me to do this

clair drawing

when he says "metaphorical IS textual"..... i could kiss him (metaphorically).

just lots of bitching about how audiences dismiss symbolism and metaphor in favor of literal plot events too often. don't even bother reading these just watch the video i linked it's better

just lots of bitching about how audiences dismiss symbolism and metaphor in favor of literal plot events too often. don't even bother reading these just watch the video i linked it's better

just lots of bitching about how audiences dismiss symbolism and metaphor in favor of literal plot events too often. don't even bother reading these just watch the video i linked it's better

just lots of bitching about how audiences dismiss symbolism and metaphor in favor of literal plot events too often. don't even bother reading these just watch the video i linked it's better

i know im always beating a dead horse about this. in fact, i won't beat it again. i'll just post other times i beat it. this video gets at what im always trying to express when im on some kinda tear about the value of symbolism and metaphor.