Moon

my contribution to the @surgeonofdeathcollab

I just think they're neat 🐧🐬

pirate king

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bber

an among us animatic?! 😱

Is it harder to do Tage's expressions because of the mask?

it’s actually kind of easier! You can express a lot with just one eye and a mouth.

On my storyboards and sketches, to begin with, I usually do just one eye and a mouth (and maybe eyebrows) as a shorthand for the expression, because I Don’t Feel Like Drawing The Other Eye lmao. Here are some examples of that:

I will say, where it does get difficult is when his face is turned so that the mask ends up obscuring a Lot. This is really good for intentionally hiding his expression though, and that emotional obscurity is part of the reason I gave him a mask in the first place. It also forces me to think a bit more about how his emotions will come through in his mannerisms and body language since it can’t come through the mask.

This is a good question! Thanks for asking :D

Fire (Part 2)

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(Spade Pirate Sabo AU Masterpost)

And that is!! 18 of 18 pages!! It's this long because I didn't want to break up their fight. I hope you enjoy :)

I had to rewrite their fight like,,, 3 times lmao. I'm not very good at writing fights because I'm Incredibly Passive Aggressive and Very Non Confrontational. Thankfully my partner helped me out a bit with making the escalation feel natural, so hopefully their grievances and motivations read well. In the end, both of them are starving probably-emotionally-stunted teenage boys in a high-stress situation, and Tage is being faced constantly with one of the biggest sources of his trauma that he doesn't even remember-- of course he's going to lash out.

Fun thing I learned this time around, if I struggle with planning a chapter, it can kind of help to write it out in prose like I would a fanfic, and then translate it to comic form. This is how I eventually ended up with 18 pages of comic,,, because I can't really estimate how much I'll need to draw when I'm writing in prose. In turn, this did help a lot with adding more natural behaviors between dialogue, like Tage tapping his finger to fidget while crossing his arm, or all of their pointing and gesturing while they're arguing.

I just love the idea that twenty-eight-year-old Robin who just saw this group of chaotic, over-powered teenagers challenge a Warlord and turn the tides of a national revolution all for the sake of their friend realized they were in desperate need of adult supervision and didn't wait for anyone else to volunteer

he’s soooooo close