my approach is more similar to manga in a way. unintentionally but still.

colored covers, gotta establish what the characters look like yknow - and then no colors on the inside. because that's just more efficient.

yeah like. imagine expecting the art to be consistently Super Good and exactly like the covers throughout hundreds of pages.

like no!!! that's simply unrealistic!!! professional comics may split this work between several people, like it'll have inkers and colorists and all that. and it's PAID WORK.

my actual comics are in black and white because coloring only adds more to the workload, and i quite enjoy working in ballpoint pen and simply doing texture and hatching instead. (especially the hair haha)

meanwhile my covers take a lot of hours and rendering!!
i can't do that for every panel...

so real tbh

oh yeah, weight painting is a pain.

this is looking good so far!! :D

hell, maybe i will redo parts of the intro anyway sometime. especially the square pages. they're quite old.

there are more, and much better executed dramatic moments in my comic onwards, but they're also a little spoilery, so for now you get this.

read my comic

i never mentioned a job. that was not my point at all.

but yeah. that's me doing digital art for like. nearly 20 years soon oh my god

but of course i also mentioned clip studio paint, which!! i do use!! sometimes. haha

i'm still not very comfortable in it yet, but i needed something on my pc again that has more features than sai (ibis has spoiled me but its pc port suuuucks), so i've been trying it this year. just testing. yes

and then... ibis paint. 2019.
i got a new phone. it had a stylus. needing an art program, i decided to give ibis paint another go, and this time... it actually stuck.

2025, i still use it. one thousand opened canvases later. six years. aaaaa

no i lied, i still used sai A LOT, all the way into 2019.
that's when my main program rly started to shift.

see, i was an early adopter of ibis paint, testing it out in 2017, but it didn't really stick back then, as my phone didn't have a stylus and i was fingerpainting. that's when i did these.

well well what's next on the list? ah. paint tool sai.

i feel like i used it for a while, probably because i used it A Lot. it does appear that my main usage period was from about 2015-2017, before ibis paint showed up and gradually started taking over.
still, i may use this sometimes!

they are basically turning it into an MMO, and while i do like MMOs in general, it's still a whole different game genre 😩

it's not really the sims i fear

i wish you luck!!

i've been trying to lower my pitch myself, it has been very gradual but i know it's a bit lower than it was some years ago. i believe in you

voice training might be possible?

not sure how far one is able to get with just that, but i have a friend whose voice somehow passed pretty well even before taking testosterone. granted, there might have been some external factors to help it, but i guess it's something

well i have a reason but it's not a good one.

i am simply shit at managing my tabs and knowing when to close them.

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