DarkDumb

DarkDumb

@darkdumb.bsky.social

Drawer. Something else maybe, identity is a social construct. // Working on the webcomic Spandex Cowboys https://spandexcowboys.thecomicseries.com

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Mad Rupert
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I've been getting back into comics while I wait for more info from my concept job, and I thought I'd make a post about something very important to me, which is COMIC PANEL VARIATION and HOW TO THINK ABOUT IT.

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Landeg
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Visual example: Let's say it's VERY important that your readers notice a key getting stolen by a mouse. You do NOT want your readers to miss this as it plays a huge role in the plot later. Will some people notice the mouse in the first example? Sure. But EVERYONE will notice in the second.

Landeg@landeg.world

A piece of advice for people getting into making comics: if you want your readers to notice or pay attention to something, it should be framed in the panel in a way that makes them notice or pay attention to it accordingly. That seems obvious on paper, but apparently it's easy to forget

DarkDumb
@darkdumb.bsky.social

Since I drew them with rings the other day, I entertained myself by coming up with ways a proposal would go hilariously wrong. This idea was fated, because I came across this thing randomly while scrolling Vinted and could. Not. Stop. Laughing. #oc

DarkDumb
@darkdumb.bsky.social

I was revisiting character sheets I made a while back to be useful for the comic with updated details and color schemes, and I though I might as well post them #oc

DarkDumb
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Shortly after Raven joins the band... I am once again unable to introduce ocs in any coherent way and instead had fun with a random scene. In my defense, it *is* a perfect microcosm of their dynamic, these three are just like this all the time. #oc

DarkDumb
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I was looking through my rd files the other day and found out I haven't finished this (and never will), so I figured I might as well post it like this. (Including a rough shading test) #reddwarf

DarkDumb
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Drew this way back in October for an event on tumblr. The prompt for that day was "Space Corps". Drew Ace and Spanners meeting for the first time. #reddwarf

DarkDumb
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Ace rides a Ducati 750 SS - I specifically referenced it off a real modified racing version of it nicknamed "Old Blue", which was apparently the first Ducati to win a race in the US (in Daytona in 1977). I only gave it Wildfire's colors...

DarkDumb
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Rimmer rides a ČZ 175/501 Čezeta - a Czechoslovak scooter from the 50s/60s, nicknamed "pig". Any motorcycle museum I set foot in here had one of them, and they are delightfully ugly.

DarkDumb
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I do recommend the book if you want some fun pilot action à la Top Gun or Ace Combat. It *is* a Warhammer 40k story, but it barely matters and the setting adds just a bit of flavor.