Being Obsessed With Your Own Ocs Is So So Good For You I Seriously Can't Recommend It Enough

Writing is just aggressively whispering “Suffer.” at fictional people and then crying about it like it wasn’t your fault.

Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

Scarecrow: Year One

god i hope nobody's done this yet

this was a very dumb idea i had at 5 am that i had to do cause my brain wouldn't let me do anything else lmao

audio comes from here

"friends don't look at each other like that" well okay you coward you do whatever you want however i WILL look at my friends like they're the most important thing in the world. i love them with my whole heart and i will hold their hand and stare at the stars not because i wanna fuck them but because they mean the world to me and i care about them. fuck you

I went back and reread this issue, and I thought this scene was really interesting. Thanks to an experiment carried out by another criminal scientist working with Crane, the entire city of Gotham is crippled by horrible nightmares in which they see the Scarecrow. These nightmares bring forth a deep-seeded phobia of Scarecrow’s silhouette, and the effect lasts even in daylight, allowing The Scarecrow to to terrorize the city simply by walking the streets.

Scarecrow wreaks havoc across Gotham, and he’s only naturalized once Batman unmasks him in front of the terrified crowd.  Without that mask, he can no longer cast forth his nightmare-inducing silhouette. The crowd of onlookers are no longer afraid, and they ambush the Scarecrow. Think about that

Look at his face, he’s stricken with terror. He plan has failed and he’s lost. Crane wants nothing more then to be seen as a horrifying phantom, a beast that no one can fight back against, but under the mask? He’s afraid.

The Batman Adventures #19 || Scanned at 300dpi

I'm currently in the process of drawing a comic, and I have found myself struggling with the composition, specifically what angle a character should be viewed from, how to space the text bubbles, and how to have the characters and objects placed. So I was wondering if you have any advice to give on that? Thanks!

To be honest, coming up with the composition for a panel is a lot like shooting a movie. Different angles invoke specific emotions but also help draw your focus on what's important. Different angles are especially useful for fight scenes, since they give it a lot more momentum. I'd suggest taking inspiration from different media for it. Manga and Anime is especially good at that kind of stuff.

As for the text bubbles and the placement of the characters it's important to remember that the eye trails across a page like this:

So what you wanna do in composition is work with this flow and not against it.

The eye starts with the text box, wanders over to Kris, Frisk (and Susie), goes down to a noticing a distressed Chara and then it stops at the last text box. Though there are many MANY ways to handle this. But that is a simple example how to explain a decent flow.

You are capable of great things, do not let this negative world discourage you to do what only you can accomplish. Only you see the world as you do, perspective is everything. Whenever trying something new, whether that be drawing, writing or anything creative, you start in the same place as everyone else. Nobody is a master at first brushstroke. You too, can be an artist or musician. You could be a v-tuber or streamer. Don't quit on your dreams, even the masters started late in life and you are never going to be too old to, at least, try.

You can do it.