Month: March 2013

We need more good webcomics.

Alex Heberling

evandahm:

A medium gains legitimacy and respect when people making work in that medium legitimize and respect it.

Comics as a whole are in the process now of gaining that legitimacy, and it’s because of the people doing good work in that medium, more than any other reason. Superficial aspects like deciding to call them “graphic novels” instead of “comics” don’t help. Good work helps.

Webcomics are a subset of comics, and for the time being are seen as a distinct thing because of their mode of distribution. They’ll probably lose the prefix before too long, but who knows. They are in some ways becoming the new “indie” comics, and replacing the niche filled by minicomics and zines, bit by bit. Because it is effectively free and easy to put this stuff online, it will naturally have a lower signal-to-noise ratio than print comics, and a lower percentage of good stuff—and I hope it is always that way.

There are a lot of really excellent and varied comics being published online, and if there are more it will help all of us: the ideal self-policing culture that decides which comics are good will become more streamlined and accurate. Creators will work harder and have more good comics to judge their work against. More people will care about webcomics. There will be more good things to read on the internet.

If you are making or aspire to make a webcomic, take your work seriously, be engaged in it, and believe in it. Do good work, and be consistently critical of it so you will keep improving. You have your reasons for choosing this particular means of distribution, so own it: don’t think of it as a shortcut or an excuse to do anything less than the best you can.

– Evan

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Alex Heberling

littlefroggies:

The photoset wasn’t working the way I wanted, so here’s the original “base” by itself:

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The red lines are meant to mark the contours of the body.

Once again, a very quick guide as tips for drawing breasts. As before, this is a bit rushed and just a starting point for drawing breasts in different sizes with attention to the shape, nipple position as it relates to/and sag.

Not an authority, just doing this since people have asked nicely for a long time. May do a better one in the future.

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Alex Heberling

moon-healing:

[ITEM] Silence Glaive.

Japanese name: サイレンス・グレイブ
Romanized name: Sairensu gureibu

User: Sailor Saturn
Used for: Silent Wall, Silence Glaive Surprise.
First appearance: Episode 125
Last appearance: Episode 197
Status: Destroyed by Sailor Galaxia.

Trivia

  • A glaive is a European polearm weapon similar to the naginata and the guan dao.
  • In the manga, Sailor Saturn could destroy planets by simply dropping the blade of the Silence Glaive. This technique had no vocal command and it differed from “Death Reborn Revolution”.
  • Sailor Saturn had a power called Silence Glaive Surprise in the anime. The consequence for using it was Saturn’s own death, though. The attack of the same name in the manga was far less severe, and it only disoriented the Amazoness Quartet. 
  • In one of the SuperS video games, Sailor Saturn performed a basic maneuver known as “Death Ribbon Revolution” (デス・リボン・レボリューション) with the Silence Glaive. This is often confused with “Death Reborn Revolution” (デス・リボーン・レボリューション) from the manga.

Source: moon-healing.tumblr.com

Sailor Saturn fangirl 4 LIFE