Once i can use my hands directly to draw something instead of a mouse i ll try out your suggestions.
And post some weird art… make some of my sick fantasys come alive … hohohohoho…
But don t count on any of that haapening i still need to buy a drawing artifact.
If you can’t do Digital drawings, follow my example, and Draw on a Sketchbook (Yes ON the actual sketchbook) or in a notebook. It’s worked out for me so far, then again, none of my drawings ever follow a specific pattern, so this may not work for you.
By the way, I might do something with both of my characters later (But it sure as hell won’t be fanservice, I have no fans), so wait a while and ill have a new shit drawing to post.
[quote=“Pthalocy, post:3880, topic:441”]EVEN BETTER PROTIP: PROCEED TO NEITHER REFINE NOR INK SAID DOODLE AND POST THE DRAFT SKETCH.
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I LOVE SKETCHES.
And I think leading to draw realistically or something is not the thing.
The thing is really, really simple.
GIVE YOUR DRAWINGS LIFE! 
Yes! Do not waste two hours of your life making all those lines become perfect, they won’t like that!
Give them motion, character, make them look erratic yet fun and really interesting to watch. Is that not proportional? Well fudge that! It looks great and feels great.
When I draw the gnome thing i use I don’t intend to draw it nicely, I just draw the expression HUGE, overacting it, and make it in a funny pose or interactive or moving. Always! It looks interesting.
The looks come with time. The actual hability, is there to learn d:
I hope this helps!
I should really dig up some of my chibi toon drawings of myself from highschool, back during that short stint I actually tried drawing myself to bodily match irl me. What a monumental mistake, I look way better with a beard.
Actually, no I shouldn’t. That was a terrible idea.
I remembered a thing though! Look up paint.net or GIMP online. The latter is especially like an el-cheapo photoshop (read: is free). Draw on paper, take photos or scan that shit, and use GIMP to improve contrast or even wipe out all the blue lines because you drew it in your math textbook! I used to do this all the time. Just make sure to fix contrast and do touchups BEFORE downsizing the image to something you can post online. Better quality that way.
So, I started a really bad day character and was happy to find antibiotics in the house next to the one I started in. I gathered a tiny bit of food and two sheets from a window for warmth and hunkered down in a bathtub for two days to overcome my amphetamine crash. Once sufficiently recovered (or rather when I ran out of food) I wandered out, doing my best to avoid trouble till I had some weapons and armor and whatnot.
Boy did it ever not go that way. There was a wad of zombies between me and the edge of town and houses in every other direction, so I snuck into a house and did my best. Wow, did it ever go bad. So many close calls, I escaped with no food water and almost no gear and nasty wounds on all limbs. I had a pot, so once I hit a river I was good on water and food, but no gear in the wild rough. I couldn’t find anything, no working vehicles, no weapons (I was using the pot for a very a long time), nothing useful anywhere. After a while I found a van and drove it towards the next town, planning on clearing a few edge houses and looting. Halfway there I run full on into a chicken walker. I didn’t even notice it was there until I was slamming on the breaks because there was a truck blocking the road. I slammed into, took the truck, and back on the road feeling extra badass.
Invincible kinda badass really. I ran that truck through a ton of zombies and was having so much fun I thought "Lets ram through that wandering zombie spawn north of town (there were three or four). I do so, and have fun mowing down zombies for a while. I get out to butcher the intact corpses, and off in the distance there’s an NPC. I decide to chase him down on foot and recruit him for some completely stupid ass reason. I do recruit him, but the 40 zombies that swarmed us killed him in just a few turns and I was left retreating back towards a safer area. They were between me and my miltruck. So I end up at a parking lot next to a mine, and decide to sleep in the big but inoperational truck parked there.
Yeah, I woke with maybe 2 dozen zombies on screen. Goddamn, this is getting out of hand. No problem, narrow cockpit for the truck, open the door and let them in one at a time. Take them out slowly. Nope, there’s a hulk barreling down on me like the judging hand of god. There’s a bike nearby that’s intact, maybe I can speed off. Nope, that lest step onto the saddle takes longer, so bam, I’m sent flying across the parking lot. Not looking for me. I run off into the woods. I’m not killing shit with my little hatchet. I have nothing to throw. I’m not outrunning it, so I start setting every shrub and small tree on fire. I try to position myself so it has to go over them. It’s hard to tell if it works, he moves 2-3 spaces of open ground for every one I do. It is working though, just really slowly. he hits me again, I’m sure it’s done. There’s no way. Pain is like 70 now. I light a bunch of bushes on fire as he approaches. He’s standing on one, one square from me. I weakly swing my hatchet, not even hitting. Bam, punch number 3. I have a half bar on head and torso, both arms are broken. He dies the next round.
Things got better after that but one of my arms never healed, even with a splint. Just a few minutes ago I ran into another zombie hulk. I was cursing, thinking I was screwed, but I filled him with steak knives and whupped him with a quarterstaff. Even with help from 3-4 other zombies of various calibers it didn’t manage a single hit on me. I drew this in recognition of this characters ascension to badassery.
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Manhank.
Not by me but very relevant.
[quote=“FoobyDude, post:3875, topic:441”]and Kabumpe, (Was writing this before you posted, so nice job on the comics)
If you want to go about making full bodies right off the bat, you should try the sketching approach, use very small segments of line to draw. It all takes time, the more time you put into it, the better it’ll look.[/quote]
Thank you very much! I should probably do that more, I try to do that as much as possible but sometimes I cant really get the shape right unless I do long lines over and over again. I do appreciate the tip.
[quote=“Pthalocy, post:3880, topic:441”]My protip: do really shitty sketches. This will refine the composition for your piece, and give you a grasp of movement and flow when reading more than one panel. Detail comes in time. I learned detail first over composition and I point to this as the biggest source of my pics looking great and lacking any damn environment or spatial cues whatsoever. Details are the last step, never the first nor middle.
EVEN BETTER PROTIP: PROCEED TO NEITHER REFINE NOR INK SAID DOODLE AND POST THE DRAFT SKETCH.[/quote]
Thats something I also have to work on but I always try starting with a shitty sketch, then improve the form/perspective and then add in the details. Unfortunately the difference between the sketh and the final piece is still not great enough to make me feel comfortable xD (Though if I posted the sketches itd prolly look like a modern art painting)
Damn, that is seriously amazing, everytime I find a hulk I tend to get squashed instantly o_o
I really like the drawing, I wish I could properly color in like that, makes it look alot better.
Anyways, once I get some more spare time Ill be drawing up another short comic, this time I think Ill go for a stickman style and see how that works for me. Thanks for the continuous support and help guys, youre awesome 
That’s okay, you are starting with the right work approach, which is something I learned after the fact. I used to start with figuring out the final product, not the overall composition. Making up for that in hindsight is way harder than just learning it in the first place.
[i]Chaz? Hey, Chaz! Wh- woah, what happened to your hands?
Integrated toolkit. Figured it’d be useful. Check it out! Soldering claaaaaw~
But… how did you-
-Install them? Well, the CBM did have most of the tools necessary to… what’s that look for? Yes, I amputated my hands. Well, not both at the same time, come on now, let’s be serious. Oh my god could you imagine that though? ‘Alright, that’s both hands off, now to-- wait.’. Ahahaha… Sorry.
So the CBM had some automated assistance for you?
Yeah, it kinda held my hand through the procedure. Both of them. Figuratively and literally!
Okay, enough with the joking already. What’s this you’re working on?
Eh, not much. Trying to see if I can hook up a Raspberry Pi camera to this circuit, might be able to make some sort of security system.[/i]
Hiya folks! Been forever since I was on here, feels like, sorry about that again, ahaha. I’m still waiting for the next Feature Freeze before I play the latest version of Cataclysm, but in the meantime, have a snippet of something I have yet to get ChazMoth to do - namely get some bionics actually installed and working!
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Snow’s back maybe.
These electric cuffs are impossible to break with what I have on me. ;\
What do? :c
edit: Maid-Snow backstory if you ask nicely.
edit2: Guess I’ll just wait for them to run out of power… They stopped zapping me after a while so that’s nice. Just ate like, 10 aspirins.
edit3: Waited em out, they unlocked and I’m free now, was super bummed I wouldn’t be free of em unless I cut my arms off or something.
One more, this time a situation I’ve encountered a number of times in Cataclysm! \o/
[i]The scouts found Chaz again, lying in a squeaking, shivering heap. He’s looking fairly shaken but doesn’t appear to be injured, save for some minor abrasions on his arms and legs… Once we calmed him down we were able to get a clearer response - From the sounds of it he encountered a Zombie Brute, but the way he described it made it sound like he’d met up with a hulk.
Can’t blame him, really. With the size and strength of him, most zombies are a significant threat to him. Interesting to note that he never actually saw the beast, but he claims he sensed it through the wall. Those antennae must be doing something for him, at least.
[Audio Log Excerpt from debriefing session]
“I couldn’t see it but whatever it was was fucking huge, and I was in no way prepared to fight him, so I left as quietly as I could, and then I tried to book it, but I guess my legs had turned to jelly, I just fell over and panicked because I thought that thing was gonna get me, aaaand that’s when Alice and Ted picked me up. Sorry about that.”[/i]
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Nice stuff, I’d probably join Chaz on the ground if I ran into one of those things.
Luckily I won’t have to.
Dammit I’m on a Skybreaker kick again, haha |D I really should get dug into the game again, and actually stick with it long enough to try and survive more than a day (And get a video recording of it if possible)
[i][Skybreaker Test Subject CW Entry]
While subject is incapable of true flight, some well-timed wing-flapping and a decent initial launch allows for some enhanced jump height. Subject has not yet learned how to land gracefully, however, and some injury is to be expected. Given the subject’s current proportions, landing on fragile surfaces is also not recommended.
[Entry Ends]
Chaz’s jumping abilities are impressive, even if he doesn’t use them often. Granted, the first time I witnessed it probably wasn’t a moment he wants to remember. On request of the scouts he demonstrated his ability to augment his jumps, landing on the roof of Skybreaker Hospital’s entryway. At first he was proud of himself. Then he saw how far down the ground was, and we had to get some assistance to help him down. I’ve got to admit, with all the moth-squeaking going on it was actually kind of adorable, like watching a puppy trying to climb down stairs for the first time.[/i]
(Just a goofy sorta jumping pose I wanted to practice. Also I’ve figured it’s now canon that a few days into the apocalypse Chaz starts wearing leather foot wraps - he starts out with flipflops but because A) they’re not great survivor shoes and B) He can’t wear regular shoes, he has to settle for some open-toed leather wrappings. Also it just looks cute.)
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I didn’t wanna doublepost, but I’ve waited a couple days and I have some more content so maybe it’s okay?
Anyways, following up from the story segment I put up last time, here is ChazMoth after leaping onto a roof (And having trouble getting down)
He’s -exactly- like a puppy trying to climb down stairs.
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ER MEH GOSH chaz your as awesome as always :3 hes so cute I could die
This is the part where Chaz gets killed out of frustration. Also butchery. Delicious moth meats.
How would you know that moth meat is delicious Slax?
Eh, Well Leon would eat a Cooked rat no problem (He /is/ part cat), so a moth wouldn’t be out of the question.
Wait…That would actually make a good Story Arc, Katie explaining things to Leon. Claps hands Ladies, Gentlemen, and Mutants, I have found my Both-Character strip!
In a world like Cataclysm where some people would eat rotten zombie flesh and drink toilet water if desperate enough, Chazmoth’s meat would be a delicacy, so of course most of us want to shove his delicious meat down our throat.
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please no
[quote=“Liamix, post:3897, topic:441”]How would you know that moth meat is delicious Slax?
Eh, Well Leon would eat a Cooked rat no problem (He /is/ part cat), so a moth wouldn’t be out of the question.
Wait…That would actually make a good Story Arc, Katie explaining things to Leon. Claps hands Ladies, Gentlemen, and Mutants, I have found my Both-Character strip![/quote]
[quote=“Rhodri, post:3898, topic:441”]In a world like Cataclysm where some people would eat rotten zombie flesh and drink toilet water if desperate enough, Chazmoth’s meat would be a delicacy, so of course most of us want to shove his delicious meat down our throat.
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