So, the final piece to finish my TBA comic before hitting the print shop was this cutaway volcano diagram. While searching references I had to wade through a sea of depressing, shitty AI slop. But my version won't be. This took me an hour tops to make. I'm even making anti-ai stickers. More later. 🌋

I'm currently very fond of Ashwagandha tea. Anything to bring myself back to my safe places 🫖

Hace unas semanas ví esto por mi barrio, enciclopedias viejas destinadas a la basura, y me pensé que era tan signo de nuestros tiempos que debí tomar la foro. En otros tiempos era algo cotizado y caro tener una...

So this is how I'm tackling the size mismatch snafu: on far right, my original csp file. Left: the new, corrected one, copying as much as I can (yay big screen). I'm simplifying *greatly* my messy layer structure to get this done asap. This thing should already be at the printer. Wish me luck. 🥹

Soo, major rookie mistakes were made. My comics' artwork wasn't made to the exact specifications of the chosen printer and here I am moaning about repositioning everything and remake most of the coloring. 😭 Fortunately it is just about twenty pages, but it still sucks. Lesson learned. 🥲

Even if many kids have smartphones these days (they shouldn't imo) this got me in sort of a dilemma to resolve a remote conversation on my forthcoming comics work. I figured out they could have basic Nokia-like things for calls so I went with it. The sort of phone we all had in the 90s. #kidscomics

So, for better or worse, here it is. Space above is for name and logo. I consciously try not to overdo these, yet Clip Studio's counter clocked in 15 hours from start to finish. Am I slow? 🐌 This is a story is aimed to 6-10 year olds. Would they want to see more? 🥹🤞

Today's duty: ink, color and hopefully finish the cover of my TBA selfpub comic. I'm convinced books DO get judged by their covers so I'm aiming for extra finesse on all details. 🤞

So I just spotted this and I swore @meganroseruiz.bsky.social could have designed it ☺️

Coming to think of it, this theme is quite present through Pixar/Disney’s Turning Red, which made it clearer for me it’s a wider cultural thing.

I am in the last touches phase of this 28-page self-pub comic that I gotta have printed asap for a major book fair due next month, and after that attend a myriad other details concerning such event. If I could clone myself, I would. 🥲 🤞

Well looks like France 🇫🇷 is out of the World cup, on Bastille day no less. Good thing they've got a comic for every occasion. ⚽ (Boule et Bill by Jean Roba. Summary in alt)

I apologize for the image drought in this account, but... I've been busy. Have been in crunch mode finishing a 24-page full color comics project to debut locally next month, and I'm currently in speed coloring mode and questioning my life choices. 🥲 Hoping to have this ready by EOM or before it. 🤞

In 2009 Google Maps did exist but I didn't have a GPS or similar device back then so I _printed_ the directions to get from SF to Santa Rosa and back on a rented car to visit the Charles Schulz Museum. Me, a foreigner driver. The things we do for passion. @benjaminlclark.com 😁 🚗

"La herramienta del heladito" lololol 😅 Hace rato que la tengo acá y nunca ni ch***a idea para qué servía al final. Si hasta en japo la tengo aún (ya ví que te rellena espacios cerrados, a ver si la uso más)

Ayer estaba probando esto, me he hecho re fana de los vector layers para tintas y los fill layers para colorear con máscaras. Ya tengo colores definidos para personajes, donde me entran dudas es en la armonía cromática del resto, que no salga algo nada que ver.

Meta has been purposedly enshittifying IG with AI since long but this is the latest attempt. Below, capture of the mentioned setting tweaks although wording doesn’t matches that of the article. Unfortunately my local audience and market doesn’t care about Bluesky so it’s Meta or bust. I hate this.

Eu sempre diz que tenho uma relação complicada com a Bélgica. Sim, conheço a história da colonização e escravidão do Congo. É também sim, as minhas maiores influencias artísticas vinham de lá. Complicado, é. (eu na minha primeira visita no 2012, faz tempo já)

🇺🇸 🇧🇪 ⚽ Well, I've always liked Franco-Belgian comics better. Easy choice for me.

Et voilà pourquoi j'aime l'iPad - specialement parce que il fait _toujours_ chaud ici (les tropiques). Moi je sors au jardin d'arrière et hop 😅 Attention la mini manette - pas pour jouer, mais l'alternative bon marché au Tabmate de Clip Studio. On va bien. :P

Less dedicated than in years past but I remain passionate about high end audio after 30+ years in. I appreciate having assembled a system that is revealing of really good recordings (or bad ones, as the case may be). I'd love to be an audio engineer as side hustle. It's both science and art. 🎶

I do have this though. For reasons beyond myself.

Those Funko dot eyes though... But otherwise it wouldn't be a Funko 🤷🏻‍♂️ Me I got the plushie, god it is like, what, 35 years old now 😯

So you say this guy is 35 today. Well this 10" version of Sonic I got at a mall in the late 90s is almost as old. Yes he's had it rough, yes he needs a repaint job. But it is still here with me 🔵 🦔

Realizing I’m having my comics printer deadline shortened by two weeks and that’ll have me in crunch mode for the next month to finish it. So if you don’t see much of me over the next weeks, now you know. 🥲 Tezuka-san was likely hiding existential pain behind that smile.

En mi caso debo pensar "en papel", en el ordenata solo ejecuto. Para ello me diseñé mis propias hojas de boceto porque siempre friki nunca no friki. Y aún así sobre la marcha termino cambiando cosas según puntos de giro y ritmo y tal. Sí escribo una sinopsis antes de todo esto

Happy Father's Day to everybody — whether you still have him around, or lives in your memory, or have become one and your children are of flesh and bone... or of paper and ink. Have a good one regardless. 🎁

(un)popular opinion: iPad OS’s Preview sucks. Epically. Useless to preview (lol) many files at once, or even PDFs. How come this piece of poo-poo actually got OKd at Apple, seriously. Oh, and I could totally dispense with that cute-but-pointless magnifier thing.

I know I'm not posting much of my own stuff these days but - still busy with this thing. Lots of back and forth with the story pacing and ending, but finally getting there. You'll get to know all about it in a few months! 🤞 #middlegradecomics #kidlit

A page of the comic I’m working on has two kids phoning each other and it dawned on me: these can‘t be smartphones, which I’d not give to a kid myself, so I drew them 90’s Nokia lookalikes. But in comes this, a new flip phone with no browser, and - hey they could have that 😅 commodore.net/callback/