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Bummer's Art Shack
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Physics..............does ANY anime have them?
Awesome job!!
Out of all your strips, my top three favorites are:
1). Rhydon and the Pokedoll
2). Why HMs cannot be forgotten
3). How Diglett can use Aerial AceSo many artists, no matter how good, struggle with humor, cleverness, or anything else that requires brainpower.
On the other hand, there are tons of people in the world with all kinds of wonderful ideas with no way of portraying them.
You're an extremely rare combination of both. This thread is a goldmine of smiles.
I didn't reply before posting it, but I followed these cents of yours and changed his speech bubble to a more challenging tone.
Moving on to today:
Please let me know if the wording in the first two panels feels weird. Feels nice to return to my usual drawing style too, although I'll probably make use of solid shades again in my next update.
I belonged in the second category for a good while before I started to put more effort into drawings, so I certainly know the frustration of not being able to get your ideas out of your head while still being satisfied about the result. And I still do, but now I also know how to try out different approached if I find one to be too difficult or complicated. The second panel of the last bike strip, with him being thrown off, was the latest hardship as the pose itself but also bikes in general are tricky to draw. Who would've thought?!
But I still struggle with the humor aspect. I already regret some strips I've made months ago, and while that proves that I evolve as an artist and comedian, I will continue to occasionally get ideas which seems great at the time but then turns out less than average.
But yeah, thanks for the reply. The words of fellow artists do have some extra weight.
Made one in black-n-white. I figured that it'd suit the scenario nicely. Do tell if you saw the ending coming from far away, or if the conversation doesn't fit. Or the opposite!
It's my number one answer to all those 'if you could have any superpower' questions. The most handiest.Oh, i didn't see that coming. I thought since it was a Shuckle that it would be, you know, the guy that lends you his Shuckle. I never gave mine back, mostly because i taught him flash and needed him from then on.
I know of this too and I'll expect a handful of people to call me out on it, even though I just picked a pokémon which is beneficial to leave in the daycare. I suppose I could just as easily replace it with something else, but now I'm too attached to the puns I've made!One word. Brilliant. You defiantly deserve a luvdiscWhat I think should be done is to replace the dude in the suit with the daycare lady, if you want to allay confusion over whether it's the shuckle-lending man or not. An alternative would be to make the trainer look more like a non-johto player character.
As it is, I enjoy the noir theme you have here very much! :)
Been thinking about expanding my site with a FAQ section. But before that, I need to actually answer questions. So fire away! Any question is allowed, although not all of them may end up on the site. But I'll try to answer them all!
Or to replace the Shuckle (I chose Swinub). I wanted to postpone the daycare realisation to the very last panel, so putting a lady as the mafiaboss could have given things away more quickly.
And as for the trainer . . . . . I didn't base him on anyone from Johto. So there's that.
I've been linked to this twice from others as well! I wasn't aware that people had seen the mafia connection before, but I've yet to see someone who made a comic about it before me.What is the most difficult thing about coming up with new comics?
Maybe I should have bolded the link to my formspring. I'll still answer your questions, but if you want to help me get used to that site then I need to be asked there. Trying to see how I can organise this questionnaire most efficiently.
The setting. I can notice abnormal or weird stuff in the games all the time, but simply turning the spotlight to them and pointing fingers doesn't really make for an ellaborate comic strip. So if I want to use an idea, I need to make a situation or a dialogue where, hopefully, the reader will not only get the punchline, but also notice the absurdness by themselves.
Depends on how much effort I put into them, number of panels and what styles I use. So on average, I guess it could be anywhere between 5 and 10 hours. But since I work on my computer, it means my attention can easily be divided, so there's that.
Been a while since I last made a fakemon. Here goes:
Edit: Been having second thoughts about it, and thus I'll probably give it a hefty makeover sometime soon. But not now.
Haven't decided on any moves, abilities or pokedex entries yet.
I figured later that this answer doesn't really cover all the kinds of strips I make, as some might be nothing but examples. So a better word instead of 'setting' would have to be approach. How to ellaborate on the subject, what to show to prove my point, or just overall how to tackle the idea where the end result is creative, unpredicted and funny. I need to decide on this before I start working on it, which is why I have several ideas put on ice simply because I'm unsure about what to do with them.
The satisfaction of being able to draw them out so that they closely match the idea I have in my head. This wasn't always the case in the beginning, but even then I did feel proud of what I could accomplish with the tools at hand. I usually have a point in the progress where I don't feel confident with how it looks at that time, but as I keep working, that insecurity gradually changes into content.
And then, of course, seeing the responses they get. Many pages have been refreshed whenever I'm eager to get feedback.
consider using 'college campuses' instead of 'school grounds', since school grounds implies primary and secondary education, not the tertiary that frat boys attend
and just from the dialogue, the hipster seems pretty similar to the pokemaniacs
Changed it to campus grounds, thanks.
And while I could see the recemblance between the two based on that line alone, it's different enough to justify that panel. Also don't feel like redoing one from scratch.
Come to think of it, this could be the closest time to using a meme in a strip. I didn't think that I'd sell myself out so quickly.That is a really sweet idea, and I like how you've incorporated chilies into the designs. However, although you obviously have your own style, and these are completely your own creation, there a couple of things that bug me about the designs nonetheless:
1) Jalapetit needs arms. I know that GF has a history of creating pokemon with baffling disabilities like these *cough*oddish*cough* but I still find it a little irritating when such an unrealistic feature makes it into these designs (clearly having creatures with magical abilities is also unrealistic, but this is a different sort of unrealistic).
2) Habasalsa's face. This is much more subjective of course, but Habasalsa doesn't have a face that I would consider terribly pokemon-like (the other two are fine). I know that this is a very vague criticism, and I'm honestly not sure what it is about it that makes me say this - maybe the eyes, or the mouth?
I'm not an artist or an expert in these things at all, just thought I'd throw in my two cents. I do really love the idea of a fire/grass type based on chilies, though!
