Tumblr made its name years ago as a great place to post images. It was always a kind of photo album journal site. Unlike Facebook and other places that were more about text, Tumblr did a really good job with pictures. Other sites have since moved into that territory but ...
Drawing the Invisible
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 16, 2018
It's hard enough drawing things we can see… what about those we can't see? How do you portray invisible things in a webcomic like magic, wind, earthquakes, scorching heat, invisible people, and so on?
One way is to draw the invisible thing's normally, only making it seem ...
Quackcast 217 - Sexy and attractive characters
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 5, 2015 LISTEN!
Image by Ozoneocean
Content:
For this Quackcast we thought we'd explore what makes characters sexy and/or attractive: Men or women, it doesn't matter, original characters, or from TV, comics, films, radio, games, whatever. How do you make a sexy character? What's a good example of ...
Mary Sue Contest Submissions
HippieVan at 12:00AM, March 20, 2015
Hilarious image courtesy of Banes! Might have Fonzie introduce all my newsposts from now on.
I only got two submissions for my contest (thanks a bunch, guys :P) so I figured I would just declare both of these awesome participants my winners!**
Submission 1: from KimLuster (click to see larger ...
Quackcast 193 - Representing inner turmoil in comics
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 18, 2014 LISTEN!
- Art by Ozoneocean
Content:
The idea for this Quackcast came from a newspost by HippieVan. She had just read a comic version of Frankenstein and was disappointed at the simplistic way that the character's inner turmoil was rendered. She wondered about the different ways that “inner turmoil” is ...
FRIDAY NEWPOST - "FanService" and Sexy Ladies in Comics
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Sept. 12, 2014
There's been a bit of a kerfuffle recently over an almost ridiculously sexy Spider-Woman cover drawn by Milo Manara. I was quite surprised by the uproar, actually - voluptuous ladies in skin-tight outfits is definitely not new to comics. For whatever reason, this particular drawing seems to have crossed a ...