Wait, people don't do both?

No mention of the literal cat game?

2026 will mark 10 years since I've started drawing comics for real. The year couldn't have been better to push more into that field.

I was a Gran Turismo 3 kid. Love this game to bits, even today

Not a pixel artist by any means but did what I could.

1 Annie Pipplebottom

2 Laura Brierley

Both from "Annie & Laura" (duh)

Oh sweet, the collab I regret not joining last year. Sign me up!

Merry Cheesemouse! 🐭💛

Lots of love, cheer, luck and hope for the next year!

Omg

He's not Ham-fucking around

Draw Hamtaro

Latest only.

Same...

Crash games are no strangers to weird completion percentages

Not sure if it was a NG or Coolmath game as I played mine on other websites but there is one that I've been trying to find for years. It was kinda like a puzzle solving platformer where you start off as one guy and you have to rescue a girl who later joins you and you have to use them to rescue more characters. I think it was a physics based game but I can't remember.

The best way to start is to make a list of events you'd like to present and arrange them as evenly as you wish. The shorter the gaps are, the more "fast paced" your story will be and vice versa. The biggest challenge often comes with tying those points together in a satisfying, varied and interesting way. It's like drawing a map with checkpoints.

In terms of comics, try not to leave the page unresolved, unless you absolutely have no other choice. A lot of traditional comics like Asterix for example were originally published episodically, they had to finish whatever thought there was before the page ended, so that the following month's issue wouldn't randomly continue mid-thought.

Great heavens, the hexagons are plentiful

From my experience, I found it easier to record the lines first and then animate over it rather than the other way around.

I already have a hexagon of the mouse but eh, what the hell, I'll join anyway.

Here's Laura, hihi. You know her.

From my point of view, the term OC is an internet term for any user-made character regardless of its purpose (usage in a game or movie or simply existence for art trading) but nobody is obliged to use it if you don't like it, and it all depends on your own definition. There are no rules that specify criteria your character needs to utilize to be an OC. It's not a fixed definition. It's similar to the term "furry", what do you have to do to consider yourself one? Go to cons in a fursuit or simply just like drawing them?

I guess I also think DA and low quality fan characters "ruined the term" but I still don't mind calling my characters that purely because the tag is popular and convenient. As I said, OCs are (or at least should be) used only in a web context, that's why it feels wrong to call Mario Miyamoto's "OC".

Took the recipe and made subs!

Pic

Here are two panels from the comic I'm currently working on. Backgrounds for me are just a matter of filling in empty space with all sorts of different fitting items and keeping them simple-shaped enough so that they don't distract you from the main point of focus - the characters. It's the art of making your characters stand out on vivid backgrounds.

As for speech bubbles, I usually crudely plan the layout and composition of my panels before finding a good spot for my bubbles. I don't like simple circular bubbles, I make them look more like clouds so that they're much more flexible. I also like to highlight exclaimations with a handdrawn colourful text.

Here's an example of my usage of breaking hyphens. Whenever I run out of space but have a longer word to fit in ("company"), I break it into syllables and use a hyphen to wrap the word into another line, just to avoid that "Tom Fulp" example on the right. I'm European, so I don't know if this is a common practice in overseas texts but it absolutely is in my country.

I made nearly perfected homemade teriyaki stir fry sauce from (mostly) available ingredients

While stirring your vegetables, add:

-2 tsp of honey

-a good dose of soy sauce

-pinch of smoked paprika

-five spice powder

-pressed garlic (what REALLY sells this recipe)

(No pic unfortunately, I already ate, but will be doing it again soon)

AMEN

Some people are really afraid of doing different shots of their character. The main thing about comics is being able to depict movement and flexibility on static "frozen" panels. That includes the legs and feet too, so don't be afraid to draw them. A comic "camera" works in a very similar fashion to animatics, meaning that some rules might apply to how you plan out your shots.

What did I miss

I'm not so sure if it's a NG specific thing. It's more of a generational thing, where in the 2000's, children's cartoons in violent or horror settings was a way of saying "FUCK BARNEY, WE'RE GROWN UPS NOW", especially in the early days of Web 2.0. Now, the new generation has had unlimited access to all sorts of things since the very beginning and fandoms have developed as opposed to "hate clubs". It was quite a big cultural shift if you think about it. Instead of seeing "FUCK BARNEY, WE'RE GROWN UPS NOW" peoople, it is more likely you'll see "I'M 25 AND I STILL WATCH BARNEY" communities.

NG definitely was no stranger to such content in the past but it wasn't left behind when times and standards have changed. Saying NG is "Kill Barney" type content is like saying art is just impressionism. Crude, naughty, violent content is indeed what helped build this site 2 decades ago, but don't let it be its only defining feature

Breath of the Wild. You're kinda thrown into the world to figure stuff out by yourself, so I can somewhat see why this might seem off-putting, especially for those who aren't acquainted with the series. The game only picks up once you get to the first Divine Beast but I understand that it can be a bit of a slog to get to.