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do you really

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really not get the difference between a game about my personal non-consent fantasies and a mass-produced satire-free card game about consequence-free rape? i mean, maybe you're playing "devil's advocate," in which case STOP FEELING OBLIGATED TO DEFEND THE DUDES WHO ARE MAKING A GAME ABOUT RAPING TEENAGE GIRLS. the length to which some people are going to try and convince me that a bunch of women who live in a world where the threat of rape hangs over all of our communities every day telling some dudes who are MAKING AND SELLING A CARD GAME THAT FURTHER TRIVIALIZES THE REALITY AND IMPACT OF RAPE that they're fucking disgusting IS FUCKING DISGUSTING.

everyone keeps slinging the phrase "freedom of speech" like it's somehow fucking relevant. or like it's somehow more important than my FREEDOM to live in a world where i don't have to fear violence against myself, my partner, my community. i'm trying to defend my loved ones, you're trying to defend some entitled fuckhead who thinks rape is hilarious. is it crazy, in a world where rape happens all the time and often goes unreported, that when someone tries to make and distribute a game that reinforces the attitude that rape is a non-issue, i say THAT'S REALLY FUCKED UP, PLEASE STOP THAT? is that CENSORSHIP?? REALLY??

you mean the art contest? It was in a print magazine, and is long gone now. But the original drawing is here: (warning: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA) http://tjandamal.com/firsttj.jpg

If you break it down, each of my comic pages is viewed over a million times. If each page is read for about 5 minutes, that translates to about two years of reading time per update. One month's work for two years is pretty good if you ask me.

If you want to practice expressions, the easiest thing to do of course is to do some of the many, many expression meme exercises available on DeviantArt! Extremely useful and easy and very fun. It really gets you thinking about the difference between "angry" and "furious", for example.

However, I feel I can add more to this:

I took a highschool class in acting aaaages ago, and there was a saying that always stuck with me: "I say one thing, I think another, and I do third."

What gives expression life isn't the expression itself, but the subtext beneath that expression. We as people have emotions, we have a filter for those emotions, and we can manipulate that filter, and our emotions can break that filter. There's always--always!--something going on in our heads at any given time we say or do something.

With that in mind, you'll find there is an infinite range of expressions beyond the standard glad-sad-mad if you tap into the minds of the characters you are drawing.

I tend to do a lot of storyboard exercises, a /lot/. For me personally this helps me a lot get into the mindset of the person I'm drawing. An easy storyboard exercise you can do is try to take a monologue or dialogue you love from your favorite book (or whatever!) and draw the character(s) saying their lines, sentence by sentence.

Another exercise you can do is to pick a simple line (like, idk, "I want to go out!") and try drawing 10 different deliveries of the line--like drawing the character saying it happily, and then saying it morosely, and than saying it scared, etc etc. It'll get you thinking about other emotional cues besides what's on the face.

Even if you're not in comicking/sequential art of any kind, it'll still help you access the soul of the expression you're drawing and widen your range of expressions. I find people are extremely sensitive to whether or not they can sense there's a working mind behind a face or not.

I hope that helps! ;o;

By the hairs of my chinny chin chin, six black hairs, string by string, I think I counts five pairs - that's a little, but still, can I get a thumbs up? At least for the peachfuzz that sums up a tidbit, yeah that's it, but who gives a sugar honey iced tea besides me?

The answer will probably end up making itself apparent to the observant reader as the story goes on.

That said, FAIR WARNING: from now on, this question and all its variants will be answered with ridiculous early 90's hip hop lyrics. I EAT UP ALL YER CRACKERS AND YER LICORICE

3D CG, 1080p, surround sound motion capture boning. It's coming.

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It does not sound like I locked myself out of an interesting idea.

It sounds like I locked myself out of your fan fiction.

He had no other good options (Ferro wouldn't let him come near, and he was incredibly lost), and he figured if he was able to knock Banquo the fuck out so easily, that his physical safety was not seriously threatened by the angry little dullard.

Plus, he thought Banquo was hot.

Only in that it contains gay people. And strait people. And bi people. And completely asexual people.

"Gay comic" usually tends to refer to a comic that is about being gay, or about gay people gaying it gayly.

I guess I wouldn't call TG a gay comic, because it isn't really about gay people. It's about people, some of whom might be gay. Usually the people the comic is about are involved in activities not specific to gayness or not-gayness.

Wanna watch my form spring?

A pokemon that no one would ever use.

In the 21st century, they'd be a lot less interesting; Colin would've ended up with a useless philosophy degree and worked in a bookstore, while Banquo would've gotten a medical degree but abandoned it under pressure, later becoming a medical marijuana dealer and general layabout. They'd be in Colorado again, and would be lazy and happy together.