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Cinabre

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Algesiras. French. Comics writer/artist. This is my art blog. http://algesiras.free.fr http://algesiras.deviantart.com/ (Background tile by Zebiii)
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Hello everyone,

due to popular demand :) - and since the projects are long closed now - we are hereby offering the digital editions for RAVAGE and RADIANCE as free download.

We hope you will enjoy all the stories and creativity, and keep the love for this brilliant series going for a while longer.

Enjoy!

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cinabre

I'm very proud to have a page in the glorious Ravage Anthology, this was the image I made in 2019 about the theme of Greed. Both anthologies are full of wonders and mysteries, a must have for the fannibals. Thanks Lovecrimebooks!

#hannibal#ravage anthology#fannibals#lovecrimebooks
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F you Tumblr Radar for putting spotlight on AI generated art.

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cmykcapybara asked:

Hi EK!

Do you have any advice for someone who wants to start making comics but is too scared to start due to internal expectations/perfectionism?

Thanks for your time.

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bigbigtruck answered:

Hmm, that’s kind of a tough one - this is going to sound like “open the box with the crowbar inside the box”, and please keep in mind I’m just speaking from my own perspective, but: the process of making comics itself actually forced me to confront and manage perfectionism.

I also have high internal expectations (which my therapist has roasted me for a few times lmao) but as it applies to comics in particular…

I think the key element in making it manageable (I’m never going to claim this is “defeated” or “cured”) while drawing was kind of… picking my battles panel by panel. Like, readers are going to spend maybe 3 seconds on this panel: what needs to be communicated? Does the art get that across? Yes. Is the art perfect? No. But it doesn’t need to be, it communicates what it needs to communicate. Let’s expend the majority of this page’s effort on the most impactful panel.

As for managing it in a general approach to the medium, honestly - reading and enjoying comics with imperfect art helped a lot. Comics differs from illustration and painting in that the viewer isn’t lingering on and fully digesting a single image; they’re taking hundreds or thousands of images in as a collective whole. As long as the communication is clear, artistic perfection comes a far distant second.

A successful comic page isn’t one with perfect art or layout, but one where the reader can tell what’s happening and who is speaking in what order.

I hope this helps at least a little bit!

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#bigbigtruck#comics#narrative#expectations#useful advice#<3
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cinabre

Store reopening

My Etsy store is open and the PetWendigo comics + the metal bookmark are available: https://www.etsy.com/fr/shop/Damalisca

The “adore” sticker is offered as a gift for each order.

(Yes to my complete astonishment people still ask for them and that makes me super happy <3 )

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I wasn’t home often during june so I had to close the store for a few days, but I’m back! I'm selling little manuals on how to deal with a facetious mythological creature and cook corpses.

#petwendigo#wendigo#hannibal#fannibals
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The Least Intimidating bakery in the village has closed for good so now I’ve got to go to the Intimidating Bakery, it’s awful. If you don’t have a PhD in being French I don’t recommend going to that bakery, here’s the humiliating account of the 3 times I’ve visited it so far:

  • the first time I went in there I pointed at one of those extra-skinny baguettes and said “a flute, please” feeling pretty sure of myself, and the baker said “… that’s a ficelle” (you idiot) (was implied) “a flute is twice as large as a baguette.”
  • That’s insane, first of all, a flute is a skinny instrument. Call your fat baguette a bassoon, lady—I made some timid remark about how it would make more sense for a flute to be a skinny bread and the baker said, “In Paris it is. I thought you were from the South?”
  • oh, that hurt
  • I guess I’m from the part of the South that’s so close to Italy the bread’s waist size matters less than whether it’s got olives in it, but I left the bakery having an existential crisis over whether living in Paris had made me forget my roots
  • the Least Intimidating Bakery just had normal baguettes vs. seedy baguettes vs. horny baguettes (easy mode, some have seeds, some have horns), while the new bakery has breads that are only different on a molecular level—there’s a good old loaf and then another, identical loaf called a bastard? google told me a bastard is “halfway between a baguette and a bread” but denouncing them like “those are not regulation-sized bastards” would get me banned from the bakery for life
  • on my 2nd visit (while I stood in line discreetly googling baguette terminology) there was an English tourist who asked for a baguette while pointing at what was either a rustique or a sesame and I felt a bit worried for them, but the baker just clarified “this one?” to waive any responsibility if they found out later it wasn’t a classic baguette, then handed them the bread without educating them in a judgmental tone and I felt envious
  • I know it’s because she thinks the English are beyond saving but still it made me want to come back with a fake moustache and an English accent so I wouldn’t be expected to play bakery on expert mode just because I’m French. I asked for a pastry this time and the baker asked “no bread with that?” which felt cruel, like she wanted me to sprinkle myself with ashes and admit out loud that my level of bread proficiency isn’t as advanced as I once believed it was
  • The third time I went, I had lost all self-confidence and I hesitantly pointed at a bread and said “I’d like this, uh—what is it called?” and the baker looked at me in disbelief and said “That’s a baguette.”
  • God.
  • for the record, if that stupid bread had been flanked by a skinny bread (ficelle) and a fat one (flute) then yeah of course I would have known to call it a baguette, but in the absence of reference points I now felt lost and scared of being called a Parisian again
  • it’s hard to express the depth of my suffering so I’ll just let the facts speak for themselves: this morning a French person (me) stood in a French bakery in France surrounded by French people and pointed at a baguette and said “what is this called”
#the french (tm)#baguette#pain#bakery#french#excellent post
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"This story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way."

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"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."