ur art doesn’t need to be perfect!!! it does need to be horny & grotesque tho
lmfao at every person complaining about the not obscure things in round one of the obscure comics brackets. folks, those get weeded out immediately. who cares!
Obscure Webcomic - Round 1-F
Kidd Commander! - Ongoing
It’s a world at the mercy of uncaring gods, and Phineas Kidd is a heretic with a chip on her shoulder and enough fury to outshine a supernova. Armed only with aggressive enthusiasm (and an explosive left hook), Phineas sets out to gather up a merry crew and travel to Kairos Crossing to catch the sun, an urban legend that has tempted countless dreamers to a bloody end.
17776 / 20020 - Finished (Sequel on Hiatus)
Do you like football? Do you like totally normal webcomics? Do you like lunchables, people being idiots, spaceprobes talking for days, color-coded characters? What if I told you 17776 was right there? Go read it. Gogogogogo
another one where I recognize both! Amazing!
Obscure Webcomic - Round 1-E
The Muse Mentor - Finished (website broken?)
[no description given]
Job Satisfaction - Hiatus
Urban fantasy comic about freelance demon summoners. Queer, funny, slice of life but with (implied) demon sex.
damn it, I recognize both of these! (that's the first time I've voted that, I've been voting recognize neither almost nonstop)
Surprise bill time! I received a bill for $180 for health services that accrued due to an issue with their billing system. These are from last year. Now would be a great time if you could take a look at my shop. It would be of great help to me, as I have another doctor appointment tomorrow too.
Or if you want to order a commission from me, that works too! Thank you. ❤️
The Topeka Daily Capital, Kansas, May 12, 1908
Obscure Webcomic Tournament Bracket
Alright with our winner crowned for the fancomics, time for the main event! The bracket is separated here in to 16 subbrackets (A-P), because the full bracket is massive.
You can find the complete list can be found here. This includes links and the descriptions, exactly as given in the submissions (except when there were multiple submissions, in which case they were combined.)
The bracket was seeded by date of first publication - so the oldest comics (we've got a few from the 90s) are going up against the newest (from just the past few months!), etc. (and if anyone else is insane enough to run a seeded 512 bracket the sheet is automated and you're free to copy it).
There will be 8 polls coming out daily, starting (hopefully) Monday, May 29th, and will be tagged #obscure webcomic poll and #webcomic round 1 and like the previous the rules will be Vote for the One You Don't Know.
omg
@prawnlegs did you know our webcomics are battling for obscurity??
Oh neat I'm in there. Is my comic obscure? I guess it is.
This is a nice list. Like look at the comic I'm up against:
Really cool!
Okay, so I'm effort posting about something that has been slightly bugging me, art-wise, for a bit here.
To preface this: I am not trying to make anyone feel bad, or judged, or attacked, this is just something I have observed, it felt wrong to me, I looked it up, it is wrong. If your response to my post is to be a jerk or mean or what have you, perhaps just… like… move on? Don't do that? I know in the art world we tend to get heated about stuff, but this is sincerely not something to get heated about. Disagreements and conversations A-OK, but being an asshole about it? Nah. Let's not.
I, too, am trying not to be an asshole about it. Let's just be cool, okay?
I'm talking about pupils!
Seems simple enough, little black dots inside of colored dots inside of eyes. A few years ago I started noticing people drawing them… strangely. As though the eye was a concave surface, and from the side the dot would appear to be nestled inside a little eye cup.
Have a quickly drawn example of what I've been seeing.
I've seen tutorials floating around that assert as such, and I took that at face value. Like a lot of tutorials you just accept it and move on, surely that person did the research? But… I'm not sure they did. Or maybe they misinterpretted something? I have no idea.
Here's the thing, the iris doesn't dip down inside your eye like that, The iris is mostly flat. There's a slight dipping inside right in the center where the pupil opens at the sphincter (lol) but's VERY slight cuz you know, it's not a hard edge, it's a rounded edge. It actually mounds up a little bit towards the center before dipping inside. There's a round (biconvex) lens behind it! But for the most part the iris is pretty flat.
Anyway, even IF it did cup inwardly like a little concave depression it still wouldn't appear concave from the side because of the cornea over the top of the iris and pupil. The cornea is a positive meniscus (convex/concave) lens filled with aqueous fluid. It has a magnifying effect. Think like a water drop on top of printed text. Or, if you have a pair of glasses (which are also [usually] convex/concave), the way that distorts things behind it. If you hold your glasses and look at them from the side you'll notice that anything behind them gets distorted and flattened out a bit. It takes the image behind it and fills the space with that image, in this case your iris.
(Sorry about how gross my glasses look up close, they're old the metal finishing whatever is starting to come off them, I need new ones)
Anyway, that's my treatise on why I think that tutorial about pupils was wrong. Feel free to disregard if you prefer the way it looks with the pupils all cattywhompus from the side, it is after all, just art… Realism ain't the end all be all, and all that. I just don't believe it is anatomically correct as I've seen people assert.
I took a photo of my own eye from the side. You'll notice the pupil is smack dab right in the center and not offset at all because of the distortion of the cornea.
Tumblr I am begging you to stop advertising meat at me.
Why did I reinstall this app on my phone
Okay, so I'm effort posting about something that has been slightly bugging me, art-wise, for a bit here.
To preface this: I am not trying to make anyone feel bad, or judged, or attacked, this is just something I have observed, it felt wrong to me, I looked it up, it is wrong. If your response to my post is to be a jerk or mean or what have you, perhaps just… like… move on? Don't do that? I know in the art world we tend to get heated about stuff, but this is sincerely not something to get heated about. Disagreements and conversations A-OK, but being an asshole about it? Nah. Let's not.
I, too, am trying not to be an asshole about it. Let's just be cool, okay?
I'm talking about pupils!
Seems simple enough, little black dots inside of colored dots inside of eyes. A few years ago I started noticing people drawing them… strangely. As though the eye was a concave surface, and from the side the dot would appear to be nestled inside a little eye cup.
Have a quickly drawn example of what I've been seeing.
I've seen tutorials floating around that assert as such, and I took that at face value. Like a lot of tutorials you just accept it and move on, surely that person did the research? But… I'm not sure they did. Or maybe they misinterpretted something? I have no idea.
Here's the thing, the iris doesn't dip down inside your eye like that, The iris is mostly flat. There's a slight dipping inside right in the center where the pupil opens at the sphincter (lol) but's VERY slight cuz you know, it's not a hard edge, it's a rounded edge. It actually mounds up a little bit towards the center before dipping inside. There's a round (biconvex) lens behind it! But for the most part the iris is pretty flat.
Anyway, even IF it did cup inwardly like a little concave depression it still wouldn't appear concave from the side because of the cornea over the top of the iris and pupil. The cornea is a positive meniscus (convex/concave) lens filled with aqueous fluid. It has a magnifying effect. Think like a water drop on top of printed text. Or, if you have a pair of glasses (which are also [usually] convex/concave), the way that distorts things behind it. If you hold your glasses and look at them from the side you'll notice that anything behind them gets distorted and flattened out a bit. It takes the image behind it and fills the space with that image, in this case your iris.
(Sorry about how gross my glasses look up close, they're old the metal finishing whatever is starting to come off them, I need new ones)
Anyway, that's my treatise on why I think that tutorial about pupils was wrong. Feel free to disregard if you prefer the way it looks with the pupils all cattywhompus from the side, it is after all, just art… Realism ain't the end all be all, and all that. I just don't believe it is anatomically correct as I've seen people assert.
I took a photo of my own eye from the side. You'll notice the pupil is smack dab right in the center and not offset at all because of the distortion of the cornea.
Writing this to remind myself later to make a big effort post begging people to stop drawing pupils off to the side of eyes at certain angles.
It looks weird and bad and I know y'all think you're being more realistic because the iris is cup shaped but you're not because the lens of the eyes distorts it like a water drop so the pupil remains in the middle no matter how you look at the eye. I even took some photos to prove it. The most it got offset was from the absolute side view, but it was still mostly in the center.
It's been a little bit of an art pet peeve of mine for a year or two. I'm not sure who started it, I'm sure they meant well... But...
No reblogs here because yeah I do want to make a real post with photos and illustrations and maybe some science facts lol. Also I want to word it much nicer, I don't want people to feel judged because I get why everyone got on board, but yeah.
What's my deal, well here's my deal.
I should make a chart of my sleep schedule
I mean this lines up almost perfectly with my own experiences except I did manage to finish highschool, barely. I did have to do months of detention to make up for too many absences my senior year and I used to bring one of those huge metal thermoses of coffee to school with me (did not work still slept through class)
This is probably why I started drinking coffee when I was 12. That and it being delicious.
And this is why I didn't sleep for three days last weekend when I was out of town. I cannot make myself sleep outside of my body's weird schedule, I'll just skip it.
If a person says sleep hygiene to me I'll kill them. No offense.
i feel like high school/middle school sitcoms set the unrealistic expectation of being able to have lunch time outside
ok because apparently i'm wrong about this, reblog with where you live and whether you got to eat lunch outside during school or not
North Texas, Saginaw district, we ate lunch outside in a plaza in front of the cafeteria building in highschool. IDK if it's still like that.
The last time I looked my highschool had gone all indoors hallways. When I went there there weren't a lot of halls, classrooms opened up to the outside. Covered breezeways instead of halls. It really sucked ass in the winter lol.