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@wendylianmartin / wendylianmartin.tumblr.com

Wendy Lian Martin. I draw the webtoon Castle Swimmer! This blog is mainly for answering asks! Please no spam asks!
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Anonymous asked:

I really love the picture of Mouse and Brooder kissing in the first brainstorming episode. Is it possible to see this scene in the official comic when it comes out?

There’s gonna be lots of kissing so yes lol.

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Anonymous asked:

I need another bird boy brainstorm 😭

Will it come out soon?

I’m working on one! Maybe it’ll come out in the next few days ;)

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OH MY GOODNESS

I cannot BEGIN to describe how much I love castle swimmer!!!

The story, the art, the characters, its all just so good!!

And it's about merfolk????? Even better!! Merfolk is one of my oldest hyperfixations!

(We don't talk about the insane brainrot I got from this comic, I may or may not have made a ton of ocs :] )

I have yet to read your other story, but I would like too!! It seem interesting!!

Anyway, thank you for your time and I hope you have a good day/night 💖💖

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I’m so happy to hear you’ve enjoyed the comic!

My new comic doesn’t exist yet technically but I’ll keep posting updates 💖👍

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Anonymous asked:

Besides Harpy, Brooder and Mouse, do you have any other character designs?

I mean another half human half bird?

Yes there’s actually a trio of lesbians as well but I haven’t finalized their designs in my head yet. I keep flip flopping on how I want them to look so I haven’t drawn them out yet.

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Anonymous asked:

Didn't you have an even earlier version of CS? Where Kappa slept underground, and Siren was hanging around with the Octalia?

Yeah it was called ‘kappa’ it’s still up on Tapas.

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Anonymous asked:

I have a feeling that Mouse is one of those who loves cats, Harpy spoils them and Brooder fights with them.

Kappa lets the cat eat from his bowl and Siren gets scratched by them 🙂 but whit love.

Witches... they are cats.

That’s all so very accurate haha.

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Anonymous asked:

Why Kappa is called, the beacon?

Is some kind of spoiler?

That’s just what people call him.

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Anonymous asked:

Castle Swimmer and the bird boys story is from the same world?

Nope unfortunately lol. I guess that could be a headcanon tho.

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Anonymous asked:

😱 ooh, It's very difficult to create something unique with so many new ideas from so many creators, but honestly Siren's hair is something that I can identify very easily and say, oh, he's from a web comic called Castle Swimmer.

😍 I love that

Happy to hear that! Honestly his spiky hair was inspired by more generic anime hair styles 😂

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Anonymous asked:

Maybe because his destiny 🤔 is to become a beacon/ evil witch prisoner .

Siren is an evil witch now??

lol yeah when I designed him I wanted him to look like he didn’t fit into his role as prince. Hence why he was crazy spiky hair instead of proper smoothed back.

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Anonymous asked:

Wow

The lady shark, her name is Sickle 😍

Also 😅 Siren was kinda rude

Why he don't show up??

On he's own birthday 💀

Yeah he was super bad at being Prince 😂

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Anonymous asked:

Can you share more of how castle Swimmer looks when it was on tapas?

I really really really want to see 😭😭

I start reading when season two is finished 🥺🥺 so i missed all that .

Here’s a few more pages that I liked. But mostly it’s just the same comic in a different format:

But there were a few changes like an alternate version of an earlier scene:

And a deleted moment here:

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Anonymous asked:

We're very proud of you Wendy

😍🤩 you don't have idea how much I love your work .

Aww thank you so much! 💖 I really have the greatest readers! I feel so fortunate 💕

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Anonymous asked:

Wait, before cs was on webtoon originals, what did it looked like exactly :000

This is how the very first version of the comic looked:

I didn’t reformat it when it was on canvas. But after being picked up as an original I started formatting everything vertically.

Episode six was the first episode where I abandoned the page format. And tbh I kind of miss working in traditional page format because I feel like I was more creative. Sort of like in these pages here:

(All of the above pages are going to look different in the actual book)

There are definitely ways to be creative in vertical format as well but honestly, churning out as many panels as possible is what truly kills creativity lol.

When I’m tired and super behind and thinking ‘I have thirty more panels to draw that were due yesterday’ it’s way easier to just scroll down and draw another square rather than do something fun.

I’m still happy with what I’ve been able to accomplish in the webtoon schedule and I’m proud of the work I’ve done on CS with all those restrictions in place, but I’m excited for the pace to slow down again in the future so I have more time to experiment and create cool comic pages ;)

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Anonymous asked:

Out of the bird boys, who flirts the most? in castle swimmer I thought it was going to be siren, but kappa ended up surprising me lol

Harpy lol.

In castle swimmer I originally imagined kappa and siren with opposite personalities than what they ended up with lol but I like their current versions the best.

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Anonymous asked:

I'm pretty sure you said mouse was afraid of bugs one time, but are there any other fears (big/small) that the bird boys feel? Also, how do you imagine their voices sound like?

I wrote a part where mouse is afraid of bugs as a child but I’m not sure if he’ll keep that fear yet.

And I’m not sure yet if any of them have any specific fears other than obvious ones like losing each other. Brooder has some big ones but they are spoilery lol.

No idea about the voices yet either!

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Anonymous asked:

I was wondering if any of the bird boys were ace?

Nope. There will likely be other ace characters tho 👍

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Anonymous asked:

I need to see the bird boys having a sandwichs hug.

Idk if anyone gets my vision of a "sandwich hug" but i know you all need to see it as well

It’s very possible we will see this 🙏