Okay, So This Is Super W.I.P. But I Really Want To Know If You All Would Be Okay With/interested In Seeing

After school freak out https://www.instagram.com/p/BqoecpTAJ58/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=i0beit825d74

I really think THE single most surprising false truth that was revealed to me in adolescence is the classic “bad people lie and cheat” statement.

By age 17, it was basically rammed into my head really hard that a lot of people we on the surface believe are “good” are subject to doing all the stuff that “bad” people do, and a lot of people who are mistreated and shoved to the side are actually really good people with bad curb appeal who just get misunderstood.

But yeah - I absolutely am still shocked by how many “good” people I’ve met who just openly cheat in relationships, manipulate others, steal things, lie, used to bully - all sorts of shit.

It’s just a bit unsettling to think about how most of us have secret lives in one way or another, yet we feel so ashamed of that aspect of our nature that we just push our society’s false truths onto the younger generations. It just makes them feel responsible and guilty for things that most people frankly have for many, many years been unable to master in their lifetime. https://www.instagram.com/p/BvSuSvFA10M/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=n4h648t2nlk6

What Do You Think You’re Doing? by Kaiser Caimo

Part 3 of 4.

(Part 1 here)

An aggressively ugly digital zine about making art. Available in full as a pdf for free/pay what you want here: https://gum.co/lUpii

had a minor crisis when 12ft.io went down yesterday and thankfully it's back now but this seems like a good opportunity to compile a list of similar paywall-evading tools in case 12ft ever gets canned for real:

12ft.io: the legend himself. definitely my favorite of the bunch by virtue of being the easiest to use (and the easiest url to remember), but it's configured to disable paywall evasion for a handful of popular sites like the new york times, so you'll have to go elsewhere for those.

printfriendly: works great; never had any issues with removing paywalls, even on domains that don't work with 12ft.io. since this site is literally designed to make sites print-friendly, it might simplify the overall formatting of the page you're trying to access, which can be a good or bad thing. my only real issue is that the "element zapper" (which lets you remove content blocks from the print-friendly preview) is a little sensitive if you're browsing on a touchscreen device, which means you might accidentally delete a paragraph when you're just trying to scroll. but if that happens you can reload the page and it'll revert everything back to its original state.

fifteen feet: basically a 12ft clone, minus 12ft's restrictions. haven't used it much since I only discovered it yesterday in the wake of 12ft's 451 error but it seems to do the trick.

archive.today: an archival tool very similar to the wayback machine, but it also works as a de facto paywall removal tool. (the wayback machine seems to remove paywalls as well, but archive.today has better UX imo and is way faster to use.)

and an honorable mention for sci-hub: only works for scientific/academic journals, not random news articles, but the other sites listed above only work for random news articles and not academic publications so you gotta have this one in your toolbelt for full coverage. pubmed is your oyster.

we are in a media literacy crisis

Here’s some more photography! These are more abstract/texture oriented ~

A lot ppl ask me how I do my manga scenery 🤔A large part of the process is photography which has been a passion of mine since before I even started taking drawing seriously. It forces me to go outside and sort of his a “reset” when sitting at a desk alone staring at a paper gets boring and monotonous. It makes my comics multimedia. Actually, the current manga project I’ve been posting is the first project of mine in the past few years that has no photography (CG instead) but still requires a similar lightbox method and editing process. I’d love to be able to share some of my process eventually when I have the platform to do so!

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvua1a0AsQT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wgktg73uf9dp

My Friend Jeffrey :: My Friend Jeffrey (one shot/short story) | Tapas

Follows Otto and his imaginary friend, Jeffrey, in the struggle of accepting an imaginary friend well into adolescence.

Hi all,  I’ve gone ahead and (finally) uploaded last year’s one-shot comic “My Friend Jeffrey” to Tapastic (comics reader).  If I’m honest, I’m incredibly proud of myself for being able to pump out these 23 pages in basically a month and a half. The art surely isn’t my best, and there is notably more photograph splicing in this comic than in my more recent works I’ve yet to release. Though, despite my personal feelings of a lack in visual quality in this work, I don’t think I’ve felt so energized since drawing this one. With college continuing and my PBS (painful bladder syndrome) not having improved much at all, I feel lethargic and stagnant more and more, no matter how hard I work. My PBS truly does make exerting myself so difficult, but… let’s not go into my health status much currently. I try to not complain or make mentions of my health much lately because of the vast amount of criticism I’ve received from others about being “complaning,” “too much,” or “needy.”  nbsp; I share this comic in hopes of it bringing on some sort of ironic joy, though any reaction at all is more than I’d ask for. A bunch of you guys on Instagram and here are really awesome, so thanks for being there. Hope all is well.   - Luke 

Sorry for reposting, I noticed Clip Studio didn’t render the screentone layering properly when exported to a PNG :| So now it’s exported properly for how I intended the shading

Piece made from a study by a recent photo taken by @rara_pinkman (scroll right to see his original photo) Lyrics are by Title Fight (Shed album; Shed, Where Am I?, Society) #art #manga #comics #mangaka #ink #clipstudiopaint #titlefight #漫画 #漫画家 #らくがき https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs1pqaLgBV-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tk4578tj2x2

Guess I’m coloring this drawing again B ) I gotta work on some new art for my pals at @catchmeyesterday and my comic but I fell in love with this drawing’s facial expression and needed to change stuff. It’s silly to not make changes when I see where improvement can be made

#らくがき #manga #comics #mangaka #漫画 #漫画家 #clipstudiopaint https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs39sG-AVSa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=w6i9bk99rms3