I Cannot Draw Their Fleece The Way It's Meant To So I Have Decided Henceforth This Is How Im Drawing

i cannot draw their fleece the way it's meant to so i have decided henceforth this is how im drawing the lamb

Ive been making cotl art for the past month and i still haven’t given my lamb a design oop 🤓 I’ll figure one out by tomorrow

What inspires your color palettes??? They are so gorgeous!

Other artist are my inspooo🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵

I cannot imagine color in the meat sack I call a brain so I always stare at other artist and observe how they use color. I mostly struggle with base colors and if all goes to hell I use gradients and adjustments to get the prettiest combinations (I know it’s not wise to rely on them but I’m a hobbiest soooooooooo hey) 🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️

I’m just gonna recommend a some of the artist I stare at for color inspo hehehe (they are all on Twitter lol)

@rottencrow_

@Ecryf_ART

@Tarokunnnn

@ktpiwo

Looking at art gets me so excited aaaa

Any tips on writing character dialogue and interactions? Love your art btw

Hiya and ty!! Im still learning myself, but I can explain to you my current process!

first step for me is imagining a situation (amusing or entertaining ideas) and I develop that Idea by picturing how the characters would react to the situation based on their personalities and what their motives/goals are. basic story stuff y'know. then I rlly start to think key moments with dialogue.

for flow of dialogue sake, I speak the entire comic outloud several times. this helps with pacing, and lets me know if it feels natural or awkward. I like to imagine conversation between characters like a tennis match: reacting, defending, attacking, back and forth.

but as an example, this is my thought process on making character interaction in the Mawwige comic (X):

situation: "wow itd be funny to explore the lamb trying to immediatley marry Narinder after usurping him."

so knowing that, I ask: what are the characters thinking and feeling in that moment based off of three things : personality, motive, and their experiences/backstory. how would the dialogue btwn the characters bounce off of one another, based on all the information given.

Lambert: is sly, always looking for a punchline, backhanded. motive: wants to marry Narinder (whether as a joke or fr, youll never know), clearly holding a grudge still, shown through them being unsympathetic to narinder having a meltdown.

Narinder: is an asshole, but in this situation, he's locked in a stupor. all he can think about is how he lost his life's work. he's out of it, he does not have a fucking clue what the lamb is transpiring in the background.

based off all of that information, I make the bits + dialogue:

Narinder being shellshocked by the usurpment, contrasted by Lambert unphased and wanting to move on and get to their wedding.

the wedding being planned for months, despite not knowing if Lambert would actually beat Narinder.

Narinder being the last one to find out hes a bride. He’s prideful but a little dense, and the lamb knows that.

the lamb is hinting at the wedding the entire time, literally handing him a veil and wedding pamphlet, and doing it as smugly as possibly.

the sundial watch bit, because I needed the lamb to get them both from the summoning circle to the temple "oh we gotta get going".

the crown objecting because its homophobic hates narinders guts.

I hope this helps? this process isn't linear with finding dialogue, its a lot of back and forth and I usually change the dialogue/ add bits as im in the process of drawing the comic.

wanted to explore lamb's elder god form so I figured this was the perfect time to explore color and texture.