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Throughout October, I’ll be drawing a piece of Konsi art every day as a Drawtober challenge. Here’s the prompts I’ll be using.

You can find the art on Mastodon, Tumblr, Bsky, or Twitter. First two are best.

This is a surprisingly smart read for Xanathar’s Guild thieves.

  • Ahdok@ttrpg.networkOP
    89·
    1 year ago

    In tomorrow’s comic, Konsi’s going to be standing significantly further back than she is here. This is because Drawing people standing far apart and talking to each other is difficult without using perspective, which I’m bad at, so I put them close together for this first panel during the last panel, Konsi backed up several paces while they were arguing.

      • FaceDeer@kbin.social
        49·
        1 year ago

        “Okay, roll for initiative and place yourself on the map” is the perfect time to reveal to the DM that you were in fact conversing with that guy while hiding thirty feet away behind a pile of crates.

    • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      exaggeration of things like that can be really good to get your point across. especially for people reading on release that haven’t necessarily looked at the precious spacing in a couple days.

      I still don’t think you exaggerated it nearly enough. think of it like a cartoon, if you want to show her backing away, then have her press against the wall, or all the way down an alley, or maybe some little motion cues like step step step leading backwards. ooh, or you could try the manga thing where they just have like shock lines outlining where they just were.

      don’t worry about physical logic being grounded, and don’t try to by visually subtle. if you have a visual point to make it’s usually better to make it almost painfully obvious. slap the reader with it to make sure they get it.

      • Ahdok@ttrpg.networkOP
        7·
        1 year ago

        I don’t really want to draw a load of extra panels to explain away a technical error though :)

        • FaceDeer@kbin.social
          7·
          1 year ago

          Especially given that if you hadn’t mentioned it I expect 99% of your readers wouldn’t have noticed. :)

    • stephen01king@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      What about making the panel more zoomed out? Would that make it harder or easier to draw than using perspective?

      • Ahdok@ttrpg.networkOP
        10·
        1 year ago

        Oh yeah, I can draw a zoomed out panel, but… there’s a lot of competing factors in comic design here.

        A lot of the visual identity of a comic like this is in the character designs, and a lot of the emotion and body language is conveyed in close up. If I show a zoomed out panel, I can’t really convey any details of the characters, either in their outfit or their expression. The leader is also a “new character” so… it’s important to let the audience get a good look at him a few times to get used to him.

        But this is missing the forest for the trees a bit here. What happened was I drew this comic like this, because it’s best for dialogue, and I drew the next one spread out because it’s best for action, and made a continuity error due to a technical mistake.

    • Ahdok@ttrpg.networkOP
      37·
      1 year ago

      They’re members of the Xanathar’s Guild in Waterdeep (the yellow accessories are a mark of this!) - so yes… they sort of did go to robber college.

  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 year ago

    Ngl haven’t really been very invested in this comic as a whole but seeing people get what’s coming to them is always nice.

    Can’t wait to see it live

  • Sasnak@leminal.space
    6·
    1 year ago

    I love this comic so much! I just got my lemmy set up, but up until then, my partner was sending me the update everyday 🥰

    • Ahdok@ttrpg.networkOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      (If you want to catch up, there’s links back under the image)

      TLDR: Konsi and Razira decided they wanted to go somewhere quieter, so they decided to ditch the rest of the party, but in order to sneak away they went into the washroom at the back of the Tavern. (Toron has scoped the place out and knows there’s no back exit.) - Konsi then polymorphed Razira into a rabbit so she’d be small enough to ride along with a casting of Dimension Door.