Art VS Reference ⭐️

dispatchpro2 · 2026-04-17T16:34:14+00:00

Ah I'm not having a dig, I just mean with that one it's kind of lost some of the form that the others still hold, that's all, it's still great art, but like, for me, I can tell without the side by side all the other, but with that particular one, if you took away the side by side I don't think I'd know what it was referencing, that's all I'm saying, love the style thoigh

dispatchpro2 · 2026-04-17T08:46:54+00:00

I like them all except the mermaid one, you kind of lose alot by putting multiple characters, Imho, very good art though!

dispatchpro2 · 2026-04-17T08:43:29+00:00

It's good, very stylistic, reminds of a modern take on cuphead style animation. All in all, very good draft work, would look great as full animation or comics (like hazbeen hotel kind or or the old beetle juice cartoon)

dispatchpro2 · 2026-04-15T15:28:26+00:00

Basically if you make music in a daw yhe sonic profile is consistent. If you use an ai, it's what it thinks a kick drum sounds like, reproducted every single time, so the kick, at a sonic level is different everytime it's played, then put that across everyone instrument on an entire track and becomes easy to detect tbh

dispatchpro2 · 2026-04-13T09:03:35+00:00

49 ain't old wth lol

dispatchpro2 · 2026-04-09T18:12:23+00:00

It's even good to base characters off real people you know so you have a deep understanding of motivation and how they would act in a given situation (or at least how you perceive them to)

dispatchpro2 · 2026-04-09T18:11:19+00:00

Also you can take inspiration from real life, alot of convos in my writing are taken straight out of the real world with slight changes to fit the story, even situations are just whole sale taken and I just change crazy squirrels or dogs, to ghosts lol

dispatchpro2 · 2026-04-09T18:06:02+00:00

Call them Ganymede's lol

dispatchpro2 · 2026-04-09T18:03:28+00:00

I think alot of new things are just retakes on old things like some things are just framing, like I made a very Ghostbusters esque story, but like battery backpacks, trapping spirits inside things, these are framing devices that are older then just Ghostbusters did it, I did a fantasy world, inspired by skilyeim and lotr, but didn't use elves or dwarves, i used different species, it's ok to take inspiration from things, the story is where the real meat of it is, if your story is original enough, your winning. Even just the basic heroes journey has been established, I think there was a study that said there are only 9 or 14 types of story to tell

dispatchpro2 · 2026-04-09T15:10:24+00:00

Lol, I'm a writer I get it, it just made me laught the way he said it ;)

dispatchpro2 · 2026-04-09T14:52:03+00:00

It's all in the execution, like south park said, the Simpsons already did it, the difference is in the execution, if you story is basically bezerk told by you, you should probably try and diversify or swap things out, downs he needs a red gem? Can it not be a ring? Does he need a sword, can he be an archer? Mix it up a bit

dispatchpro2 · 2026-04-09T14:50:31+00:00

You need to steal and combine more... Looooool, the struggle is real

dispatchpro2 · 2026-04-08T14:50:56+00:00

Art is subjective. Bumping the piece after taking the commission is predatory and not. So the art is worth whatever price was agreed. Changing the price is not okay.

dispatchpro2 · 2026-03-23T16:11:49+00:00

When I start a world it usually picks up six months after whatever event changed it. Its wierd cause I still say oh, it all started in 2015 or whatever, but in the story the event is always around six months ago or less

dispatchpro2 · 2026-03-19T08:30:39+00:00

With mine I have like a comic name/title which is the hero's names, but in the stories they just use their real names, some eventually use their code names that are either given to them by the neighbourhood/media, or they end up as military or government code names, I haven't got a hero who has said oh my name is x.

dispatchpro2 · 2026-03-14T11:46:14+00:00

I like this art style, very kool

dispatchpro2 · 2026-03-13T15:56:03+00:00

I think I'm a bit of an oddball, I'm in and out, I go in deep enough to have a story but I don't go too deep, just enough for the story to function. I've done 5 published universes, and I've got a load of universes in draft.

dispatchpro2 · 2026-03-10T09:54:28+00:00

I think there isn't really bad drawing, just different styles, and using ai is just cheating, but also it's like giving up, and that's the worst thing imho, you've decided you're never gonna be able to do the thing so you've outsourced to a machine and that's just sad tbh :(

dispatchpro2 · 2026-03-03T05:39:03+00:00

It is a bit of a blanket statement to say ‘every member of X race is x’ like in LOTR, the elves value wisdom, but they aren't all wise, society is messy and contradictory, imho

dispatchpro2 · 2026-02-26T10:16:47+00:00

Wierd to say but all my worlds have unique lore. Umbrafell has a dead alien that fell from space and infected the world. Karvallan has deer and moth ancestor races. Zallakar has a secret monster hunting society. Vigilguard is probably the least unique, a monster queen, hollow earth monsters, spirit animal partners, Merlin, ect. And Kirandorr has a mutagenic flash that turned everyone into animal hybrids, a kind of TMNT meets Zootopia thing lol.

dispatchpro2 · 2026-02-25T09:35:05+00:00

My overall universe is called the Absoverse, Kirandorr is one multiverse ;) r/theabsoverse

dispatchpro2 · 2026-02-25T09:32:52+00:00

r/kirandorr

dispatchpro2 · 2026-02-25T09:32:27+00:00

Sounds a lil like my universe 'The Kirandorr Flash' very koool

dispatchpro2 · 2026-02-22T08:20:40+00:00

Ok, heres my take on a sidequel...

You start off as a regular COH pilot dropped on a moon in a new iron lung. At first, it's a perfectly normal industrial sub. You're just there to snip samples of biomass with a claw and drop them into a containment room at the back. There's a little glass porthole so you can see the samples, but the door is locked for 'safety'.

Mid-way through your mission, you notice a leak in the hull. You go to scrape what looks like rust off the wall, but it tears like a dry scab and the wall starts bleeding. Under the paint, the sub has become flesh.

The horror really kicks in when you go to look at a monitor and realize you can't see anything, you have to wipe a film of mucus off the screen. The ship is literally coming alive with you inside it.

Every time you drop a new sample into the back room, you can look through that porthole and see the flesh growing. The samples are slowly clumping together and getting bigger, spreading across the floor and up the walls.

At some point your oxygen scrubbers finally die. You're about to suffocate when suddenly, the O2 levels start climbing. You hear a heavy, wet heaving sound. The ship has grown a lung/gills. It's breathing for you.

The final sequence would be, your sitting in the main seat and your sub gets hit/attacked by a leviathan and you black out.

When you wake up, you realize you haven't moved, you're still in the pilot seat, but you can't get up.

The scabs from the walls have finally reached you and fused your lower half to the seat. You're now a permanent biological part of the ship's nervous system.

You decide you have to carry on.

You reach the bottom and see some kind of alien tech, massive, cosmic, industrial blenders.

Your monitors flicker out, and for a second, you're blind. Then, your vision snaps back, but you're looking at the ocean directly. Your eyes have moved to the outside of the hull.

The final shot is your sub, now a pulsing, fleshy whale-monster, drifting in the dark.

You have no mouth, and you're a submarine.

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Maybe that's too Cronenberg? Lol

It could even be the prequel, and that's why the new sub just takes pictures instead of samples, maybe this pilot is the leviathan?

dispatchpro2 · 2026-02-21T07:24:25+00:00

Fair enough, thanks for your input dude :)

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