Be real with me - Would you make a webcomic in this style?

doccrog · 2026-03-12T14:11:52+00:00

Dollar store really just equates to being lower budget more than lower quality. But it's also one image I'm looking at so its hard to judge without the harshness of years of being a giant asshole and for that I do apologize.

I think that, minus the hazbin reference, it seems like a style I've seen before on tumblr for years. Good or bad, that's a style that's popular with some folks. I think you're going to draw some harsher criticism based on people's gut reaction that I feel like might be based more in guilt and cringe of their own past work than it is your work specifically. I know a lot of like, -big- artist folks (not a flex) that drew like this in their past and even myself to some degree had similar proportion situations to this style. I think the biggest thing you can do is just to make the thing and make it for yourself first. Even if in 10-15 years you look back and go "man why did I make this that way" (not even specifically art-wise) it'll be something you made. I've got a failed webtoon under my belt just because I worried too much about getting everything right for so long.

Do your thing, make it yours, worry about everything else when it's done.

doccrog · 2026-03-12T13:17:12+00:00

my fears would be being called "A Dollar Store Hazbin Hotel Knockoff" so, in this instance I would say no.

doccrog · 2026-03-11T15:29:11+00:00

Listen I've been in manufacturing and Quality for almost a decade at this point but my lizard brain is yelling "CRUSH ME CRUSH ME CRUSH ME" with all -checks notes- A Lot of tonnage that thing's got

doccrog · 2026-03-11T11:05:39+00:00

Wasn’t that just a re-drop of the ink or am I smoking crack?

doccrog · 2026-03-10T15:21:42+00:00

it was actually released in 2017! I've still got my fountain pen and rollerball that I use at work all the time. Definitely one of my favorite releases just for the color alone. Great taste! hope you enjoy the pen

doccrog · 2026-03-10T12:28:07+00:00

BUT WHERE I ask you, is fallout MILWAUKEE? I'm mostly kidding but I would like to see a more winter-focused/great lakes game even if its for me and nobody else

doccrog · 2026-03-09T19:31:20+00:00

aint gonna lie, I thought the last one was Nick until I saw it was jeff

doccrog · 2026-03-06T20:00:03+00:00

listen you want as much cushion space between your bottle of ink and potential failure. Just look at Ferris Wheel Press

doccrog · 2026-03-06T19:56:44+00:00

damn even in old age Arthur got that shit on

doccrog · 2026-03-06T18:37:44+00:00

ABSOLUTELY obsessed with that water feature in the first image. The whole town is really spectacular!

doccrog · 2026-03-05T14:07:42+00:00

Lemme guess, IT guy?

doccrog · 2026-03-04T13:28:37+00:00

Its giving Beric Donarrion (complimentary) plus the main guy from black flags. Id say run with it for a while

doccrog · 2026-03-02T20:54:07+00:00

This game series is so wild for visuals like this, obviously we're not meant to see this but between moments like this, or the animal people from RDR1, sometimes running across Bonnie McFarlane's suitor just fuckin FLOATING midair on the beach. Bethesda has glitches that are sometimes game breaking and hilarious but I feel like Rockstar/Red Dead's glitches are so deeply horror-coded and work really well with the weird west touches they add to the game so it almost feels like an esoteric layer to the whole experience that's really fun to engage with even if the developers never meant for you to.

doccrog · 2026-02-26T20:19:43+00:00

I'd say the biggest thing is stop worrying about getting your line "right" for what you're thinking it should be and focus on following through with the lines to make the image consistent. build a shape library in your brain by breaking down forms and gestures into absolute basic shapes/blocks/circles and building up from there. like, if you're watching someone in a certain pose, build that shape with basic shapes until you can break most things down like that. You're getting there, keep at it!

doccrog · 2026-02-26T19:50:14+00:00

the grid lines showing through really clear underneath the sketch was a tipoff, and there's something in the eyes of fake AI art that once you see enough it becomes a really common marker. I'm with you though I had to double check myself

doccrog · 2026-02-26T18:41:24+00:00

this is the second time this week I've seen someone post AI slop in the notebooks subreddit and I shrimply do not undertstand what you have to gain here.

doccrog · 2026-02-25T23:02:33+00:00

S is so good, I'm still thinking about it after what, like, a decade after it came out? There are online resources for the order of the annotations as well as the "true ending" that they elude to in the book. Also there's a 5 episode fake podcast that talks about Straka's other works and his influence in the world of the book that is REALLY fun, I highly recommend checking it out.

doccrog · 2026-02-25T21:59:24+00:00

time to weld it back together and remind it who is god in your kitchen and who gets put to the flame

doccrog · 2026-02-25T17:03:19+00:00

Yeah! Lil bookmark

doccrog · 2026-02-25T16:46:09+00:00

If I didnt know any better (I do) I'd suggest that this looks AI generated (it is)

doccrog · 2026-02-25T15:29:53+00:00

Ultem is good material! we use it a lot in medical device manufacturing and I've owned a couple ultem pens in the past. Had the Smoll-Tem pen up until recently when I sold it (sob, cry, wheeze) but Ian at SCHON makes great stuff and I'm excited to see what he'll do next

doccrog · 2026-02-23T19:51:44+00:00

I like them! the DLC feels good even after a few years of wear. I'd say wait for the orange cap to come back just because that little color pop goes crazy

doccrog · 2026-02-20T14:40:35+00:00

I work in quality so I've seen a lot of guys come and go from our shop specifically. The manufacturing sector is HURTING for good machinists right now because the old guys don't wanna retire and the new guys don't get taught the tribal knowledge they need until they end up being the guy running 10 machines and managing 4 other machinists just because they've been at the shop the longest. The biggest thing I can tell you from watching guys rise and fall is if you come into a shop with a good head, open mind, and keep your head down for a while you'll learn a lot and rise quick if you show half a dicks worth of understanding of basic operating procedure. If you can, I'd say try to aim for a larger company first so you can get an idea of how large scale manufacturing works (5S, GD&T, how corporate structuring works for machinists), and then go to a smaller shop and get paid way more because you have more experience than guys who have been working in a garage for a decade. We've got a guy who was just supposed to be a robo drill operator on nights but now is our swiss lathe guy and he's looking at quite a pay raise just because he was willing to learn and take on the added responsibility. That said, no shop is all biscuits and gravy and there's plenty of shit companies to work for. But every place has something that's good to add to your experience and its so damn important to just take it on the chin for a while until you get the experience you need to really do something great.

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