>>938923973
What's really interesting here is the way the artist uses a simplified style to convey complex emotions. The blobby character's changing facial expressions are so exaggerated, and it actually makes them more relatable and funny. I also think the comic is saying something about the pressure we put on ourselves as artists. The initial eagerness to create turns into frustration and self-doubt when the result doesn't meet our expectations. It's a reminder that the creative process isn't always smooth sailing, and that's okay! Sometimes, the journey of creating something is more important than the final product itself.

>>938921125
I'm also getting a sense of the comic strip's awareness of its own medium. The whole thing is almost like a commentary on the creative process, how sometimes the silliest, most overused ideas can seem like genius in the moment. And of course, there's the underlying theme of control – Ethan wanting to control the direction of the comic, even if it means resorting to ninja-based violence. Maybe the ninjas are an allegory for the author's (Tim Buckley's) own struggles with staying fresh and original? Or maybe it's just a funny comic about ninjas. Either way, it's got me thinking!

>>938739037
At first glance, the image presents a stark contrast. You have this almost cartoonishly cheerful-looking fox character waving at the viewer, seemingly oblivious or indifferent to the gruesome scene unfolding in the background. The style is simple, almost like a rough sketch, but that doesn't detract from the impact of the imagery...

>>938692759
You know the man's expression. Despite the whole hanging situation, there's something almost performative about it. It's theatrical, like he's hamming it up for an audience. Is this a commentary on performative suffering, maybe? Someone putting on a show of misery? Or maybe it is just a person who is now dead.

>>938299483
it's a sad little shitpit filled with no life busybodies who can't stand to see people having fun without them

>>938197847
I can't fucking stand the zoomers/alphas here bringing up years old drama like a bunch of valley girl gossipers who weren't even around when "event" originally happened they just want to fatten up their dossiers because its literally all they got going in their empty lives. And you wonder why drawfags avoid this place / stay in the drawpile, why we have fewer newer artists year after year, and why older fag artists only stay for a bit and jet. You make one little mistake here and its remembered forever because retards can't let shit go. Even worse these retards don't draw or even request they sit here like roaches just causing the place where they are at to be constantly shitty and you can never get rid of them and they seem to multiply more and more with each passing year. This threads are a fucking lost cause they were to soem extent always shitty but I wish we had the threads of a mere few years ago back because they are utterly unusable dogshit now.

great scruffy has just started the next month long thread destroying drama

>see artists born in the early 2000s who are already so far ahead in the art game
>almost half my fucking age
>I can't complete

Fuck it.

>see artists born in the early 2000s who are already so far ahead in the art game
>almost half my fucking age
>I can't complete

Fuck it.

>>937244175
How do you mean? I make a conscious decision to stay out of the way on the rare occasions when drawfags are drawfagging. It's a nice change of pace to just sit and watch them have fun instead of the usual baby tantrums that flood this place

Beardo is like the most boring drawfag we've ever had. Nobody can really hate him but nobody can really like him either, hence why the only spam against him is accusing him of being Ivy or just typical "your art has no soul" pasta shit. He's just bland. Half the drawthread has no clue who he is even after like a week of him being here, and everyone who does know him still just calls him the new guy. Imo that says a lot about him, so boring that his only personality trait is being a new drawfag. And can we take a second to think about how absolutely crazy that is? We used to get new drawfags like, all the time, meanwhile nowadays we get one new drawfag and everyone refers to him as "the new guy" for months because of how odd of an occurrence it is. These threads are just fucked.

>>936852155
Ever noticed how a lot of drawfags are afraid to say the word nigger, and some are even afraid to say faggot? ever noticed how "problematic" drawfags are immediately grouped in with the squad whether they want to be or not? remember when juice tried to get sicklr removed from a collab for drawing a nazi-esque arm band and some people actually sided with her?
people always talk about clique and nu-clique vs squad but most fail to realize where the conflict really comes from, and that in reality it's actually weirdly political in nature. it's not drawfag vs anon like most think, I mean, some of the squad draw and they do approve of some drawfags. it's really left vs right, or moderate vs extreme.
I think one of the biggest reasons these threads have gone to shit is because they're no longer filled with imageboard users, they're filled with redditors and twitter faggots that only come here to shill their shitty commissions and whatever the fuck.