DarkDumb

What usually triggers it for me is when I can't find what I want to read or have an idea that's too long for a comic. Gotta feed myself. It helps that I actually like writing so I guess that's the secret ingredient🤦‍♀️I don't put pressure on myself like I do with drawing so it's like wow, free dopamine

Yeah, I wish stories would sometimes lean into these characters being the weird entities they are, but since it seems like it's a story about emancipation, it makes sense too. Plus, I like Alexander Skarsgård, so I'll allow it, lol

Oh right, I've also seen people post a censored/cropped version with a link to bsky for the uncensored version, so I guess that's also a possibility 🤷‍♀️

prone to deletion when it's properly labeled? (It should also hide those posts from minors.) But I've also seen some ppl here and there straight up ignore all of that 🤷‍♀️

I was trying to find out myself a while ago and still have no idea 🤦‍♀️ I often see people censor genitals or crop the drawing right above them. I was told to avoid using the 'nsfw' tag, using 'suggestive' instead. Might be a good rule of thumb to flag spicier posts as mature as it should be less--

tbf I usually pick out episodes about ghosts or conspiracies bcs I welcome their idiocy distancing the topic away since I don't like listening to people who genuinely believe in that stuff... but I don't really trust them on covering true crime since the guys don't have much tact

lmao, like everyone else I also immediately assumed you're talking about Last podcast on the left, and if you are... you're absolutely right. And I say that as a casual fan of theirs. Their sense of humor doesn't even align with mine at all, but they grew on me somehow?

Thanks, hehe

A greyscale three panel comic. Ace is sitting in the cockpit of his dimension jumping spaceship, Wildfire, and is looking out where a maneuvering thruster is puffing air. He thinks: "We've been cruising fine, but the portside maneuvering jets don't respond as well as I'd like." In the second panel, he is looking at the screens inside the cockpit. We see them: they are littered in text showing his name and hearts as well as badly written self-insert fanfic of him and Wildfire. He thinks: "I'll check the diagno-" He stammers, then says: "Ah?! W-Wildfire?" The third panel is a wide shot of the ship cruising through space. Dialogue goes as follows: Wildfire: "Oh. Sorry." Ace: "You've been daydreaming again, haven't you?" Wildfire: "Ah... I thought you liked it." Ace: "You're not supposed to say that out loud."

Still in the business of reminding people that the ship's computer in Ace's ship canonically has a crush on him
#reddwarf

Rimmer rides a ČZ 175/501 Čezeta - a Czechoslovak scooter from the 50s/60s, nicknamed "pig". Any motorcycle museum I set foot in here had one of them, and they are delightfully ugly.

Ace rides a Ducati 750 SS - I specifically referenced it off a real modified racing version of it nicknamed "Old Blue", which was apparently the first Ducati to win a race in the US (in Daytona in 1977). I only gave it Wildfire's colors...

Colored illustration of Ace Rimmer sitting on a Ducati racebike.

Colored illustration of Rimmer sitting on a Čezeta scooter.

Sexiest bike ever versus unsexiest bike ever
#reddwarf

That's awesome! When I go straight to inks, my drawings crumble like a house of cards 😅 Not too bad with studies, but without 1:1 reference it can be a disaster. I feel like it engages some part of my brain/imagination that I haven't practiced enough, I need to build my drawings from the ground up.

A study of a ye olde kitten photo, done with copic markers. The kitty is named “Baby”

A study of that one Gary Oldman Dracula poster but there’s no Gary Oldman, there’s only the statue face looking upwards. Done in gray copics

I recently got really into gray copic markers and ooohh I love the results so much 😭

I was doing dishes today and it reminded me of this flatmate:

Thank you 😭

I will always be promoting suspenders, haha

Damn, you're one of the old guard then 😅 I've been an RD fan pretty much all my life, but didn't make anything for the fandom until now

I always recommend it to my brother like "it's not *that* bad" and he rightfully never believes me haha

I spent way too much time with the manga bcs of work and it got me so desensitized to the impact of the story that I'm always irrationally surprised when people find it really rough, lol. It's great though!

Unfinished cropped drawing of Spanners working at his workbench while Ace sleeps on a sofa with Spanners's cap over his face in the background.

rd wip thread of noncommittal drawings I neglected you for too long

Black and white comic. A dad walks through the drink section of a supermarket. "Alright, I just need some milk." He opens a fridge door. "Everyone knows the freshest is at the back." He reaches his arm over three increasingly fresh cartons of milk. "Just... A little... Further..." He touches a mysterious glowing carton with odd symbols on it. POP! His eyes are shut, then open. In a softer watercolour style, he leans up from a grassy hill, observing a beautiful castle kingdom in the distance. "Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit..." To be continued.

Started drawing this for bad comic day but ended up going a little ham with isekai dad #comics

Colored illustration of a large recruitment poster with Ace Rimmer on it and the slogan: "Join the Space Corps" as seen in the illustration above.

Clean poster

Colored illustration. On a messy wall is a large recruitment poster with Ace Rimmer on it and the slogan: "Join the Space Corps". In front of it stands Rimmer in Ace's outfit but with the jacker slung over his forearm and holding a wig in his other hand. He is half hid in shadow, looking at the viewer over his shoulder with disdain.

Successor
#reddwarf

I do recommend the book if you want some fun pilot action à la Top Gun or Ace Combat. It *is* a Warhammer 40k story, but it barely matters and the setting adds just a bit of flavor.

Black and white drawing of Bree Jagdea from the shoulders up. She is holding a bag slung over her shoulder with a cold stare.

Black and white drawing of Vander Marquall from the shoulders up. He is holding a pair of gloves with a bitter expression.

Jagdea and Marquall from Double Eagle by Dan Abnett. I don't often try to pull book characters out of my imagination, but it was fun!
#warhammer

💕💕💕

Christmas pfp until july, that's a new record

A three page greyscale comic featuring Ace Rimmer and his ship. Ace sketches the ship and shows the drawing to the ship's computer in the cockpit. The ship's computer answers by printing an ASCII art style portrait of Ace.

This did numbers on tumblr and it's still killing me
#reddwarf

If you're inclined...
archiveofourown.org/works/651086...