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hi





me with Jiko + Capslock and Shift please

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News & Events / Re: Void's Sexiest 2018 Pageant Royale!
« on: Aug 27, 2018, 12:17 PM »
Hey, so... ... ... despite my excitement, I just found out my oldest friend is getting married in less than two months, so I have to kind of focus on putting in as much worktime as I can to attend

So... Unfortunately, not going to attend this pageant royale u__u

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News & Events / Re: Void's Sexiest 2018 Pageant Royale!
« on: Aug 15, 2018, 08:47 AM »
I'm entering Jiko.

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Art Jams / Re: BATTLE HYPE JAM!!!!
« on: Mar 13, 2018, 03:19 AM »

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VOID Characters and Comics / Re: Official VOID Shitpost Thread!
« on: Jan 06, 2018, 12:54 AM »
today's episode: jiko gets dating advice














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VOID Characters and Comics / Official VOID Shitpost Thread!
« on: Jan 03, 2018, 02:43 PM »
IT'S HIP TO SHITPOST
STARTIN' OFF 2018 WITH A SHITPOST THREAD OPEN TO ALL!!!


I made this thread at the suggestion of Radji!

Only rules are... well, there aren't any. General site rules, I mean? Just have fun. Doodle a little.

I guess to help economize, if you have multiple images to submit, put them in one post? But that's more just a general courtesy over a hard rule.

But yeah, man, have fun!

Here's some to start off:



























wrow i had a lot of backlog

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Art Jams / Re: Mistletoe/Mistlefoe Jam
« on: Dec 22, 2017, 11:52 PM »


-promise by hirose kohmi plays in the bg-

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and you thought JIKO'S holiday outfits were extra

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And these next two, NVCPD hasn't gathered much info on them yet, but this is what they could muster:




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VOID Characters and Comics / Re: Challenges Thread
« on: Sep 16, 2017, 02:12 PM »
Fam and Wally are in so I'm offerin' a 2 week challenge. Hit me up so we'll be done before Inktoberrr

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Art Jams / Re: Artistic Progression Jam
« on: Sep 13, 2017, 01:08 PM »
This one's both before and after I joined Void



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spit spat, time to chat / Re: Defaults
« on: May 16, 2017, 11:01 AM »
I agree with Sabu and Jetster that we should implement some sort of help or rehab, as it were, to help defaulters.

Boot Camp is a good idea-- and judging on the two graduates so far it seems to be really working! But because Pyras can only take on so many people at a time,  I also suggest small practices- 4 or 5-pager artist match beyond battles. We can even give them a fun name, like "greasers" or "minis".

Heck, even in an art thread, and I'll propose this one as an art jam: make a one or two-pager narrative. Just, small things to work back up to doing a comic on a deadline, and also ultimately (and I'll get to this later), they're FUN.

About serial defaulters: if we do just shun them or shut them out, then it's no better than the old Void tradition of giving people those crying baby icons. It's childish, vindictive, and ultimately unsympathetic.

Understanding a situation and trying to help someone deal with what seems to be a recurring problem is more important than yelling at them about things they already know.

Of course, if someone is offered help, and they refuse to even make the effort to go through 'rehab' as it were, then the burden is on them as an individual for either not noticing the problem or refusing to change it.

Another thing I would like to encourage is that you don't need to be perfect.  I was talking to another voider who recently did a published comic, and she had mentioned when she sent in her comic she feared she'd be torn apart for various little things: lettering, or composition, what have you.

Turns out, her comic actually got really good reviews, and Void had just made her scared.

When I told my former university professor, and friend- a freelance animator- about the workload of Void (I've gathered over the course of TTT you need at least 10 fully colored pages in 2 weeks to not be considered 'underperforming'), it actually frightened her how much art we are supposed to do.

And I'll say right now, I'm still physically recovering from the work I put into Tag Team Tourney 2017-- and some Voiders have wrist issues caused by the overwork imposed by some tourneys.

But WHY are we working so hard? It's not purely out of competition-- it's also the shame of being incomplete, and making something that isn't perfect. The fear of being a disappointment, when you have tons of people's comics to be compared to.

And this is something that I think is related to defaults: we get scared to make something less than perfect, because of how we'll be viewed in the community.

Void is very much the 'it's harder in real life!' college art class of comic-making, and I also feel sometimes that pressure to not disappoint can lead to the ultimate disappointment OF defaulting.

Void is competitive, Void is collaborative, but Void is also fuckin' stressful as hell. As well as rehabilitative help, we need to work on our approach to viewing people's comics as good fun as well as competitive practice.

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mini challenge

Draw whoever is supplying everyone with brown ragged cloaks

we all know who it is


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Art Jams / Re: Tag Team Tournament 2017 HYPE JAM
« on: Mar 16, 2017, 09:58 AM »

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spit spat, time to chat / Re: That Entervoid Moment When...
« on: Mar 01, 2017, 07:01 PM »
when your round 1 opponent is ur close friend of like 9-10 years


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Art Jams / Re: Tag Team Tournament 2017 HYPE JAM
« on: Feb 28, 2017, 11:39 PM »

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spit spat, time to chat / Re: That Entervoid Moment When...
« on: Feb 28, 2017, 09:17 PM »
...waitin for that tag team tournament 2017 roster


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News & Events / Re: 2017 TAG TEAM TOURNAMENT
« on: Feb 06, 2017, 06:27 AM »
-slams hands on table-

JIKO, AND EVI'S CAPSLOCK N' SHIFT

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VOID Characters and Comics / Re: Evaluate Me! Thread
« on: Jan 25, 2017, 04:58 PM »
Pyras was brave enough to do this for two years in a row, so you know what, fuck it: https://goo.gl/forms/w2Q2Y35Oe0fVls1D3

GIVE IT TO ME STRAIGHT

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Art Jams / Re: 2017 Banner Submission Thread
« on: Jan 23, 2017, 07:15 PM »
slides in here



link

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VOID Characters and Comics / Re: THE JIKO AND FRIENDS SHOW
« on: Jan 13, 2017, 12:18 PM »
For those who didn't see it in the Void Discord yesterday, here's a new Deluxe Void Shitpost about Xia and the Jiko Date Conspiracy

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VOID Characters and Comics / Re: THE JIKO AND FRIENDS SHOW
« on: Jan 12, 2017, 06:07 PM »











happy valentimes

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I feel in terms of storytelling, a good way to think about this is entertainment value.

Would people like to see a character just say, "oh, we have a bad history with that gang, really bad". Or, would it be better to show that hypothetical 'gang' ruining the character's life in real-time?

"Showing" is in essence considered better than "telling" because instead of yelling at a reader they should feel a certain way, you present the information as events unfolding, and try to produce a desired, more emotional reaction. You hear someone say "man those gang guys are mean to merchants", you fail to see how that information is meaningful to anyone. You see the gang knock over the merchant's wares or whatever and you're like "wow, those guys sure are awful".

There's some things that can't be portrayed with just pictures-- say, like, really abstract concepts, or names. But most things can be portrayed with a nice balance of showing and telling, it's all about taking advantage of comics as a medium.

As well, I'd like to address the fundamental part of character in exposition, which is-- the character's voice. Not every character will deliver perfect, reliable exposition, and this can be fun.

Mammon and Karrin Klash would present vastly different accounts of Void's Impact Day (Karrin wasn't around, for example), and this can be really amusing, insightful into the character, or both. This is also where dramatic irony can set in-- a character feeling a certain way, in their told view, but the shown events being actually different.

Sorry for going off on tangents like that! Just, always think of the reader. Do you want them to have to slog through ten paragraphs of information they don't necessarily need? Complexity does not equate to depth.

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VOID Characters and Comics / Re: THE JIKO AND FRIENDS SHOW
« on: Dec 19, 2016, 12:50 PM »




and now, to torture mags' archie (mammon's henchman)








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