I followed Monday here forever ago, and the site was too rad not to sign up. It gave me a reason to draw comics throughout highschool and keep up a fairly constant workflow, doing the Void shit helped me keep up a momentum to do some non-Void shit (which amounted to nothing of value but time spent drawing comics in earnest is never time wasted) and a large portion of the portfolio that got me into college was Void comics (Primarily one Wei decided was too shit to get posted, back when he went around deciding comics were too shit to get posted).

Through Void I've met some of the most impressive and most influential artists I've ever known, and I got a girlfriend off Void (We lived close enough that we were hanging out before we were dating, fuck e-dating). I fucking hate cons but goddamn if WW07 wasn't one of the biggest things for me as an artist. It was also when I started drinking. Since then I've been simultaneously banned and welcomed back as a special guest at the Chelsea Hotel for throwing a shitstorm party. Shit, WW09 was rad too. It felt rad sharing a row of tables with people I'd admired and finally having something of my own to show.

Most importantly I met Justin (Dawgmastas) and he and I are now putting out some badass books, and I'll admit I was heavily motivated by Void's Pulpo books and my disappointment in what they'd turned into to do so (No offense Galvo, but you know you hurt me bad with how mismanaged that one was).

Oh yeah and I lost my V card via someone I met on Void, so there's that.

I spent most of my time here being a contrary cunt and I learned a lot for it. Moreso when I did it with comics than in the forums but still. In looking for ways to break form and rules I experimented a lot in my comics here and that was awesome that I was allowed to. The site is imperfect, the site will always be imperfect. What one person loves is going to piss someone else right the fuck off. Punks won't go to Abercrombie, whatever. The world is a better place for having variety.

But this is my leaving the site. It's not for me anymore. I've done my time here, and I've had a great one, the best one. I'm not saying goodbye to anybody, just to the site. It's changed and it's not a website I'd want to use anymore, and I couldn't be happier. If it was still the website I wanted to use it wouldn't be the website you new users want to use. This isn't a website for adults, it's a website for kids. It isn't a website for comics professionals, it's for wannabes and neverwills, and it's okay to be either one. At some point though you have to grow up and say "I want to be a comic artist" or "I don't" and go on with your life.  I didn't even want to make a goodbye post, but I was struck with how pathetic it was seeing people still bitching about how the site has changed. Fuck you, move on, grow up. If there's anything that should be learned from this site it's that there's way bigger and better things out there than Void, but this is a fucking great place to find out what those things are.

Don't be this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo4kDrWBa6c


PS-I'm leaving because Gavin ruined Void.

Wait by those numbers doesn't that mean each of you has posted a full page+? Not okay. Use the rest of the forum/site.

You two are doing a fantastic job of that by shitting on Phill. Back off jackoffs.

Well, Clash of the Titans WAS based more on the Harryhausen movie than it was the Greek mythology, so as far as that goes it wasn't THAT inaccurate. Still not exact to the source material though. The Lightning Thief was surprisingly accurate to the mythologies it borrowed from, taking into account what it was of course.

But Oldman wasn't even faithful, he was just looking to abuse the faith of others, it was faith vs. a lack thereof.

Uh, Book of Eli isn't super religious propaganda? The fact that the entire thing is built up to a twist that relies on the existence and omnipotence of God and the shitty cumbersome dialogue about the power the bible has to and over people doesn't make it qualify? The insane pretension in the writing and Denzel's performance? It was like watching one of Orson Welles' worst masturbatory ventures into film but preachier and poorly played. You can tell Denzel produced it without even seeing the credits. Fuck that movie.

Hahahaha XOXO

Wei, this isn't Spit Spat, if you're not going to provide a critique or a helpful comment you really shouldn't post at all.


Or just those last six words. Either works in this case.

True that.

Hahahaha our leader? Really? Is that who he is?


And no Lune, the reason is apparently that he was unaware of the deadline, "our leader" doesn't seem to check on his site much, does he?

You seem to be attempting to do contour drawings. Try doing those outline drawings without lifting your pencil from the page.

Which is a general thing you need to start doing. Why are you making dozens of lines to draw one line? It's ugly and a really terrible habit. Slow down when you draw and pay attention to what you're drawing and how you're drawing. There's nothing magic about this, it's an abstract mental process that you need to lock down tight. You're converting 3 dimensional objects into 2 dimensional images, pay attention to it and make sure you're aware of what you're drawing while you're drawing it. Buckle down and work at it, make 50 drawings of everything you want to draw, and if you're not good at drawing it after that make 50 more.

That said, your whole figures are getting pretty solid, but your faces are still really weak. Don't stylize the faces at all. You'll notice how you draw facial features at some point, and be better for it.



and not to discourage you or anything but...


If you go around saying every doodle you do is a valuable piece of art you're going to continue sounding like a pretentious cunt. Your doodles aren't worth anything to anybody but you, and you should be glad of that. You have free reign to fuck up when you're doodling. Mess around, make mistakes, do shit wrong, strive to do shit right, learn how to draw and learn how to draw well so that when the time comes to actually produce a product of value you have the skills and capacity to do so. If you start thinking your every little bit of chicken scratch doodling is worth something to anybody you're going to set yourself up for disappointment when someone shoots down a really well made and well conceived piece.  How badly do you want to be good if you need bullshit bathroom wall philosophy to keep you in the game? Draw to draw, work to improve, have fun.



Good luck.

Here's some fan art for you, dude.



I hope you like it.