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I am currently building a new L-Shape desk for my PC and tablet, my room looks bigger after all the shit I moved around.
 
You know I never realized how important punctuation in a conversation can be.

I love to cook my family and pets.

I love to cook, my family and pets.

We should eat Grandma!

We should eat, Grandma!
 
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I am currently building a new L-Shape desk for my PC and tablet, my room looks bigger after all the shit I moved around.
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L-shaped desks are a godsend for office design. They can occupy space so much more efficiently than normal desks and feel great to use. You can use one side for your computer and the other to write (or draw or whatever your work involves), and there's plenty of space to put tools you might use or simply desk decorations. It's great.
 
And with my new room configuration it feels very comfy, like the Feng Shui flows much easier, No homo.
 
I think.... I am actually improving....
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I am preparing myself to start making the first 3 episodes of the comic story that has been gestating in my head for 8 years now.
The Plan is to try and set up a Patreon to get it off the ground after completing the first 3 episodes and release a couple of them online on some digital distribution service, then when I have enough of a backlog and I have formed enough interest I will try and send it to a publisher. I don't have the money to self publish.
 
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Why would you like the right one? It's much flatter and the facial features are not solid.

The story is a combination of a couple of things, it starts out as Urban Fantasy, very weird fantasy too.
 
Do you think Patreon will work though? As far as I understand it you really need a substantial user-base to make it work reliably. And even with the artists I know it still is difficult to get enough money together.
 
Well the patreon for the comic wouldn't be my primary source of income, this comic is a personal project but I still will have graphic design job to feed me. Patreon would be for generating interest and such. I am even thinking up perks and activities for people to donate like private streamings of the drawing and modelling processes (I am also producing custom 3D assets to facilitate drawing of backgrounds) as I move towards the goal of finding a publisher. And well to justify people wanting to see me doodling my chicken scratches and modeling my boxes I need to improve my level.
 
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Walpknut said:
Why would you like the right one? It's much flatter and the facial features are not solid.
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The right one looks much better. On the left, your efforts to "round" it also make it look fuzzy, meanwhile the "sharpness" of the right one makes it look more interesting and dynamic. The facial proportions also seem more appealing on the right versus the left, and the one on the left looks like the view is taken from below the head, but the shading doesn't indicate this.

Really, the one on the right is much, MUCH better. Just taking more time on a piece isn't enough. Sometimes, you lose that "spark" that made the composition work in the first place.
 
Yes, I think the reason we enjoy the right one more is because the cartoony style doesn't demand the small facial features. They're supposed to look kinda flat, with hard shadows. The right one has that. Once you make the details realistic without changing the overal cartoony shape and size ratios, it becomes slightly more uncanny. This is good news, because it'd mean you'd have to actually put in less effort lol.
 
It's not a matter of "fixing the shading". If you overlay the two on top of one another, with one mirrored so they're both as matched as possible (though mirroring is generally a no-no, since it tends to always make the thing look worse) they would still look distinct from one another, and not because of the shadows. The colors would be different, the placement and size of the facial features would be different, and the character's "weight" would appear different between the two. It's the sum total of the overall composition that would need "fixing", and tweaking some shading wouldn't affect that.
 
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