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missinkwitch.bsky.social
💠✒️ Miss Inkwitch
@missinkwitch.bsky.social
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Goblin Herder, Universal Paperweight, and statistically knows a lot about comics.

I try to post just art here but forget sometimes.

Check #Inkwitch for art

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smolumbina #animewonk
a fery smol and kind of crudely drawn frame of Columbina from a genshin animation.
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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It's a very sweet and tender series and i fondly remember the manga but why did the anime make the MC look like a frog and goat at once, and why did they forget what normal faces look like? #animewonk
Not one of the three faces of these girls looks human as they ogle the.... eyes of their shirtless classmate who has the body of a beige refrigerator.
November 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Worange strikes again. There is not well drawn face in this image and the guy 4 from the left is pissing and during this tender scene they have this *horribly animated guy cross in front of the camera* #animewonk
bad screenshot of a group of spectators at a sports meet from episode 9 of the anime Orange. No one has a well drawn face. same shot as before, but a guy with short fingers sllllowllllly walks across the screen as families share a tender moment.
November 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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This is supposed to be a dramatic scene ramping up tension who put this inbetween frame here-- #animewonk
Screenshot of an inbetween of a character turning from profile to front-facing from the anime Orange. It's.... *really hard* to cheap out on inbetweens like this, do your part by boarding a little different. Or don't, i could always use more frames like this.
November 15, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Mrs. Bapka.
Mrs. Bapka revealing that she ia the patron saint of chaos that has visited her sharpest marble in the drawer rocky with a pipe wrench.
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Sure, cilantro, I love you too!
Food container with a little bit of cilantro on the outside in the shape od a heart.
November 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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.... okay I can have ONE (1) good makeup and selfie day on main yhis year.
Blonde haired lady with colorful makeup.
November 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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bluesky crashed as I was adding the follow-up. we should not let canva weasle-word their way into saying they won't train on our behavior and tools, and then do that in the EULA. and we should seize on this accessibility to spread knowledge, also there is a cat vector tool
These are some basic steps I've learned for illustration ad comicking that make great use of software tools to speed up workflow, and keep control over the end product. I do still know how to stitch and warp panoramics together, but it takes time, and it always has unintended flaws, but I'm still in control of the output. And the filter stuff is just math- most people my age don't know *why* it's called a multiply layer. But most importantly, these are all tools I've messed with that are at my disposal, and I've taken time to understand their function and direct them intentionally. Conflating those kinds of things with AI is a bald-faced lie and marketing scheme, and anyone who tells you otherwise has never worked an actual creative production job. Like, you have to sacrifice a lot of time and body wear and skills and opportunity to be creative as a job, and most people that get into it for work or money are just as motivated by something creative, and that also means misuse and exploitation in creative fields gets excused WAY more than anywhere else. But at least I know what I know when the power's out. i really like affinity's vectors, they're better than illustrator or clip's. having this mascot as a stamp for... free advertizing so your customers can also be your sales material is shitty. But if they let me add my own vector signature? that'd be cool, but nothing an asset library panel doesn't do already. also, i gotta say, this is some of the ugliest icon work i've seen-- everything is illegible and identical until I hover over it for a few seconds. this cat looks really ugly- there's no unity in the width of the lines of the overlap cutouts and face, they just look like someone poked some vectors on a perfectly fine letter, just like that ugly logo.
November 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Some superquick tests of the new #affinity program, it has the few tools I keep an old copy of CS6 around- panoramic merge and black and white adjustments. I'm not 100% sold on it being irreplaceable or their future stance on AI swill. At least it's accessible.

Explanation in the alt text:
this is a super quick and messy sketch I made-- just a square, a green fineliner for a block-in sketch, a black fine line pen for inks, and a purple mildliner. with my phone, I took 4 pictures of the image one of each corner so that each one would be overlapping, but not 100% whole. Let's say I had an 11x17 illustration to scan, but I only had an 8x11 scanner. I could scan the corners much like this, and would have more consistent lighting and higher info density, and I wouldn't have to cut up or fold the original to process it. But using a camera on a phone can be an at-hand alternative for our purposes. Note how the yelllow cast of the lights in the room I'm in tints all the colors, especially the stark white paper. Next, I open up a document in Affinity, go to File> Image Process> Panorama. This pops up a very simple dialogue-- I can drag and drop my four images from the pictur before, press a stitch button, and it will do its best to combine all the images into one coherent picture. This one came out fairly well-- there's a slight misalignment on the top left corner frame, but that's an easy fix by hand. Keep in mind, this is from a camera, so slight changes from reflective lighting and angle and focus can make a tricky sample. If this were a scan with higher quality images, the process would likely work much better as it has more data, consistent lighting, and identical angles. But for something dashed together, it's quite good, and beats doing it by hand. After confirming the panorama looks okay, it appears as a raster layer. From here, I can add a filter layer, in this case black and white. This filter lets me convert an image to grayscale only, but the six main colors-- red green blue, and cyan magenta yellow, can each be set at their own values. For example, that yellow paper and yellow-green undersketch could be lightened individually to be whiter, while the red and magenta could be adjusted to make that purple more of a flat 50% gray. It's common in pre-digital and also traditional to digital art to use non-photo or non-reproduceable pencils to illustrate, which are much easier to remove using a xerox or digital editing. By using this filter instead, I could theoretically use any sufficiently light-valued color as an undercolor. Note that some of the sketch lines look white on a light gray bg, and some may not be completely erased. But know what's great? This is a filter *layer*, not a filter itself. That means the change and alteration is non-destructive-- it oes not overwrite or damage the pixels underneath. One, I can turn it on and off as needed, and two, I can edit this adjustment at any time, and even add a layer mask to it. Finally, I add a brightess/contrast filter layer, to bring that white background up to the erased sketch lines. If I really wanted to, I could adjust contrast as well here, though for a demo I didn't need it. There are a lot of ways to adjust values like this, like levels or curves or desaturation, and even local stuff like dodge and burn and desat, and everyone has their own process. Again, they're all non-destructive layers, which is GREAT for being able to go back an edit work again. Say after this step, I realized I should have reduced my blues a bit? I can go back to the previous layer and adjust it, and see what it looks like combined with this layer in real time.
November 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Sorry, I really hate bitching on main. Settling in with some Star Rail, I'm not sure if Toast is backseating, or I'm backseating him because he's skipping the diaogue.
A cream and orange cat puts his front paws on a tablet. His head is *right* next to the camera, looking like a bit goasted marshmallow with ears, and his legs stretch out like little sticks on the tablet. He maintains deliberate eye contact with the little dinosaur.
October 13, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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I tried to google for an artist to follow and it gave me an ai summary of them and not their profiles it took the info from and long story short googling even my name gives statistically average (and incorrect) advice about my hand mobility problems and gives goblins they are gobbos how dare you.
google saying these are my goblin artworks the second and third aren't even goblins, they're random lettering and a fields of mistria screenshot google saying that i overcome my physical challenges by using digital tools and software, streamlined art process, optimized workflow and making up stuff about streaming, and ergonomics. I actually flip between digital and traditional, but digital actually encourages overworking and poor ergonomics, so i do inking and coloring traditionally when I can. I don't believe in relying on digital tools like stabilization and undo to cope with my disability, because it makes me reilant on those tools. If you only need to make one REALLY good line, you don't need to waste your time making nine undone lines and one okay one. and, holy shit yo, my ergonomics is kind of shit cause if you're uncomfortable that;s a sign you gotta STOP, so sitting at a comoftable height with good lighting means you get into 8 hour hype states and you can't draw for the whole week.
October 8, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Czahmmmma creeeEEEEp. Ahmma luzerrrrrr~~
I spent today making a new inner sketchbook for my filled-up one, 32 lb paper, b6-ish size. As paper folds over itself in signatures, even if they are exactly the same size, the pages at the very front and back have to wrap around the inner pages, while the center page only needs to fold over itself. This causes the inner pages to stick out a little, referres to as creep. Normally, you measure your total creep, here about 1/4 of an inch, or 6mm, divide that by the number of pages front to center (12 pieces of paper, not 24 pages.), and very slightly shift your content inside away from the edge by that fractional amount. Then you can easily trim this extra bit to be nice and flat, and not risk losing text or drawing to the esges. But I like the ragged edges of this paper- I folded and tore it by hand instead of cut it, and this edge won't give papercuts. I also edge my papers with a marker to loosen them up slightly and make the edges more obvious. It's a lot easier to thumb through uneven pages like this, and it gives a slight safety area as I draw.
October 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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You! Art block! Blankpagephobia?! You need some master studies. If you don't want to do an autumnal ink challenge, just draw off a box, find someone who does really cool ink textures, and learn from it. Make mistakes, take note of whho you dound and where, and you, inkslayer, will slay that page.
Simple pen and ink stidy of a water texture, crediting Kalmuch_Art on YT, Ig and patreon withsome notes about how to get the effect. Closeup of my study. I started larger and with a loose grid, but it felt too stiff. I used a crisper nib (travelers rollerball with writer's blood instead of a Zebra FP with a..... 301 cartridge?), i made my modules smaller and more in scale with the line width, and I used the difference in size to push the negative space closer, to make an effect similar to 'rivers' in typesetting'. I made a few select cells darker to add interest and create a sense of wave peaks. The top corner also uses less modular hatching to darken the value of shadow casting over the water.
October 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Let's Play anime came out, saw the opening, thought it might be a fun rec for some friend groups. Maybe even got an essay idea, smacked an outline down.

*And then kept watching and realized I don't know if I can talk about this series and not also explain why it makes me uncomfortable.*
Screenshot of Let's Play anime, with Sam and Charles. Sam has had coffee accidentally spilled on her, and she's wearing just a stained camisole. As she walks through the office, everyone stares, and her boss (who was kind of a.... weird jerk to her before) calls her into his office. He closes the door, *closes the blinds*, and takes off his shirt and gives it to her.... and then comes up behind her and embraces her while shirtless. He reminds her that she's the daughter of the CEO, and she needs to be aware of her appearance. This screenshot literally has the caption "you must always be aware of your position" and... I *know* the comic goes into it more and I know how motivations play out and... the way the comic paced itself and set up Charles' behavior earlier was so much less... predatory.
October 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Do you use watercolor, ink washes, or acrylic on paper, and when it gets too wet the paper wrinkles and rolls? Paper blocks. It's like a regular pad of paper, but the sides are glued together except for a small area for a palette knife to slide through. So much easier than tape sizing/blocking
the side of the above illustration. The pad of paper is glued flat on all four sides, except for one small unglued area near the spine. As shown here, a palette knife, a thin metal tool used to mix paint without absorbing, can be inserted between a page and pulled along the edges to remove one sheet at a time. Paper is porous and absorbent, and water naturally dries or evaporates. Normally, the fibers in paper will stretch and bend as it absorbs water unevenly. In smaller amounts, this results in ripples that don't even out flat. In larger amounts, the entire paper can curl and warp, almost like the two sides of the same piece of paper are different sizes now. This irregularity happens because of the thin structure of lighter-weight papers, or the presence of sizing or starch-like sealants used in manufacture or shipping, or humidity. Even fingerprints and smudges can leave oils that affect in what way it absorbs moisture. (that's often why wicking pens like gels or rollerballs stop writing on one spot in particular. Normally, you can relax more absorbent papers by soaking them in water, and carefully taping them to a flat surface to allow to completely dry. This is really annoying. Pads are way better.
September 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Done? Is this done? Probably close enough, time to take it off the block. I miss my magenta hair, i'm getting the itch for it again. #Inkwitch
close to final watercolor and colored pencil pen and ink illustration of Tessa smoking in a library.
September 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Hey book nerds are we a 'push all the books to the back so we have trinket display space' kinda crowd, or a 'pull all the books to the front to make it all satisfying' kinda crowd?
Bookcase full of books on comiccraft, manga making, writing, drawing, rendering, design, and japanese language. All the sections are arranged by height, and pushed back with ample foreshelf space. Bookcase full of books on comiccraft, manga making, writing, drawing, rendering, design, and japanese language. This time all the book's spines are pulled up and even with the shelf's edge.
September 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Not thrilled- but I think I prefer the berry magenta hair, it's been my signature since like 13. I do love the muted bg, and i want to rework the smoky areas.

WCs are Van Gogh muted palette btw.
First pass of colors, green sweater and deep magenta hair instead of the light purple I usually go with. The bookcase BG is full of harmonious muted reds, blues, yellows and green, but the smoke-covered areas are a brighter green blue.
September 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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I work out shading and general color with water resisting colored pencils. Some paints and convenience mixes are more opaque/have titanium white, so they wash out. Especially delicate areas like flesh usually get blurred with alcohol/colorless blenders.
The above illustration, with light bluegreen shading on the smoky areas, binary shading in the shadows of the bookcase shelves, and shading on the body and clothes. Closeup of some areas like the shoulder- the purple and pink has been agitated to a smoother gradient with a finer texture grain.
September 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Sophomore year, when arthritis kicked in, I saw Pilot Frixion pencils, and ordered them from jetpens for the first time. I can work in 'layers' without scrubbing and erasing. It slightly changes the surface for water-based colors after, but seeing my lines render forth still feels magical! #inkwitch
The illustration from before, Tessa smoking in a library, the smoke changing the shading and rendering of the books on the shelf. There are faint pink undersketch lines. The same illo, but the pink lines are gone, and the black inks are crisp and unfaded. Closeup of the face and side bangs- the inks are delightfully textured due to the paper. Shot of Jacket on the shelf- this time no undersketch, and very crisp.
September 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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There's no comparison between digital and the soulwarming feeling of reliable inking tools on paper. The grain plays with your pen tip, informing when lines break, and not having pixel-perfect lines makes the organic wobbles collaborative, not mathematic defects. #inkwitch #inking #frixion
In progress pen and ink sketch of Tessa smoking in a library. There's a pilot frixion hilighter and fine tip marker, used for the undersketch/roughs. There's a staedtler fineliner in 0.5 and 0.3, and a copic liner in 0.03. All of the pens are tested on a scrap blotter paper. Closeup of the pen and ink, showing the pink underlines and telltale start and stop spots of fineliners at corners of rectangles. There's also a Jacket doll on the shelf. Parts of the drawing that are seen theough the smoke aren't inked yet- I intend to hatch those areas without lines.
September 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Works out well enough. While it'd be nice to have that stipulation in the posts here, I wonder if it'd act as a.... filter, let's say.

Also.... no, bsky. I'm not speaking german???
Bluesky popup saying are you writing in german? With the only available button saying Yes.
September 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Can't believe they announced playable hornet silksong to down detector
Screenshot of a down detector graph. At 10 AM, steam had almost 15,000 error reports. I badly drew a Hornet head on the red spikein the graph that kind of looks like her cloak.
September 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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I spent too much time keframing in clipchamp to let this go to waste.

Never underestimate a cat's ability to get in a slapfight with a typewriter.

This is Toast, he is the opposite of a critical editor. He will bop all the writer's block until it gives up.
August 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Hey #elf fans and artists I have a quwation, how do they wear earmuffs?
Drawing saying I have an important question: and 4 drawings of elves wearing earmuffs. One is on the base of the ear but the tip sticks out, one is on the tip but the base isn't covered, one wears a double-wide earmuff, and one is wearing socks on their ears.
August 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM