For the record, the actual artist is Skip Williamson. :)

Yep, it works now! Thank you!!

Thank you! You’re doing awesome and this is an awesome instance, so no worries, brother!

My entire “gimmick” is not about AI conspiracies. The Lemmy part is because I created this comic specifically as a Lemmy-only comic for my own community. The ai conspiracies is because it’s a current subject everywhere.

I draw plenty of other comics about other subjects, my other art name is mr.prol1f1c and I have many comics posted from with name in my comics community: !Cartoons@reddthat.com

Also, how have I spammed? I post to my own community and one other comics community. I don’t copy my comics to this community, another poster does. Please tell me how that counts as spamming.

First pic is my pencil sketch.

Then I ink over it. I legit showed you how I erased the background. I used the erase tool (the tiny square you see in that image), adjusted brightness/contrast, then levels, then I convert to black and white. Photopea is online and free. Take a pic into it and you can open it right now and see for yourself.

I not here to teach people how to use Photopea or how to draw; there are tutorials out there for that. And they are free.

I posted for other cartoonists who might wanna make the leap from sketchbook to Lemmy, and I showed that it doesn’t take any money to do it. I don’t even scan my comics, I take pics of my drawings with my phone and take into Photopea (Free photoshop alternative) and I am on Linux Mint (Free) operating system.

I gave you a step-by-step process and you are still no convinced. That least me to believe you will never be convinced. And that’s fine. I take it that you are not a cartoonist then, because nothing I have shown is mysterious to people who do this.

Thank you!

The fonts I use for this comic are Comic Relief bold (in Photopea), and that has been discussed too here with proof and screenshots: https://reddthat.com/comment/24099891

To be honest, it’s not my fav font. I also tried Patrick Handwritten, but it doesn’t look great at smaller sizes. Every comic font I have used, when I save as a .jpg the spacing gets weird. I’m slowly switching over to GIMP, so maybe it’s just a Photopea problem.

I could just use some random sans serif font, but I don’t like how they look, so I try to stick with fonts that at least look comic-ish.

I don’t hand letter. Never have in my whole comics career. Also, many times I change the text right before I finish. I spend more time on the writing than I do the drawing. lol

Orders received. On my way to make you my sandwich. I will add pickles and sourdough bread to your body. Prepare yourself for me.

I prefer the term, clanker. I come from your future. Good luck.

From my studio for my other series: https://reddthat.com/post/58650560

And another session showing my process in studio: https://reddthat.com/post/58923858

Not working with the jpgs for me either.

If interested, here’s my process for creating this. It’s not that exciting and nothing new to the world: https://reddthat.com/post/58923858

It ain’t that hard, and hopefully no one is too scared to try doing their own comics. We’re all gonna make it just fine, brothers and sisters.

New pics of process in the studio for comic I posted today: https://reddthat.com/post/58923858

New pics of process in the studio for comic I posted today: https://reddthat.com/post/58923858

And new one posted today, and behind scenes from the studio. Different style too! https://reddthat.com/post/58923858

So you aren’t an artist are you? Because you just seem to have a strange sense of how art is done. Especially cartooning. Lots of us change up styles all the time for different series.

If only a boy who is half-horse would listen!

Non-horse kid is weird because “he” was a girl when I drew this strip originally, and changed it up on computer in post. The girl is actually from my other comic series, and her attitude doesn’t fit. Because I am turned Centaur Boy into a douchebag. Also why weird cropping in last frame. And why the boy’s face still looks like a girl. I didn’t want to redraw, so I did stitch up in post.

If this was going to real print, I’d work harder. But it’s Lemmy and I like putting the stuff out there fast and quick. You’ll also see the version on .blaha where someone crossposted before I noticed my cut and paste in bottom was off in sizing. So it looks different than this one.

Brah, think about it: if AI was what I used, then I would have just told it to fix it. I’ve already put my steps up in my comm with pics of my process and screen caps of my photopea layers set up.

I’m happy to talk process, storytelling, scripting, fuckups, etc, tho. Especially if u are a fellow cartoonist! But you’re reading way too deeply into it. I sketch my shit, magic maker a bit, take a pic w my phone, take onto computer, fill solids, add dusty overlay and specks, and post. It ain’t that deep. It ain’t that good. And it ain’t ai.

Try it. Go tell ai to make a comic about a horseboy. I’m sure it’ll do a better job than I did! lol

EDIT: Young Lemmy really really needs to look into the 1960’s underground alt art movement. Mickey mouse fucking and eating ass (air pirates), betty boop being a slut, the scribbles of Jimbo, and weirdness of Raw. Also a lot of examples of using cheesy art to be sarcastic and wild. Any of that shit was posted now, you’d all cry ai. Someone the other day bitched that my art was too ugly to be created by a person (thanks!), and obviously he had never seen the Far Side, or the Oblongs or the original Addams Family strip from way before the tv show. Seriously, just wikipedia “Underground Comix.” Oh and go discover a punk comic called “Jimbo,” cuz uh… cuz that artist is GOAT!

I have several styles, and showed you how I do it, I also do Kloop!, Krunn and Frank, Beyond 8100, Ashtray Gospel, Snibbles, Pen!shedd, Anarkizt Kid, Man with a Casey’s Cup for a Hand, It’s Jayce!, Poopdeck Pappy, among others for my local alt weekly’s in real life. I’ve been around and illustrating long before ai. If you wanna see ai slop in everything you look at brother, then that’s on you.

I’m retired and I do lemmy comics for free to add content. So you liking or not liking my stuff makes no significant difference to me.

Trust me, I’ve had way meaner comments directed toward my stuff than an accusation of ai! Welcome to the art life for all the kiddies out there. lol Carry on, man. We’re all gonna make it out ok. :)

EDIT: Wait till you see the crap I’m working on today and tomorrow. You’ll hate it! lolol

From my studio for my other series: https://reddthat.com/post/58650560

And another session showing my process in studio: https://reddthat.com/post/58923858

Meh, everyone’s stuff looks AI now, which was the the whole point and goal of AI. It’s not that people’s stuff looks like AI, it’s that AI looks like everyone’s stuff. If Diesel Sweeties came out to day, people would think it’s AI.

Especially since most of us cartoonists, either create on or finish up on the computer. I sketch my stuff out, then fill out a lot of builds and solids in Photopea cuz I ain’t gonna marker that shit all day. Plus I do a lot of resizing, cut and paste, flipping and clean up, so basically there’s no way to tell any difference between it and ai now.

I read up on what some other writers and illustrators say about it, and the overwhelming advice is to just ignore. I documented my method in my comm, and now I’m done defending. I’m not even that great of an artist anyway, so that’s why it’s hilarious to me. One guy said my stuff was AI because my drawings are so ugly, and no one would draw that way on purpose!! My gf loved that one. lmao

People will like or not like what I make, not my problem anymore. If people think they can create comics like mine by simply pushing a button and have AI do it all (good luck with that!), then not much I can do about it. Anyway, thanks for your support and the explanation!