Hey guys. Just a friendly reminder that I'm not dead and that I'm doing pretty well. I'm doing some experimenting withwhat I can do with my drawings and I have been improving with how my art will be presented going forward. Recently I made a post focusing on Fancy Pants, but something felt off, and after a few days, it went from

This

to

This!!

Notice the difference?

(P.S. This isn't a resubmission cuz I know it's cheating, but once the FP event is over, I'll upload this) Crazy what a bit of experimenting can do.

I also want you all to know that recently I've been practicing how to draw pinups, and I the progress has been better. So expect some slight risque content in the future.

Finally my webcomic thumbnailing is taking some time, but I promise that I'm providing the work for it.

Thank you all for your patience!

Okay so there's gonna be a change of plans that doing uploading sketches. I've decided to hold back on them and just simply go back to drawing normally. I say this because I wanted to try an experiment regarding them, but after looking at it for a bit, it kinda seems a bit lazy and I want to make some cool art, so instead of doodles, I'll be going back to normal uploads considering how fast I've been drawing lately.

Don't worry, I'll still be uploading the comics, but I wanted to let you all to know about no more sketches

Not Dead/Game Plan

So where to begin. So this is my game plan for my time here on NG. Especially when it comes to finding my place here on the site.

Firstly, My Content

I'm sorry that I haven't been uploading 'too' much lately and this is due to many things going on atm. During the time, I was assisting some pencilling for a Comic Jam as well as an Anthology (although I havent finished that one yet) and thought it could be a good and fun experience. It was fun cuz of the people I was paired with and good for me as someone who wants to make comics.

Sadly I cannot show this to all of you atm.

Secondly, My Webcomic

Now for those who don't know, months ago I made two comics that revolved around a lemonade girl and is in the process of being developed. I am happy to say that I've figured out the theme/writing the comic will have, as during my time writing, ive figured out how it can both be comedic and still tell a coherent short story. I dont expect it to be a long story, but ive planned it out so that it'll have around the page size or so of an average comic book, maybe two. And to those worried that it'll be one page an upload, each upload should have at least 3-4 pages per upload. Maybe more on good days. This webcomic is practice on my craft and how I can tell a visual story, so I hope you enjoy it once pages have been finished. And while I AM done with the script, I now have to thumbnail, pencil AND ink about 38 pages of work. This will take a slight toll on making art uploads as it'll be tricky to think of what to draw, so keep that in mind. Although to add, I do have to do some redesigns for the characters...

Which leads to third, Experimentation.

Another reason to why you haven't seen much content is because as I have this posted, I'm trying to experiment with my art style, not to the point where it's concrete, but rather where I have a flexible style. Currently I'm doing some art study from some books to help.

Some with a cartoon style and others with a comic book style. And considering the work I can do now compared to how I started, I'm getting there. So while I won't be able to upload frequently, once in a while I'll upload cool digital sketches except better and once again in multiple pictures, so I don't feel like I'm spamming the Art portal, if that doesn't work, Ill just update my Artist News section.

Fourth, Finding Work,

Now i know very little in this world, but what I do know is being an artist takes work, and that's exactly what I'm looking for. Atm I'm doing a few comic pages to set up for a porfolio. Ive also been looking into going into other works such as Voice Acting (once ive properly gotten the equipment.) As well as doing commissions. Below are commission sheets for images I'll draw and ill be doing commissions for comics in the future.

So if you're interested, just DM me on my NG or just find me on Twitter and we'll discuss everything from there.

Conclusion

So to reiterate, uploads will be temporarily replaced with digital sketches, and once my comics are uploaded I'll be sure to announce it, and if I fail to make promise of this, you have the right kick me in the face...... Or don't. I like my face. :)

Hey guys! Remember me?! Great!! I just wanted to make a news post to let you know that I'm not dead and that I'm still around. And to share a future announcement in gonna be making to where I've been and to showcase more of the future on my time here on NG in a few weeks.

And don't worry, this isnt my departure, but the announcement will focus a bit on what Ive been doing, content I'll be making and commissions. And I want to showcase all three of these things properly so it doesn't look too lazy. My viewers deserve the best. And despite not uploading much, there's an upside... Sketches.. So many sketches that are here to showcase that ive been trying to improve on my artstyle while ive been MIA.

So far they're coming out great. To end this conversation though, be sure to look around for an announcement in a few weeks and I hope you all are excited to know what I have in store for you. Well I got some editing to do.

Thanks for being patient!

Alright! I managed to receive a few entrants and I found them pretty good! After analyzing them, I can say for certain that I know who the winner orders are!

1ST Place: @Vockwell

2ND Place: @GirZiggler

3RD Place: @Marek1shtar

I hope you guys had a blast doing this contest!

I'll probably do another contest like this in the future, hopefully one with more variety in prizes.

So for the winners, please come message me here on NG to get your prizes, and if you have questions about them, I'll be sure to answer them!

As for everyone else, Thanks again for helping me reach 100 fans here on NG and I bet by the end of this year, I can reach 200! (A man can dream)

Hey Guys. I just wanted to give an update on the contest and remind you all that it's almost coming to a close in about a week. I haven't recieved any art as of yet, so for those who are finished with yours early, you can send them to me through this post or upload them and tag them as epithetsoup or epithetsoupfanart until the 19th. If I don't receive enough art for the contest, I may have to extend the deadline. So what are you waiting for? Start sending your stuff!

If you're new, and want to enter, I'll comment down the contest instructions from my last post below. Good Luck!

Hey everyone! I just reached 100 fans and I'm really glad to hear that I managed to reach that number! I'm glad that you've helped me reach that number and I thank every single one of you whether you're friends, passerbys or even new!

And to celebrate, I'm gonna be hosting my contest that I promised to you if I ever reached this amount.

So here are the rules:

I want you to make fanart of my Avatar/Persona.

AVATAR

In order to enter, just be sure that your entry has my character included, you reply your entries in this discussion and if you're gonna upload it, that's also fine, but be sure to tag it, so I can find it easily. The tag can either by my account or hashtaging it as epithetsoupfanart.

PRIZES:

Now Normally I'd offer money as the prize, sadly I couldn't pool enough where it can be fairly handed out to, so instead, I'll be providing you with free commissions as the prizes instead. Basically, the prizes for this challenge will be free commissions, but with a twist. Depending on how well you do will determine what kind of prize you'll receive, Highest place will be work that has a lot of effort put into it, and considering there will only be 3 prizes, then yo get the picture.

Below are Examples to give you an idea:

FIRST PLACE:

Inks, Color, shading, lighting

SECOND PLACE:

Inks and flat color( with only minimal shading)

Third Place:

Pencil Painting

As for what the commission can be, whatever you request (except for nsfw) And if you want it to be an icon or banner, that can also be requested too, but whatever you pick is what you get.

The deadline is April 19th, 2021, so be sure to enter.

Winners will be announced on April 23rd.

I wish you all good luck!!

And thank you again for 100 fans! You're the best!!

Hey guys! Sorry that I havent been posting very often, but I have a few things to anoun've, the first thing being that I'm almost at 100 fans and I want to thank all of you new and old for sticking by and that I have a bit of a surprise for when I finally reach 100, that being a contest, I won't go into it now, but it'll be detailed once I hit 100. Also at the moment I'm currently working on another comic so pardon the lack of uploading. Although once its finished, I have other stuff that will be uploaded before it.

So once again thank you all and I hope you'll all enjoy yourselves!

I wanna wish you all a Happy Valentines Day. Be sure to eat your flowers and smell some chocolate.

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