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(These are "newest first", so start at the end and work backwards.)

Throughout October, I'll be drawing a piece of Konsi art every day as a Drawtober challenge. Here's the prompts I'll be using.

You can find the art on Mastodon, Tumblr, Bsky, or Twitter. First two are best.


This is a surprisingly smart read for Xanathar's Guild thieves.

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[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network 92 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In tomorrow's comic, Konsi's going to be standing significantly further back than she is here. This is because ~~Drawing people standing far apart and talking to each other is difficult without using perspective, which I'm bad at, so I put them close together for this first panel~~ during the last panel, Konsi backed up several paces while they were arguing.

[–] Strasza@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Okay, roll for initiative and place yourself on the map" is the perfect time to reveal to the DM that you were in fact conversing with that guy while hiding thirty feet away behind a pile of crates.

[–] TerrificTadpole@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing strange here. The guy just thought he was talking to a sentient crate. Happens all the time.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

In a world where there are Mimics that's a distinct possibility.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

exaggeration of things like that can be really good to get your point across. especially for people reading on release that haven't necessarily looked at the precious spacing in a couple days.

I still don't think you exaggerated it nearly enough. think of it like a cartoon, if you want to show her backing away, then have her press against the wall, or all the way down an alley, or maybe some little motion cues like step step step leading backwards. ooh, or you could try the manga thing where they just have like shock lines outlining where they just were.

don't worry about physical logic being grounded, and don't try to by visually subtle. if you have a visual point to make it's usually better to make it almost painfully obvious. slap the reader with it to make sure they get it.

[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't really want to draw a load of extra panels to explain away a technical error though :)

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Especially given that if you hadn't mentioned it I expect 99% of your readers wouldn't have noticed. :)

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about making the panel more zoomed out? Would that make it harder or easier to draw than using perspective?

[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh yeah, I can draw a zoomed out panel, but... there's a lot of competing factors in comic design here.

A lot of the visual identity of a comic like this is in the character designs, and a lot of the emotion and body language is conveyed in close up. If I show a zoomed out panel, I can't really convey any details of the characters, either in their outfit or their expression. The leader is also a "new character" so... it's important to let the audience get a good look at him a few times to get used to him.

But this is missing the forest for the trees a bit here. What happened was I drew this comic like this, because it's best for dialogue, and I drew the next one spread out because it's best for action, and made a continuity error due to a technical mistake.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Smart robbers. Did they go to robber college?

[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network 38 points 1 year ago

They're members of the Xanathar's Guild in Waterdeep (the yellow accessories are a mark of this!) - so yes... they sort of did go to robber college.

[–] Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Omg I have to know how this goes! Draw faster! Hahaha

[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bad news on that front... :( These are from my archive, I draw about one every two weeks normally.

[–] Strasza@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How many are there in the archive before lemmy is all caught up? I've been enjoying these immensely.

[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network 17 points 1 year ago

Nine in the archive, two more that haven't been posted to it yet.

[–] Flushmaster@ttrpg.network 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

About the rest of this encounter.

[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've gotten to the end of the day, which is a conclusion of this little story :)

Can you believe when I originally scripted it, it was 4 comics?

[–] Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s ok, I’m just invested in the story! Can’t wait to see the next one!

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

Same. Always makes my day a little better to see this in my feed.

[–] subignition@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Boss, this is starting to get weird" gives me energy

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

Smartest mugger in the history of D&D.

[–] Fidelity9373@artemis.camp 5 points 1 year ago

Gives some real Sword Art Online Abridged vibes.

[–] voodoocode@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

I like the rhyming kenku

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Ngl haven't really been very invested in this comic as a whole but seeing people get what's coming to them is always nice.

Can't wait to see it live

[–] Bloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.tf 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll make popcorn! Go Razira!

Also, I agree with the corvid

[–] Sasnak@leminal.space 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love this comic so much! I just got my lemmy set up, but up until then, my partner was sending me the update everyday 🥰

[–] sculd@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

This looks great!! Thank you!! The robbers need to run now!!

[–] Shhalahr@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Wow. Genre savvy muggers.

Run, little thieves! Save yourselves!

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

If the mark is acting weird

You never fail to bring a smile to my face. I know I've said it before, but it keeps happening.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I missed a few episodes. How did the new girlfriend end up as a rabbit?

[–] ahdok@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(If you want to catch up, there's links back under the image)

TLDR: Konsi and Razira decided they wanted to go somewhere quieter, so they decided to ditch the rest of the party, but in order to sneak away they went into the washroom at the back of the Tavern. (Toron has scoped the place out and knows there's no back exit.) - Konsi then polymorphed Razira into a rabbit so she'd be small enough to ride along with a casting of Dimension Door.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Lol, wow! Thanks for the quick catch up. Great series, BTW!