Next time I sit down and draw a comic, I’ll get detailed scans along the way. I got some crappy phone cam pics for an admittedly sloppy page, so until then here’s me copy and pasting that:

Since people have expressed interest and asked questions before, I figured I’d take photos/screenshots of a panel of page 97 as I worked on it. For funsies. Sorry for the phone quality!

First, really quick rough pencils.
Panel’s been quartered off for, I dunno, balance. Made sense at the time. I tend to draw lines connecting characters’ eyes because it really bugs me when eyes don’t meet.

Then, I erase everything til you can barely see the sketches.

Basic shapes.

Rough details.

Camera wouldn’t focus, the marker was too light.
Anyway, then I go over the pencil details I like with a copic marker ( bg10) and erase the rest. Any pencil lines under the copic marker become permanent, it is also what I draw panel borders with. Stole that idea from Kel McDonald.

Then I draw over that the final pencil details.

Then, inks. (they scanned kinda dark, bleh)

(click for big version)
And then, initial editing. More edits were done after this (as you can see on the resective page).

Same stuff with a different panel, except I went straight from rough sketch to marker to details:

There’s more to it than that but if y’all liked this I’ll cover the line editing and tones :U unless that bores ya

Every time I draw a porn comic, I get better at drawing.

But I usually draw most of my Love Me Nice pages during breaks between Slipshine comics.

Which means that every time I finish a porn comic, improving that much more, I look back at my last Love Me Nice page drawn…

… and hate it so much.

It is legal, yes. And they can have babies, yes. Claire’s mother is a human. The kid would inherit features from both parents, but if their parents look different enough, they’re going to look more like one than the other — this goes for toon couples too. Some features just aren’t interchangeable within certain frames and builds and stuff.

If one more person in my real day-to-day life makes a Love Me Nice joke about something I’m doing, like “I’ll love-you-nice *wink wink*” or “could you say he was loving you nice? *nudge nudge*” I will start slapping indiscriminately in all directions until my hand makes contact with someone’s face.

punkrockshark:

littlefroggies:

punkrockshark reblogged you:

im going to make love me nice fancharacters

fantoons

Birdley, I will drive to Lubbock and I will punch you.

“this is my fantoon sakura, she’s dating carolina’s brother, i forgot his name, shes a bigfoot and also a cowboy ^_^ she designs all the cloths for the show!!!”

BANNED

BANNED FROM MY LIFE

GET OUT

(via witchlette)

Character edition! Because I’m in a good mood! There’s something wrong with me maybe!!!!!

1. Claire doesn’t have her birth certificate and her parents couldn’t be assed to find it or travel to the hospital she was born at. The one she has on record that allows her to travel and apply for things was forged by Roger specifically. She also isn’t sure what her middle name is or if she even has one. Her greatest fear is that it might be “Peaches” because that’s what her mother calls her.
2. Kelly only wears pants and men’s shoes (she collects vintage shoes but that’s not what she limits herself to wearing). Skirts make her self-conscious andshe thinks girls get “boring shoes.” If tomorrow people produced women’s shoes that look like these, she’d be all over them.
3. Praline has a boyfriend she forgets exists half of the time, but that’s okay because he makes sure to remind her with an abundance of doting texts and answering-machine messages. If “doting” means needy and insecure, that is.
4. Mac doesn’t wear pants, if he can help it. One of the few Toon benefits he has is that as long as he doesn’t feel naked, he isn’t. Usually just wearing a shirt resolves this. He doesn’t like people asking about it, because then he has to think about it, and then he might feel naked. And he doesn’t want to live in a world where he has to wear pants.
5. Jackson’s known about Carolina being adopted and a Toon since he pretty much put two-and-two together on his own when he was 12. Since then his parents had put pressure on him to play along, something he was never comfortable doing. These days he’s ashamed because he knows growing up that he channeled some of the frustration over that responsibility, and her percieved preferential treatment, by taking advantage of her comparatively tiny size — putting her in cupboards, hanging her from coat-racks and trees, putting her on top of the refrigerator, threatening her with the riding lawn-mower, etc.

Because I’m a Copy-Cat!

This became a fact sheet about Toons, since I get a lot of questions about that sort of thing, and I tried to avoid things that spoil the story in any way.

I actually want to do a character specific one now… I think I will.

1. “Toon” is only really an acceptable term where the main cast lives — it was sort of “taken back” about 50-60 years ago, before which it was a slur. Where Carolina lives it is not an appropriate word. Not that she would know the difference. 
2. Toons always gravitated to entertainment or any sort of spotlight because they sort of feed off of the emotions of the people around them — this made being an entertainer damn-near intoxicating for some people, or just immensely satisfying for others. Unfortunately this lead to them sort of getting pigeon-holed into the role of entertainers, and until the last 50 years, a Toon pursuing anything job or lifestyle that wasn’t for the entertainment of others was seen as them forgetting their place.
3. The are many factors why Claire doesn’t want to pursue cartoons anymore after her personal let-down, and fact #2 is one of those factors. Feeding off the emotions of others and looking the way she does meant she was a little too receptive to attention and feelings she didn’t feel comfortable with — instead of being fueled by attention, she just became hyper-aware of it to the point of neurosis. Mac Jr. doesn’t have this problem at all — in fact, as far as the receptiveness of Toons goes, he’s pretty obtuse. It’s probably been a boon to him, though, considering the people he’s surrounded by.
4. While Toons generally are more resilient and have longer lifespans than humans, usually 50-60+ years difference, they are mortal and governed by all of the biological functions and cycles and prone to the same ailments and injuries as non-Toons. Generally they don’t start showing their age until they start feeling their age, either mentally or due to physical ailments. Toon ages tend to be hard to guess because of this, and while this means a character like Roger won’t look his age for a long time (and probably appreciates that fact), people like Kelly are stuck looking the way they are essentially for most their lives, and Kelly in particular is tired of getting mistaken for a much younger person.
5. Most Toon “abilities” are just a case of mind-over-matter, and while some Toons are naturally gifted, most are relatively “normal” and without training or practice can’t do a lot of the “toony” stunts the ones on TV can. Mac Jr and Kelly, in spite of their lineage and jobs, only really benefit from being more resilient than normal, and usually only if it’s funny. Claire has none of these benefits — only the cons, like the Murphy’s Law “Rule of Funny,” which unfortunately means a lot of pratfalls but none of the sturdiness or padding to keep that sort of thing from actually hurting or breaking something. Then there’s characters like Bongo who can get away with almost dying if it’s “funny.” Something he exploits way more often than he should. Carolina is also naturally gifted like Bongo, she just doesn’t really know it — but it explains a lot. And becomes a big factor later.

magnoliaporter:

littlefroggies:

interspacing:

So, Love Me Nice is a great webcomic that everyone should give a read!

This is Carolina, who is basically the most adorbs!

Yay! <3

… oh, snap. I’ve gotten so much fan art in the last few weeks, I can’t tease Magnolia Porter anymore.

Noooo but I love teasing her! But I also love cute fan art!

So conflicted!!!!!

amanda, this is a crucial time in your life… CHOOSE WISELY

I choose to get LOTS of cute fan art…

… and find something new to tease you for.

(via magnoliapearl)

Speaking of TV Tropes, I’m finally not completely embarrassed of my comic’s TV Tropes page because some smart troper actually took down the “Most Common Superpower” trope in reference to Claire and Carolina. It was pissing me off because a) It has nothing to do with either character b) on a more OCD note, it was applied to the wrong genre of comics.

I like to act aloof about TV Tropes but I still get all frothy-at-the-mouth when tropes are misidentified or applied incorrectly.

I won’t get an account because I know the moment I do I’ll go on an editing spree that will last for days.

I haaaatteee improperly categorized/labelled shit. Haaaaaaaaaaate.

Of course my hate never manifests into anything useful, it’s usually me flailing on my back like a tipped-over lady bug.

… a lady-bug that just saw someone put a post-it note on her cat that said “dog.”