Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

Anonymous asked: Would Bobby Fullbright keep the "scar" on his mask? (sorry for my english)

Interesting question, but if I’m allowed to extend the logic of the alt ending I think he probably would, because it would be a part of his personal character development; he isn’t the original Bobby Fulbright, he’s just taken on the name and face and made it his own (or it has made him its own, in a way), so if he determines to follow his own sense of justice it might well act as a reminder of that fact for him and other people.

At the same time, I don’t think he would remove the mask, as I feel like he relates more to that face and identity than any other at this point- which I did want to tie into the demand for ‘his own true face’, but I ran out of time…

Anonymous asked: Soooo... which Ace Attorney games have you played besides AA:DD?

ALL OF THEM I think? yeah I think I’m up to date

oh apart from the second Edgeworth game which I should do what with the investigations and the Gumshoe and the general fun times

robotspank asked: Is there a RSS feed for TPoH on the new site?

sorry, not yet! and I’m a little short of cash so I can’t afford to add it right now but maybe one day- until then I announce when each page is posted on this tumblr and over on my twitter

Anonymous asked: Uncle Mod I am having trouble! I want to be able to draw things touching each other (like people holding hands) but it never works! Can you help? Thank you for drawing so much I hope you are not hurting because of it any more!

Drawing things touching is super hard! So don’t feel bad for struggling with it; I am still learning to do it myself, but I have found that there’s a trick in the lineart stage that you can employ which helps a lot.

Real life doesn’t have outlines, but we use lines in drawings to show where objects begin and end. Where things touch the spaces between them are reduced or eradicated, so thinner lines can help to enforce the idea that they are touching;

thicker lines emphasize distance between objects and the solidity of objects. If something is really pressing against another thing, you can completely break the line or sometimes remove it altogether! Try it out and see what works.

A simple way to think about it is that when two masses are pressed together they are making one mass overall. You use lines to separate objects, so it follows that if you want to ‘join’ two objects, you remove the line!

Remember that soft objects mesh more easily, so you can break and thin the line much more with flesh or fabric, while if you have a hard object it will maintain it’s form (and therefore outline) even when pressed against something else, and will even force a softer object to change shape!

Also thank you, polite anon, I am not hurting per say but my elbow and wrist still feel a bit funny, so I am trying to rest them and do my stretches as much as possible. Keep your hands healthy people!

Anonymous asked: what region are those TPatJ clothes from? :o

they’re taken from various medieval manuscript and tapestry pictures from around europe, but really I didn’t want the story to be obviously set in any ‘real’ place, so all of the outfits are a blend of various cultures (for example the armor you’ll see in time is a hybrid of Turkish and Viking with a bit of Mongolian thrown in too), so while they’re from around the same time frame the origin of the clothes isn’t from a single region- the same goes for the architecture, but really I’m hoping the intention is obvious enough with the fact that there’s mermaids and dragons and junk \o/

Anonymous asked: it really weirds me out that i've never heard your voice before

I’ve had a couple of requests for what I sound like recently, and I’m a bit too shy to record anything right now, but I did do some reading of Alice in Wonderland an age ago so if you’re absolutely desperate to hear my weird accent (and horribly bad attempts at other accents) then you can have a look at this lot

some of the audio files seems to have corrupted or gone missing but I only got 5 chapters in anyway so \o/

Anonymous asked: You reboogged some of soviet animation lately and I'm just so happy you appreciate it I can't help smiling. I grew up on soviet cartoons since I'm Ukrainian and the trippy music box cartoon is one of the most quoted thing in my family

dude are you kidding I love Russian animation like Hedgehog in the Fog and Tale of Tales are exquisite, and Lev Atamanov’s The Snow Queen is still my favourite visualized version of that story

Anonymous asked: hello mod, I am having trouble- I always seem to draw very slowly, and my friend says it is because I listen to music, do you think that's true? should I not listen to music when I draw?

Interesting problem, and the answer is that the answer depends on each individual; Richard Williams gives that same advice in the Animator’s Survival Kit, and while I do see the benefit (no noise = no distraction), I actually disagree and do listen to music and find it helps me. Sometimes if something is complicated or I have a headache I turn it off, but not very often! I do, however, have some rules about the music I listen to;

1) Do not listen to sad, slow music! You will draw much slower than usual- my digital ink and paint teacher taught me this, and would even go around pulling out our headphones to check we weren’t listening to slow music. Listen to tragic music all you want when you’re coming up with ideas by all means, but it will slow you down when it comes to doing stuff!

2) Listen to music without lyrics, or at least music that you know so well that you don’t have to ‘listen’ to it. If you start focusing on the words you will stop focusing on your work! I find that film soundtracks in particular are great for drawing.

3) Try to match the mood of the music with the mood of what you’re making! If you are drawing something exciting, get some epic adventure music, if you are drawing something funny, try something upbeat, if you’re drawing something sad, go for something big and powerful rather than slow (see above). Music affects our emotions, so this is where my argument for drawing to music comes in; it can give you just that little extra inspiration in what you’re looking to visualize.

Art and music are inherently linked, experiment with it! Don’t feel that anything I’ve said or anyone else says is the law; these are just things I’ve observed myself, try things out and find the path that’s right for you.

Anonymous asked: man I loved AA Dual Destinies but I really felt like that ending lacked proper emotional resolution- like, all the bad guys were 'just' villains, y'know?

I’ve had a few messages asking me on my opinions of the game and damned if this one doesn’t just about nail it; I felt the same way, and being a giant nerd about villains and character motivation in particular I honestly felt frustrated with that finale (as much as I loved playing it, which seriously I did I’m playing through it again as we speak). I enjoyed the plot twists and how the case was planned out, but it just felt like it wasn’t ‘complete’ as story in the way that some of the AA games have been. It just missed that human empathy mark that they usual hit on the head so well, particularly as it had the potential to be kind of massively poignant and a means of tying up the whole ‘emotions’ and ‘justice’ dynamic of the game (but that’s just my humble onion and hey who am I to talk like I could make a game like that hot bananas no way no how).

buuuuut having said that it’s going to bug me forever so I’m going to be an obnoxious brat and draw an alt ending comic for my own conceited self-indulgent satisfaction because I didn’t spend five years of higher education learning to draw in order to create sensible things that make a profit damnit