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Lauren Sparks

@wingedelfgirl.bsky.social

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Comics illustrator/painter/animator/designer🌻she/her, age 37🌱Covington, KY, USA🪴has 3 cats and a garden🐈🐈‍⬛🐈Married to @mtscomics.bsky.social🌿
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Lauren Sparks's avatar Lauren Sparks @wingedelfgirl.bsky.social
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Celebrating the 4th by watching Godzilla Minus One, which I hadn't seen yet. In a glyph: 😭

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Happy 4th if you're celebrating! (My neighborhood was celebrating til midnight last night, gonna be a warzone today 🥲) Song stuck in my head when I woke up this morning: Planning My Death by Bomb The Music Industry!

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Faith Erin Hicks's avatar Faith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks.bsky.social
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Just a round boi, standing in front of a girl, asking her to acknowledge all the socks he's brought her. ❤️

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Woof, I hope you didn't get heat sick too often! 🥲 we always play an endurance game for how long can we wait and not put the AC in the window, this year we only made it to June 13 😅

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My answer to most things like this is "probably art", but I also get overwhelmed and don't know how exactly that would work 🫠 a good, catchy voting anthem/protest song? A thinly-veiled allegory film, comic, video game? There's lots of possibilities but who knows what people would latch on to 😭

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Lauren Sparks's avatar Lauren Sparks @wingedelfgirl.bsky.social
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Yuuuup, and one of the only surefire ways to temporarily cool off 😅

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I've seen some bits and have been intrigued for months, I hope I have time to watch it at some point :D

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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Ice💙's avatar Ice💙 @iceghost.bsky.social
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Hey everyone! Im still selling some original pages. These are the current ones up for sale for $350 each. Send me an email if youre interested! Thanks! 💙

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Alejandra Caraballo 's avatar Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.bsky.social
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Amazing mural in Madrid.

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Jacques Nyemb's avatar Jacques Nyemb @jnyemb.bsky.social
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I'm thrilled that this little indy Fantasy Graphic novel we're working on is chugging along nicely. @wingedelfgirl.bsky.social is tightening pencils and we're testing colors with Justin Wood.

I present to y'all Otis.

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Moths in a human suit (they/them)'s avatar Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social
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Please enjoy this small elephant hawkmoth 💖 To help moths like this, leave some weedy/unmown areas in your garden if you have one. Do less. Don't mow eeeeverywhere. Have a sit down. If anyone asks, tell them you're looking after your local flying kittens 🦋🐈 Thank u from the Moth Promotional Board

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Matt Hollingsworth 's avatar Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.bsky.social
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Okay, so I'm going to post a thread now about using Clip Studio Paint, about color settings, ICC color profiles, outputting to CMYK, getting 100% K in your blacks, etc. Technical shit. If you're struggling with this, read the thread. I'll reply to myself here, and it'll take a little time... 1/many

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Lauren Sparks's avatar Lauren Sparks @wingedelfgirl.bsky.social
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I missed this fundraiser by a week! Will this book ever be available outside of this kickstarter campaign?

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Excuse me, Speckle's two kittens are 13 days old now and are extremely cute; just figured it was good to get this important info out there

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I've been meaning to buy a big omnibus of Elfquest and binge-read for a couple years now 😅😅😅

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Why are the invasive ones usually so pretty! 😅 that's so interesting, looking at that I would not have guessed that it's a kind of worm.

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Parker's avatar Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social
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Keep the number of actions on a page within reason as John says. I also see too many drastic jumps from panel to panel, like they're disparate images that aren't in the same environment. Use shared elements, props and staging to move characters more naturally through the scene.

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Kieron Gillen's avatar Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social
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In Alan Moore's essays on writing comics, he drops a line in the conclusion: "It's more important to be a good human being than a good writer." Try to remember that.

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Lauren Sparks's avatar Lauren Sparks @wingedelfgirl.bsky.social
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Oh shoot, I'm so sorry!! I hope they listen to you! 🥺 I added a bunch of videos and articles about "GEN AI BAD" on my linktree and have tried to point people to it, but I really don't understand what's going on in the heads of people who think it's good so I don't know if it helps anything. 🥲

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Speckle's kittens are 11 days old now, and little tortie got her eyes fully open yesterday!! Little tabby is still working on it. Speckle's being a very good mama. 💖
(Also have video of them 🥰) www.tiktok.com/t/ZPREroxPQ/

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Lauren Sparks's avatar Lauren Sparks @wingedelfgirl.bsky.social
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That sucks!! I wasn't intending to sound accusatory - I will read Lamplight whenever you can update it, health first! 💖 I'm so sorry, dealing with that fatigue sounds so frustrating. Hugs to you!

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Waiting for the main character to enter and go happily skipping up the path! 🥰

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Lauren Sparks's avatar Lauren Sparks @wingedelfgirl.bsky.social
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This is a very good and well-strategized email strategy 👍💖

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Orlando C.'s avatar Orlando C. @odditystew.bsky.social
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#makeaterriblecomicday2024

It’s a terrible comic because its about a terrible disease lol. Also i’m pretty sure this is the first comic i’ve posted since April💀

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Lauren Sparks's avatar Lauren Sparks @wingedelfgirl.bsky.social
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HOLY COW 😱 I was vaguely wondering about Lamplight, I'm so sorry that Crohn's has you IN ITS CLUTCHES 😫🥺

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Shawn Pryor's avatar Shawn Pryor @shawnrpryor.bsky.social
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Hey, y'all. Thank you for supporting my fundraiser to help students learn about comics and sequential arts. We made our goal!

Thank you for your kindness. I'll keep the GoFundMe up until early August & all additional donations go towards the workshop.
www.gofundme.com/f/boost-shaw...

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Lauren Sparks's avatar Lauren Sparks @wingedelfgirl.bsky.social
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😲 If that sounds fun to you, sure! I'm at work right now but was gonna try it once I'm off in the afternoon.

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Oh my gosh, the guy who wrote/drew my comics illustration college textbook and the lady who wrote/drew the favorite books of a lot of kids I know?? 🤩🤩🤩

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Lauren Sparks's avatar Lauren Sparks @wingedelfgirl.bsky.social
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I wonder how it does with photos of physical lineart that deliberately include lots of other random confusing physical bits. Will try and remember to test this later 🥲😅

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zoë's avatar zoë @zo-e.xyz
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it's actually extremely funny that we were told we can't use Wikipedia for research in the early 2000s but Wikipedia may be the only reason we even have a somewhat coherent historical record of culture and events from the last 25 years or so and will probably be needed to create future history texts

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Lauren Sparks's avatar Lauren Sparks @wingedelfgirl.bsky.social
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I love seeing everyone's comics!!! It's a lot less of a time suck than hourly comic day, though I love that one too 😄🎉💖 I wanna do it again next year!!

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