My first question on your thirty page comic is why is it thirty pages? If it's thirty pages because that's how long the story you want to tell is - great get going. But if it's thirty pages because that's how long comic issues tend to be start with a smaller comic. Adding to that, if you can tell your thirty page story in a fewer amount of pages, do that.

The fewer pages and panels you can tell your story in, the better. One - it's just less work for you. Penciling, inking and shading each page takes time and effort - and if you're not doing this digital is going to use supplies and cost money, if you're coloring this with the markers your other art is colored with - that adds up fast.

The other factor is keeping the reader compelled. If it starts to drag, they'll feel it.

As for the second part: If creating one piece of art/writing/whatever a day is working for you, that's great. Being productive is good, and you should try to be as productive as possible. If you're not feeling fatigued don't stop. Burnout happens when you push yourself too hard and invest energy you do not have into tasks with no fulfilment. You can be exhausted from working a lot, take time to rest and then feel fine. Burnout is when you rest, come back to the work you were doing and the concept of doing the work is exhausting. There's a distinction there.

And yes, do perspective studies. Perspective is one of the most essential foundational skills you'll need for illustration, especially making comics.

Feels like every machine I use has different rules.

NG converts all submissions to the portal to .webp but it won't let me upload that format to the forum; mostly a problem on mobile since in order to get a copy of the stuff I drew onto my phone, the fastest option is to download it from the site. Now if I want to post any of those images to the forum, I gotta do the extra step of converting them from the format NG gives me, into something that NG can take.

On PC I can paste from my clipboard if it's a screenshot or copied from clip studio, but not if it's a copied image from the internet. On my ipad, I can't paste from anywhere. It's... complicated.

I always wonder about this whenever I browse artist on other social media sites whether they are professional, indie, do SFW or NSFW etc, or just hobbyist.. There is always a new drama discussion revolving around how the sites they use are AI scraping their work, or how bad the site is for artist. They'll occasionally do these huge drama tweets on their art posting accounts so that's how I see these. I've never seen anyone mention about Newgrounds as an alternative to posting art. When people like me or others mention Newgrounds it's either they haven't heard it before, they're not really motivated to go there, or even when do make an account here they'll post a few artwork until they stop along the way. Like what gives?

hmmm, well I'm surprised to hear that people don't know of Newgrounds since it's been around so long, but in the case of people posting a few drawings and leaving? I can kinda understand that. It takes FOREVER, to grow on Newgrounds. I've been here for quite a few years, and at a certain point, my growth just hit a wall and completely stood still, meanwhile on other plats, that hasn't been an issue. I can see people joining and having a similar thing happening and just packing up and leaving. There's also the fact that Newground's layout is a lot different than most social media websites that people are probably used to. I personally like how different NG is, but I can see people getting confused and dipping. ( a few people I tried to get to join NG have already done this before unfortunately).

And lastly, the environment around here can be a little... rough? Maybe off putting to some. From the outside looking in, Newgrounds can seem a bit strange. It really takes you being on here for a while and talking to the people here to realize it isn't that bad, but unlike other places, it can seem intimidating at first.

Just my two cents.

A lot of folks that make those lengthy complaint threads on their platform of choice have tens of thousands of followers, and their main reason for making them is that they want where they are to make positive changes, far more than they want to start over somewhere else (even if they say otherwise). Even when they do want to start fresh, they want an alternative that most resembles what they left behind, hence why everyone that nuked their Twitters went to Bluesky.

Newgrounds is a different proposition altogether. It's not social media, it's its own ecosystem, and it's a small one. I'd make the case that followers here are a lot more supportive and interactive; judged purely on engagement, I get about 10-20x more of it here per follower than I do anywhere else. But most artists that got their following from the occasional jackpot ultra viral runaway smash hit are gonna recognize that there's zero potential for that here. The absolute most popular, active, well-known artists here tend to cap-out around 20k followers, which is pretty low when coming from platforms where artists of similar skill could easily have hundreds of thousands. You can dickride popular artists here, but they have no mechanism by which to quickly share your fanart, so the only way to climb is to keep making the front page, over and over, grabbing a tiny handful of follows each time. People will only stick around if they're vibing with the culture and they just want to be here regardless of the smaller reach.

Does anyone have a food or something that makes you an idiot? I'm talking something that could put you in a "Would do it for a scooby snack" type situation

I don't know if I'd do anything for it but Brisk® "iced tea" (as much "iced tea" as Kraft Singles are "real cheese") is basically crack to me

I unironically want a Kickassia flag.

With enough alcoholic beverages, many states are possible to achieve.

For me it’s definitely pizza flavored goldfish crackers.