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Elepheel

Joined Aug 2015 Beirut, Lebanon

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My hobbies include cartooning and treading the line between cute and utterly disturbing.

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Elepheel
Elepheel creator Sep 05, 2015
Hello, hello

Well Muscle Friend has been on a bit of a hiatus, due to me burning myself out on it and pushing myself to write, pencil, ink and color 2 pages each week.

Is this the end of the big guy? Is the helpful hazard done for? Probably not, but for the meantime he's taking a nap, and you might not want to wake him up...

Hopefully a new update sometime soon, and thank you to those subscribing despite the clear lack of updates, means a lot!
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Saru-Hime
Saru-Hime Aug 22, 2015
Thanks for subscribing to Lemon-Sprinkled Life, Elepheel! Muscle Friend is hilarious by the way ^w^!
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Yousef Zidane
Yousef Zidane Aug 22, 2015
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Yeahnelle
Yeahnelle Aug 20, 2015
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NinjabotXI
NinjabotXI Aug 15, 2015
Whoo! Holla at an African! XD! your comics rock!
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NinjabotXI
NinjabotXI Aug 15, 2015
Sure! So hows Lebanon?
Elepheel
Elepheel creator Aug 15, 2015
A chaotic system that somehow doesn't self-destruct and keeps on going
NinjabotXI
NinjabotXI Aug 15, 2015
Cool! so what do you think of my comics?
Elepheel
Elepheel creator Aug 16, 2015
I think you're still forming the building blocks of the medium, and that's okay. Comics is illustration + writing, and each of those is its own long evolving process. I made some crappy stuff when I was younger, believe me. Like Frog Man, who was Spider-Man but with slime instead of webs... The most important thing is to be open to trying new things and learning from what you see.

Try the following:

-Absorb the classics, look into different comics out there (outside webcomics even) and take in what you can from them. From Spider-Man to Scott Pilgrim, get to know the medium well.

-Don't be afraid to copy, find something you like and attempt to recreate it, until you can take away certain parts of it and make that part of your whole thing. Don't just plagiarize though, that's not the right way.

-Get more familiar with certain principles like perspective and light and shadow, even the cartooniest cartoons abide by those laws. Using reference photos is not cheating, even pros do it.

-Look at the behind the scenes stuff, there are lots of online artists who post tutorials or process images, but also major ones too, seek those out, some of them are published in books not on the web. Also, in terms of writing, a lot of stuff about that is out there, on YouTube on podcasts, like people who work on Adventure Time explaining how some of the stuff in the show is born. All this stuff that's hidden is just as important as what you see in the end.

I've got a loooot to learn myself (can't draw a decent car), but with time it gets easier, so let's all keep at it. ;)
NinjabotXI
NinjabotXI Aug 16, 2015
Thanks Man! I owe you one!
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Elepheel
Elepheel creator Aug 15, 2015
Whoa-ho-ho! You guys actually did it. You broke the 500 subscribers mark in less than a week! I am very grateful to all of you folks, as well as the Tapastic team for the super welcome. So on this special occasion I thought I'd ask you all a little question...

WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM?!

Hold on... Let me explain: As you know, Muscle Friend is a man, uh, blue guy-thing, of the people! He's here for YOU!!! So go ahead, share some problems you might be facing in the comments, could be anything from tangled headphones to a tornado!

Who knows, it might inspire a future Muscle Friend episode! And there might be credit in it for ya?

So I repeat: WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM?!
Michelle
Michelle Aug 15, 2015
Migraines!!
R.C. Small
R.C. Small Aug 15, 2015
The bus is late!
jazzybit
jazzybit Aug 18, 2015
my baby NEVER wants to go to sleep
RedPandan
RedPandan Aug 20, 2015
My dog won't play fetch
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Kaiser Luna
Kaiser Luna Aug 15, 2015
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John Mausson
John Mausson Aug 15, 2015
Thank you!!
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Lil R. Mena
Lil R. Mena Aug 15, 2015
:D
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Justin Duvall
Justin Duvall Aug 13, 2015
congrats on the newsletter feature. i really dig your style. looking forward to more! :^)
Elepheel
Elepheel creator Aug 13, 2015
Thank you very much. Didn't expect that at all, but I'm not complaining. :P
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