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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 18/07/2026

#NatD 18 makes me sound like more of a lunatic than @calloflunacy.bsky.social yet HE didn't even hear me

This image is signed by me and watermarked with my LCRising.gay website. On a blank, light green background is a cartoon of my ginger-ass self standing at a window, blowing on a mug. I'm wearing dark clothes, eyeliner, and spiked glasses. Looking out the window, I'm effectively looking at the white body text.
Title for this ongoing series is green and white reading "Nature at the door Part 18". Text body reads ". I must be getting used to having no neighbour close by, because I yelled at the sky 'Thanks for not murdering me!' and nobody got nosy at my door."

Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 07/06/2026

Retroactively going to tag @scottmccloud.bsky.social and @nsousanis.bsky.social as fellow comic nerds, the latter especially because I see "tag me if you do xyz" on just about every page of his website! I did just 4 pages to be practical w/ what I was clipping to my notebook. Some commentary in alt

pages 2 & 3 of the quoted comics exercise, still in pink pen with occasional red. I chose to make it a booklet or 4 page zine on printer paper.
page 2 has 8 panels, page 3 arguably has 6 panels. All 4 pages are based in 3 rows roughly a third page each.
further comments:
Throughout, I've made conscious (and unconscious) simplification choices. You can see my own finger tips for scale; a given panel might be up to a single centimeter tall, so it's a must to do things like draw a u-shaped mouth and sideways-8 glasses as Scott's only facial features, or have a long-sleeve flannel pattern representative of his entire upper outfit.
The outdoor lighting may make it hard to make out where I have used red pen over the pink to highlight features like explicit panel borders, where a character's feet show, or the silhouettes around important body language.
Other fun things in my 1/8th letter-size pages: erasable pen faded to low visibility to represent where McCloud drew penciled work. Absolute & unerasable butchering of scale in panel 1 (compared to the original I'm referencing). consistent poor choice of simplification on his desk lamp. a lot of unnecessary attention on hands when they're a primary subject of a panel.

page 4 of the continued exercise, which is the back of the booklet. These 7 panels required McCloud to use a huge variety of drawing types and techniques, which is likely why I found it more challenging or time consuming. There's an architectural scene, a unique perspective panel that looks like a framed diorama, a panel of 3 identical hands in a row, & a close up portrait, to name a few in the variety.
it's fun to see the stark shadow at left as natural light changed in just the few moments between photos. This page used a bit more cheating via erasable pen under some of the art, to help prevent blatant errors of relative scale. This still occurred on the second to last, borderless panel showing three hands--which didn't use this cheat but perhaps should have.
further commentary: Scott basically disappears in the last panel's shaded background, when he should be holding up the orb of the earth. a hatched background to the bottom left panel of buildings, because the need to imply more buildings was way more important than copying how McCloud had drawn the more elaborate scene. The first panel included scratched out characters and writing, but I instead used vague hatch marks in the lightest pink pen of the booklet.
The second panel, which doesn't depict McCloud, has the hint of an expression and even has a nose. It also has my favorite hand of the exercise, despite it not being as large or focused as most of the rest.
The most obviously pre sketched panel is a 1-point perspective of Scott in a furnished and decorated room. Said panel still has all lettering left out, even though the back "wall" should be entirely huge text.

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 01/06/2026

show me if you also have process sketches drawn on WEIRD SHIT also show me if you make comics about your own FUCKED UP KNEES

the waxy white back of a nametag sticker, that's already been peeled off the front. Smudged, thin pen made various smudged, tiny squares and figures. the top has 3 descending and 3 ascending stairs. there's a line of stick figures at left, walking along a line with text: "click snap click hip therapist lied". Below that is a mockup of a 2 page spread with a similar 4 figures at the top; Most of the rest of it would be incomprehensible to the viewer.
Yes, I used a colourful book for photo contrast underneath. yes, the nearest book was in fact Scott McCloud's Making Comics.

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 31/05/2026

After today's Comics in Academia panel, I'm (re)reading my Scott McCloud books & doing one of my favourite things in the world: Messy thumbnail renditions of comic pages for my cartooning study notes. No pencil allowed, just two pens/page YouTube recording of the panel: youtube.com/live/gymwh40...

one ninth of a printer page with a pink and red, just-barely-recognisable, reverse-engineered thumbnail of page one of Scott McCloud's "Making Comics." There's not yet any lettering or speech balloons. The tiny page rests on a spiral notebook, covering the edge of scrawled notes.
I'm going to identify panel variations in the first five pages, then occasionally analyse them as case studies as I read my comics textbooks (including lettering one from Blambot)

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 17/05/2026

I made a lil reference zine (Lulo-brain compatible) based on this handy visual guide & main ideas from @boneyhag.bsky.social 's "Just make your comic!" earlier in Nib & Ink fest (:

Back "cover" of a handwritten 8-page folded print paper. its divided into thirds with 3 wide panels that say "3 panel pages." under panels is captions that read: 5-in-5 is 15, 3x5 is 15, math checks out.

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 16/05/2026

I put a sticky note on THAT page, too

blurry photo of a yellow sticky on the famous two panels of Understanding Comics where Scott McCloud changes his portrait from a simple style to something more complex, nuanced. Messy red pen on my sticky reads: the "voice" of the comic artist, narrator CHANGED

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 14/05/2026

After some quality Blambot customer service & a trip to the post office, it's here! "The Essential Guide To Comic Book Lettering", page 66, FINALLY has a satisfying answer. Nate Piekos addresses webcomics and print throughout the book, including with this. And has a fantastic signature, btw

Edge of a manilla envelope book package. Handwritten marker says "do not bend" in comic-coded all capitals.

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 13/05/2026

Its no automated lettering, but this collage of speech balloons is much more satisfying to produce now

collage of cartoon speech balloons outnumbered by tails. The top and most opaque layer don't look like spider creatures & all used the same system and brushes. The balloons in the back aren't consistent or polished.

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 03/05/2026

Artists, if you see this post a bird.🪶 Any art form; no-AI 🎨

honk shoe, a cartoon of a red shoe with a goose head coming out to yell at us. green background

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 07/03/2026

Ok what 9 games come to mind when I ask myself, which have shaped me? As a person, what video games are wedged between my ribs like cartiledge or bone? Without overthinking it, in no particular order... Link, with added commentary: my9games.com/s/a6c6f2fff0...

a my9games.com tile of 9 video game thumbnails, based on the japanese website's search.
Games as a list: Legend of Zelda: Windwaker (gamecube), God of War (2018 playstations), Dragon Quest: Monsters (Game Boy Colour), Adventure Quest Worlds (browser, internet capabale toasters), Spyro (playstation 1), Minecraft (pc), Kingdom Hearts 2 (playstation), Stardew Valley (pc), Hungry Cat Picross (mobile)

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 24/02/2026

Every time. These were done on the SAME DAY in 2012. Practicing goes from valley to peak without conscious thought; gotta push through hating it sometimes so you can love it again!

photograph collage of mice, most of them with digital pen over whiskers or outlines and other features.
Red pen on black background says "I FUCKING HATE whiskers"
there's also fun comments like "nom", "fred why", "I don't always have whiskers but even I do"

A digital painting of a singular mouse, on a cushion. It's jovial, rolling on its back laughing. speech bubble says "whiskers!" happily.
This image has my modern website watermark added for LCRising.Gay

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 10/02/2026

Woke to a whole lot of Nope from 15 different directions so uh here's a fake wheel I've been using to "randomly choose" the next typing game demo I've been playing & share with friendos. Look how silly it is. Behold how unnecessary.

a purple wheel with a green pointer & video game titles on red and black wedges. Most have an emoji about whether I liked it. Titles usually have typing puns and include text her to sleep, isekat, the chef's shift, typing valley, dead letter dept, etc

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 08/02/2026

Pretty sure having dozens of pen names and coming up with new ones in BATCHES isn't uh... isn't a sign of being a proud craftsman. Especially if you know readers DON'T WANT IT

text excerpt with purple highlights on "doesn't disclose her use of A. I." because of "stigma around the technology"

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 11/12/2025

Thrum acquired! I've promised to only practice when Ellie van Goth is awake.

Listing photo of a mandolin with a dark, glossy A style body with f shaped holes. This model is an Ibanez 510.
A mandolin is a small 8 stringed "folk" instrument, similar to a ukelele or guitar.

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 23/11/2025

My holiday Good.Store package has arrived! Excited to try (firstly) the Keats & Co coffee for the first time. massive bag o' Calypso beans. Peter Panther for scale. "John Keats is dead and this coffee is about tuberculosis. (...) 100% of the profits fund tuberculosis treatment." oken.do/6oze86nf

two subjects, beige and silver background.
Left is a red bag of Keats & Co light roast. Right is my cat's confused face after i interrupted his eating with a random object.

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 09/10/2025

i love this shit, ask me more often

A different screenshot of the red string evidence board meme. chaotic red and black pen dot a jumble of overlapping (white) pages making up some theory. a (white) guy in wrinkled office clothes obviously needs help, as he is not convincing someone off screen.
Its from the show "it's always Sunny in Philadelphia" and I'm only identifying with the amount of investigative paperwork.

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 17/09/2025

Images that immediately play music in my head.

Official character art of Sherma, from Hollow Knight: Silksong video game. Game and art by Team Cherry. Music by Sherma.

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 13/09/2025

#NatD 17 brought to you by seriously wanting to post a pleasant scent for strangers, those who don't live in the climate nearby temperate rainforest.

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 31/08/2025

I have a DIFFERENT sort of focus problem... my #FocusFriend Francis has gotten many, many 5 and 10 minute extensions...

my entire expanded notification tray, showing up to eight "Focus Friend" app notifications that all say "See what Francis made!"
they are spaced out only five or ten minutes apart

screenshot of the Focus Friend app, with prominent button saying "focus!" and room with a green bean-person that looks like they're made of candy. or like a tall junimo. They're saying "contemplating legumity."
The numbers in the hundreds at the top are rewards from how long I've let the bean knit without using my phone, mostly from today.

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 09/08/2025

I don't get to not think about it. (screenshot of a popular Tumblr text post. its about disability and the burden of considering it constantly when you have it, while others don't understand that it's ALWAYS something to be considerate of, and they should include themselves in that)

tumblr user ragingpeacock:
"Is funny when doctors and other peeps act like my problem is that I'm obsessed w/ my disability. Um no. You have it backwards. The problem is I HAVE to be cuz it is a constant problem."

the lengthy end of post by Tumblr user andreashettle, illustrating & elaborating with an anecdote:

"I'm deaf. About 25 years ago, I was working for a little while as a classroom aide at a program that worked with deaf children with multiple disabilities. All the teachers and other classroom aides were hearing, but they all could sign. Not at native signing level, but enough to carry on a basic conversation.

So, one evening, all us adults bring all the kids to a special one-night camping trip. All the kids are put to sleep, which frees up the adults to get into a circle and have some fun to ourselves for a while. People start talking, except they were forgetting to sign. So I reminded them to please sign so I could understand them. One of them told me that, no, they weren't going to sign because this was our night to have fun and not have to think about communication.

So no one signed all night. They talked, they laughed, they had fun. I sat, feeling lost and cut off and betrayed. I remember wishing I had had the nerve to say, 'No, what you mean is, you want a night in which everyone EXCEPT ME gets to not think about communication.'

I think sometimes when non-disabled people insist that we are too obsessed with our disability, what they REALLY mean is, 'I wish you would stop reminding me that I have a shared responsibility as a fellow member of society to proactively ensure that we all have an opportunity to be engaged in society. I wish you would just pretend to not have a disability so I can pretend that I don't have to do anything to enable you to do the same things the rest of us are doing.'

The luxury of not needing to think about disability in a society that is designed to lock us on the cold outside is a non-disabled privilege."

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 07/08/2025

If you can't find your artist grade charcoal or charcoal pencils: home made is fine

Raw blurry photo of my hand in the dark, some of the edges and finger tips so black they're blending into the night. A fire off camera lights the left edges of everything.

It looks like a black dragon claw, but is actually one of the pieces of charcoal i was drawing with. its in a plastic bag, on a white towel.

photo of one of the pages i roughly drew in charcoal tonight, which i know was entirely done with the "dragon claw" piece. This one has the glass table and it's items that were in front of me, as well as the brick firepit burning just beyond. there are high contrast areas between fire and fire lit, and shadows and night. my sketchbook has an impression of the page i drew this on.
I added my initials digitally.

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 24/07/2025

I was just going to make a joke about "caffeinated milk" but next time I'm with a trusted Slorpstress, I'll actually ask for this. Anyone else, I'll ask for the flavours I threw out on a white mocha.

a square that is completely the colour of hexcode #6F0B00 which in my head I described as "cinnamon burgundy" while writing this.

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 20/07/2025

#NatD 16 was written as soon as I sat down. I feel prickly in places that had two layers of protection, man...

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 19/07/2025

Guess I'M showing it! I had to do it myself! Nimona the Ninth!

"Nimona the Ninth" A cartoon fanart by me (Lulo C Rising) of Nimona, of the comic Nimona, combined with The Locked Tomb's book series' first main character, Gideon the Ninth. A light red and green-scaled dragon is breathing cartoon fire at ethereal ghosts in the air. red text bubble loudly says "fuck off ghost nerds". They've got the macabre skull makeup associated with the Ninth House, as well as Nimona's hair even though they're a dragon right now.

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 19/07/2025

heehee i got it to work ...don't try this at home, just get a pin cushion

Me in the light of a crafting lamp, with a sewing needle magnetised to a nose ring. I've got my signature spiky cat-eye glasses and purple lenses.

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 17/07/2025

IDK why I ever think "i can sketch outside"

photo of the ground with hugely stark contrast between where the blazing sun hits and the shade. you can see my other hand giving up on using the van Gogh (almond branches) sketchbook, and also can see my bare legs.

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 14/07/2025

cursed timing on this today

Bluesky notifications.
Sashi and 3 others liked your post 32m ago, reading "Today My Ear Popped When: estimating the price of wet wipes"

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 13/07/2025

I tried to verbally describe this Device and @calloflunacy.bsky.social went "you mean the medieval torture device they used on women?!" so anyway cartoons are diabolical no matter what we think making/reading them

Wikipedia's cartoony illustration image for a "ducking stool," from a Pearson Scott Foresman textbook for younger students. It looks like a seesaw with wheels, except one end is operated by several men to (repeatedly) dunk a woman into a body of water. That end is a chair for the victim to be tied to.
It is described on wikipedia as a form of women's punishment, but not exclusively.
...It was also called a cucking stool. Not because of "cuckhold" but because of "shitting."

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 24/06/2025

Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender

screenshot New Blood posted from their game. there's a nightmare creature looking humanoid monster on the left, and a "remarkably thicc cactus" that's just a cactus but kind of hourglass shaped with two cactus arms at about "shoulder" height. it has one flower on top.
the whole thing is in a desert at night and hard to see.

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 10/06/2025

Can't work. Computer itself seems to be running slow-both of my browsers + multiple programs besides, so it's not just Internet. It's too hot.

A red warning sign by text "Heat Advisory" cropped from a weather app. It's bike and pink background so if you scrolled down and expected a trans flag: me too

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Lulo 🦊 Cartoon @lcrising.gay · 04/06/2025

I forgot I made this around the diagnosis! This is what discord pins are for.

Digital art, made in Google Keep. A sand coloured background contrasts with the focus: a purple, radiant oval with "I'm autistic" written in an uneven font. Below is me in the purple light, in awe as i stare up, arms in a V. My face is barely above the single line drawn for a front desk.
This has my watermark leading to my site LCRising.gay

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