Lackadaisy

...what happened to the original thread?

Anyways, Lackadaisy thread. General blah-blah-blah.

I had to make this thread because )8

edited 20th Dec '10 5:22:58 PM by Latia

Hell yeah, a Lackadaisy thread.

Thanks for doing it, I kinda forgot about it. I don't know their update schedule, I just check the RSS feed.

I feel bad for the guy behind the counter. Mitzi, you must save Christmas, forge that signature!

edited 20th Dec '10 9:29:27 PM by captaintheCaptaiN

Best holiday comic ever.

nevermind Christmas has been saved

edited 20th Dec '10 9:33:59 PM by captaintheCaptaiN

If not for this thread, I might have missed this update.

This is possibly the best webcomic I'm currently reading. Certainly the most visually beautiful, by far.

I didn't notice this till my third or so reread, but I love the little touch of their eyes "glowing" in the dark.

MURDER pie.

Murder pie is the best pie.

Actually I lie. Enemy pie is the best pie.

^Ever eat murder pie and enemy pie at the same time? Delicious.

I think we can agree that rocky is moar than likely insane?

This is awesome and every aspiring comic artist should look at it and take it to heart. I recognize a lot of the" express-sins," I try not to do the emoiocn style stuff unless I'm just goofing off. Sadly I do Flounder syndrome a lot of the time...need to stop that.

Also it has someone slapping someone's eyebrows off.

Agreed. I'll have to favourite this page or something, lots of great advice and examples.

Yup, we can all agree that rocky is insane

Hah, I notice a few swipes at certain webcomics and styles in the expressions tutorial.

B^U Everybody, do the Buckley! B^U B^U B^U

lackadaisy should be updated mondays and fridays

edited 20th Jan '11 12:39:13 PM by JayTheHelmetGuy

Buckadaisy Cats!  ^*

edited 20th Jan '11 2:44:02 PM by Latia

Oh goodness, after seeing every webcomic artist and their mother retweet that expressions guide, I looked at it and fell in love. And proceeded to archive binge Lackadaisy and am now all the happier for it. What a delightful comic! :D

~Duk

What's a Dreamworks Face? ^up there somewhere^ I can only think of Shrek at the moment, but all the faces there seemed fine?

fase◊

and if you think it's being overtly pro-Pixar ◊

uhm... those are all pretty different expressions. Having one eyebrow higher than the other isn't necessarily smarm-eyebrow, and out of all of those... maybe the antz aunt, the cars car, and the seinfeld bee, are true smarm-brow. Donkey's making a half-lidded pass at someone, but his brows are quite on the level, The panda, to me, is a "seriously" or an "are you talking to me?" or maybe a "shit's about to get real" and mossst of those are only like that either because the face is angled to make the brow look higher or it's emphasizing the direction the character is looking.

Faces are pretty uneven. I know I only smile with half my face most of the time, and regularly employ eyebrow-unevinity, either conciously or unconciously, in a wide variety of expressions. It helps keep 3D animated faces (animated faces in general actually) natural-looking, and easy-to-read.

Just to drive this one home, link me to one exaple of a Lackadaisy face where a character is emoting (bonus points—smiling) with level eyebrows. Alright, I'm sure you'll find one, the point is, you'll find a whole lot more uneven eyebrows than not along the way.

The only example I can think of for true smarm-brow to the degree that Rocky's face implies is on the Tangled guy, and it fit the character.

(The lamp? Seriously? Who made this and why?)

edited 24th Jan '11 10:59:58 PM by DaeBrayk

It's not the unlevel eyebrows that is the issue here.

It's the fact that people (both amateur and professional artists) use one-low-and-one-upward-arching eyebrow to depict practically all of their characters as spunky, full of "fire", and edgy.

And I too, find it rather annoying.

The second picture makes no sense at all, though. The lamp has no facial features (and showed emotion through body language), WALL-E is mechanically incapable of making the smarm-brow, the chef is just looking nervous, the insects, monsters, rat, fish, most of the humans and three of four of the cars are just emoting normally and being "photographed" from an off-center perspective.

edited 25th Jan '11 12:59:33 AM by Kraken

so basically this is the best-drawn webcomic on the internet

and barring that it's the best drawn furry webcomic that isn't really at all about furries

what's not to love

edited 27th Jan '11 7:11:37 PM by Barcode711

I discovered Lackadaisy just recently, when T Campbell (of Penny And Aggie and Fans fame) tweeted about the Expressions tutorial. Cue Archive Binge. Where has this comic been all my life? It's the art that gets most of the attention, true, and deservedly so, but the writing is equally phenomenal. I love when Rocky (my favourite character) waxes poetic, when Ivy turns on the flapper charm, and when Mordecai and Viktor (in the Flashback bonus strips) barely restrain themselves from killing each other on the job.

Thank goodness for RSS feeds, now that my binge is done.

I believe I read somewhere that good writing will save mediocre art a lot better than good art will save mediocre writing.

Order Of The Stick proves that this is true, but Lackadaisy and The Meek prove that you can have it both ways, and gloriously so.

edited 31st Jan '11 7:22:53 AM by vifetoile