Artcow Manic Pixie Nightmare Girls / Mallorie Jessica Udischas-Trojan / Jesse William Trojan / Jessica Udischas / SweetBeans99 - Total Bitch Who Supports Shoplifting and Looting; Creator of New Guy, the First Meme of the 2020's

Jess looks like a minion in the last panel.
as of Nov 2, we have entered into a new epoch of art style. Possibly brought on by Inktober 2019's rigors? I don't like it, but sometimes change is for the sake of change until the next style happens, Penny Arcade's gone through similar phases imo.

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Jess isn't a big enough cow to deserve it, but you'd think they were designing a set of emoticons for Ooperator-sama to include in the posting options. As a set they feel pretty thorough, even if I don't like the change in art style. It was likely a Patreon project to prove activity. Also, we disappointingly got no follow up to that Abby & Ivy scenario where big bird got invited to a party and pityme cat broke their phone.

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as of Nov 2, we have entered into a new epoch of art style. Possibly brought on by Inktober 2019's rigors? I don't like it, but sometimes change is for the sake of change until the next style happens, Penny Arcade's gone through similar phases imo.

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Jess isn't a big enough cow to deserve it, but you'd think they were designing a set of emoticons for Ooperator-sama to include in the posting options. As a set they feel pretty thorough, even if I don't like the change in art style. It was likely a Patreon project to prove activity. Also, we disappointingly got no follow up to that Abby & Ivy scenario where big bird got invited to a party and pityme cat broke their phone.

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It looks like she was trying to make LINE stamps.
 
as of Nov 2, we have entered into a new epoch of art style. Possibly brought on by Inktober 2019's rigors? I don't like it, but sometimes change is for the sake of change until the next style happens, Penny Arcade's gone through similar phases imo.

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Jess isn't a big enough cow to deserve it, but you'd think they were designing a set of emoticons for Ooperator-sama to include in the posting options. As a set they feel pretty thorough, even if I don't like the change in art style. It was likely a Patreon project to prove activity. Also, we disappointingly got no follow up to that Abby & Ivy scenario where big bird got invited to a party and pityme cat broke their phone.

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Admittedly I think these look a lot better than Jess’ usual art, but there’s still something rather... cheap looking about them. I think the intent was to look charmingly simple or even kitschy, but the way you can tell the highlights were done with just one careless swipe of a simple hard brush and there’s places where she didn’t even stay inside in the lines. Plus Jess has never been able to capture the fluidity necessary for simplistic art to work so instead all the poses just look stiff.

Also, if the motive for the simplistic style was to not make your self insert look ugly - and I can understand that, every artist tends to do this - but if that was the goal why would you choose to emulate all of the ugliest elements of the art styles you’re imitating? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?
 
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It looks like she was trying to make LINE stamps.
You've led me down an interesting rabbit hole:

The Profitable World of Designing LINE Stamps
DECEMBER 2, 2014 / JOHNNY

If you use the Japanese messaging app LINE then surely you’re familiar with stamps, or stickers, a series of colorful illustrated icons that are often accompanied by a word or two. Stamps and their popularity have been solely responsible for the explosive growth of LINE to capitalize on this trend the company, in May of this year, launched “Creators Market,” a platform which allows anyone with basic illustration skills to design a set of stamps and sell them each for 100 yen. The artist pockets half of the revenue while the company takes the other half.

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one of the most popular series of stamps this year was Wani Kojima‘s “American Pop Kansai-ben” featuring western-lloking characters with saying commonly associated with the comical Kansai dialect.

Since the launch, LINE has raked in an astounding 3.6 billion yen (for simplicity’s sake let’s use 100 yen to the $ and call it $36 million). And that means big bucks for some of the top artists. According to the Nikkei, stamps in the top 10 averaged 36.8 million yen (about $368K) which equates to about $180K in income for the artist. Even artists in the top 1000 made a little over 1 million yen ($10K).

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Mori Moriko hit it big with her “pay attention to me!” series featuring a needy girlfriend.

Mori Moriko, who worked in sales, hit it big with her illustrations featuring a needy girlfriend often pestering her boyfriend over texts marked as “read” that receive no response. After making roughly 8 million yen ($80K) she quit her job in July and is now a full-time illustrator. She even published a book of essays last month.

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Roshihi is also a popular stamp artist who’s “kidokumushi” series features a bug often pestering you for a response.

At a reception in Tokyo last week, LINE recognized some of the top artists and illustrators, noting that the popularity of the stamps is creating a new ecosystem. Popular stamps are branching out into standalone apps, books and merchandise.

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one of the most downloaded and sent stamps are the “kanahei no pisuke & usagi” series created by Kanahei
 
Jesse is the type of person that everybody agrees is okay to fuck over at work.
Imagine thinking pewdiepie is a "dudebro," how out of touch are you with other men to mislabel him that far lol. And being this bitter about his successes and his wife's shit getting burgled that you have to make a comic about it & broadcast just how mad you are. And that you're willing to write off new people because they disagree. Great, now I'm a lunkhead fan just like with Bradley!

If I had to compliment this shitty page, it is that Jess' character is pretty expressive with eye shapes, hand gestures & turning, so there's a lot of body language and character coming off of it... even if that character is an unlikeable cunt.
 
You can change your art style all you want, if you don't really understand the fundamentals it always looks wonky. Did he ever do any still life? Portraits? I genuinely don't think he can achieve a level of detail beyond what he's doing currently. It's sad.

I want Bradley back, at least the style he was drawn in was pleasant.
 
Imagine thinking pewdiepie is a "dudebro," how out of touch are you with other men to mislabel him that far lol. And being this bitter about his successes and his wife's shit getting burgled that you have to make a comic about it & broadcast just how mad you are. And that you're willing to write off new people because they disagree. Great, now I'm a lunkhead fan just like with Bradley!

If I had to compliment this shitty page, it is that Jess' character is pretty expressive with eye shapes, hand gestures & turning, so there's a lot of body language and character coming off of it... even if that character is an unlikeable cunt.

"But he's totally a Nazi, so it's okaaayyy!"

"Where'd you hear that from?"

"All my friends on Twitter say so."
 
oh she absolutely strikes me as someone who gets the "yall hear smnh?" treatment when shes struggling w customers during rush hour
Speaking of, did a cursory browse of Yelp reviews re: dispensaries in Redmond, WA hoping to see a review mentioning Jess. No luck, but there's an Origin dispensary that's half-weed shop, half-coffee shop so I'm wondering if that's it. Wasn't motivated to dig deeper yet but might be fun to find something.
 
If the punchline of the comic was that Jess is a bad person, the comic would be fine. As is, it's basically just Jess being snobby about her meanness, which is truly a modern social media phenomenon.

if i hadnt known any better and shown this about 5 years back u couldnt blame mw in assuming jess IS meant to be an annoying and unlikeable protag

well, i still think she is, just in the 'huehue arent i so quirky and a mess'
ill give her this- comic name does a good job of making it clear what shes attempting
 
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