I’ve decided to make more highlight videos from the Twitch streams to post to my YouTube channel! These clips are from the start of the year, and there’s loads more to catch up on so expect more videos like this soon.

I’m also LIVE soon Twitch starting on the next comic.

I just posted my second tutorial video! This one is about how I colour and shade my comics using Clip Studio Paint.

ALSO! I’ve put together another blooper reel for Tier 2 patrons as well as Tier 2 Twitch subs

I’ve updated some more stuff!

HD FOR ALL

ALL game posts are now 1920 x 1080px sized for everyone! And for those who want even more pixels, there are new 4K options for patrons and Twitch subs (that’s 3840 x 2160px ) on game posts that have it available*.

*aka game posts that are 100% my own art and don’t have any official art in the background etc

Custom Backgrounds

I’ve also gone ahead and added custom backgrounds to game and art posts (again thanks to SuperTux for making that even possible!). These are just to make the desktop experience more immersive and better separates them from the comics.

I’ll be streaming a new game tomorrow so follow me on Twitch to get notified!

The biggest update to the website has just landed. At first glance you might think it looks more-or-less the same (especially if you’re not browsing in dark mode), but actually EVERYTHING has improved in one way or another. Especially behind the scenes.

What’s new?

• Loads much much MUCH faster
• Search!
  • Not just by title but also other key words too
• Dark mode
  • Automatic and based on browser/OS theme
• Comments via Reddit
  • No more comments being mistakenly flagged for spam
  • No more 100+ spam comments per day
  • Timestamps shown in local timezone
  • Supports spoiler tags
  • Old comments are saved and archived <3
  • Press ‘C’ to jump to the comments
• Revamped Archives section
  • Shows a years overview now
  • Separate Comics/Art/Games categories
  • Small comic preview when hovering thumbnail
• VODs of the Twitch streams linked below comics
• Bonus panel links for patrons and Twitch subscribers
  • Free bonus panels are now marked as such
• Higher resolution comics, art, emotes, and logos
  • Especially noticable on phone screens and high-resolution displays
  • New ‘EXPAND’ button beneath art and game posts
• Spiders added to ALL comics
• Game wallpapers
  • With favourite clips from the streams added below
• All official social channels linked in footer
• Full VIP list showing all VIPs (past and present)
  • Accessed by clicking ‘THE VIP LIST’ below comics
• New FAQ page
• No longer uses Wordpress

Smaller improvements

• Faster Twitch LIVE check
  • The LIVE banner no longer flickers when browsing the site while live
• Additional ‘Random’ button at the bottom of comics (new to desktop)
• Keyboard navigation on all pages with pagination (comics/archive/news)
• Swipe for next/previous comics on mobile
• ‘R’ key for random comics (in addition to ‘?’)
• Cleaned up all broken/missing Twitch clips below comics
• RSS feed now contains the full comic (instead of a thumbnail)
• New randomized audience members below comics (on desktop)
• Better menu links size and spacing
  • Also improved on mobile
• Bonus clip links are now the beside the main clip (below comics)
• Re-exported static VIPs with transparency
  • You’re welcome, Dark mode users
• Improved default comment avatar for old comments
• … and a million other improvements behind the scenes

Thank you!

A massive thank you to SuperTux88 for making this possible and special thanks to Jamamp for all the help as well!

And also thank you to the community, for if it wasn’t for them getting together to surprise me with LoadedArtists for my 10th anniversary of doing this comic, SuperTux would never have realised how much better this site could be if it wasn’t using Wordpress.

Here’s a saved highlight from the stream where the new site gets launched and then I talk about all the changes and stuff.

It was 10 years ago* when I decided to start a webcomic called Loading Artist. *actually 10 years, 1 month, and 2 weeks ago

When I was thinking about what to write about for this occasion, I was initially considering something about how I didn’t expect to ever get this far and that I never thought I’d still be doing this week in week out etc etc.. but now that I think about it.. I think I’ve always known I’d still be here making these comics. It was my childhood dream after all (although technically my dream was to work for Jim Davis making Garfields, but eh close enough ).

However, there is one thing I did NOT expect with getting this far.

This. Amazing. Community.

For my birthday last year, the twitch/discord community got together in secret and planned a super extravagant digital birthday cake for me, with each layer being drawn by someone with inside jokes and touching messages. I was blown away.

And now for my 10 year anniversary, the community have once again COMPLETELY BLOWN ME AWAY and surprised me with THIS masterpiece:

LoadedArtists - a meticulously replicated website loaded with inside jokes and my comics REDRAWN BY THE COMMUNITY.

(press ctrl+shift+alt+6 to break the site. This site has more functionality than my current one!)

Even the store was targeted!

Thank you so much to everyone who took part in this. You are all so incredible. <3

And to top it all off, here is the one and only MarcMansfield with another amazing montage!

Thank you thank you thank you everyone! Here’s to the next 10 years.

<3 Gregor