"spicy sleepovers" "two person push ups" "horizontal tango" "opening the gates of Mordor" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love these phrases.

I remember my first commission. It was in 7th grade and I was asked for "A girl riding tentacles." The thing is I didn't take it sexually, more in how one would ride a dragon through the sky. So that's what I drew, a girl riding on top of tentacles.

That's so weird, I had a similar experience when I was like 13 or 14, and I was contacted on Deviantart to draw SPICY MLP ART. But I told him I was a minor and uncomfortable drawing that, he apologized profusely.

There are some real creeps out there... I don't mind the fact that he wanted to commission NSFW art, you do you my guy, but e-mailing a HIGH SCHOOLER, a LITERAL LEGAL CHILD to do it- yeah, huge red flag.

Using OSHA violations as material for a NSFW Patreon tier is hilarious 😂😂😂 Well done, Star. Well done😌

I cannot fathom why a grown adult- knowing that he would be needing nsfw artwork for his comic- would seek out an artist that he knew would be in _high school._ Actually, come to think of it, I'm also kind of surprised the teacher just passed that contact on to a student without (I assume?) looking into him at all. Like, finding opportunities for your students is great, but you NEED to know who you're sending those kids towards, and exactly what's going to be asked of them. This was definitely a strange and uncomfortable situation, but it sounds like it had the potential to go a lot worse.

The ace flag slowly showing up with a speed paint in the background just described my entire life.

Ngl I feel like those Osha violations is scarier than normal NSFW Edit:woah never had a comment blow up before thanks!

‘I like think that maybe, just maybe she hunted him down for sports.’ LMFAO

I can't even imagine the thought process you go through to get to "ah yes, I will cold-email high school students"

"Naughty nighttime shenanigans" I'm gonna start using that phrase💀💀☠️

Finally I found another artist who started art classes in high school and wasn't as good as the other kids!!! I started taking art seriously in high school and only did it for fun everyday and all day before then! I wasn't as good as everyone else. I hated acrylics and water color and didn't get my art posted outside the art room often and never read it put in the cases around the school! Heck I couldn't even draw humans and only drew animals so my teacher wasn't too fond of my art skills

Can't blame you for not feeling comfortable The bone zone has a lot of skeletons. Too spooky

You weren't petty for being happy to excel where "artistes" struggled. When you said your art was on display, I literally said aloud, "About time!" People deserve recognition for their hard work they put into obtaining skills. Especially children. I'm glad your teacher turned out to be pretty rad.

I love the joke that NSFW = OSHA violations, it's such a clever double entendre/bait-and-switch thing. In fact, it's my favorite bait-and-switch joke alongside the booby bird and tit birds. XD

As a safety professional I love the NOT SAFE FOR WORK idea. That's awesome twist on expectations.

Is it weird that I learn more by watching you draw than I do from the huge shelf of books I own?

I’m gonna draw my characters braking OSHA violations, labelling it NSFW. Without an intent of stealing the idea of course I just really like the idea. Thanks for inspiring me

As someone who works in an environment where "riding a pallet jack is grounds for immediate termination", the OSHA violation opening is hilariously brilliant.

The ace flag slowly appearing with a comic speedraw in the background is just perfect

BABE WAKE UP THESTARFISHFACE POSTED!!!

I love how they are wearing safety vests and boots, even though they are doing something dangerous, they aren’t MONSTERS

I am glad that your teacher had your back. I went to a half-day trade school for digital art during my junior and senior years of highschool. In my senior year I was branching into making websites (mostly using DreamWeaver, this was when it was owned by microsoft, just before adobe bought it) and so when a local history group reached out wanting a website designed, she came to me asking if I would like the project. Of course I had the same reaction, was excited that this could be my "big break" and began diligently working on a website for these people. Unfortunately they began to get very irate at its simplicity and that I wasn't fully coding the site to the degree they wanted, and had to explain that while I did have basic html knowledge, that this was an ART project and I had originally just been asked to design the layout, buttons, graphics, etc for the site. Well I went down the rabbit hole of making fully functional websites (mind you this was in like, 2004 and there were not a lot of options for slapping a site together like there are now) and trying to do all this work for them despite the fact that I was a highschool art student and they were getting all this for /free/ . Well, it was towards the end of the school year. I got graded on the project despite the fact that I was still working with these history group folks to get their page functional. They more or less began to bully me about it and I decided right then and there to just... cut off ties. Maybe I could have handled it better, but I was 18 and had had enough. I deleted my work from their website host and stopped responding to them. When my teacher asked about it I just deflected and said I wasn't done yet. About a month after I graduated the teacher called me at home about the project saying that they had been reaching out to her since I was non-responsive. I told her flat out that I already got graded for that project, and was not dealing with it any longer. If they wanted to pay me for my work I'd send the existing files over to them (we were each allowed to take home a thumb drive with our school projects) but otherwise they should seek out a professional web designer. She asked if I'd send the files to her directly - I said no. She was very livid with that answer. I later found out that she got paid for another student's restaurant menu design that a local diner had commissioned, and wonder if perhaps she had accepted money for my project without me knowing, which is why she was so determined to get the files.

There are so many layers to this situation that were completely avoidable: 1) The guy having common sense and getting in touch with adult professional artists through a publishing company or looking one up online while it may have been the early days of the internet I’m sure it was doable. 2) The guy letting the High School Teacher know what exactly he was expecting their students to draw. 3) The teacher Asking the guy what he was expecting his artist to draw.

I am totally using the term “two person push ups” from now on.

i would like to say, i (as someone else on the ace spectrum) really extremely love the fact that your comic doesn’t have much romance. romance in any media is a make-or-break thing for me, so having no focus on romance just makes it easier for me to enjoy (also i love frankie, i have latched onto him and need to follow his every move)

I binge read the entirety of Castoff that was on Tapas. I'm obsessed!

The idea of characters violtation osha guidelines as NSFW art is hilarious to me.

8:20 ( don’t mind this, just a timestamp for when I come back to this video, because I want to keep these things in mind if I ever start doing commissions of that kind)

Thank you for making this story as funny as possible- that teacher was the real MVP, I hope she did in fact hunt that guy down for sport because the cartoonish visuals it inspired in my mind were A+ and very worthy of a place on the wall. XD Your OSHA violations are also delightful, look at all those unsafe work practices! tsk tsk!

If you’d still like to try your hand at painting, gouache was an absolute game changer for me! I also despise working with watercolors and acrylic but gouache is like somewhere in the middle of the two! It’s essentially opaque watercolor, it goes on super smoothly and you don’t have to worry about all colors changing as they dry like you do acrylic! And it’s not all weird and plastic-y and goopy like acrylics can be, it’s nice and thin like watercolors. It can be a little expensive but I promise it’s worth it!

Pretty cool story I guess. Was moreso focused on the bg drawing the entire time, lmao. UNTIL the Ace flag showed up, which made me, a fellow Ace, very happy!

i was watching this video while playing minecraft and when you started talking about that your art wasnt that good like other people's art, the most heart breaking piano background music started playing.

Q: Whats a good tip for drawing cartoony but realistic faces?

your line art is so satisfying

Omg the rolly chair at the top of the stairs made me so stressed lmao

I can't beilive I've stumbled onto this! I read your comic on Tapas whenever it comes out (like today) and I just stumbled onto this video and was thinking "Huh... Those characters look a lot like the ones from that comic" and then you mentioned it! That's so cool

Your teacher was amazing how they handled that, I’m glad they protected you. Entertaining and slightly messed up story, thanks for sharing.

13:12 manages to emulate the same feeling of rage as Bill Cipher saying “You! You can’t even imagine what you just caused!”

OF COURSE SHE WAS LIVID ! At this point she asked YOU to contact him instead of standing in between the transaction! She should have been the one dealing with him ! She probably got scared for her job at this point, or at least felt terribly guilty about it ! Also your artstyle is great!! Good job!!

I always hated art classes. My art is very specific and personal, and I can't really draw what some art teacher tells me to draw. As a result, I almost always failed when I tried out an art course. I'm glad I didn't let that discourage me from sticking with the craft, though, because I quite like how my stuff looks these days. Forcing artists who want nothing to do with certain styles into creating said style for a grade sucks.

Cant concentrate in the story, you just draw so good god damn

Good thing this teatcher was there to stand up for her students.

Always like listening to your stories while I draw~

The art at the beginning is gonna make me hire you for graphic novel illustrating when I write it

My OC Roxxie: 1. Her estranged father, who caused the death of her older sister 2. Super disorganised 3. Emo.

That's some *_spicy_* "NSFW" art you're drawing. but seriously, violating OSHA art? thats hilarious.

I only take art more seriously like 3-4 years ago and now I'm 20 I always feel like I'm so left behind and that I should've been able to draw something like the art lords of the internet by now.. good to know that there are people like me who started out pretty late I've been drawing characters since I was 4 and i never thought that drawing was a job that I can consider until i was 16 :'D I used to make a one panel comic in my art books about the randomest things like talking fruits planning a party or rabbits inventing a flying machines.. my imaginations were wild back then lol

I'm glad to see a story time artist that doesn't fake his/her content! I'm leaving a like and sub! Very interesting story.

The replacements for uh ya know _driving the car into the garage_ are just HILARIOUS. Love this video!

I'm reading the first bit of Castoff rn, and I love Vector already. 🥺

This is partially why I'm glad I didn't do commissions when I was a minor 😅

After I watched all of your videos I tried watching these art commission stories and watched all of those and then just so happens to be what you make next 🤣

I'm so glad your teacher turned you away from this "commission" (I don't believe the guy would've paid you), but the way you re-told this story is one of the funniest things I've seen in awhile. Thank you for sharing.

Man, good on the teacher for having your back on this. Big yikes energy from that guy. Personally, I kinda wish I could draw. I was naturally gifted musically, so I was pushed more into that, and this only took one full art class my senior year of high school. I found I was pretty okay at landscape painting stuff - I did a landscape inkwash I was genuinely proud of. Problem is, I can't really draw. I have near-complete aphantasia, so when I try to picture anything closing my eyes, I see literal static or the lsd-moving-shapes thing, often without color. No image. And as an intensively creative person who can do most other creative arts pretty well, it sucks. It also sucked because my art teacher was incredibly unsympathetic and straight-up told me I'd never be cut out for art. So all that to say, it's awesome to see you overcome the struggles of being not-as-good as your peers and doing what you love! I just wish I could switch on the images and/or figure out how to turn figure geometry into a sketch without wanting to break my art supplies.

I don't know anyone who wouldn't jump at a sweet sounding deal like the project at 16. The comic your drawing are hilarious.

I actually got a similarly distasteful commission on upwork, I denied it because the project they wanted me to work on was massive, by my calculation at least 2-3 chapters or around 60 pages yet the person ordering didn't see me to know the process very well. My eyes will never be the same after reading "the plot" tho, yikes.

11:48 YOU'RE AN ACE *TOO??* *Squeals in sheer joy* I found another fellow aaaaaccccceeeee!

saw this and thought 'yeah ill watch this' and then i read the text at the bottom and my first thought was 'omg cool theyre doing castoff fan art... wait *realises* OH' i had no idea you had a youtube channel! ive been reading castoff for a few years now tho

Man I can totally relate with the High School Art class stories. In my 9th grade art class, I struggled a lot. None of my art came out good at all. I wasn't in to any of the projects. And I suspect that I was actually graded harsher on my art than everyone else, because I was seen by everyone as very artistic. That year I literally won an award for "Most artistic student." It may have felt to the teacher that I wasn't putting my all into my projects. I was, I just sucked at everything we were doing. I didn't have that creative spark. And at that point I was only really good at doodling and coming up with ideas. I passed with an 89.5, which rounded up to a 90%. It's the lowest grade I got in all of high school, and I almost lost my 4.0 GPA due to it. As someone who was very studious and took grades seriously, it was extremely frustrating and demoralizing to know that of all things, ART CLASS was the one class that almost destroyed my perfect grade.

So this is the first video of yours that I've watched. I didn't realize you were the creator of Cast Off! I've been reading it on Tapas and when I saw the first sketch in this video I was like "wait I know those characters!" So cool to see you on youtube too

Honestly I relate so hard with the earlier portion of this video. I've found it really hard to feel like I'm good enough in art class. I didn't take the prerequisites because I got randomly switched from college art to another advanced art class, and they just assumed I had the prerequisites for the advanced art class. All year, I've been getting talked down to by my art teacher because of how I didn't take my prerequisites. I'm always getting reprimanded while no one else is. It's genuinely sucked so much passion out of art for me. I've been working on drawing people as a hobby for the last 7 or so years and she just randomly assumed I can't draw people and went on a whole rant about it. I feel like no one gets as much crap from her as I do and I just don't see art as very fun anymore, it's really made me lose my confidence in my ability to draw.

I don't know how your video got recommended to me when nothing I watch is even close to your channel, but I am glad. I've been having a pretty crappy month and hearing your stories and watching your art really has put a smile on my face and gotten me back into drawing! You earned a subscriber and patreon member!

What a story ^^" Jeez!! For the QNA: What was the most difficult-to-make comic you've created? Also: I absolutely love the art style!! This comic seems absolutely adorable ♡♡

No wayyyy do storytime speedraws still exists omg I remember watching these all the time 😭😭

Loved the video! You have a very charismatic way of presenting stories and your art is wonderful. Keep making videos, it's refreshing to find a storytime animator who feels distinct from a lot of the others.

Your art is amazing!I love all the. Colour coded images and how your shading is just making my eyes happy, it gives a calm asthmatic vibe and will most likely inspire many young artists like myself (:

I just wanna say I love your art style I plan on making comics and I hope I can make mine look as clean and vibrant as yours

Oh god I LOVE your artstyle!! It’s so cute even back then when that creepy ass man wanted to *CHANGE* it for some reason like wtf it’s perfect 😭

Your style is lovely! This was the extra push I needed to get started on a small webcomic of my own. Tyvm 😄👌

Underrated channel ! I love this style of story telling.

omg randomly coming across a fellow ace is amazing i will be reading your webcomic later (it’s in my browser)

2:43 honestly when I was younger and took art in secondary school, the teacher HATED me because I could never draw what she wanted. She wanted me to use paints and do realistic landscapes. All the stuff I couldn’t draw. She also wanted me to draw people and objects even though I was studying animals and tbh, years later, I still kinda am. The amount of times she insulted me work, actively came over and ruined what I was working on and when she said others could reduce the work they had for time reasons, she wouldn’t let me. I’m so glad I’m not taking her class anymore and can draw what I want cuz she was really restricting me and I couldn’t make any improvements. I also almost gave up on art because I didn’t think I was good enough or would ever be good at it

I loved how Megalovania started playing when you mentioned you had a comic book assignment. Just an angry StarfishFace having one glowing eye and absolutely dunking on poor kids

wow i remember reading castoff as one of my main set of webcomics i used to read during highschool forever ago. its so cool to have had this randomly recommended and that I could watch this! thank you for this! i have a comic i need to go catch up on!

also kinda weird i think that this guy wanted to pitch a comic to publishers and then went looking specifically for a child to draw it. a ton of adults have tried to underpay me for my art because they didn't think i would understand that a full illustration is not worth 5 bucks (my mom once tried that >_>)

Love that moment when the art teacher discovers what part of the art spectrum you belong to, we all have a niche and finding that niche is always special when it's allowed to flourish, oof to the attempted child exploitation however. Be interesting to see you try mimic the Tank Girl art style for a one off page though, clearly not your style but I've always found delving into other styles to be a refreshing change of pace every now and then plus it gives you some extra fun to be had from this story, maybe have it be the art teacher hunting him down for sport like you said :b

I rarely comment videos but I just discovered you with this video and I have to say that your voice and the energy it is giving is awesome. Also I love your art style.

Girl, your euphemisms for “the deed” had me ROLLING listening to this 🤣.

Questions for the Q&A, about what age did you realize your passion for drawing comics?

This is why if you want something illegal to be drawn. Draw it yourself /sarcasm. In actuality, Remember drawing is a power and power should be used responsibly

I really like the art style of the art in the background. Very good!

NO! it is absolutely illegal to ask a minor to draw NSFW. It is illegal to allow a minor to even look at that stuff weather it is IRL or drawn. No. What he did was solicitation of a minor over the internet. I garneted you that teacher reported him because what he did was a federal felony.

Ah, Zera, sleep deprived in any setting ^^

dude i just found ur channel today- AND I ALREADY LOVE UR ARTTTT

KZfaq recommended you to me and it's a definite subscribe! Love finding a fellow ace artist and I was cackling at your figures of speech XD

They are so gonna be written up for this...

How much time does it usually take for you to draw and complete a full comic page?

Ya ever have one of those moments where you’re thinking of trying something and suddenly the exact thing you need randomly shows up in your feed? That’s me rn with this book add 16:38. I literally had no idea who you were or that you even drew comics until now. How serendipitous!

literally just saw this channel today and im in love

How do you come up with ideas for new merch all the time?

yay comissionss

I'm so happy you were smart to tell a teacher about what he did a lot of minors would've kept talking to the creep but you are so intelligent!

Your art is so cool. I love your style, and color choices. Back when I was in college, the school got me in contact with some looking for a comic artist. We met, she explained the idea, and I did a few rough sketches she seemed to like. I got an email that she would be out of town a few days. And have never heard from her since. I still have a copy of her script, and that was 16 years ago.

I added your webcomic to my collection of webcomics to read, sorry to hear that you went through that, I can only imagine this guy is now on a watch list and probably restricted from being anywhere near a High school let alone being able to contact one. I know personally i was like you in High school always drawing and sketching... ya know.. instead of doing my schoolwork >.> * coughs* Buuuuut unlike you i never really focused myself on starting my own webcomic beyond daydreaming and plot lining in my head how the story would go.

wait, i just realized i recognize your art style.... did you make a picrew???

I love your art- it’s so pretty!

Speaking of the fork lift drawing I’ve got story. I was at work and my boss was tossing out a couch and putting in a new one for the store. So I rode on the fork lift forks to his house we put a couch on the fork lift and he let me sit on the couch as we drove my throne back to the store. Loved every minute of it.

The “petty” part isn’t true. You’re not petty, you’re just proud to know know that you’re able to show everyone that you have a true talent in something.

You sound like let me explain studios LOL