#i am gonna criticize myself here but like—this is a neutral tone...this isnt a critique of self hatred its a critique of optimism

[mokutone]

i’ll probably never polish this up so here’s the barebones:

[ID: Yamato and Sai approach a campfire, around which Kakashi, Sakura, and Naruto are all huddled under blankets, looking uncomfortable and exhausted, perhaps slightly ill. Naruto sneezes loudly. “Like teacher, like students, I suppose,” Yamato says, failing to keep a hint of smugness out of his expression while Sai beams amiably at his comrades. “You should learn to pace yourself.”

“Don’t you lecture me.” Kakashi says. “When’s the last time YOU took a vacation?” Yamato looks taken aback by this for a second, and sai glances up at him, surprised. Yamato’s expression flattens into a blank mask before he responds. “I take plenty of vacations, all the time.” Sai is looking at him curiously now.

“Coward, quit hiding behind that face. You’re just as bad at self care as I am,” Kakashi says.

“I am not.” Yamato says.

Unmoved, Kakashi continues, “I bet the last time you took a break was my final anbu hospitalization.”

“Can you even hear yourself?” Yamato asks.

In the background, Sai is holding a hand to his chin. “Nobody has said that I’m bad at “self” “care,”“ He thinks. “Perhaps..I am the best at “self” “care.”“

/end ID]

#my art #naruto #yamato #kakashi #sai #sai...honey...you just got a sense of self lets not get overconfident here #this is SUCH a sloppy comic but I don't think im gonna end up refining it so its getting posted like this #besides showing off some sloppy art is good every once and a while #looking at things which are poorly made allows us to see what parts are necessary for legibility #i am gonna criticize myself here but like—this is a neutral tone...this isnt a critique of self hatred its a critique of optimism #in that i feel like i will grow and be better in the future and am happy enough with my mistakes here to share them #for example the transition from yamato saying blankly ''i take LOTS of vacations'' to the rest of his argument with kakashi is super bad #because sai is right there almost level with yamato saying this—which makes you want to go right to sai instead of directly down #a good comic will have the flow from panel to panel and bubble to bubble be so smooth that you dont need to think about it and #will lead your eye directly to the right place—it's hard for me to think in terms of that so my sketch comics look a lot like this #very messy very disorganized #the image description there is necessary for sighted people as well because the content of the post itself is so unintuitive #but the good thing about art is that you get better at it and internalize these rules as you repeat them #my scribbly comics arent nearly as bad as they were when i was younger and i understand much better how to read and produce them