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Community member Publish Not your original work? Add source Quest Sprout was first introduced to the Swords comic series last year, and quickly became one of the most popular characters. Now I've teamed up with Makeship to make plushies, which will only be available for a limited time. QWEST! Quest Sprout is a small green hero from a fantasy world where everyone and everything's weapon of choice is a sword. He's always wandering about asking the locals if they need help on a "qwest!" and he'll always take the job, no matter how small the reward is. More info: makeship.com twitter.com Facebook Instagram patreon.com ko-fi.com This post may include affiliate links. #1 Report Final score: 104points Matthew Wills POST Paul Haraida Paul Haraida Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Somehow made the most agonizing quest the most innocent thing I've ever seen. 35 35points reply View More Replies... View more comments As a kid I grew up on Mark Kistler's Draw Squad, which taught me the fundamentals of cartooning. When I got a bit older my work started getting heavily influenced by Pokemon, Dragonball Z and Yu-gi-oh. I think there are still a wide range of anime influences in my work. Even though people often compare my work to Scooby Doo or Tin Tin because of the simple faces, I don't really consider those strong influences on my style. My comics started out as traditional lineart, colored digitally with a mouse, which is the way I did several short-lived comic series - but after my mother and brother bought me my first Surface 4 drawing tablet a few years ago, that's when my comic career online really started to take off. With a drawing tablet I can work anywhere, any time, with a lot less steps between creating the art and finishing the coloring process. A little sketch can be online within seconds of me drawing it. #2 Report Final score: 99points Matthew Wills POST DUN DUN DUN DUN Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago This is too adowable...."Qwest!" is stealing my heart 46 46points reply View More Replies... View more comments #3 Report Final score: 96points Matthew Wills POST PenitentEyeball PenitentEyeball Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Qwest!! 18 18points reply View More Replies... View more comments To create a comic usually takes about 2-3 hours, from concept through to lines, coloring, shading and finally lettering. My sketch process is usually very rough to save time. I think I enjoy the lineart stage the most. All the other bits are just work! The longest step is usually doing flat coloring because I tend to go crazy and add a lot of small details. When coming up with concepts, working within some simple constraints like "everything has to be about a sword" might seem restricting, but in reality, the opposite tends to be true. You can begin to experiment and bend tropes while always having a clear goal. I think the hardest part is how many ideas I've had to scrap because I couldn't quite make them swordy enough. #4 Report Final score: 93points Matthew Wills POST DUN DUN DUN DUN Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Aww he thought they were leaving him behind 37 37points reply View more comments #5 Report Final score: 90points Matthew Wills POST Clare Is great Clare Is great Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Awwww 22 22points reply By design, my comic series is quite chaotic and the series isn't told in any particular order. This gives me a lot of breathing room to explore some alternative ideas if I get stuck on a particular joke or story arc. I generally avoid burnout this way so I can keep working sustainably. Because I have a full-time job outside of my comics, doing about 3 updates a week is all I'm committing to currently. #6 Report Final score: 88points Matthew Wills POST Paul Haraida Paul Haraida Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Ole faithful 21 21points reply #7 Report Final score: 85points Matthew Wills POST DUN DUN DUN DUN Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I need someone like them in my life 31 31points reply View More Replies... View more comments I've had someone describe my comics as "a brief moment of joy on my timeline". I think social media has become quite a stressful place, where you can just doomscroll for hours being shaped by the most negative outlooks on a range of topics. If my comics can break that up a little, I think they've served their purpose. My Instagram was originally just a place for a mixture of art and selfies, it was only when the comics started taking off on Reddit and my following count started to climb rapidly that I rebranded it into a dedicated comics account. I've since made a new account for selfies and other comics and if that happens to take off in the same way, I might have to do the same thing all over again. #8 Report Final score: 81points Matthew Wills POST Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY 23 23points reply View More Replies... View more comments #9 Report Final score: 80points Matthew Wills POST MysteriousLegBruise MysteriousLegBruise Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I want to hug him so damn badly! 41 41points reply View More Replies... View more comments What motivates me as an artist right now is building a financial foundation so that I can go into making comics full-time. Swords has had a lot of unanticipated success, but I still have deeper, long-form stories that I want to tell, that I started years ago. It was that string of failures that really made me appreciate at the very beginning that Swords was something special that I should keep working on, from the way people reacted to it. Those other stories still live on in my heart, though! I want to work on them too! #10 Report Final score: 80points Matthew Wills POST DUN DUN DUN DUN Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago That grasshole! 47 47points reply View more comments #11 Report Final score: 72points Matthew Wills POST Mimi La Souris Mimi La Souris Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago boop <3 <3 <3 31 31points reply View more comments #12 Report Final score: 69points Matthew Wills POST DUN DUN DUN DUN Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I should not be melting this fast 31 31points reply View More Replies... View more comments #13 Report Final score: 69points Matthew Wills POST Karely Guerrero Karely Guerrero Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago ? is that….. his mommy ????? 35 35points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #14 Report Final score: 68points Matthew Wills POST DUN DUN DUN DUN Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago A dragon that breathes out swords? Neeeat! 37 37points reply View More Replies... View more comments #15 Report Final score: 66points Matthew Wills POST Bender Bending Rodríguez Bender Bending Rodríguez Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Four eyes lol. 24 24points reply View More Replies... View more comments #16 Report Final score: 66points Matthew Wills POST Mimi La Souris Mimi La Souris Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 10 months ago cutiiiie surprise attack ! 17 17points reply #17 swordscomic Report Final score: 62points POST Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago using his own plush 27 27points reply View more comments #18 swordscomic Report Final score: 61points POST Pidgeon Pidgeon Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Demon slayer reference? 20 20points reply View More Replies... View more comments #19 Report Final score: 60points Matthew Wills POST Lucca Wenner Lucca Wenner Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Too precious!!!! 10 10points reply View more comments #20 Report Final score: 54points Matthew Wills POST Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago thats all he wants 23 23points reply View More Replies... View more comments #21 Report Final score: 54points Matthew Wills POST MysteriousLegBruise MysteriousLegBruise Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Look at his adowable wittle eyes!!! 22 22points reply View More Replies... View more comments #22 Report Final score: 47points Matthew Wills POST Isaac Molchak Isaac Molchak Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I love these!! But they're way out of order and that makes following the story line a bit difficult... 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Title Update Matthew Wills Follow Unfollow Matthew Wills Author, Community member My name is Matthew J Wills and I am the creator of the webcomic Swords, available at swordscomic.com, recently featured on BBC News as the most wholesome thing of 2020.

I am an artist and game developer living in Wellington, New Zealand. I'm also the artist on PikPok's new mobile game Clusterduck; and am the winner of the 2020 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Professional Publication. Read more » Diana Lopetaitė Follow Unfollow Diana Lopetaitė Moderator, BoredPanda staff Diana works as a Community Manager for Bored Panda. After acquiring a BA in Business with Marketing Management, she decided that she wanted to do something far more creative than her usual marketing business that mostly included researching companies' competitors or working on swot/pestle analysis every single day. Excel spreadsheets weren't her thing either, so she decided creative storytelling was the way to go. Other than that, outside of work, you can find her making barista-style coffee or hand-stretched pizzas, sometimes even drawing and playing video games with friends. Read more » Show All Contributors Get the latest inspiring stories via our awesome iOS app! 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Not going to lie, I'm a little disappointed. It was nice to find all the Quest Sprout pages in one place, though. 8 8points reply Venic Venic Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Shame they're entirely out of order though. 0 0points reply Load More Replies... Load More Comments POST myvloggun myvloggun Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago they're all out of order now :[ 19 19points reply MysteriousLegBruise MysteriousLegBruise Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago My heart is stolen 11 11points reply Dagnirath Dagnirath Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago As a loyal Swords comic reader, I got excited for a minute thinking he was doing a side-comic just for Quest Sprout. Not going to lie, I'm a little disappointed. 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