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Weekly Update - 294 - 10/27/25

Halloween just kinda snuck up on us, didn't it? We didn't do anything fancy this year. Didn't even get the decorations out. Just weren't feeling it. Everyone who would normally be helping us was busy, stuff kept coming up, and we're all depressed so motivation is just kinda tanked across the board. Which is a shame, because it'd be a good year to build a lil haunted house or something, given th...

God Slayers - Page 237

Do you see it too?

God Slayers - Page 237 - High Res

Little bonus for y'all at this tier: the bottom panel unblurred, just for fun.

It's sloppy of course, because I knew it would be blurry, but Xane's still cute af. I never meant for him to be cute. And are we calling him Xane? Is that what we're doing? I'm not glued to the name -- I only picked it because it fit well with Zina, who is on another planet... and also dead. But... I'm also sti...

Weekly Update - 293 - 10-20-25

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Thank you to Hellhound, Sasha Ischia, Shampoo and KuroNyra ALL for subbing and/or upgrading your subs this week! <3 <3 <3 <3! All four of you arriving at Trader tier as well! All in a single week!

Thank you so SO much for your support! Honestly I really don't do enough to deserve it, you guys, holy crap. o.o

HOKAY.

SO.

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Solipsus - Page 22

Boot to the head.

Solipsus - Page 22 - High Res

Honestly I don't feel good about this one. I tried to do something artful with it, but... I don't think I quite succeeded. In my efforts to maximize the use of contrast, lighting and shadow, I think I ultimately ended up creating a lot of visual noise that just makes the image look confusing and messy. Dunno. What do you think?

Weekly Update - 292 - 10/13/25

The armor on Cerellia will probably continue to change over time as I continue to explore armor design options within my limited knowledge pool.

There's still time to vote in this vote thingy!

Pyre has pulled ahead as of this writing! Which is fun. Vampire Pyre is almost just regular Pyre on...

Zina and Xane? - High Res

Nothing more to add, this came together in an afternoon and was super fun to do. Is his name Xane? I don't know. He's literally about to eat Kiva. Why would anyone name him?

Zina was the winner of the last monthly(-ish) art poll. Vote for the next one here:
Who Should I Draw Next? - Round XVIII | ...

Zina and Xane?

I know I shouldn't name him. I'm already way too attached.

Is his name Xane? Maybe? I'm not sure. What do YOU think of the name Xane? What would you RATHER his name be?

Zina was the CLEAR winner of our last poll, go ahead and vote for the next one here:
Who Should I Draw Next? - Round XVIII...

Who Should I Draw Next? - Round XVIII

I feel like I wanna draw a vampire. Whoever wins this poll will be drawn as a vampire.

Who is the vampire? Vote for as many as you like.

God Slayers - Page 236

Bonding.

God Slayers - Page 236 - High Res

Meanwhile, Kiva got eaten, the end! Thanks for reading!

Weekly Update - 291 - 10/6/25

Kiera and Skye... I REALLY never saw that coming, honestly. But who is actually playing who, there? Is it genuine? Or not? Also, in case you missed it, there's a new spooky season voting incentive up on TWC. Kind of a late last-minute thing I threw together because I felt like it suddenly. It's up on FA as well. The preview up there is the reflection that's in the knife, pre-flipped and pre-dis...

Solipsus - Page 21

Hmmm... seems pretty handy for a weapon that isn't real.

Solipsus - Page 21 - High Res

This page was actually really fun to draw. I made a lot of mistakes still, but after about a dozen failed sketches trying to figure out how to make halberds look cool, I really like how Cera's poses turned out.

And before anyone takes me out back for that comment, I should clarify: halberds ALWAYS look cool, but that's because they ARE cool. The difficulty was with ME trying to draw Cera ...

Weekly Update - 290 - 9/29/25

The weather is beginning to turn back towards the chilly. The leaves are just starting to turn colors, the pines are shedding some needles. Most importantly, there will likely be no more hot days this year.

Comic this week?

Solipsus #21

Zina won the last character poll! That was honestly unexpected, and should be an interesting art to try and do. Maybe I'll in...

God Slayers - Page 235

Taisuko is saying exactly what you think they're saying on this page.

God Slayers - Page 235 - High Res

It's late, I'm tired, but this is done now and I'm gonna post this while it's all fresh in my brain. (Also I know some of you are on the other side of the planet so please enjoy a rare daytime post!) After this I'm gonna go to bed, wake up, rescue the poor stranded husband from the big scary city, (his flight got delayed half the day then cancelled, so he had to get a hotel, it's a whole big st...

Weekly Update - 289 - 9/22/25

It Mondee. Hap Mondee.

Comics this Friday?

God Slayers - Yes!

Solipsus - No.

It may be too soon to say for sure, but I'm starting to feel myself sliding into a better rhythm for managing both comics. Of course the original point was to release more comics more often... I think I've shelved that ambition for now. The quality of both comics seemed to suffer and I felt myse...

Solipsus - Page 20

We really 20 pages into this story already?

Solipsus - Page 20 - High Res

I promise this was not a conscious effort on my part to insert myself into this story.

Weekly Update - 288 - 9/15/25

Snake be all like, HMMMMMMMMM. And did you know that Cerellia's base fur color is very close to that puke green BG color I use for sketching on? It wasn't on purpose, it just turned out that way. Her color is yellow, but the slight green hue nicely contrasts with the much brighter yellows of her tracing and hair. And her eyes are more of a sea-green. I usually shade her with a touch of...

God Slayers - Page 234

Taisuko might have even more reason than Kiva to just hate everything right now.

God Slayers - Page 234 - High Res

Taisuko's one-liner there was quite a process. Roughly translated, it means:

"Behold, my unsavory savior."

Originally their line was going to just be "哀れな..." or "Pathetic..." which wouldn't have required any translation because their expression alone says more. But I wanted to explore different ways for them to express themselves with a little bit more personality, I settled ...

Weekly Update - 287 - 9/8/25

Comics this week?

God Slayers - Yes! 'Bout time, amirite?

Solipsus - Eh, maybe. Actually probably not. But maybe. We'll see.

And... don't forget to vote in the thingy! Who Should I Draw Next? - Round 17 | Patreon

It's pretty even spread across the board, curre...

What Do You Mean YOUR Bed?

It Mine now.

Winner of the last vote! Vote for the next stuff here:
Who Should I Draw Next? - Round 17 | Patreon

What Do You Mean YOUR Bed? - High Res

Whose bed is this? Doesn't matter, it's Mine now.

For now y'all can enjoy it in high res, and vote for the next stuff here:
Who Should I Draw Next? - Round 17 | Patreon

I'll be putting up more variants of this up on the extra place where extra spicy variants go, once said place return...

Who Should I Draw Next? - Round 17

The usual drill -- I'll leave this poll up for a couple of weeks, you vote for your favorites, as many as you like, and I'll draw them doing something sometime in about a month.

Might be spicy, might be not! I'm an artist. We're whimsical creatures.

Now, I've been told it's helpful to explain a little who each of these characters are. By now you should all know the main five. Kiva, ...

Solipsus - Page 19

Oh yeah? Can a non-real weapon do THIS?

Solipsus - Page 19 - High Res

Finally beginning to touch on why the comic is called Solipsus.