SamuZai
PITCH CANKER

PITCH CANKER

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Art from when I was in highschool

Just wanted to share some of my work from when I was a teenager! The work has changed a lot in the years that have passed. I think it’s important to show that style doesn’t develop overnight, I feel like with the digital landscape now that’s how it feels. I cringe at some of the work here, but I think it’s worth sharing with you all.

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Old sketchbook: GOD SHAPE

An old brown tone sketchbook I was using for a story I scrapped. It was about a boy whose mother protects the village, but an evil storm comes and kills her. He subsequently takes up arms and goes to find the source of the evil storm. At the bottom of a well, a wicked child named Pitch Canker conjures the storm. The rest I never finished. This was the first time I used the name Pitch Canker, an...

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Sketchbook pages

Started archiving all of my sketchbooks, found this one full of watercolors

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First video back

Hi everyone- I'm getting back into the swing of things and am planning to release new videos on YouTube. If I could get your opinions on what would be the best direction to take, I will use the result as the next concept for a video.

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Final care packages

I wanted to post something for this tier specifically since there are items promised to you all. Even with the shift in tiers, anyone who has been a member of this tier will receive all of their missed care packages as one combined package.

I’ll also be sending out original paintings on wood panel. I was excited to offer a bunch of new items this past year and test them out here, but un...

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Changes to Patreon/ Final packages

Hi Everyone, as you might have seen on my main channels I’ve been absent for quite awhile. I made a big post on Instagram and Twitter about the nature of my health and how it’s been impacting my work and shipments for the past months. That extends to this page as well, and as I get the remainder of orders and care packages caught up with, I will be shutting down the upper tier for Patreon. ...

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POETRY CONCEPTS

A CRIPPLED SENSE OF TIMING

WAS THAT TOO MUCH?

DID I MAKE YOU CRINGE?

HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW?

WHY AM I ALWAYS LATE?

WAS IT THAT FIRST SMALL MISTAKE?

DID I STUTTER TOO EARLY?

OR SHOULD I KEEP MY TONGUE

PRESSED BEHIND MY TEETH?


THE COLD HAND OF HATRED

PRESSED INTO A WOODEN COFFIN

BULL...

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POLL CLOSED

The Succubus will be the next HOW TO DRAW A MONSTER VIDEO.

Thank you to everyone who voted! If you have any suggestions for the next HOW TO DRAW A MONSTER video- or any video in general, let me know! I'll be doing another poll soon.

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YouTube Video for next week

I'm going to be doing another HOW TO DRAW A MONSTER next week- this poll will decide which topic I will be covering!

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New art- holiday and horror

Hey everyone! Been slammed with the holidays but I have been drawing a bunch in the meanwhile and thought it would be cool to share all the new work here. It’s a mix of new horror concepts as well as holiday stuff. I’ll probably be sharing a lot of it over social media this month.


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Commissions from the past few weeks

Thought I’d share some of the cooler things I’ve worked on in the past few weeks as commissions! People come to me with loads of ideas and concepts and I love fleshing them out. I don’t see myself sharing any of these in main, but I thought it would be cool to show off some of the work I do in the background.

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Sketching, relearning the basics

Hi everyone! Some sketches from the past week or two. A combination of commission work as well as just trying to relearn the basics of art and design.

I was drawing the other day and realized how hard it was to draw anything that looked good. So I pulled up some YouTube videos on how to draw for beginners. It’s humbling to learn the basics all over again. I realized there was so much I ...

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New series password

Hi everyone! I’ve been working on a new series of paintings based around wildlife and animals as prey/ predators. Originally when starting Pitch Canker I wanted to have the page revolve a really gruesome cottagecore/ forest vibe, which is why I chose the name Pitch Canker. Pitch Canker is a fungal disease that kills evergreen trees, and I thought that encapsulated what I was trying to do. Nee...

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Color work

Hello everyone! I had a crazy art block, so I decided to draw outside of my comfort zone. I chose a RISO print swatch of colors and went to town with some concepts.

These were all done within 4-6 hours. Mostly in between other work and in my down time. I think all of these qualify as finished pieces, but for the most part I consider them color studies/ sketches.

What I realized i...

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Ceramics test batch

Made some new ceramic pieces- porcelain is an amazingly soft clay, but also fragile. It’s a type of clay mixed with silica, which makes it extremely hard when fired. I’ve always loved the look of porcelain, but it’s very tough to work with! It looks amazing with the red underglaze and clear glaze overcoat.

This batch is currently not fired, but will be sometime this week, and when ...

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Big social media/ shop/ Patreon updates!

Hello everyone! I wanted to make an update about Pitch Canker and ways I will be changing my presence online moving forward.

1. Limiting/ closing the shop

The shop takes up the bulk of my time with Pitch Canker, and has unfortunately pulled a lot of my time away from creating the work I want to be making. This drop will be my last for awhile while I restructure the business.

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MINOTAUR- learning textures

Today we added another member to our small group of devs and he taught me so much about blender! I learned how to texture objects, and he remade the bull model. I painted the texture in my normal style, and for my first skin I’m happy with the results so far! I’m excited to add more detail when I have more time, but all of a sudden I see a million possibilities and it’s extremely exciting...

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MINOTAUR game update

Wanted to share a project I’m very excited about! I’m working with a few other creators on a potential full length game in 3D. We are still in the early development stages, but I think we have a solid concept! I’ll be working on a lot of 3d models, animations, and textures, so I’ll upload them here.

I’m putting a pause on my rpg maker project I NEED TO LEAVE to focus on this. I...

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Sketches+ quarterly package+ patreon updates

Hey everyone! Sorry for the lack of updates last week- there was a quality concern with merch from the last drop and I’ve been putting in a lot of time managing orders and fixing problems. Huge thanks to everyone who participated in the poll, I’m working on the short series currently and it will be based on grim reapers, death images, etc.

In other news I’m excited for this month’...

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I want to do a short series next week, what is the theme?


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NITHEFUL KINGDOM: First Chapter (with text, mostly inked)

The first chapter is (basically) done! There are a lot more small details and changes I’d like to make, but for a serviceable first draft, I’m thrilled 😭 I’m still learning how to make the writing less choppy, but I’m excited to finally have something solid together.

The next big milestone is 100 pages! This was almost a quarter of that, so if I can pick up the pace I’ll hav...

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Summer drop designs/ sketches

Some of the designs for the upcoming summer drop! Really excited about some of these designs- I tried to really go with some strong concepts as I focus on trying to make the clothing line more stylish. The bumper stickers were a lot of fun too. Bags are in the works for the future, same with bandanas. Not too sure what to do with the knight yet, but maybe something I’ll release in conjunction...

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Summer sketches

I think a lot of these are probably finished pieces at this point, but I wanted to share all these ideas before I posted anything publicly. I’m really excited to do some more summer drawings. I want to expand on the HELL YEAH, MAN universe and characters that I make every summer. I think my favorites from this week are the canned skeletons and the monster standing over the pile of gore.

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New sketches

I was brainstorming some new ideas most of today- I’m really loving the pink and charcoal grey wolf skull so far, and I’d like to see if adding some green would look good.

Might do some very violent pieces as tonight goes on! I usually stay away from hyper aggressive work because I’m afraid of getting banned, but I think it would be fun to share some concepts here.

Also plugg...

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Original paintings/ shop password

So I’ve finally listed some originals in the shop! I’ve been holding off on this for awhile but I finally have a small series I’m proud to share. This will be exclusive to Patreon until tomorrow- so anyone who has wanted one will have a better chance to get one if they sell out quickly. I haven’t sold originals in years, so I’m not sure what the demand will look like, but I only made ...

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Sketches / failed concepts

Hey everyone! It’s been a busy few weeks- lots of shipment processing, assembling orders, actual physical drawing, and recording YouTube content (I’ve included a thank you at the end of my videos that should have everyone supporting here included! If I missed you or misspelled anything let me know.) Quarterly packages and intro drawings were finished up and processed for shipping last week....

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Sketches from this week

Tried some new colors this week, I really like the light green and pink with the red. It reminded me of litebrite, which I loved as a kid. Definitely had some art block this week, but decided to just brute force myself through it with what I ended up posting. I think I’m going to try and slam through a bunch of the comic this week, I think I would feel great if I could get all those pages ink...

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Wallpaper folder update

Added some new high quality wallpapers to the download folder! About to hit 100 which is very exciting. I think I have somewhere around 1500 pieces altogether but we are certainly making a dent.

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Ex Libris series

I've decided to try some new things and some old things. 6 years ago when I first started taking my art seriously, I thought a good path to go down would be extremely detailed work. So I did a lot of pen and ink pieces in black and white, based off of a lot of artists like Harry Clarke and Edward Gorey. I abandoned a lot of these ideas and concepts when I started introducing red into my work. M...

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I NEED TO LEAVE devlog 3: making a monster + soundtrack

Hey everyone! Been extremely obsessed with this project and I thought I'd share some updates on what I've been putting into it.

1. MUSIC

I got together with two of my best friends/ old bandmates and worked on the soundtrack for the game last weekend. Altogether we came up with 6 songs that I'm very happy with. Once I upload the files to google drive I'll share them here. I figured...

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