sorry i haven't uploaded one of these in like a month... i never realize how much i've drawn. patreon's image uploading applet is struggling so hard here that i have to wait 30 seconds before i see the text i'm typing right now appear.
i haven't been doodling much this month either just because i'm really... emotionally tired. it's been really nice to get hit with random strong urges to d...
2019-11-20 06:04:08 +0000 UTC View Post
for this stream i'm probably going to just draw up a sequence/comic to express some thoughts i'm having about writing after watching a show i didn't like (but the comic won't be about the show itself)
https://www.twitch.tv/wispworst/
stream started at 8:12 pm MT.
stream ended at 11:31 pm MT.
this page is... late. i'm hoping to be in bed by 5 AM, so this has no color at all yet. color after i sleep. i think it looks pretty okay as just lines. obviously incomplete, but not ugly. kind of like an old print comic.
i bought a mattress on monday. i made a short folie a dupe comic which featured that, which i also posted today, knowing the page would be late. the event of buying and bui...
another whatever-the-fuck stream, i will probably either work on a folie a dupe strip or more random doodles... i might also work on felix's design and reference.
mic is on for now, but i'm still coughing, so it might be turned off during the stream.
https://www.twitch.tv/wispworst/
stream starte...
2019-11-11 01:56:32 +0000 UTC View Post
alright, here it is...
there are 2 sketches for this page, the first one what i was struggling with last week, and then what i did with it to completion on monday of this week.
framing with multiple characters is pretty difficult. i needed to shrink down the second row, and even then it's still cramped and somewhat unclear to me. a smaller model for a wider shot like a waist shot se...
2019-11-08 06:57:21 +0000 UTC View Post
i'm unfocused today, and a little bit coughy, but i'll probably stream for a couple of hours on various things.
https://www.twitch.tv/wispworst/
stream started 6:22 pm MT.
stream ended at 8:14 pm MT.
hi folks.
sorry this one is so late in the day... the fresh meat page is also late. i've been sick and not realizing it because i have brain problems and was never really taught how. physical illness tends to also directly exacerbate my psychotic symptoms and i have definitely been feeling it this week.
i'm not sure if i'll get the page done at all before it's basically time to start t...
this was scheduled to go live tomorrow, but since i'm not doing the stream today, i'm just pushing it out now... Because I Can.
pretext: a few weeks ago i had an internal dialogue with dupe about depersonalization, and started to understand their preferences for coping -- intellectualizing, humor, fantasizing (usually about suicide...), etc.
there's a lot of... bad mental he...
i got 3 or 4 hours of sleep, too stressed out to fall back asleep.
didn't really have a strong idea of what i was going to do for the stream anyway, and i hate being anxious or berating myself on-stream just to jack up my adrenaline levels to be able to do it.
will maybe do one later in the week before the month is over, but just gonna work on other shit today instead. i've been doing a l...
i think i might start uploading FaD strips i do as sketches if i'm not really focused on finishing them soon.
patreon has a feature that allows me to send out another e-mail if i feel the update or edit is important enough to warrant it.
i've scheduled a couple of the sketched strips i have laying around to post.
sometimes i just don't finish a lot of the comics for a long time because...
WHOOPS, accidentally published this while trying to save edits to a draft. oh well. there are a lot of images. this time around the personal art and warm-ups were a lot more scarce between commissions and comics... my shiny luck hasn't been stellar either.
most of the icons are from a separate batch of commissions taken this month for mawkish's veterinary costs. i did them all within a da...
2019-10-25 08:30:23 +0000 UTC View Post
i designed 2 new characters for this page:
this character, who has been planned for a while, and has appeared in the background several times, such as on pages 17 and 18:
nothing really changing in terms of what i do, they're just really outdated and were pretty ill-informed when i started this 3.5 years ago.
just figured i would be transparent that i am, in fact, going to fix up the wording of rewards and stretch goals.
not really sure what to do for this stream that i am willing to do when stressed but i have to do it, so this will probably be a short one at only an hour or so, and i'll probably be trying to work on character designs.
https://www.twitch.tv/wispworst/
stream started at 6:18 pm MT.
2019-10-21 01:19:09 +0000 UTC View Post
late, late, late... sorry, i've been struggling with motivation for fresh meat, on top of the sleeping struggles, which leave me hours askew from the normal amount of time i have before midnight. there were also a ton of characters in this page.
i tried lifting the colors from the scene on page 21 to indicate it's morning again, but i ended up tweaking basically the entire palette anyway,...
2019-10-19 05:06:23 +0000 UTC View Post
today i'm going to be trying to experiment and start figuring out whether the idea i had about using the white space in comics to portray dissociative symptoms is possible at all.
stream started at 5:07 pm MT.
stream ended at 7:56 pm MT.
for the first development stream of the month, i tried to start addressing issues with felix's design, which, if you'd like more context, and didn't catch it, you can find here.
this is follow-up on that session that i did privately... even though i've done a lot of streams, the anxiety can real...
so, i'm going to say right now, these posts will feature A LOT of spoilers about the story... if you don't want the story spoiled for you, please do not read ahead. this is hopefully most interesting and useful to people who are interested in the inner workings of narrative writing processes.
i'll be putting a warning about this at the top of every post, but...
here's a messy strip i've been wanting to do for about 10 months. i get migraines a lot because of my sleeping arrangements for the last few places, but i frequently react to pain by dissociating so that i "don't feel it" anymore.
the way people talk about dissociation and therapy for it made me think that attempting to accept pain exists was all i needed to do and it would turn on like a li...
i let a guy over to our apartment yesterday cuz he said he wanted to rest for a bit and it didn't go so well (fine now) which has left me rattled and tomorrow i have to go take mawkish to a vet appointment.
basically i only had monday and wednesday to work on this page, and both of those days have mainly been filled with financial anxiety about the appointment.
might throw out a folie ...
2019-10-09 22:53:28 +0000 UTC View Post
this is probably going to be a short stream where i try to iron out some issues with felix's design to prep them for being drawn in a comic.
stream started at 3:23 pm MT.
stream ended at 4:44 pm MT.
this is the first time i've done a dark/night scene in a long time. i've tried in fad strips before, and it never works out because i keep sketching it on a white background.
the problem is that outlines aren't real. outlines are abstract exaggerations of edge shadows to denote solid form. sometimes i'll draw details in the sketch (like clothing folds) that i know i'll be toning down during ...
these would more accurately be called doodle dumps than sketch dumps... i might go through the hassle of renaming them. many of these are warm-up drawings (for example, the pokemon) and commissions. i will color warm-ups sometimes because sometimes my workload for the day is more focused on color.
(please don't comment on the stupid gender quirks on the complaints with liron's design... h...
2019-10-03 02:37:05 +0000 UTC View Postgonna make it quick: in case you don't remember them, these are the central characters in each of the comics, in the same order as the choices on the poll.
each person has one vote so that ties are less likely. poll ends in a little over a week on 10/10.
2019-10-02 17:41:56 +0000 UTC
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hi again everybody... it's a new month so another update.
there's no autumn weather here because it's the desert, but i honestly just like how the colors of the leaves changing looks a lot.
i spent a lot of time on commissions during the tail end of the month. i have about 12 more -- which sounds like a lot, but about 6 of them are halfway done, and 2 of the others are on hold at the c...
2019-10-01 22:08:16 +0000 UTC View Post
this is something i've had kicking around in my head as a concept for a while, but i felt like my design tutorial yesterday got so vague that it didn't address cartoon/FURRY designs at all -- which is obviously what people asking me for design advice mean.
here are some basic tips grounded in knowledge of human anatomy that i've found tend to apply to furry designs and whether they look u...
2019-10-01 00:54:12 +0000 UTC View Post
this stream will be another one about character design, but just some notes i've had about furry designs specifically... probably a shorter one.
stream started at 7:37 pm MT.
stream ended at 9:35 pm MT.
about a year ago i tried to do a character design tutorial. i found it so frustrating for some reason i couldn't pin that i ended up not finishing it!
this one i'm a lot happier with... it feels like i'm saying something that isn't explaining how to design characters LIKE I DO. for the curious, i'll post what i had of the old tutorial here (still a bunch of cool expressions, but even the ...
2019-09-30 00:56:20 +0000 UTC View Post