i'm gonna have to take a rain check on the backgrounds for tonight... i was working on really pushing out as many commissions as i could in the backlog i have during the last week, and while that worked fine with the schedule...
what i forgot drawing for that long does is it can make your wrist hurt. mine started hurting two days ago. i'm not really the kind of person who likes to play chick...
going to be starting on a character design tutorial... i didn't get a lot of sleep today so this is probably going to be a short one that i'll wrap up in a different stream during the week.
stream started at 3:56 pm MT.
stream ended at 5;03 pm MT.
here we go... second tutorial of the month. this one served as a basic reference for some objects compared to hands or other parts of the body, and an explanation of why they are that way to demonstrate extrapolating proportions in a useful manner.
i figured this would be a decent one to do... i've never seen a tutorial that addresses objects and props like this (though i'm sure they exis...
2019-09-21 23:30:11 +0000 UTC View Post
something i was having trouble articulating in tender mercies was the desire to delegate basic tasks and self-care to a part of my brain that very much does not like to be parented or looked down on at all.
at the same time, it felt important to stay on the topic of trying to move the issue forward, as the sensation of just reappearing in your own life 5 years later where everything is diffe...
so, on this page, when i looked at the script again, i realized i forgot to include a sentence or 2 somewhere in the last page -- the sentences with kim describing her psychiatrist.
... which caused kind of a cascade effect with the pacing of this page. there were several beats that needed to happen in succession, ...
2019-09-20 06:24:16 +0000 UTC View Post
today i'm pretty tired and had a lot to do earlier... so i'll just be working on a tutorial/reference sheet about everyday object sizing. useful for if you work with Props in your art a lot.
stream started at 10:31 pm MT.
stream ended at 12:23 am MT... whew!
wow... this is a lot more than i thought it would be. i always end up posting a lot at once because i never feel like it's "good enough" and things just accumulate...
anyway, some folie a dupe strips i've done -- maybe finished one day, maybe not -- followed by some commissions, then more doodles i did for warm-up or cool-down.
2019-09-15 22:08:10 +0000 UTC View Post
this tutorial is available to all patrons because tutorial streams were voted for this month! although eventually i'll upload it publicly because i have strong feelings especially about public education and free access to information.
anyway, an unconventional way to do this tutorial, but since it was about comics, i figured it should be a comic.
originally this was going to be part of...
i've been really stressed out for a bunch of reasons and it seems like nothing's getting done with too much on my plate. hopefully i can get my head on straight and stop putting out the late updates just telling myself it's not happening this week. sorry.
2019-09-11 00:44:40 +0000 UTC View Post
really not doing well today, mic might be on and off, and i'll probably just be working on a tutorial that i won't be able to finish in one stream working at this pace.
stream started at 7:50 pm MT.
stream ended at 8:55 pm MT.
(image in this one was done over 2 differ...
2019-09-09 02:50:41 +0000 UTC View Post
sorry, this page is also a bit late... i had to take public transit and it's pretty time-consuming. city blocks here are considered 1 mile and the only pet store to get my dog's food near a transit line is in the next town over.
anyway... i'm leaving the sketch up for the curious, though i ended up trying to move most of them straight to lines. tabitha's dialogue got tweaked for space but...
2019-09-06 09:53:36 +0000 UTC View Post
whew, here's another one.
sorry for the walls of text in this one -- there are sometimes a LOT of elements flying around when making decisions for comics. it can honestly be really overwhelming on days where i am already foggy-headed, but it's useful to have the knowledge to be able to sift through it on any level.
tangentially, when i was talking about the palette in this one -- it...
2019-09-04 23:04:18 +0000 UTC View Post
comic work streams are just streams when i'm working on comics. they happen more frequently than just sundays or saturdays because i work on comics frequently.
pokemon streams are where i do speed-drawings of pokemon from a random generator or requested in the chat.
painting streams will be streams where i primarily "paint" observational thumbnails of photos like this:
2019-09-02 01:16:14 +0000 UTC
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hi again folks. it's a new month, so another update...
not much progress was made in terms of my wife's job hunt/income status, so in the short of it that means that i can't really promise to be focused on a lot of the extra rewards here over commissions still. i am doing my best, though.
last week i sat down because i realized it's been 9 months since i updated the side comic curre...
2019-09-02 01:07:28 +0000 UTC View Post
because there are so many characters... this page has a lot of details flying around. it's also late. i started to mentally note the smaller ones i tried to do in my head to list out:
i don't usually do preliminary sketches for my comics... but when i did, i thought it'd be fun to do a write-up.
...now my hand hurts from writing most of this by hand like a fool because the handwriting font i made "looked wrong" so i'm not going to type a lot here too! sorry for any typos i didn't notice while writing, i tend to skip letters or entire words FREQUENTLY thanks to that lovely...
today i might focus a bit on just trying to draw accessories... they're something i forget a lot about outfits.
stream started at 8:44 pm MT.
stream ended at 11:18 pm MT.
...one outfit i didn't add onto here yet, because i knew it was going to be kind of a pain in the...
2019-08-26 03:45:08 +0000 UTC View Post
this page still needs some cleaning up... stress from commissions have been messing with my ability to fall and stay asleep, which has left me waking up later and groggier lately... mainly this conflicts with a deadline that isn't a certain amount of hours after i wake up, just a certain time.
this page was definitely an attempt at tonal damage control. it was probably a frustrating scene...
2019-08-23 07:04:26 +0000 UTC View Post
this stream will have the mic off because i'm not feeling good... i'm just going to be trying to compose a few outfits where sivan and maxine try to synergize the wardrobes with duncan's strictly goth dress code.
stream started at 8:41 pm MT.
stream ended at 11:13 pm...
well... there is a ton that could be unpacked in kim's dialogue for this page. i think i'll save it until it builds a bit in the story.
... anybody notice the owl switched to referring to kim's therapist as a counselor and started questioning her authority after he knew she was a woman thooouuuugggghhh???
the pettiness perforating the entire room is very palpable for me.
lots of sketches from recently. one of the needle ones is a little older, but best contextualized with trist's vague sketch reference too. some of them are also recent sketch page commissions buuuuttt... i'm gonna play fast and loose with the defintion of sketches here.
like, if the comic counts as a sketch, then sketch pages i did not do for leisure should also count.
(... but really it'...
today i'll just be drawing more fashions!
stream started at 4:06 pm MT.
stream ended at 6:37 pm MT.
as of posting this, there is no shading or background detail on this page yet. sorry for the lateness... extremely stressful life business combined with just having a shitty body today.
i didn't want to COMPLETELY ruin my sleep schedule, as shading this will take another several hours... so i decided base colors for now is acceptable, and i can finish it on a fresh head in the morning.
this is a strip i drew on a whim last night to cool down... it only took a couple of hours to do fully.
the hold on headshots, lack of coherent backgrounds, the rainbow and somewhat unrefined palette, and the hatching are all elements that made it not just easier to do, but more about the experience of making the art rather than making something that i would feel forever... although i always...
today will proooobably be a shorter one, 60-90 minutes. it's a fashion stream, i have a few outfits i collected for reference, but feel free to suggest outfits to draw characters in too.
stream started at 8:15 pm MT.
stream ended at 9:42 pm MT.
... and some images fr...
here it is... the meat of this plot point...
i'm still not fully satisfied with the colors of the scene-- not grey enough.
the owl's a little tough to write. i wanted to make him obviously observation and aware of the emotions in the room... capable of expressing empathy as a person... to contrast with later actions.
also... when he clicks his pen, i thought it was hilarious that h...
hi again folks.
i originally drew a different image for this monthly update, but it featured eating a lot of food, and i realized that kind of imagery looks a lot like feeder fetish art even without the weight gain aspect... so i drew this instead, today.
i don't have much to say (maybe just because i have a comic deadline i gotta work on too, but)... i think i got a decent amount o...
2019-08-01 22:36:14 +0000 UTC View Post
hey folks. recently... patreon finally released a photoset feature!!! now i can upload things in a more intuitive way (art dumps). i can also caption images now... so i just wrote some explanations there.
i haven't super done a lot of traditional art... but it's been a while... so a little bit every once in a while does end up being quite a lot that i can share still.
the first chun...
2019-07-31 22:25:37 +0000 UTC View Post
first part: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fad-strip-tender-28379720
the second half turned out more monstrous in size than i thought it would... i got sloppy while trying to just finish it up, because i wanted it done before the month was out, even though i went into it telling myse...
2019-07-29 21:33:37 +0000 UTC View Post