Marek Jarocki

a story

- Incident report -

Security footage taken at the location shows a crowded venue filled with people.

A seemingly tense interaction can be seen between two individuals some distance from the recording equipment. Audio did not pick up the conversation due to the amount of loud ambient noise.

One eyewitness stated that through the noise they heard part of a comment made by one in...

marker time

pipi ghost is exclusive :']

just some crayola stuff! no real news but i hope you're doing good <3

big swoon <3

wanna guess my favorite Naruto character? ;}

This is another small one on the Lenox cotton paper I mentioned in the previous post. They have some weird naming conventions but here's a LINK 

I really like it for graphite

its a small one

just a teeny tiny drawing something like 2x3"

[not counting the dark background stuff, that's photoshop]

a new paper for me, i got a sample pad of this lenox cotton substrate from Legion paper. its nice!

i used it for my usual graphite+waterbrush style and it held up great

cleanup on page 2

this page still needs dialogue added and some general cleanup

but hey here it is! visual storytelling is so much fun so i'm doing all the artwork first. 

sound effects always feel awkward to me idk

upcoming merch design poll

Hi! So i've finally taken the plunge into patreon's built-in merch fulfillment thing.

I have definitely failed at delivering consistent rewards and i think this will help get some sweet stuff into your hands without putting all that pressure on myself :']

So yeah! I have a few cool designs up already for different things

But i wanna know what y'all would like to see in the fut...

no words for this one

well i like the drawing. i guess what i mean is i have no words beyond that

oh wait no i have words

i laughed at myself when i added a single line to imply that this figure exists in some sort of space. is that a summit of artistic madness? or genius? that question was immediately unimportant as it spawned in me a realization that these concepts are dualistic reflections of each oth...

leaving your guard open like that?

o_o

so im using really dark pencils for lines, blackwing standard & pearl. 

with a general's sketch & wash pencil for shading.

scan it & turn up the contrast. 

done.

lock it within itself

non-real vs real

everyone and no one can claim ownership of this jpeg[s]

trapped in a state of limbo until its ownership can be determined?

of course not, that concept applies no weight to its extra/physical forms

if it could exist it would flow as a raging river, and as you exist you are but one stone

far beneath its depths

of course you can do something

like right now

it appeared suddenly to startled reactions from the sparse crowd

"appeared" doesn't seem quite accurate.. it was like it unfolded but in reverse

i couldn't even understand what i was seeing at first, and before i could process any of it or even rise to my feet a figure... slid out

they spoke strange words but i knew what they meant

and knowing there was no hope was a str...

a dark souls horror story

you have been invaded by a dark spirit

if there isn't a Dark Souls creepypasta about giant dad there really should be

prepare to die

its allabout the bag

Eyy nice i like how that bag turned out

A lways good to be happy with a drawing when its wrapped up

This one was pretty rough

T he paper i used was a little weird

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hey its that dog

dogdamn i love drawing this character. they make a pretty early appearance in Errant, at least in this most recent iteration

his armor used to be lot more complex. well.. complex in a different way i guess. it used to have more plates closer to a full suit of armor and as cool as it was it is equally tricky to draw. also in context Arc does a lot of traveling early on and they probably wo...

eat toomany noodles

see what happen

just a lot of layers of graphite here, hopefully those pics from my phone are ok

oh yeah also if you like animals and body horror as much as i do you will really love my graphic novel stuff

happy tober

summon the C U B E

the cube exists half in in the physical realm and half in the ethereal counterpart

the first half was drawn onto a piece of paper with various graphite-based tools

the second was conjured within the digital plane through poorly executed editing trickery

n e a t

a pencil cast to the page

a shadow cast in different directions

i never really have a strict script in mind when it comes to my comics. i used to write a lot more notes but jeez my relationship with art has gotten complicated since the wrist injury last summer

so now i kind of just meditate on my characters and story ideas. whether that looks like a kind of sketching or straight-up meditation can vary but th...

goshdarn bug anatomy is fun

(insect/arachnid/invertebrate anatomy, to be specific)

half-joking i say that studying (bug) anatomy has been a lifelong passion but when i sit with that thought i realize its absolutely true. i just admire these creatures so much and with anatomy so different from our own it becomes a unique challenge to represent them realistically in character design. my goal is to create (bug) charact...

Hey y'all

wow..its been... wow

I have a recurring daydream about what it would be like if i was a crab. The details arent important and they constantly shift anyway. The point is that it would be pretty cool. Crab desires are simple

Ive been through a bit of a healing metamorphosis. Theres a long journey ahead but im finally getting the right help in regards to my mental health. My own hubris...

Yeh?

Poke poke poke poke
Its graphite!

oh wow

it has been a while

It's nice to see you :]

slower than before, but still good

i used to try and force myself to work for big blocks of time in the name of being productive. it never really worked and i'm more disappointed than anything that it took me this long to do something about it. 

now i'm drawing for 60-90 minutes at most before i take a break and do something else for a while. i'm also rotating the drawings i'm working on when i get tired of one or hit...

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i'm starting to feel pretty comfortable with this new process (see face in upper-right)

i'm also trying not to focus on any differences from how i was drawing pre-injury. i was happy with my style then and i guess i needed to grieve the loss of it. sounds weird but feels real.

sword girl sword girl swor

carrots & peas

mac & cheese

dragon & hoard 

girl & sword

so yeah this was a sketch from a few weeks ago, or like a month+? I don't know. It was one of the first large(r) drawings i did after all those post-its. I've had to re-consider how i do line work with my wrist injury and this was my first major success. Well for something bigger than a post-it...

paper test gets out of hand

so yeah this started out as a super rough sketch to try out some new paper. Clearpoint 100% cotton vellum. The employee at the store told me they knew someone that used it for oil painting? This stuff is as thin or thinner than standard printing paper :o

anyway i just wanted to try a light watercolor-style wash to see what would happen and i ended up liking it and getting carried away. Th...

long time no spriggan

my ocs have been living in my head for way too long now

i really like the Binding of Isaac

it is a fun game that i've always wanted to do some fanart for so here's a goopy gaper guy. While i will get back into my personal projects in the future, in the meantime i've just been practicing and forming good habits. It's been a slow start for sure but i'm learning how to draw in a new way that doesn't mess with my injury, though i still can't put in long hours. Instead i'm spending smalle...

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demon dress process

In the third image you can see some of the over-shading before I erase it out (6_6 )

It looks real ugly before it looks nice. Kind of drives me crazy.

don't lose your robohead process

I'm still figuring out exactly what my digital process is.. but so far I lay out flat tones and fiddle with them until it looks nice. I over-shade on a new layer (under linework) with a soft-ish brush at 33% opacity, then I do the same with highlights (layer over linework.) Finally I erase all the junk I over-shaded -Next time i'll provide an image of what it looks like at this step, I was work...

cull + robolady process

I'll always line traditionally and while I love digital stuff it can be a bit overcomplicated at times. It can make me feel like there's too many options for completing a piece. Writing notes has helped get my thoughts straight :)