Runaway to the Stars: Page 19
Bye bye, Cal.
2023-02-21 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Damn, I wish all pages were mostly background-free eyeball closeups. This was so fast to complete.
2023-02-18 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostIn the interest of digital housekeeping, I'm going to start refreshing the discount codes for my store every couple months.
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2023-02-17 22:44:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Bug ferrets have little compunction about touching strangers.
2023-02-16 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Multiple people have asked for this brush. iirc it's a modified version of the Clip Studio Paint design pencil. I normally have anti-aliasing off.
I don't think it's particularly special, but have fun with it or w/e.
2023-02-15 23:48:16 +0000 UTC View Post
More named human characters, yay. Also, Talita approaches some members of The Swarm.
Got this one finished on stream. That was fun.
2023-02-14 20:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Mild nudity warning because there's female-presenting nipples in here. Fortunately I think you all will survive witnessing crosshatched boobs.
I got a pretty incredible flex nib pen recently from Bluedew pens. Flex nibs are usually several times stiffer than this and don't have nearly as much line width variation. All the orange doodles and the pastel purple are drawn with the Bluedew. 2023-02-13 08:14:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Looks like this server room has a bug infestation...
2023-02-11 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Here come the overstimulation beasts. Close up of some signage I spent way too long on:

They mean approximately the same thing.
2023-02-09 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Talita really doesn't wanna talk about! (She would rather suffer than be An Inconvenience).
2023-02-07 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm not sure how Mel can tell the phones are quantum at a glance. Maybe because they're single units and most phone/mobile tech in RttS is modular... quantum phone manufacturers bringing back the iphone minimalism aesthetic? (They mostly look like that because I have to draw piles of them and I don't wanna die)
2023-02-04 20:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Answering the question of "how do her glasses stay on without ears" as quickly as possible in this book. Also Mel. Hi Mel!
2023-02-03 04:00:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Full face reveal for this weird elephant/tiger/owl looking alien. Who none of you have ever seen before, definitely
2023-01-31 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostTHIS IS THE LAST STREAM REQUEST. I'm going to be retiring the $20 stream commission tier after this one. I don't currently have plans for a new commissions tier, because I'd like to focus on finishing my book this year.
I'll keep doing art streams after this one, but I'll be using them to stream work on RttS comic pages and some of the t...
2023-01-29 19:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Getting back on the RttS ball. Excited to be drawing future pages with less complicated establishing shots.
Dominic tried to take her helmet off before the pressure finished equalizing. It's not fully safe to disrobe until the interior door opens.
2023-01-28 06:37:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey gang, first of all, sorry for being kind of quiet this month. First I was frantically preparing for a convention, then at a convention, then my mood crashed post-convention and I spent several days as a depressed blob that spent most of their time sleeping. It's ok, I got better. The next convention I'll be at is Emerald City Comic Con in early March. I don't have any other solid plans for ...
2023-01-20 18:16:43 +0000 UTC View Post
The comic here is a fragment of a scene that will probably happen in a book, at some point, minus all context. Avian "crying" is a lot more subtle than human and centaur expressions.
There's some Maulu in here too. I think 40-something Talita is going to be a minor character in the short story he's in.
2023-01-11 19:37:30 +0000 UTC View PostHere's some comics I'll be selling at Furcon 2023 (very soon, 1/13-1/15) and online (slightly less soon). They're mostly spiffed up versions of webcomics I've published online.
Since Patreon support is what allowed me to make these, you lot get the pdfs for free, and whenever Growth Chart physical copies get listed in the store patrons will get a 50% discount (nearly at cost). I'm n...
2023-01-08 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostStream will be happening at 3pm PST because I lost track of what day of the week it is and had mentally planned a bunch of chores today that still need to get done, today. Sorry.
2023-01-08 18:58:54 +0000 UTC View Post
IT'S DONE. I'M GONNA GO SPEND TIME WITH MY FAMILY
This will get posted to social media later but I will not be rushing it out. I've had enough rushing recently.
2022-12-27 20:06:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This page was delayed several hours by a discussion about cooking methods in microgravity. Boiling water is dangerous in space, because instead of steaming, it just swells up with bubbles until it "boils over." Microgravity makes a lot of things inconvenient in unexpected ways. The microgravity cooking equipment tends to spin or press things or put them in bags.
I'm gonna avoid going into...
2022-12-26 10:35:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I had forgotten to give Talita's sweater the argyle collar detail! Previous page has been edited.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, etc. Hope everyone's having a nice day.
2022-12-25 20:06:17 +0000 UTC View PostI'm going to be retiring the $20 stream commission tier after February 2023. It's had some issues that I haven't found any great solutions to, namely the fact I am chronically non-punctual and there's no way to automatically flush the tier every month and give new people a chance to get a commission slot. I don't currently have plans for a new commissions ti...
2022-12-25 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Another short comic. I started this ages ago and then stalled because I wanted a proportional interior model of the Runaway. I do now, but I'm kind of kicking myself for not finishing this earlier anyways because now I'm fanatically trying to complete 4 colored high-detail pages during a holiday week, 2.5 weeks out from needing it in a printed booklet.... urggghh. More pages coming. Very soon.<...
2022-12-24 08:10:36 +0000 UTC View Post
My fixation on hexapod gaits continues. I liked the Bipod-B animation (second gif) a lot, but it didn't feel nearly fast enough for the top speed I was proposing for centaurs. Part of the issue is why it has that name. The legs in the gait act in pairs, with two feet generally on the ground at any given point in the cycle. Most of the fastest runs in the animal kingdom have single point contact...
2022-12-20 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI didn't expect to hit another Patreon goal this year! Thanks so much to everyone who just joined to see baby Talita (she is very charming, I understand). There's a lot more comics in the comic tag that never left Patreon, If you wanna poke through there.
As promised in the goal I'll be hosting a third character AMA, but do to my current schedule, it will have to be in, uh.... March...
2022-12-17 04:46:23 +0000 UTC View Post
A comic for the 40-pg floppy of Talita's first appearance as a feral emu-kitten. I shan't be posting these on social media, since these 3.33 pages will probably show up in book 2.
2022-12-16 17:03:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been adapting a bunch of the short stories+worldbuilding I've posted onto the internet into a 40-page floppy comic, mostly comics of Talita growing up (I have posted... a lot more than 40 pages worth of comics). These are insert pages dividing the different eras of Talita's life, minus the blurb text that I'm still finishing writing.
Most of the comics I've posted on the internet ar...
Been busy this month with, among other things, convention prep. My banner was due for an update because Talita looks very different now, and is my most recognizable character, which was a bad combination on the old flag. I included both so you can compare this to the 2018 version for funsies.
The banner is 8 by 2.5 feet, and everyone on it is to scale— which is why Talita is stoop...
2022-12-13 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Not a huge amount of them this time, because I've been feeling pretty burnt out and using up the art energy I do have finishing up projects for con prep, book, and store stuff. Still trying to figure out what the hell I want to do for the book cover. Anything but the characters standing in front of a disconnected background.
2022-11-30 05:09:39 +0000 UTC View Post