I'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 commi...
2022-11-27 20:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Peeking in a derelict house. Also, Bip?
2022-11-13 03:52:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Talita has a moment of recognition.
2022-11-02 04:22:39 +0000 UTC View PostMy beginning of month Twitch stream will take place at 12pm PST on Sunday, November 6th and run for no longer than 5 hours. That's next Sunday at time of posting.
If you are in the $20 Above and Beyond tier, please request now in the comments or DM me. If you can't make it to the stream, don't worry, I wi...
2022-10-30 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
"Jay," you say, "you've been doing Inktober and posting art to social media every day. Surely you don't have many extra sketches to share this month."
"Well you see," I reply, "I'm actually in an elaborate Saw trap where if I stop drawing for more than an hour I die"
These are not in chronological order, and I included comic planning pages because I figured some of you might find th...
2022-10-27 23:44:14 +0000 UTC View Post
While greyscale is much faster and less of a hassle, one of the few things that makes me miss color comics is the fact Talita's eye shine is red-orange like a crocodile. Centaurs are real spooky in the dark.
2022-10-22 23:31:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Another one! The first appearance of The Runaway, and thus technically Bip. Also the first appearance of bug ferrets, as funny little doodle guys.
2022-10-14 07:17:39 +0000 UTC View Post
This one took a while because my brain has been full of bees, and also I had to finish fiddling with the 3D model of the modular frontloader. The initial 3D sketch was made by MechMonster during an unrelated art trade Secret Santa, I just mashed it around to make it more similar to the vehicle design in the rough pages...
2022-10-07 04:33:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Procrastinating on finished pages by drawing scenes from the wrong book again. Sirawit tries to be helpful and do some investigation on Talita's crush, Talita would really rather he not.
Sirawit grew up in a co-species city and is really familiar with humans but they frequently flub the specifics or don't get what's taboo or not in comparison to avian culture. Shyam has not met many ...
2022-09-28 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMy beginning of month Twitch stream will take place at 12pm PST on Sunday, October 2nd and run for no longer than 5 hours. That's next Sunday at time of posting.
If you are in the $20 Above and Beyond tier, please request now in the comments or DM me. If you can't make it to the stream, don't worry, I wil...
2022-09-26 23:11:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Some more fountain pen doodles. Outfit and character art, mostly. Still trying to figure out my main characters' entire closets, because I think it's great fun for some reason. I feel like I am getting better at drawing with no eraser and combining ink colors.
Been busy this month with moving apartments, which is a less of a hassle than it could have been because we're basically just movi...
2022-09-26 21:14:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, it's happening folks. 307 pages to go. I'll be sharing the first 3 chapters here as they get finished; they'll be subject to some minor edits in between now and publishing, but pretty much all I have left to do is finish the damn thing. I think it turned out pretty good! I am impatient and want to share it!
Once again I'm cagey about giving time estimates, since rough pages took abo...
2022-09-22 03:29:23 +0000 UTC View Post
CW: blunt self harm and ableist slur
I'm working on scenes from the wrong book again, but ironically since RttS Book 3 isn't under NDA, I can put it here. I redid an ...
Took a break from drawing her work gear to draw her in Cute Little Outfits and now I have something approaching an actual character reference. She owns two dresses, a warm weather and cool weather one, one purse, and one set of fancy shoes. She doesn't wear them very much. I'm not sold on the sunhat yet, I need to figure out how to make it not wobbly. Centaurs don't have a big knobby head that ...
2022-09-09 07:34:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Badly needed to update Talita's spacesuit ref, the old one was from before I figured out how I wanted to draw centaurs. I still need to fiddle with the details and figure out the connection point for the liquid cooling system between the two body pieces but this is the gist of it. The nose of the helmet can be swapped out for a longer one when she has antlers.
The fall harness has tw...
2022-09-07 20:50:04 +0000 UTC View PostMy beginning of month Twitch stream will take place at 12pm PST on Sunday, September 4th and run for no longer than 5 hours. That's next Sunday at time of posting.
If you are in the $20 Above and Beyond tier, please request now in the comments or DM me. If you can't make it to the stream, don't worry, I w...
2022-08-31 01:10:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Trying to figure out a "laughter" response for centaurs, going with something like this for now. It's a semi-involuntary head bob/toss accompanied by a voiced subsonic pant. The trunk curl is a normal centaur smile, the mouth smile is a Talita thing. Predictably, she's kind of self conscious about her laugh and will usually hold her face to suppress the head bob response. Talita also occasional...
2022-08-24 22:04:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Uncategorized doodles from the past couple months, mostly character art. I'm still on my fountain pen kick.
2022-08-06 04:03:47 +0000 UTC View PostLink box above title on desktop. ↑ Below text on mobile. ⬇️
I had been hoping to start finished pages before the end of July, but I'm currently waiting on a commissioned 3D model of the junkyard and launch loop, which I need for the first scene! In my impatience, I have bitten the bullet and finally started learning Blender for myself, which should make this process faster in the f...
My beginning of month Twitch stream will take place at 12pm PST on Sunday, August 7th and run for no longer than 5 hours. That's next Sunday at time of posting.
If you are in the $20 Above and Beyond tier, please request now in the comments or DM me. If you can't make it to the stream, don't worry, I will...
2022-07-31 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Taking a break from editing book chapters to draw lesbian fluff comics. Someone on tumblr asked how Talita blows on soup with her respiratory setup. The trunk is a multiuse organ.
The silk cheese knots are made from the nutritional silk of those duck-goat livestock that I need to finish drawing sometime. Shyam is having something vaguely similar, paneer cheese (in curry with roti). They'...
Figuring out the actual scale of things in the junkyard so I can start drawing finished pages for the first few pages of the book! Which is coming soonish-- hoping to start by the end of July? The first third of those book pages will be posted here as they are finished.
The habitat, Shikaviil Port, is one kilometer in diameter. The launch loop is about 2700km long. The upper rail is mostl...
2022-07-16 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Some miscellaneous worldbuilding for the avian homeplanet. The poles both have permanent sea ice fields, which are difficult to colonize for life for the same reason sand dunes are. The surface constantly shifts (although much slower than a dune) as it's shaped by wind, currents, melting, and precipitation.
In the North pole, the dominant ecosystem on the ice is globe fields, which ...
2022-07-13 08:11:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Polars and skimmer, plus bonus drawing of the tail display in flightless brights and courting behavior-- where two partners point their beaks upwards and twist their necks, clicking the lower beaks together. It's something like... a very formal kiss? More intimate versions involve neck contact and beak preening.
Something came up this weekend and I can't stream tomorrow like I originally planned. The monthly patron request stream will be happening on July 5th, Tuesday at 12PM PST.
2022-07-02 19:42:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The old ref for avians (from 2014! jesus christ) is now extremely outdated, and I wanted better reference images for the website page on avian biology, so I'm cranking these out in between working on book pages. Eventually I'd like to do updated refs for all the alie...
2022-06-28 17:28:52 +0000 UTC View PostMy beginning of month Twitch stream will take place at 12pm PST on Sunday, July 3rd and run for no longer than 5 hours. That's next Sunday at time of posting.
If you are in the $20 Above and Beyond tier, please request now in the comments or DM me. If you can't make it to the stream, don't worry, I will s...
2022-06-28 17:22:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy late Pride month, here's a gay little watercolor and ink painting. I'm trying to get myself to learn how to do watercolor on actual watercolor paper instead of shitty printer cardstock, but I haven't had a lot of time to doodle outside NDA work recently. I'd also like to get better at painting skin tones and lighting/values in watercolor, as a kid I mostly used alcohol markers to color ph...
2022-06-28 17:19:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Idrisah is dysfunctionally compassionate, Talita likes being helpful, and Gillie has a big gamer chair.
I'm trying to figure out more about the living space inside the Runaway... in this comic they're experiencing accelerative thrust "gravity," but when they ship isn't burning the engines, it's 0g. Because the ceilings are so tall, the rooms actually feel much larger without gravity... a ...
2022-06-02 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post