Welp. I got busy offline and fell off the wagon for my goal to post once a day in October, I've missed two days now. Might try to make it up by posting 3 things today.
After some indecision I decided Talita counts on her hands using a regular binary finger counting method, with one twist (using the second variant of the fist as the final number.)
I had been considering making her me...
2021-10-29 08:09:31 +0000 UTC View Post
This is probably done for now, I might add a hair bounce since the impact of the hands is rapid enough to justify it. I'm working on a gifset of Shyam's movement cycles.
2021-10-27 04:23:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Working on this one again. Her run is somewhere in between a macaque and an otter. Also, she hates running.
2021-10-26 06:31:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Multiple people asked for this and I am easily persuaded into drawing cute nonsense.
2021-10-24 11:29:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally got around to finishing an adapted ASL alphabet for Talita, plus two extra handshapes for funsies. Conversing in ASL requires knowing word signs more than it requires knowing the alphabet, but the handshape classifiers in word signs often refer to the alphabet, (e.g. CL-A open and CL-closed, CL-B flat and CL-B bent). Hand shapes are the main challenge for Talita, so this is the building...
2021-10-23 22:21:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Couldn't resist trying to add sound to this one, because I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do for it. There are three sounds happening here: Her hand hitting the metal wall, Talita speaking the dialog line with her trunk/headlungs, and the threat rumble she's making with her side nostrils. The latter is actually a tiger chuff that's been pitched down, if you were curious. I'm still no...
2021-10-23 06:58:37 +0000 UTC View Post
The only other person in the cast anywhere near as tall as Talita.
Guiomar is a unique GMH, but still technically an off-model like Gillie is-- although Guio's a bi-quad walker, they have unplanned gigantism. Their upright posture puts too much weight on their proportionally small feet, making it unreasonable for them to stand or walk bipedally for periods longer than a few seconds. Legally,...
Quick animation of a panel from this old scribble comic where Shyam gets punched and Talita is pretty displeased about it. I want to try animating more big movements but all my comics are like... subdued conversations. Oops.
Talita's got weird horse shoulders.
2021-10-20 14:58:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh god damnit, I missed my first day of posting every day in October. D&D ran an hour long and then I took forever to make rabbit curry for dinner and lost track of time. I haven't gotten a chance to work on anything else today, so here's the doodles I did during D&D. I've posted a lot of emotionally strained comics recently so hopefully the Talita and Shyam cuddle is refreshing
2021-10-20 07:59:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I've spent the whole day working on the comic where Talita flips someone off, so have a different WIP that's been loitering on my computer indefinitely. I wanted to design nomadic centaur clothing, which has more fur and leather and less metal and fabric than settled centaur clothing, but got side tracked. Ignore Long Scud. Long Scud is benevolent and harmless.
2021-10-19 06:33:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Glossary:
Per: gender neutral term for a parent, equivalent to mom or dad.
Typ: A human that has not been significantly modified from the genetic baseline (i.e. you, presumably)
Shyam is 20, Rajni is 21.
I decided I wanted to draw that sphinx college girlfriend that Shyam had, who was 2021-10-18 01:48:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Teenagers without middle fingers make do. They're all about 14 here.
W.I.P comic. I'm getting overly ambitious with these panel-free scribble comics, they're starting to grow panels.
Continuation of this comic with Douglas and 15 y.o. Talita. She's got some some heavy emotional baggage about relationships in "current" RttS, too.
The cat's just enjoying sitting on the large warm vibrating person.
I decided that there's no way Shyam's hyperflexible noodle spine doesn't cause her issues under gravity, so I made a back brace for her to wear while she's working or doing a lot of walking. This normally goes under her clothes and it passively supports her upper body weight through compression and a vertically rigid but horizontally flexible hydraulic pocket fabric. The latter concept...
2021-10-15 05:46:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm fooling around testing the acrylic paints I got to paint the sculpey figure I'm making, and I'm glad I did because the colors I mixed are a little too yellow. I think I'll need to get a magenta or blue tone to get the colors I normally use for Talita.
Also, a random Shyam watercolor I never shared. I painted it for stress relief on a plane and my water-reserve paintbrushes and posca ...
So, I bought some sculpey and acrylic paints. I might make a 1/12 scale model or two. Who knows. It's been a while since I had a fun craft project to get me off the computer, so I'm going to do it at whatever pace comes naturally.
2021-10-13 05:32:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Scribbly visual dev/character design stuff. I'd been procrastinating on figuring out what the temp crew working under Talita at Ixion plant actually look like and what their group dynamic is. People who choose to work on Dirtball are usually oddballs.
2021-10-12 06:57:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Eyyyyy Rzzt-tt actually gets what Chkbrr is thinking about the situation and why now!! Remember the twinshrub Chkbrr dumped fermentation junk on? Turns out it wasn't dead after all.
Also, more awful scud biotech. The drone AI is functionally a parasite jacked into the plane's bloodstream.
2021-10-11 02:15:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Here, have another one while we're at it.
This is six years after this comic, Talita is 15. The early teens were a low point in her life.
Talita meets Sorrel.
Sorrel's stripes are from his mom's side of the family. It's an artificial gene, but Sorrel would be considered a typ human because he's part of the largest human gene pool. There's a lot of artificial genes floating around in there these days.
Edit: added more shading lol
More art sitting around on my harddrive from earlier this year.
Do I have any plans to have these two go to a formal junction in the story? Not really. Do I enjoy designing clothes and drawing fluff? Yes.
That Talita dress does at least show up in universe, because there's a plot detail where Naya Pradesh has the highest population of resident centaurs in the galaxy outside of the c...
2021-10-07 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's an animatic for a thing I've been procrastinating on indefinitely. Siblings being siblings.
2021-10-07 01:31:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I have a hoard of scribble comics from this storyline that I've just been sitting on because they require a lot of touching up to be legible (and the art is pretty old...) but I've decided it's time to share more of them now, since the other comics I'm drawing are under NDA 😓
Some of the dialog here is outdated--Idrisah has met other tailers working on planet, like Killian in the book ...
2021-10-05 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Misc worldbuilding I'm doing for the book I'm currently writing. I need to do a less chicken-scratch version of the recycling plant layout at some point, the offices should be proportionally smaller.
Also, after some heated discussion in the hard scifi server, I'm going to have the junked spacecraft get dropped onto the surface of Dirtball via a skyhook, which uses the inertia given to it by...
This month's stream requests, short one (sorry Dracogriff, I'll get that done this week)
2021-10-04 04:39:36 +0000 UTC View Post
This is in an industrial area on the outskirts of Naya Pradesh's capitol city. Idrisah, Gillie, Pinkie, and Brownie have been working across the street this entire time, which I don't think I've mentioned, lol??
Or, well, I was considering putting the BFGC-run lab more towards the city center, but this does give me a convenient excuse for having a UPR facility (Universal Public Restroom, ...
2021-10-03 18:06:45 +0000 UTC View Post
I have terminal draws-random-scenes-out-of-context-and-order disease, but I suppose that if I've been drawing so many chunks of this storyline and people like them, I might as well keep posting them.
At this point, Talita has been staying at Shyam's place and working her for over 3 weeks. Idrisah's (and Gillie's) impression of Shyam this entire time has been that's she's kind of rude and ...
2021-10-02 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I super fell off the wagon with Terranaut this summer while I was in housing limbo. But now I'm officially moved into Seattle, so I have no excuses. I'd like to get the roughs for this story complete asap!
Chkbrr is very excited about flying a plane, their colleges are more concerned with Chkbrr not dying via plane crash.
2021-10-01 18:29:14 +0000 UTC View Post
What it sounds like on the tin.
I like to draw little character moments and they're all from random points inside established storylines. In the case of these two, sometimes they're dating, sometimes they are still in that state of having a crush but mutually assuming the other woman isn't interested. You all will have to figure it out on your own.
Also, someone asked me to start t...
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