Jay Eaton

Runaway to the Stars: Rough Pages 1

Aaaw yeah, it's all coming together

I have mostly been working on written script (not exciting or good enough to share) and  visual/lore development (more of that in a sec) for Runaway to the Stars. You never think of how many gaps there are in your worldbuilding until you're trying to figure out where to put the vacuum heat radiator on an electric grapple excavator. I will be postin...

Stream Requests

Stream requests from today. Disclaimer: slap fight guy is not called that I am just always compelled to write a title down for these comms.

Build-a-Cockatrice: Revealed

I had been waiting for my new watercolor pans to arrive before coloring this, but, international shipping is being a butt ;_;

I have a feeling this fellow lives in a swamp. It's the vibes. Or maybe, just the feet.

May Stream Requests

Hello everyone, I have been busy offline since the kickstarter ended, but I will be completing the build-a-beast drawing soon-- I have been waiting for some new watercolors to arrive in the mail (I'm very excited to try them, they're from this store).

In any case, my monthly 2021-04-26 04:44:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Terranaut: Rough Pages 38

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Build-a-Cockatrice

It's time once again to build a creature, this time a cockatrice as suggested by three. The comments get to decide what parts this beast will have, in order of the numbered list. If you're unsure what caruncles are, it's the fleshy bits that chickens and many bird species have on their faces: https://en.wi...

I’m sorry. Anyways, more humansonas

While I was writing Terranaut dialog I also zapped Rzzt-tt with my bipedal primate beam. So, here’s the troubled non-binary siblings, but with hair this time.

Sand Goats Repro

I finally got around to fleshing out the reproductive system for scud vertebrates and I decided I wanted their reproductive business end to be the front (mating is a, uh, "kiss"). This has some limitations that Earth vertebrates don't have, namely that the eggs or live young have to be less than the width of the jaw to safely exit the parent's body. For the local placental mammal-alikes, this c...

Stream Requests

A fresh batch of stream illustrations! Thnx to everybody who came by ;*

Terranaut: Rough Pages 37

Writing the conversation over the next 5 or so pages kicked my ass. I started with way too much material, none of which connected to the plot properly, and had to chisel it down until all the pieces fit together. Conversations like this in real life tend to be a gigantic mess, but for the purposes of a comic, it has to be a snappy mess.

April Stream Requests

EDIT: running late, stream starting at 1pm pst

My monthly Twitch stream will take place at 12pm PST on Sunday, April 4th and run for no longer than 5 hours. That's next Sunday at time of posting.

If you are in the Above and Beyond tier, please request now in the comments or DM me. If you can't make ...

Build-a-Sphinx: Revealed

Huh, this time the creature looks almost intentionally designed, and not the random mash of features she actually is.

Also, for the future I think I will be posting the build-a-beast prompts onthe 15th of the month at 12pm PST, to give everyone fair warning. I don’t want to go higher than 10 features per creature since it starts to become more of a headache to assemble, and in the ‘j...

Almost Real 4 goes live this Saturday!

Hey gang! If you'd like to be notified when the Kickstarter launches (12PM PST, March 20th) you can opt to do so at this link. You can also just wait for me to start banging pots and pans together on social media, as I customarily do. Either should be a pretty reliable alert system.

Build-a-Sphinx

Another build a creature! This time it's a sphinx, as suggested by pooryorick. The comments get to decide what parts this beast will have, in order of the numbered list.

If the comments are full by the time you get here, suggest another riddle, or another beast I could do a build a creature post with!

Almost Real Vol 4 Keychain

I really liked this promotional illustration, and realized it could be made into the linked acrylic keychain we were planning pretty easily. I printed a physical prototype as well to make sure the weight balancing was correct for the images to hang straight.

Yeet.

Idrisah’s Parents

Fleshing out stuff for plot writing reasons and realised I had never gotten around to drawing Idrisah’s parents. They were born on Earth and moved to Jovia for better work opportunities, eventually meeting each other there and marrying. Idrisah is their only child. The perscription glasses that her mother wears are a more common choice for earthers than spacers, the latter of whom usually opt...

One More Stream Request...

Chkbrr, un-carcinized. They are stranded in the desert and surviving off lizards just like real the Chkbrr is.

Stream Requests

Wow!! This was a busy stream! Thank you so much to everyone who came by and the people who sent requests during stream! There was one more request, but it was something I wanted to spend a little more time on off-stream, so it'll be up later.

Almost Real Vol. 4 Promo Pics

These two happen in sequence. Had to go with a simpler art style than I originally intended because my wrist injury flared up.

Drop date is March 20th for the Kickstarter, hope to see you there! I love making Almost Real and it means a lot me that you lovely people keep buying it!

March Stream Requests

The update only I am invested in:  I fixed the input lag glitch! It was caused by a background process for an xbox controller program! It has been nuked off of my computer in a fit of rage, and I'm back to my usual comfy streaming setup. Whew!

My monthly Twitch stream will take place at 12pm PST on Sunday, March ...

Terranaut: Rough Pages 36

Chkbrr got kicked so hard they disintegrated into a blob... happens to the best of us

Almost Real 4 (Biotech) Art

Welp, it’s that time of year again. The pin this time is a two-piece chain pin, next up I have to draw two flavor illustrations and design an acrylic keychain. I’m liking the semi-lineless chromatic aberration look I did in the editor portraits here so I think I’ll be sticking to it for the other non-pin artwork.

Build a Unicorn: Revealed

She has arrived, with her troop of summoned gibbons. I feel like all the bits of animals you folks suggested were absolutely not meant to go together, and yet they kind of have??

Build a Unicorn

Another build a creature! This time it's my childhood favorite mythical beast. The comments get to decide what parts this beast will have, in order of the numbered list.

Whatever we create, it is guaranteed to be more interesting than a white horse with a  narwhal horn.

If the comments are full by the time you get here, suggest another beast I could do a build a creature post w...

Terranaut: Rough Pages 35

Both Chkbrr and this sand goat are having a pretty bad day.

Stream Requests

New batch for February! Thanks to everyone who came to the stream, I had a lot of fun talking!

Terranaut: Rough Pages 34

Not sure if I'm gonna leave that one four letter word in the final pages, but that's a problem for future Jay.

February Stream Requests

Well, my mysterious Clip Studio lag isn't solved (it's being triggered by my 2-monitor setup) but I will definitely still be able to stream things. Things will be slightly more awkward on my end then I'd like them to be, because I will be working with a single monitor, but it's much better then drawing with a once-per-second input glitch! I'm looking forward to it!

My monthly 2021-01-31 09:39:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Build a Dragon: Revealed

Well, here’s the dragon you guys ordered. It should not be, and has an extremely confusing bauplan.

This was a lot of fun, I’m definitely going to do more of these build-a-creature prompts here. I like to interact with you people!!

Build a Dragon

Patrons. Friends. Gamers. Let’s create a horrible dragon together.