Jay Eaton

October Stream Requests

EDIT: Morning errands are running late today, stream will start 2pm at the lastest.

Heeey folks! It's the requests time of month again, and this time I have full use of my arms.

My monthly Twitch stream will take place at 12pm on Sunday, October 3rd and run for no longer than 5 hours. That's next Sunday at ...

Terranaut: Rough Pages 26

It's very nice to reach this page milestone.

Mystery Project Concept Art

I'm currently in a small group of gamedevs, and we are spitballing ideas for a short terrarium video game with lite puzzle and narrative aspects. It's in early concept stage so no promises that anything I draw will make it into the final thing, but I will keep sharing concept art and WIPs I have for it!

Terranaut: Rough Pages 25

Last panel is probably the most intimidating I could possibly make a scud look.

TN Cover Progress

Worked on this a little more, I wasn't satisfied with the color composition and I think it's better now.

4D Horse Sketches

My original 4d horse design was criticized for just being a regular horse with no auxiliary 4d legs or anything, so I'm workshopping a new and improved design. I'm gonna end up with a whole stable of these things, trotting in and out of existence.

Stream Commissions

This month's stream commissions!

Terranaut: Color Page 5

Oof, the five pages I needed for the graphic novel proposal are finished. I'll get back to rough pages after sending the big email.

September Streaming Schedule

Hello everyone! As you may know, I am recovering from surgery. Because of this, the session may be shorter than normal, but I'll try to stream for at least 2 hours. It will depend on whether using my tablet for a long continuous stretch pulls on my incisions. Any drawing I don't finish during the stream will be completed within a week after the stream.

My monthly 2020-08-30 21:28:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Sandbox setting chara WIP

The going on art has been slow because of surgery recovery. This a cooldown sketch of another character I developing to throw into my sandbox setting, which is a funtimes dumping ground for all sorts of vaguely cursed character designs. 

Lionel is a college age business major, but the latter only because his parents insisted. He has surprisingly dexterous hands but is an obligate qua...

Terranaut: Color Page 4

Eyyyyy whats up guys... I'm baaaack. Still recovering but thankfully digital art doesn't require heavy lifting.

The plants on scud world use a cyan pigment for photosynthesis, but they produce an accessory pigment with a bright orange color. Similar to anthocyanin in Earth plants, they will use the orange pigment to protect themselves from intense sunlight and help camouflage some of thei...

Terranaut: Sketches

Hello everyone, I had surgery yesterday so no digital art for a bit. But I made a couple of sketches before and after the operation for things I eventually will have to draw for the rough pages.

I decided that older generations of scuds are way more into tattoos and shell engravings than younger scuds, and the more you have the more authority you are assumed to have. In some guilds the y...

Terranaut: Color Page 3

Well, that's all for now. I have surgery at 9:45am tomorrow so I'll finish the last two pages for the submissions packet when I am physically capable.

Terranaut: Color Page 2

I was hoping to get all these color pages done before Thursday (and also, my surgery) but um, I'm having to remember how to color things all over again, so we will see. Three more to go!

Their colors seriously remind me of plastic pool toys, lol.

August Stream Commissions

I did Patreon stream commissions yesterday! It was fun! I always spend way too much time on the handwritten fonts, but that’s why everyone loves me  

Terranaut: Color Page 1

It might seem like I'm getting ahead of myself here, but what I'm actually planning to do is finish the first 5 pages as part of a submissions packet to a comics publisher (as required by their guidelines). Wish me luck!

It's been ages since I colored much of anything, so I'm mostly happy to have finished this. I would like to seek out more resources for coloring underwater scenes, I have...

Stream Reschedule

EDIT: I have to get a Covid-19 test today at 11:30am, so the stream will run at 12:30pm and hopefully I will not experience any other weird delays. Here's hoping I test negative because I have top surgery scheduled this Thursday!

Hey gang, I wasn't feeling very well last Sunday (don't worry, not rona) and ending up sleeping instead of streaming. I'll be streaming this Sunday (August 9th) ...

Terranaut: Rough Pages 24

Unaltered coastline is a vanishing ecosystem on scud planet, unfortunately.

Terranaut: Rough Pages 23

Scuds are a lot stretchier than you'd expect and I love to draw them emoting like Rat Mood Chart 

Rough Pages 22

The page numbers have jumped forward to accommodate the extra two pages in the edited scene.

Scuds dig like a chicken scratching at the dirt (if the chicken also had arms).

Terranaut Cover WIP

Finally have a cover concept that I think works thematically, is visually interesting, and suitably portrays what the content is (y'know, aliens). The colors are very generalized right now, I wanna get it more rendered but keep a strong dichotomy. Not sure about keeping the black bands on the sides, but they'll stay if I can't find a satisfying way to divide the sea and sky.

August Streaming Schedule

Hi folks. Everyone hanging in there? I'm finally back to hammering away at Terranaut, which I'd be doing more of on stream after completing all the requests for this month.

My monthly Twitch stream will take place at 12pm on Sunday, August 2nd and run for no more than 5 hours. That's next Sunday at time...

Edited scene (pages 43-44)

I expanded this two page scene into one much better at establishing the coastal setting and "normal life" for these characters before the catastrophe of the main plot. I explained more about the change here. 

They are having bre...

Terranaut Outfit Scribbles

Simple turnarounds for the outfits in the scene im drawing. That “hoodie” is certainly... something.

Terranaut pg 43-44 rewrite

“Jay where are the comics.” Great question. I am officially parted with my day job and coercing myself back into the habit of drawing instead of lying around miserably waiting to clock in again.

I’m starting with a scene that was seriously bugging me at the start of the flashback sequence. It wasn’t a terribly exciting introduction to underwater scud life, and it was a pretty fla...

Stream Commissions

Thank u to everyone who commissioned and dropped by! This batch includes: my first human OC request, an eyeball alien, and my attempt to design a "snailtaur." The latter required a bit of visual development:

July Streaming Schedule

Hello everyone, normally I have the monthly twitch stream on the first Sunday of the month, but do to ~life circumstances~ I haven't been on top of things as I'd like to be. I will be streaming art this evening (about 7pm PST) but I've decided the actual request-drawing stream should happ...

Gillie and Idrisah Wardrobes WIP

These two are a little tougher than Min to develop outfits for, because neither of them are particularly self image focused. They are usually dressed comfortably outside of specific formal settings, but they have different ideas of what is comfortable. I'm also trying to give them key colors (because I shamelessly love color theming) without making them look too much like cartoon characters wit...

Work, Surgery, Covid-19, and Etc

Hello everyone. Sorry for the slow updates recently, my energy to create is being drained off by a million little stressors and I dearly miss working on my projects. I have been having a spell of not-great mental health and related, am leaving my day job in about two and a half weeks. After that I'm going to have a whole lot more time to draw, though I'll also be getting briefly knocked out of ...

Stream Requests

This month’s $10 Patreon requests. Thanks to everyone who showed up and chatted with me! I got asked to draw Grindel and the gnome protagonists, but decided to make it a big colored piece so it's a WIP for now. Gwensley is teaching Grindel how to play cards and Grindel is trying to pretend she isn't interested.