Last month's bonus comic is running late because spring quarter finals are currently setting my pant legs on fire. I have the rough lines done and the finished comic should be out by next Wednesday at the absolute latest. Thank you for your patience while I furiously label algae pressings! :')
2018-06-03 04:53:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Food processing rarely involves heat for scuds, but they still do it in various forms. Watertight bags are a common feature of scud kitchens, used to hold marinades and keep little chunks of food from escaping (perhaps while they are being marinated).
Even outside the water, heat cooking is rare-- scuds mostly use air to dry meats and veg into jerky, or to reduce sauces via evaporation.
Medium tip poscas are very chunky and satisfying to draw with!
2018-05-23 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been taking an algae class so I used my new knowledge to make up an algae.
Yeah I've read The Life of Pi. No, I was actually thinking about Sargassum algae when I drew this.
Fiber in the water is a slightly more... temporary material than it is on land (prone to melting and sliding apart) but it's still useful for various applications, eg kelp fiber mesh being used as substrate on which to quickly grow bioengineered corals for hard building materials and custom casings.
The glass blade shown here is likely volcanic glass, as glass work (like metal forging) or a...
I'm working on a post (more likely posts) about the internal anatomy of my aliens and it's taking forever because uh, the thing about guts is that there's a lot of them and they're all crammed together and very hard to visualize in 2D
Anyways bug ferrets have a weird secondarily evolved endoskeleton and I'm trying to figure out how THAT works. Their head has a ton of moving parts.
Sorry it’s a little rough, but I’ve been very busy working on a 17 page comic for an anthology, and also midterms. This is a continuation of the previous bonus comic.
2018-05-01 20:36:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I made some changes to that monocot I made with a vascular cambium/secondary growth. It looks a lot more like a conifer now, but with palm fronds.
2018-04-25 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Having fun, doing puns, drawing a collapsible semi-cartilaginous skeleton.
Figuring out nice sustainable building materials for a species that lives in vast puddle of aggressive solvent has been interesting!
They use basically no metal aside from easily wrought ones like gold, and metal ore refining is a very new and dangerous science that can only be done on land. Wood is pretty rare as a building material except for scuds who live right by or on the land, as it...
2018-04-11 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Some watercolor and brush pen doodles! Drawing feathers is satisfying.
2018-04-05 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I've started to sketch out some scenes for Runaway to the Stars, trying to figure out what the major plot beats will be. This is the scene of Bip's introduction after Talita, haven taken an unusually large number of phones from a wrecked ship during a junkyard reconnaissance job, is made rudely aware they all contain a fragment of Bip's hastily transferred brain. More to come in the next few month...
2018-04-03 05:40:45 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the first doodles I did of Shyam and Talita together, I think Shyam is technically smaller than this but yknow. Here they are. The gorlfriends
2018-03-28 19:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been hashing out more plot for Runaway to the Stars and filling in gaps, which means creating more tangential characters. I've been wanting to make a chubby piebald guy for a while so... perhaps... this will be he
Sketches of ponies, trying to get their anatomy and range of motion down.
Bonus sketch of muscles:
This one doesn't have a story, I just wanted to draw a bratty cat toddler.
2018-03-07 20:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
The primary dynamic of Gillie and Idrisah's marriage: Gillie keeps Idrisah from adopting every living thing in the galaxy, and Idrisah keeps Gillie from devouring the souls of the innocent.
Every time I draw a mobile plant I make it even further derived from the previous? They still have no connection to any of my stories, maybe I should make them into a spec evo side project along the lines of the Amphiterra project.
2018-02-28 23:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Been slowly figuring out who the 65-ish people living in The Uncommon Twins universe are. This is Chitonsire and Chitonchild, the mason linage. They have some cool outfits that go over their patagium to protect their skin while working with stone.
2018-02-21 23:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I've spent the past several months editing and drawing for this zine, and now you can obtain and hold it in your claws, paws, or metapterygial fins! It contains the finalized version of Quicksorrel, that lil plant with legs I've been developing in my doodle posts here, as well as works by a bunch of other very talented artists!
2018-02-17 19:46:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Polar avians are quite rare off the avian home planet. For one they're a lot less populous than the skimmer avians, for second they're not from a cultural background eager to leave the comforts of the tundra and fling themselves off into the void.
Wiwiip is a loud, proud exception to most of the rules, though. They hail from a small terraformed bubble of avian punks living apart from the s...
The second I learned sun/camel spiders had little lobster claws for a face I had to try and draw them. Took a shot at drawing some anthro versions too but they have SO MANY legs
2018-02-07 23:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
These aliens are sweet on you! Or anything else you can put stickers on, because that’s what they’re gonna be! These 3 inch tall vinyl stickers are currently available for preorder on my Gumroad, and available as a bunch of stuff that isn’t stickers on my Redbubble. $5 a month patrons get 10% off on Gumroad, and $10 a month patrons get 20% off!
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2018-02-06 19:06:05 +0000 UTC
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Victor assumed Lex was a boy when they first met in the woods, and Lex is more than happy to never say anything to the contrary.
Also wow this is the first I've ever posted something from my project Idlewood on Patreon! You can find more information on it here: http://jayrockin.tumblr.com/tagged/idlewood 2018-02-01 22:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
The very first drawings I did of Shyam! I like making stoic characters because when they finally get their feathers ruffled it's extra rewarding B)
Bonus sketch of grippy feet:
I've been reading through Dougal Dixon's After Man, and although it's an iconic speculative evolutionary work I have several bones to pick with it. 🤔
The rodent carnivores are cool, but the artists attempt to make the iconic front teeth into both the incisors and carnivores teeth of modern large predators. I'm not sure how teeth in this shape would even fit together when the mouth cl...
2018-01-24 23:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
My freinds got talking about good and bad walking mushroom designs, so i took a quick stab at a few... These dudes have a two stage lifecycle, first stage is a regular net of hyphae in the ground, then they grow a mushroom body and retract all the hyphae into that body and wander to new tasty areas to spread spores and return to the earth. It seems like it's impossible for me to design any creatur...
2018-01-17 23:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Guiomar's odd proportions, as a kid and an adult. They're designed to walk primarily on all fours, though they can manage bipedalism for short periods. They're kinda totoro shaped when they stand up....
2018-01-10 23:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I redid Death's usual skeleton to be less wonky. He's pretty fluid and his bones will tend to move as he wants them too, but I'll be using this as his general "on model" look.
2018-01-03 22:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
A couple of things that happened recently with me and my parents. I'm a darwinopterus, my mum is a kestrel, and my dad is a black bear; because it's more interesting than drawing people.
My mum is pushing 50 and has the energy of a middle school boy, it's VERY WORRYING sometimes.
2018-01-01 22:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post