Jay Eaton

Runaway to the Stars: Page 147

Talita discusses her social ennui with the worm pile.

This page has no scaffolding or tower cranes and was hilariously faster to finish than to previous ones.

Runaway to the Stars: Page 146

Bip delights in being a digital poltergeist.

Runaway to the Stars: Page 145

Never a moment's rest from babysitting.

Runaway to the Stars: Page 143 and 144

Hey Bip, your ears are sticking out.

May/June/Misc Ink Doodles

Another batch of doodles. A lot of centaurs and botanical art in this one.

Edgy OC Art

I'll post more ink doodles when I've accumulated enough to make a big photoset but for now have an edgy visual metaphor for character angst. Talita's having a cool and normal time in the handpit

Runaway to the Stars: Page 142

Sorry about the slow page rate this month. I am slogging through the scaffolding linework one crossbeam at a time

Runaway to the Stars: Page 141

Talita TIG welds some aluminum plating here. It was replaced because the original plates were bent and peventing the radiator joint from extending. The human-scale torch is kinda hilariously tiny in her giant oversuit welding gloves.

Runaway to the Stars: Page 140

Good grief, I am not looking forward to drawing this set multiple times. At least I am getting better at tower cranes. There are so many beams.

Runaway to the Stars: Page 139

Mmmm nothing like some delicious magnesium carbonate to satisfy that bone growth induced craving.

Stream Schedule Change

Hello gang, I'll be streaming tomorrow (Thursday, June 13th) instead of Friday because I'll be driving to BwPcon on Friday. By the way, if you are in Portland Oregon on Saturday, come see me at table 41.

Runaway to the Stars: Pages 137 and 138

Sorry this took so long, this 2 page spread was a real sanity test. I ended up going down a rabbit hole trying to figure out what the remodeling process I needed would look like, then realized it would probably be a full demolition and reconstruction, but then I wondered if because of the setting, they'd be a lot more precious about conserving materials and do something closer to a deconstructi...

Runaway to the Stars: Page 136

This log is about how in the goddamn centaurs breathe and talk. I did animations of this 3 years ago but the anatomy has changed a bit since then. I had to rearrange some pipes in the head. I've been told centaurs look top-heavy while quadrupedal but it's kind of an illusion, since their upp...

Runaway to the Stars: Page 135

Hiya gang. Slowly grinding back into the comics production mode. This is one of the inter-chapter lore dump pages, this time explaining what tailed spacers are and featuring the "orbital grandma polycule," as some people on Dirtball call them. Tailers are unisex and tend to play it pretty fast and loose with gendered terms. Although if you asked some of them they wouldn't self-identify as grand...

Ink Doodles: April - May (mostly)

This batch features some backlog from older doodles I forgot to scan. In order:

Pocketbook scribbles, Petz plane, oxalis, ink wash doodles made to use pen dregs up, chabbit meat, life drawings of a lady in fancy goth lingerie, a microgravity farm drawing I gave up on because I wanted to take it a different direction halfway through, vague visual depictions of Talita angst from an unspecif...

Griffin Painting

I've been continuing to work on Almost Real book spreads for the cover critters. Here's a painting of the Volume 5 cover critter, a marsupial griffin. I will have more sneak peeks later.

Runaway to the Stars: Page 134

Annnd that's the end of the chapter. Can you guess how the title was thematically relevant?

I'll be taking another short break between chapters to catch up on art that isn't pages. For one thing I'd really like to finally draw the cover art for this damn book. I'd like to do a double layered cover with a large round hole punched in the middle of the top cover so you can see the art behind...

Runaway to the Stars: Page 133

This time it's the police for sure

Runaway to the Stars: Page 132

Idrisah can't say no to a cute freckled face with widdle kitty cat fangs.

Runaway to the Stars: Page 131

Next page: Talita gets raided by the police

Runaway to the Stars: Page 130

This had just enough fiddly things to take waaaayyy too long to draw... anyways this one goes out to the Gillisah megafans (me) and the foot fans (statistically, at least a couple of you)

Friday 4/26 Stream Cancelled

The stream on Friday April 26th is cancelled because my mum is visiting and I want to go somewhere with her. The Friday after should be a normal stream day.

Runaway to the Stars: Page 129

The grandmothers control our transportation systems.

Runaway to the Stars Webcomic Launch!

I finally (got help) slapping Wordpress into shape and Runaway to the Stars is now releasing as a public webcomic! Show your friends! Show your dad! Hold your dog up next to the computer screen so it can get a look too! Thank you so much for your support over the years, and sticking with me while I'm slowly chewing ...

Runaway to the Stars: Page 128

Whatcha thinkin about, Idrisah?

Runaway to the Stars: Page 127

Talita is getting an to "itch" to do something with those spaceships... haha... I'll see myself out

Ink Doodles Feb + Mar and Jovian Holiday Lore

Contains Jovian Easter Brooms, plant scribbles (real, microgravity crops, and scud planet), possible self depictions by scuds and bug ferrets, fursona and personal symbols, and one Gillie. Lore below.

Jovian National Holidays:

Jovia primarily uses the Solar Gregorian Calendar, though the Martian Common Era Calendar is still used in certain businesses. The Martian Calendar and 24:3...

Runaway to the Stars: Page 126

An overabundance of material.

The Scud Cycle

This is part of an entry for the Almost Real book me and my co-editor are currently working on that compiles the first 5 volumes of the magazine. But it's also something I've wanted to hammer out for a while. Scuds have an alternating generation lifecycle and the sophont scud is essentially wind-pollinated by planktonic scuds. Kids get a third of their genetics from their birth parent, and thir...

Runaway to the Stars: Page 125

Being a torchship, the Runaway is about as fast as a vessel carrying squishy, g-force effected bodies can get.

Also, the chapter isn't over yet, but I'll be taking a short break from RttS pages to work on pages for the Almost Real Book. I have tried to do both simultaneously but it seems my brain only has room for one project at a time. The train can only run on one pair of rails, so to s...