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Death Save Bargain Bin, Page 19

It is done. I have sorted out the last of the script, and found out that the total page count will be 25 pages. Hard to imagine that at one point, I thought I'd have the comic done in 12 pages.

Characters in this page are the same as in the last one. (Left to right): Galdrus Greatmantle the Dwarf, Michaela and Philliam the Tieflings, and Greetings the Cambion. +Lewis Hobart the infernal contract.

The rough layout is a franken-page stitched together from of two pages. The finished sketch was pretty much the same as the finished page, except a few notes I made, but ended up not following. As is tradition.

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Death Save Bargain Bin, Page 18

What's this? A page? (Pretend the background looks better. I ran out of time because I had to go help catch a chicken. Then give said chicken a post-shower blowout. And some "sorry your entire family was eaten by a fox"-consolation corn.)

I've yet again fallen into the trap of making it really unclear where you're supposed to read in favor of the page looking just a little more symmetrical. It's a miracle I didn't write the rightmost "*snap*" backwards.

I read a manga the other day, and was amazed to see that the text was upside down in one of the panels. I thought it was pretty cool, because the character was sorta looking up at another character who'd just toppled her over. Then I realized I was just holding the book upside down. ...Am I dumb?

Anyway, characters in this page (left to right): Galdrus Greatmantle the Dwarf, Michaela and Philliam the Tieflings, and Greetings the Cambion. (Also Lewis Hobart, or whatever I named him, the Infernal Contract, but he never got a doll like the others.)

Original rough draft:

New rough draft:

Aaaand sketch:

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Julycanthropy Day 2, 2025.07.02

Alternatively "Honk at the moon". Wereswan honking at the half-moon (I don't remember what a half moon is called).

I think one of the first things I might've told to my partner of now 10+ years was that I was a wereswan, having been bitten by one as a kid while hand feeding it a piece of a hot dog bun. That day, I learned that swans have really sharp teeth.

Not a great drawing today. Brain empty. No good ideas. Took about 20 minutes in total - the first 10 minutes of my 30 minutes timer being spent just doodling other things trying to brainstorm.

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Julycanthropy Day 1, 2025.07.01

I gave up on Kaijune, but I'm giving Julycanthropy a go. This month, I'm doing things a little different though. First of all, I ended up spending way too much time on each drawing and ultimately not liking how any of them turned out very much. So I'm setting a time limit of 30 minutes. As for the prompts, I found them all a bit stifling and uninspired last month, so this time, I'm just drawing whatever first comes to mind.

Today my mind was on how much it sucks when stockings rip. I think there's a way to fix them, but I don't remember how. (Also, I realize now that I misspelled Julycanthropy, or, to tell the truth, just realized I didn't know how to spell it correctly. How long has this been going on?)

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June 2025 gesture drawings

I usually try to do gesture drawings every day. This month, not so much, but I did a few at least. Not sure if I drew nipples or penises on any of these, but if I did, I'm sure you can handle it.

Last month I did 254 figure studies, 72 faces, and 0 hands/feet.

This month I did 197 figure studies, 18 faces, and 18 hands/feet.

All drawing sessions done with poses from Line-of-Action.

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We've been doing WIP Wednesday in the Tails and Ales Tavern discord server for a while now and I have to say, people have been sharing some absolute bangers.

I've been making banners for the event every week using someone's WIP from the previous week (with permission, of course) and want to share the banners we've used so far (with permission).

14.5.25 - @tootkin-art

21.5.25 - @bunsagicomms

28.5.25 - @croxot

4.6.25 - @goblinforeheadkisser

11.6.25 - @cinderbuck

18.6.25 - @goblinforeheadkisser

25.6.25 - @corruptedmuse

If this sounds like something you might vibe with, feel free to check out our wee community! There's a WIP Wednesday role in the self roles channel if you want pinged whenever it happens, and we've got plenty of great artists and a server Pathfinder 2e game ran by @gobmonarch.

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Kaijune, 2025.06.19

Kaijune, Day 16: "Floating" fortress beast. But I guess he's not really floating, is he? Had it been nighttime, it might've looked like it was floating though, so it's close enough.

Kaijune, Day 17: Bone-ArmoredEnamoured. I didn't misread, I just felt like drawing a skull collector instead. I can assure you the skulls are probably jeweled and fancy, but I only have black fineliners.

Drew these on the 19th while eating at my in-laws'. Not sure how much time I spent on each one. No sketch. I don't sketch when drawing traditionally. Whatever happens, happens.

Also, sorry about the poor quality. I don't have a scanner, so it's taken with my phone whose camera has gotten gradually worse over the years. It's doing its best.

I've sorta fallen behind on the Kaiju drawings. Might get back to them, might not. We'll see. But I'm for sure gonna set a time limit of <30 minutes. Otherwise, I'll spend too much time on each one, not leaving any time to draw more important things.

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Kaijune, 2025.06.15

I didn't have time to draw yesterday, so I did it today instead. Day 14, "Cursed". (Yea, I didn't really follow the prompt)

Day 15, "Two-headed".

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Kaijune, 2025.06.13

"Moss covered sleeper" was the prompt today, I think. I didn't really check.

Another really quick one. 20 minutes or so. I was kinda thinking of the giant baby statue in the middle of a desert (in the Gobi desert in China, if I remember correctly), but realized quickly when I started doodling that I don't really have a great grasp of what babies look like. I've been away from home pretty much all day, and didn't particularly feel like spending much time looking up references and so on. So it is what it is.

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Kaijune, 2025.06.12

"Volcanic". (A little close to the "lava" prompt, isn't it.)

I've been working all day, so I only had a short amount of time to do this. Took about 40 minutes.

Didn't sketch, but did use two reference photos. One from what I think was an inactive volcano on Iceland (don't quote me on that tho, I don't remember if this is the right place). I think I took this in 2015. Most of the photos in the folder I keep coming back to for inspiration to Kaijune monsters are.

And one of my cat, Mew.

He keeps yawning when I try to take pictures of him. I probably have even more photos of him yawning somewhere. Here are two of them (the first one was taken by my partner, though).

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Kaijune, 2025.06.11

"Glowing cave dweller".

Another simple one without references or anything. About an hour and a half. I'm still trying to keep the burnout at bay.

I love spiders, so here's a spider/vampire squid thing. I forgot to draw the cobwebs, but I'm probably not gonna go back and add them.

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Kaijune, 2025.06.10

"Sky-swimming leviathan".

Another say where I didn't really feel like drawing. Especially not an environment study. Today is just whimsical. No reference photos. Just something light so that I don't burn out again. Took about 2 hours, which admittedly is quite a bit longer than I intended today.

Two sweaty joggers enjoying the view.

Sketch:

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Kaijune, 2025.06.09

"Insectoid", though I suppose I just drew a big midge.

A quick one today. Less than an hour. 20 minutes for the background, and maybe 30 minutes on the kaiju. Don't feel like drawing today. Too bad, really. I love insects (as long as they stay out of my ears/eyes). There was a parasitic wasp around in my backyard last year. Laying its eggs in what I believe were moth caterpillars. The caterpillars spun silk (or something) on the leaves of one of our plants. I thought they were getting ready to become moths, but they just sorta stayed put on their silk-covered leaves for weeks. Didn't make a cocoon or anything. And these elongated fluffy somethings (looked like yellow cotton balls) started gathering around them. In hindsight, they were obviously eggs - tiny wasps emerged at some point. The caterpillars were probably eaten. Must be tough being a caterpillar. The baby wasps were really cute though.

Had a HUGE hornet come in through the window last week. She was cool, but terrifying.

A bit of a boring photo today. Not sure why I kept taking photos through the windows of moving cars back in 2015-ish (possibly 2016).

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Kaijune, 2025.06.08

Today's prompt: Friendly City Guardian.

I didn't really have any pictures of cities (I avoid big cities if I can), but luckily, I have a few pictures my mom took on her trip to Denmark. So today's image is based on a picture of Copenhagen. Who'd be the protector of Copenhagen? First thought was of a lion (or two) because of the coat of arms, but then I stumbled across The Little Mermaid. Skimming through her wikipedia page, it seems SHE'S the one people goes to for their political protests and vandalisms and whatnot. She appears to have been decapitated quite a few times, in fact, but keeps coming back.

Sooo, mermaid. I drew a mermaid again. A looooong mermaid.

Total time was a little less than 3 hours. Background about one hour, mermaid about two.

Sketch (over the environment study):

Referenced photo (Credit to my mom for snapping this shot):

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Death Save Bargain Bin, Page 17

Oh, snap, I finished the page on time (if you don't count the fact that I'd normally be asleep by now (as of writing this 2025.06.07, 23:40, that is).

Finishing touches might be a bit rushed, but I'm old and need sleep.

Characters in this page:

(Left to right) Galdrus the dwarf, Philliam the tiefling, Greetings the Cambion.

Rough page layout

It took a little while to think of a decent layout. Couldn't think of a good one, as it turns out, and borrowed one instead. From Nyankees, Book 4, Chapter 18: Cat Got Boss' Eye.

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Kaijune, 2025.06.07

Today's prompt: "Horned". Day seven of "Big creatures being curious about smaller creatures". (Is it turning into my gimmick?)

I love cows, so today's Kaiju is two cows. (I don't know how it'd be able to walk. Must be really unsteady.)

Took about 4 hours, I think. I did time it, but forgot to pause the stopwatch for a while at some point.

I don't remember where I took the referenced picture. It was probably somewhere in Iceland based on the date (2015), but the trees are throwing me off. Not many trees in Iceland.

Sketch & frame. I was going to give them (it?) flowers around their heads, but I forgot completely.

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Kaijune, 2025.06.06

Dino.

Time-traveling dino, visiting Mosfellsbær. Could've made it clearer that he's a time traveler, but it was harder than I thought it'd be, so I didn't. Spent so much time figuring out where to put the kaiju. Just the dino ended up taking around two hours, mostly figuring out where he should be. Total time today was 3 hours 30 minutes. I didn't pause the timer when I went to do other things, like making tea, or bothering my cats, but I'm sure it wasn't too many extra minutes.

Just the background/environment study. (Took 1 hour 40-ish minutes) Photo from my files, taken ten or so years ago.

Reference photo. I've only been using my own photos for all of these, but the reason is simply because looking up references is making me a bit disappointed lately. There's so much AI garbage, I just feel more comfortable using pictures I've taken myself.