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The Moon

Tali, one of the main characters of a book I’m working on (same one with Eloth, they become lovers~)

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Eloth, from one of the books I’m writing

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how do you see all the photos you posted on here? Or is there a way? There's a sketch I did for the first round of boop o meter, and I wanted to repost it for today but I can't find it and don't have time to scroll through my timeline.

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“Ah, dear Cornelius. I’d ask you to refrain from heartbreaking when it comes to my sister.”

“Not to worry, Dr. Carmine. You’ll find that I have the utmost respect for anyone who can tolerate you for long periods.”

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WIP Wednesday featuring a concept sketch of Cornelius Sawyer by @thistlearts ! It was such a pleasure working with him, and I can't wait to show off the cover it's so beautiful and colorful. Also, can we just talk about how Cornelius is serving 👌

Watt stood no chance, and neither did Cornelius' ex, Dr. Andrea Carmine.

Sneak peeks will begin on Friday 🎉🎉

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Smaugust 2024 -Pumpkin

Cute and cuddly autumnal pal.

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Working on the last installment of the first volume of my short read serial, the Shrieking Gun Cafe. I started writing it in 2020 and it’s been a long road. A lot has happened, and I’m really appreciative of everyone who has supported my art and writing.

Thank you 🥹

When I finish it I will be publishing an omnibus with all 1-9 episodes so there will be a physical copy and an all in one for folk who want it all together.

I’m already working on rewriting the 2nd volume (which will be the final for SGC)

I’m shooting for end of November to release the last one, and by summer I hope to have the first two of the 2nd volume ready to release. Going to be a busy time for writing :>

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Commission for my friend and pathfinder gm!

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Art Reward - Halloween Treats

Art reward for Jaky of one of their new oc’s chowing down on some spoopy sweet treats.

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Lyran poking a blorb fish lol. Sticker made for my group’s pathfinder server

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SGC-8 release day

It's out now - one left for this volume!!

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Webtoon's new age rating standards say that a comic can't be rated All Ages if it includes "Fully censored profanity (e.g., #$%^) in a few episodes". Literally more restrictive than 1950s newspaper funnies!

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Oh look, it seems like there's a Republican-led movement to purge voter rolls in the lead-up to the election! It's almost as if your vote matters and they don't want you to vote! Anyway, I whipped up a quick map (based on this) that shows when the voter registration deadline is in each state. There are a few deadlines coming up in the next week or so.

If you live in a state that regularly purges voter rolls for infrequent voters (the orange ones in the first map), or if you moved recently, it's good to check if you're still registered to vote.

Vote.org makes it super easy to check your registration: https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/

Just put in your address and DOB and they'll tell you whether you're registered. (And they give you a quick link to register online if it turns out that you're not! Only the 9 states in white on my map don't have online registration, and for those they provide instructions on how to do it via mail or in person.)

So yeah, give yourself peace of mind -- do a quick check. :)

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Look I have the silliest cats. I love him. 🥹

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SGC-8 cover art

It's rough just like my life lol preorder will be live for episode 8 in the Shrieking Gun Cafe serial, which is a linear short-reads (<60 pages per episode) story. It follows (Casey) Claymore and Vance as they go from friends to friend with benefits to lovers, and all the while, uncover classified information in the hunt for some extra $$ for the cafe. The information leads them to uncovering a terrible plot instead, and now they're morally obligated to do something about it. Well, they aren't, but they choose to be. They are a bit of idiotxidiot (Casey is the anxiety idiot, Vance is the easy going idiot :P )

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I know you generally work fast but I'm curious on how long on average it takes for you to get out a page of ThUG? I haven't had the opportunity to read it yet (it looks SO good) but I'm making the assumption a page is the size of an average print comic style versus webtoon scroll episode length format. Also curious on what short cuts you might take to get them out faster/more efficiently. I'm currently planning a comic in a similar format and am trying to plan my process ahead.

Thank you!

I don't do whole pages in one go (I do all the thumbnails then all the lineart then all the colour) so it's hard to tell exactly how long but maybe around 3-6h per page? Which makes a chapter (25-30 ish pages) take around 150 ish hours. I definitely prefer this to the webtoon format for a number of reasons, one of which being the satisfaction you get seeing a bunch of panels come together versus having to scroll through them separately.

In terms of speed, my entire process is pretty optimised for it, both in comics and outside. I stick to an A5 format and downsize it further (I tend to work with pages at 1000px width and 300dpi) to keep myself from overworking details. If an eye closeup feels tiring to get right or loses proportion, my resolution is too high

I also use textured brushes and leave the lineart more like a clean sketch, which allows me to not only skip straight from thumbnails to it but also to skip work on backgrounds, objects and figures at a certain distance

The main point of comic work is to convey emotions, movement, etc, not to draw everything accurate all the time, and that's probably the biggest lesson I've learned over the past years. You want your art to evolve in a way that means even without a lot of shading/linework/detail the scene gets properly conveyed, imo

Aside from that, I skip work on SFX and just. Write the sounds down or sketch motion lines as basic as they get. That's a stylistic choice but it works for me. And I have a workspace + automated actions + keyboard shortcuts that are all sort of optimised to make me move as little as possible between tasks and screens etc

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I feel like I need a tutorial on how to use tumblr lol how do you get your posts seen? Just tags or is there something with the algo I need to be aware of?

Also when reblogging is it necessary to include tags?

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ffxiv tarot commission for @drk-brain🔹⬛