#lovos4017

[barbatusart]

so i constantly forget to advertise this thing, but i do actually have a patreon! admittedly i used to be significantly more active on here but COVID frontline burnout hit me hard, so for the moment it’s acting as a hub where you can access the nearly 3000 total preliminary comic pages ive done to date since 2018. the A tier is just a tip jar, & the$5 B tier gets you access to all my pages and behind the scenes stuff - that means the prelims for SAD SACK, hundreds of unpublished comics, & for those curious about SORTIE, that means the entirety of its prelim work is in B!

if you’re curious please feel free to hop on & peruse! my update schedule on here is still COVID Fucked Me inconsistent, so you’re all also more than welcome to subscribe for one month so you can see and download pages & then just dip lmao

i hope you enjoy! even at my slow break pace now, im always still very happy to entertain 🤓

patreon.com/barbatusart

[meanbossart]

old bday gift for @barbatusart!

[world-of-lang]

go read LOVOS4017 (THe Comic) it’s really fun, and cute, and i don’t think anything seriously bad happens in it! :y ♥

[hunnymcbunny]

•what cannot be said will be wept.•

she’s beautiful and perfect and i love her 😫 @bbbarbatus

[skaiind]

an ink commission for @barbatusart of his oc EL from his comic LOVOS4017 🖤🖤🖤

[barbatusart]

goin thru my ipad & found some LOVOS4017 stuff from the summer

[barbatusart]

im an able bodied man myself but i always do wonder about mobility & other aid devices in scifi settings + their function And Then obstacles that come up in obtaining said devices because im american & love to talk about how fucked up our healthcare is 😵‍💫 if i ever get back on the LOVOS4017 horse i have one character who had a catastrophic c-spine fracture at work in the past, which qualified her for workplace incident coverage of a mad advanced c-spine-bypass device that functionally “cured” her quadriplegia, but then only X model which of course then insurance stops covering once arbitrary upgrades come out that her work doesn’t cover & it’s a huge to-do with arguing with future-cigna or whatever in trying to debate “medical necessity” of a device preventing fuckin paralysis. this is based on real patient experiences. did i mention our healthcare is a joke

[barbatusart]

doodle from february i forgot about feat. hateful $5 markers i have sitting around at work

[barbatusart]

Do you have a recommendation for a specific book of your work for folks who showed up for your Bg3 stuff? (Also if you read the parts out of order would that be an issue?)

welcome aboard!!! thank you so much for checking my bg3 stuff out, it's a pleasure to have you

as i said in my other post over here, im predominantly an extreme horror artist! i 100% decline to call myself an eroguro artist because personally i dont find the kind of gore & horror i do particularly erotic, but im super fascinated with the horrors of the body & the darkness of the general human experience, so thats the kind of stuff i tend to make. it isnt the worst most heinous Ever you'll find out there, but im fully aware that it's A Lot, so everything i make with @meanbossart is thoroughly warned for so nobody goes into our body of work unaware & gets a nasty shock.

bg3 in particular goes some pretty dark routes (some bits in a dark urge run even made me kinda reel back and go "jesus"), so id say for people coming in from bg3 your mileage may heavily vary. if torture & really extreme body horror doesnt bother you, you may be OK with SAD SACK (sus.space/sadsack) and its current wip sequel SORTIE (sus.space/sortie), but i would still recommend reading each book's individual content warnings thoroughly before choosing to spend any money. (everything is paywalled to further deter minors.) if you're on the fence about how much horror content is too much for you, or if you're curious about these titles but find the content warnings to be concerning, my DMs on tumblr+twitter and my IMs are always open if you have any questions about particular CWs or even need specific page numbers so you can either skip that bit of gore or be informed enough to approach the page number(s), take a Deep breath, and proceed when youre ready! for these 2 titles in particular, unfortunately they do have a linear story, so to fully grasp what's going on requires reading the books in order. again if it's something youre curious to the point of wanting to try but on the fence about, i am always welcoming of inquiring DMs to help make the experience thrilling + chilling but Not genuinely upsetting.

if you're OK with a little violence and body horror but not as splatterfest as these titles, im currently chipping away at the preliminaries for my giant project LOVOS4017 (lovos4017.the-comic.org) which is a love letter to TNG scifi and 80s cyberpunk anime. im currently on pause with the roughs since last year due to COVID frontline burnout, but ive by no means abandoned it; this IP is my baby that ive been workshopping the show bible for for over a decade & i want to see it through to the end B)

finally if you would like to read our work but want to avoid gore and extreme violence entirely, we do have some stuff that is violence-free! POOPPIX@YAHOO.COM (suscomics.itch.io/pooppix) is a comic with a really bonkers premise but no violence and no visible onscreen poop i promise about finding genuine human connection over unusual shared interests on the internet. ATTACK DOG (suscomics.itch.io/attackdog) is also a short solo comic i did myself about sex, quasi-submission fetish, & the requirements of true love (theres some mild gooey body weirdness but no gore i promise)

overall i thank you for showing interest in what @meanbossart & i do! we tend towards strange & unusual premises and presentations, but i hope that you find something within our body of work that entertains you. if you every have any questions about anything, please please please feel free to DM me at any time; my goal in life is to entertain & provoke thought!

[barbatusart]

as a note for new people coming in either from sads, sortie, or most recently my music work (hi everybody!), my current project is LOVOS4017 which is my i-hate-cyberpunk cyberpunk epic ive been workshopping for the past decade & doing the roughs for. unfortunately due to covid frontline burnout finally catching up with me, i paused the prelim work for the past year & change, but you can still read what i got up so far for free! i think there’s like 8 books of prelims available? idk there’s a fair bit lol

anyway if you decide to take a peek i hope you enjoy, LOVOS4017 remains my baby even with the recovery hiatus in effect

lovos4017.the-comic.org

[barbatusart]

OH MY GOD LETS FUKCIN GO

[barbatusart]

old doodle of 3 mots + the ref used, theres a Lot of rite of spring in the sauce lol

[barbatusart]

vulcan + 2 doodles of minge

[barbatusart]

hey this is a weirdly specific Sad Sack question that's kinda not even about Sad Sack, but I was rereading BOG tonight when I noticed the inscription at the bottom of page 288 (the author info page), and i just wanted to ask: what language/script is that?

my first thought was Phoenician or another old Italic script because some of the letterforms look kinda similar but based on letter occurrences I think it says "thank you for reading" written right-to-left, and if I'm right about that, that rules out pretty much all the scripts I could think of. anyway sorry for the late night linguistics nerd question, it's just been rattling around in my head lmao

no worries at all! the text was my first pass at a conlang i was working on actually; at this stage is out of date & eventually i need to go back & alter it so it reflects its current iteration lol

you may have seen it around elsewhere in my stuff as well ;)

[barbatusart]

ok well tumblr still getting mad at me & i seem to have exceeded my daily upload limit which i didnt even realize was a thing LOL ANYHOO IF YOU WANT MORE LOVOS IT'S ALL UP OVER HERE: lovos4017.the-comic.org TUMBLR IS KEEPING ME DOWN

[barbatusart]

CONTROL (prelim pages) [END]

previous pages

many many years later:

lovos4017.the-comic.org

thanks for playing! ;)