First off, I want to thank Riley Vinet for upgrading to the Scavenger tier! Thank you so, so much! There’s just so much love this month, thank you!
Second, I wanted to restate the announcement that I’m skipping a page post this week, but there’ll be some sketches going up instead on Wednesday and Frida...
2021-02-22 19:36:30 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, gonna call it now... definitely not gonna get the next page up this week. Still got a lot of boxes to pack this weekend and right now Page 95 is a lot farther behind than I'd like. I'm simply not happy with how many of the panels are looking so far. I'd rather take the extra time to redo a lot of th...
2021-02-20 19:25:53 +0000 UTC View Post
When we see Riley in Chapter 5, she's feeling okay. She is often okay. A song recently inspired this series of sketches where she's not okay.
Her "gremlins" are a constant source of stress and exhaustion. It feels like she is constantly fighting against her own mind and body, and it's a fight she doesn't always win. It...
This is an example of what I was saying in that sketch with Riley and the Rubik's cube... the ideas I'm starting to get for using the art to tell a mini side-story while the dialogue is happening.
2021-02-17 18:16:53 +0000 UTC View Post
It's hard to draw a dark scene. A lot of what I've been enjoying lately is playing around with lighting, but there's no lighting here in this scene I can really rely upon. A star-filled sky is basically the only source of light, and their eyes are adapted to low-light environments, so it isn't much of a problem fo...
2021-02-17 18:12:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, shit. I was going to make this a short one, but it's #50, and because I'm somehow wired so that feels like I've reached some kind of important milestone, I feel obligated to make it long as a result. That's how that works. >.>
Let's talk business first. In my ranting about villains la...
2021-02-15 18:22:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Sketching out some storyboards last night, and this occurred.
My comic is mostly talking... so... more and more I keep trying to think of ways to make that interesting. Not just to read, but also to draw. So I've been thinking lately about sequences of images and how those can be used to tell a separate story behind what i...
The fun thing about Donno is that he doesn't need to actually hurt anyone to do harm.
Still feels like I'm kinda rushing these out, I dunno. Does it look okay? I'm fixated on a myriad different shortcuts I took and mistakes I made that are scattered all over this page.
2021-02-10 18:03:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The Citadel becomes a little more detailed and a slightly different shape, I think, each time I draw it... >.>
I'll admit, I've never had a very clear idea how to draw... the thing that it is. :P
2021-02-10 17:55:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Villains. Many a time have I argued with someone about whether or not there is such a thing as "objective evil." (I could maybe specify that claiming to know objectivity in general is what I take issue with there, but I digress.) I could probably fill tomes with nonsensical ramblings on the matter. Last week...
2021-02-08 22:36:43 +0000 UTC View Post
It's fun for me to sometimes draw characters in just kind of neutral poses, side by side with other characters or different versions, for practice and comparison's sake. This time it's young Kiera and adult Kiera.
One downside to planning out my comic so far ahead is that I know certain characters will likely not be ap...
I got it done! Finished it this morning, in fact. >.> Probably isn't my best work, probably, but taking another week to work on it wouldn't have improved it by much and I really didn't want to sit on this moment.
2021-02-03 19:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's kind of a weird month when public posts are still in Chapter 5 and Patreon posts are in Chapter 6... idk.
2021-02-03 19:11:52 +0000 UTC View Post
The next page is... pretty spoilery, so... I don't know that I want to share any parts of it just yet. It's also not very far along due to a rather unproductive weekend, and I'm not yet sure if I'm going to get it done by Wednesday. I don't want to delay it though... The story must go on, despite all the ext...
2021-02-01 23:14:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm actually sitting here laughing to myself about this.
"Hm, I think I want to draw a really solid, big, wallpaper or poster-sized piece of art, and spend a huge chunk of time on it and make it look really good... but I don't want to draw every character in it because that's a monumental amount of work. How do I ...
2021-02-01 19:14:26 +0000 UTC View Post
There's still time to vote, but I think we've gotten about all the votes we're going to get. It's been a pretty close race, and although it might be too early for ME to declare a winner, Kiera is happy to declare HERSELF the winner with three days left.
2021-01-30 00:24:44 +0000 UTC
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It was really fun to try and draw a page where the art is telling a story on its own, without text. I get so used to writing dialogue, it's easy to forget just how important it is to leave things unsaid sometimes.
2021-01-27 19:08:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The faded text on that wanted poster DOES actually say some things.
2021-01-27 19:05:22 +0000 UTC View PostSo, kinda knew all along that it would go this way, but it's been a whole lot of waiting and suddenly it's like, OMG THE NEW HOUSE IS ALMOST DONE TIME TO GET READY TO MOVE HOLY CRAP.
We have the benefit of not being in a huge rush. Our move date probably won't be for another month, month and a half, but at some po...
2021-01-27 00:03:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we have some deep groves in an apparently wooden pole. This was tough to draw, I had... just... NO IDEA what it might look like, and though I've been trying to make use of more references lately, the internet was not much help. (Unless I wanted to fix some scratches on hardwood floors). So let's see... for th...
2021-01-25 20:26:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Getting Riley to pose for an image where she's begging for votes just... wouldn't happen. So there's this instead!
Vote here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/who-is-your-45938021 (Requires a login but no money or subscription)
I...
I wonder what's on the other side of that door...
Also, ACK, PAGE 90?! When did that happen? Am I supposed to do something fancy in 10 pages?
2021-01-20 19:06:24 +0000 UTC View Post
You know, if I'd timed this better, this page would go public real close to Valentine's Day.
2021-01-20 18:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I started a folder this morning to help me keep better track of my weekly update discussion topics, because I do enjoy dumping a few paragraphs here and there on whatever the current thought is on my brain. These things just come to me while I'm drawing, and they bounce around in my brain becoming more complicated and m...
2021-01-18 19:54:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Kiera is currently tied for first place with Riley but she never expected that Max would stoop so low as to beg for votes! How dare he! The NERVE of some people! What a CHEATER!
Vote for your favorite character here!
https://www.p...
As I was sketching those background characters out the first time, a story came to me about these two siblings, an older brother and his younger sister, bounty-hunters, who want nothing more than to get their tails painted red. Accompanying them is a friend/rescue, Gus, who, although he might be too dumb to speak words,...
2021-01-13 18:50:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow! So, let's first thank two new Patrons, Greg and Rene! Thank you so much for subscribing and please enjoy your early access!
Page 89 is coming along, should be finished today. It needs a few more characters colored in and some finishing touches -- like, for example. I forgot to draw Max's arm warme...
2021-01-11 18:39:22 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been brought to my attention that the Discord link on my welcome notes was wrong. The TEXT was correct, but the actual link was still pointing to an old one that was no longer working.
I have now fixed it! But for your convenience, the PROPER invite link should be: 2021-01-10 18:11:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Kiera's begging for votes! Vote here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/who-is-your-45938021
Of course, please vote for your favorite character of the four. I'd never try to skew the results via subtle manipulation -- but Kiera would...
