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64 - inks

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Whei another one done! I'm holding off publishing these pages on the website for now. So you guys get to see them long before they go live!

I'd love to have a bigger buffer and return to regular updates but it's very hard for me to do that right now.

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Happy midsummer (almost)

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Something a bit different. 😊 Carl's new model went live today with the midsummer event and I'm chuffed to bits. Hence the flower crowns haha.

Lisa's dad Carl didn't have an ingame model when we started doing the first sketches for the Instagram comic, so I was asked to come up with a new design for him. We had a lot ...

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Page 63

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Couple of small details left to fix but here's the full page with text!

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63 - inks

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Some more Tistow!  I wanted to get this out much sooner but work and lockdown has got in the way. But we're getting there!

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Sketches

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Some slightly older ones!

I have some good news. I had my appointments today and the lump we found is thankfully nothing sinister. They do want to operate on it though as it could cause issues in the future, so I've been put on a waiting list to get it removed.

I'm so relieved but I also feel exhausted. I'm so ple...

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More sketches

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Some more SSO related stuff! I've been poorly recently and unfortunately I have a clinic appointment booked for next week and it's making me feel rather distressed and stressed out at times. This is a similar thing as what I had last year and it makes me rather depressed to have to go back.

I'm hoping it'll turn out to ...

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Grå - WIP

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Remember that horse model I made a year ago? I decided to rework him. This guy is much chonkier. His mane definitely needs more polygons as it stretches to heck in certain poses. His neck and back legs suffer from similar problems.

His weights are also a bit all over the place still. I find that the hardest thing to get...

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Page 62

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Page 61

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With text!

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61-62 - colours

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Ok sorry guys, Patreon is being super weird and not actually letting me upload images via the normal method! =/

Anyway! Colour!

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61-62 inks

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Yay! These were a lot of fun ♥ Very little to do background wise though. But it's all about these two anyway.

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61-62 Pencils

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I like these pages much better now. It took much much longer to sort them out but this argument is important to both of them and I wanted to portray it properly. Looking forward to colouring this spread!

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Tistow - 61-62 pencil sketches

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These two pages are the bane of my life.

They've gone through SO MANY iterations and I realised only one of the panels has remained in the final draft.

But I've got past that now so I feel good. These panels are from both pages in no particular order (though they are actually chronological in this case..)

I ...

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Sketches - Starshine & Lisa

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Some concept sketches! These two are a team, rider and their guardian who I drew for SSO's interactive comic (not quite sure what to call it since it's not really a webcomic? But comic nonetheless).

I was asked to showcase what the characters would look like in my style next to the ingame models, so here's some of the s...

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Sketches

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I thought this might be interesting for y'all? I tried to pick progress sketches and concept art that'd be interesting to look at.

We ended up going through quite a few different iterations of both characters and areas to get a better feeling for both my style and how the characters should match their ingame counterpart...

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Horses horses

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More horses. Some concept art and some of these are just for fun.

Most of these you -can- find out there but they're scattered on different social platforms at different stages.

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The Inn

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It's a thing! And more stuff! And


And.

*inhales*

I've not been properly mentioned in the posts yet, but I know some of you have already prodded me to ask if it's my work. 

This is what I've been up to. Well -one- of the things. I'm still holding the reins kinda tight on this because the...

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Going West

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Things are really starting to bloom and blossom now on so many different levels. ♥ It's beautiful outside, so many cherry trees. Pollen isn't doing my asthma much good but. FLOWERS.

Massively resized but this is another background sketch of Starshine Ranch 'under construction' that I did for Star Stable's most recent ...

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Tistow - update

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Quick mention about the schedule!

I got on really well with the comic in January and February, but unfortunately March very much unrolled itself with.. horses.. and I've been working overtime to get my main client's work completed.

I'm still in thumbnail stages for both ST and Tistow, but I've been able to start w...

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Foals

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Babies! Ickle horrid bitey things ♥

I'm looking forward to this week's reveals.

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Moo

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I've just finished another huge chunk of work for this month and there's one day left of March. :'D It's been mental but I've really enjoyed it. I wasn't quite sure we'd make it in time, but it's all good now. I'm happy and I can go back to using my evenings with Tistow and Small Trolls.

I've been bouncing with expectat...

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Hats - wip

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Gosh I can't wait to get back to normal routine. Here's a little wip of the girls! ♥ Won't be long now until Morrie shows up in the comic again. Once this crunch is over I can continue the comic!

..Obscure wip from work.

<...

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Social Distancing - Together, apart

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You might've seen these floating around on social media! Four illustrations that I completed very recently of Star Stable's main heroes.

I'm really super pleased with the response from the game's community, these were a lot of fun to work on.

It's been a really weird and concerning time in the world. UK is now on ...

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Mule and March

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Hello! It's been a very manic month on all fronts. I hope you're all doing well!


I'm sorry for not having much to share at the moment, but there's something big coming up very soon and I can't wait to share it with you all. ♥ I have a bit of a crunch going on right now while trying to find some food in the ...

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Start to Finish - Ginger

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This was fun! Some more experimenting with painting backgrounds. ♥


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Bucks, broncs, rears

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I've been doing a bunch of research on horse anatomy for my work. Rearing and bucking horses are really challenging to draw. The hind legs especially are a bit of a pain.

I found a really useful stack of videos recently of a stunt rider who helps dangerous horses and saves them from being put down. They have some incred...

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Blanket

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I completely forgot about this? If you've read the extra chapter, you'll recognise the pattern.

This is for later in the chapter. He'll be bringing the shawl somewhere with him and I was trying to figure out how he'd carry it. It's significant in the sense it's been put together by his grandmother.

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Druid

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I had a lot of plans for this weekend, drawing wise, but I'm gonna have to put everything off. So here's an older sketch instead.

I'm ok, but we had a riding accident involving a flood puddle and five horses on Saturday morning. It resulted in a slalom of galloping and me coming off my pony and smacking my head and hip....

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Omar

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I used to love drawing this kid so much and I still do. It's just been a long time. He'll be returning to the comic very soon, but not until we've seen Morrie again.

He's one of the very few people in the city who will learn about Jack's shamanism and shapeshifting.

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Tistow - 60

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In colour and text for y'all. ♥

Whoever Fancy's ma is.

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