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Percy were's your stuff.......

Happy Halloween from Barbarous!

Thank you so much to everyone who came by the stream today!! It was really nice to hang out and chat about leather chaps and my personal bad taste in anime, it was a delight 💖

As mentioned in the stream, I got together a cowboy outfit for Halloween and then our Halloween host had to take a sudden out-of-town trip, so...

I'm going to stream for a bit!

In about a half hour- maybe around 4:45 PM EST? For an hour or so before I have to run off to make dinner, I'm going to ink our Halloween illustration! Join meeeeee

https://www.twitch.tv/aidosaur

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Ah, the slow story arc of getting beer from the local bodega...

Percy's trying so hard, RIP :,)

Drawing night: Shohei Ohtani

Now and then I’ll join a friend’s online “life drawing” (slideshows of still photos) meetup and this week’s theme was Shohei Ohtani! I admittedly haven’t been keeping up with baseball since I quit softball in middle school, to my dad’s great dismay… but this was extremely fun lol

My dad actually called m...

BBR 4KOMA 4

Sometimes the New York City weirdo empath is real and they inherently understand that the true weirdo is YOU

Chapter 9 / Page 8 pencils

I was so delighted by "THE BOYS ARE FIGHTING" I couldn't help but add it into the thumbnail lol... sneak peek for chapter 9 dialogue, also possibly the only Cerberus appearance in chapter 9?? (but don't quote me on that)

A rare scene hand-off where Ananth and I each thumbnailed half of a page! I plotted out everything i...

Percy in Elden Ring DLC 8

OH NO THE LIVING JARS IN THE SHADOW TREE LANDS ARE.... NOT DOING SO HOT........

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PERCY STOP SHARING..... LEEDS BE MORE SYMPATHETIC....

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LOL it's been really fun to draw these... there's a really soothing mantra in "OFF-MODEL NO PROBLEM DO IT FASTER IT'S OK IF IT LOOKS BAD"

anyway, leeds is literally a square

Chapter 9 / Page 7 pencils

The boys are hanging out! I think they're gonna be friends! :D :D

This one was thumbnailed by me (Yuko)! A while ago someone asked what the difference between my style of thumbnails and Ananth's is, and I think the core of it is that Ananth's really good at doing pages around a single WOW shot and dense layouts ...

BBR 4KOMA 1

For a while I've been wanting to do something that takes advantage of this super fast style I made for the Elden Ring comics but that doesn't fit in well with our regular work. Ananth and I have been spitballing the idea of doing some "let's do some quick silly barbarous comics that summarize the plot" and somehow we've gotte...

Percy in Elden Ring DLC 7

I took a break from Elden Ring for a while because 1.) I got really stuck on a boss and 2.) I got really really into Balatro (evil poker) for like 3 weeks

ANYWAY I'M BACK!!! I'm here to share my ill-advised game adventures!!!!

Not unlike in ...

Chapter 9 / Page 6 pencils

AAA we're packing for SPX and I haven't been to a convention in 5 years so I'm scrambling trying to remember what we're supposed to bring! Forgive me if I make this one quick!!

I'm the one who thumbnailed this one! Meee!

Finally, the boys meet! Also Fortuna is there.

I hope to see you at SPX!!...

We'll be at Small Press Expo!

The two of us will be at Small Press Expo September 14th and 15th in Bethesda, MD!!! Table #H7!

We haven't been to a convention since 2019, so we're going to have a bunch of stuff we've never had at a show before, including limited copies of 2024-09-05 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 9 / Page 5 pencils

OH lovely, company has arrived! 😊

This page was thumbnailed by me! Yay! It was a bit challenging to get Fortuna in there because I wanted Cameron large and completely centered in frame. She's hanging out in the back!

The figures got a bit messed with after the sketch phase so the features are off-kilter lol.......

Chapter 9 / Page 4 pencils

Another page thumbnailed by Ananth! Thank you Ananth! I think I thumbnailed the next scene, or at least pieces of it. While we pass these files back and forth we're figuring out what strengths and weaknesses we have in our layouts.

The last page of the flashback! This one's a talky page, so a lot of this will be covered...

SPX 2024 Program Guide!

YAYY this has been announced so I'll share my progress with you guys!

I was really honored to be asked to illustrate the cover of this year's Small Press Expo Program Guide, and was specifically requested to draw a dragon! Obviously I could not refuse!!!!!!

This year is the 30th anniversary of the show, so I wante...

Percy in Elden Ring DLC 6

Between the distraction of launching a video game and continuing health issues, I haven't had as much time as I'd like to play Elden Ring or journal about it lol - unfortunately chronic fatigue makes playing the reaction time game not very fun!

I was really excited to find Milady, the first 'light greatsword' I've come ...

FIELDS OF MISTRIA IS OUT!!!

We've talked about this occasionally, Ananth and I have been working on Fields of Mistria since 2019 and it finally was released on Steam in Early Access TODAY!!! 🎉🎉

 If you enjoy farming sims and are interested in seeing writing Ananth worked on and character designs I worked on, this i...

Animal Fight!!

I did this as a spot illo for [an upcoming project] and I'm pretty pleased with the final design! It came out a bit tattoo-esque, which I think looks cool. I punched up the colors with a really intense color overlay because the representation is supposed to be literary!! It's a metaphor!!!!!

Attached are also t...

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HORSE BETRAYAL

I was surprised to discover these guys are ACTUALLY quite aggressive and WILL sonic spindash you to death if you get near them, I don't know why I was so startled by this happening in the everything wants to kill you game lol

Sorry this is a bit late!!! It was my dad's birthday so I wa...

Chapter 9 / Page 3 pencils

Sharing Chapter 9 / Page 3 progress pencils and the original thumbnail from Ananth! It's pretty obvious, this is a flashback to the first time Chiaki/Percy ever met Fortuna. I love drawing her!

I've been pulled onto other projects lately (which will hopefully be announced within a few months) and ALSO dealing with some ...

Percy in Elden Ring DLC 4

Tall horse!!!! I love tall horse!!!! My new friend Tall Horse will surely never betray me*

*well,

Percy in Elden Ring DLC 3

Having a lot of "I'm just a little guy I'm just a birthday boy" moments while revisiting Elden Ring!! The game has been extremely generous with friendly NPC characters and I'm gonna hang back and cheer them on and and be a back-line buffer as often as I can get away with!!!!

BY THE WAY if you're interested in seeing ext...

Chapter 9 / Page 2 pencils

Chapter 9 is still trucking along! I wanted to share the second page of pencils plus Ananth's thumbnails! You can find the preview for page 1 over here!

Blessings be upon clip studio 3D modelers, I never would have been able...

Percy in Elden Ring DLC 2

OK OK OK I'm unfortunately really enjoying Elden Ring DLC despite being very bad at the game!!

I'm still right at the beginning and running around poking at all the small details. Delightfully, early on there is a little trash mob soldier camp that is a summoning zone for spirits! ALL the enemies in the DLC are super tu...

Ananth Hirsh and Tess Stone at ALA 2024!

Hi there! Ananth here! I'm posting this on the off-chance there are any librarians who follow us who will be at ALA 2024 in San Deigo! Tess Stone and I will be there promoting our upcoming Random House Graphic book GREATER SECRETS.

Come find us at booth 140! We'll have arcs of GREATER SECRETS to flip through, and we'll ...

Percy in Elden Ring DLC 1

OH NO unsurprisingly Elden Ring has its hooks in me again U___U

I don't know if I'll be able to do anything like I was able to before since I'm still dealing with Long Covid issues (a full year now!) and I have to be pretty judicious about how I spend my work energy. But these are really fun to draw. ;__; ...

Chapter 9 Visdev: LEEDS

We needed a costume for Leeds for a section of Chapter 9, and of course we wanted to go as hard as we could get away with!!!

Originally the concept was "horse who is also a pilot", then "horse who is also a jockey" to "horse who is also a knight". Basically, any excuse to pair assless chaps with horse blinders. Running ...