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May 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

MI332 preview

Decided to work on commissions most of today so the page will be up tomorrow~ here's your preview though, everyone who's been waiting to see the oft-mentioned robot may be getting their wish soon

May Shingworks Tutorial worksheet preview~

Hi guys!

I hope you are enjoying the new tutorial. To go with it, I made a 6-page support worksheet to help you easily understand and test your knowledge of the tutorial stuff. The worksheet also comes with a .psd file with example images pre-loa...

May Shingworks Tutorial support worksheet and .psd file~

Hi guys~

The $10+ tier doesn't get a lot of posts specifically for them... UNTIL NOW. I've added a new reward to this tier, which is access to the full worksheet and associated .psd file which corresponds to the tutoring material for the month. Those are attached to this post! For anyone who wants to, you can now test your...

Streaming for a bit

Streaming here: https://picarto.tv/shingworks

Going to be up for an hour or so inking this page! Gonna try to head down work it w/o music or audio, but feel free to stop by.

New tutorial is up! And some more goodies and news

Hi guys, the

gigantic new tutorial is up for all $5 Patrons

! Check it out!

This month, all $5+ Patrons will ALSO receive a test page of a new reward, which y...

Coloring with Masks tutorial

After 200 of your votes were gathered, there was an even split between a mask coloring tutorial and a tutorial about comic page proportion! I figure coloring is probably more useful to the general artist, so I'm starting off with this topic. As I wrapped this tutorial up I realized there was room for a lot more nuance, so it wil...

MI 330 Preview

Sigh, can't finish tonight as expected thanks to a massive migraine T__T Best laid plans, etc. The page will be up tomorrow morning. in the meantime you can see where I'm leaving it tonight, and I'll have it up for you soon

Also, the tutorial is going up tomorrow! Been chipping away at it after hours for the past week so t...

Mid-month thank you~

Just saying thanks :] And to let you know that all the support pages have been updated with the $10 Patrons from April. Also above are some of the 9-month complimentary/ gift icons and the commission icons from April and May! I am not kidding when I say that you guys are cute as hell.

By the way, Patreon is now offeri...

MI Stuff- MI324 Wallpaper

Hi guys~ I got a request for wallapers of this Mare panel, so here you go~

The attached .zip file includes some classic screen sizes but let me know if you'd like any additional sizes and I can update the file. Enjoy!

MI Stuff- Alien morphology/ stereotypes (spoilery maybe)

With relative sizes

Maybe this is spoilery, if you care about what gender or age Kallakore is. Either way you're reading this so it's probably too late, haha. Don't worry, it doesn't affect the plot. To be honest it probably won't even show up in the comic at all given all my editing down, but you can read about it~
2016-05-11 00:18:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Random- Sam and co

I'm up late looking through the Misc subfolder in my Comics file...

This is just a minor side thing of mine that I've never done anything with. It's a kid's story (written at a kid's level, anyhow) about 3 friends. The yellow one is Sally (I put a character named Sally into my comics whenever possible), she runs f...

Thank you for your support!! and tutorial voting

HI GUYS

It's May. We did it, we survived the cruelest month without being mauled by animals, pat on the back for everyone. If you ordered a reward from me last month, or are in a $10+ tier I'll be emailing you later today~

FIRST. Tutorial voting: 2016-05-06 17:21:38 +0000 UTC View Post

TM Stuff- Tanks very much

They got an upgrade~

Originally I had gone with a Mark IV because... I like rhombuses... but then many years passed and I refined the plot a bit and settled on the classic Mathilda II instead. Some people noted in the map post that there seems to be some corollary in this story to "real life" places, and now there's this f...

April 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

TM Stuff- Rana deSadar

Rana is the eldest daughter of Emperor Luca deSadar and the late Phe deSadar.

The Emperor doesn't have the best relationship with his children, partially due to having bigger day-to-day priorities in his life, and partially due to not really knowing how to (or wanting) to talk to them. He often treats them like a line ...

TM Stuff- deJersi Map

A view of a world map of The Meek (with some handy annotation). Making this available to all Patrons because you guys have all suffered enough, lol... I'm working on a less crappy version of this, because I made this one circa 2008 and my computer at the time couldn't handle me zooming in and out so much to add in things like im...

TM Stuff- Ramkr Castle

I deeply resent that I had to draw this so up it goes, haha.

Chapter 2 of TM took place at Souther Palace (not a typo, it's named after a dude named Souther), which is located along the coast of the lower Territories. In Chapter 5 we're traveling further North to Ramkr, the area where this former fortress is located. ...

Mid-April Madness

WOW, says Kallakore, that teal is my favorite partycolor~ 

Goodness, what's that circly thing? Well, that's the first long-term Patron bonus! If you've been a Patron at the $10+ level for 9 continuous months, you get a complimentary icon from me :] This applies to all the upcoming Patrons too... so if you're at 8...

Art test

Remembered I was gonna post this... a little art test I did last month for a job that I ended up being unable to take, buuutttt I really wanted to, haha! It is hard to say no sometimes, especially to science edu content, which is a great love of mine. I didn't sign a NDA so I'm guessing/ hoping it's ok to share in the relative p...

TM504 Preview

Eh, since I'm here~

This is what my basicass flats look like (minus that ho Tesca in the back who has not been flatted yet). Full page will be up tomorrow afternoon

MI Stuff- Development pt 3

Development pt 1 is here

Development pt 2 is here

This development discussion is...

MI316 Preview

What it is! and thrip has come along for the ride.

The page will be up sometime tomorrow but probably late, so I thought a preview would be nice for now.

Thank you for your support!!

IT'S APRIL

we did it team

The above image is a little recap of the art that February patrons supported in March... that's 12 pages of comics!! in addition to tutoring, commissions, sketches, page previews and the following bonus content posts:

• TM: 2016-04-07 17:33:09 +0000 UTC View Post

TM Ch2: original thumbs (full PDF)

Since Chapter 5 is the next chapter in the deSadar arc, thought it would be nice to put up the sketches of Ch2 here for you guys to look at.

Since it's been a while, I'd recc going through and rereading Ch2 if you want to be super up to spee...

March 2016 Patreon supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

MI Stuff- Kallakore/ What's in a name

I was amused to hear some of the translations of Kallakore in other languages

• Greek: "beautiful maiden"
  
• 2016-03-29 03:36:19 +0000 UTC View Post

MI314 Preview

An important page... jk they are all important.

It's a funny week for me, starting Chapter 5 on The Meek. I had a very bad period, during the hiatus, where getting back to where I'd previously been re: comics seemed like an impossibility. During this time I started writing MI as a way to vent the most negative feeling...

MI313 Preview

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Chapter 5 Cover .psd file

The covers are always a big deal artwise, since they carry a lot of weight in setting the tone in the chapter... I spend a lot of time on them and try to push myself to do an especially good job.

Attached is a shrunk-down version of my original .psd file with all of my preliminary sketching, and all of my painting. The gui...