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Ivy & Pine Process: More Thumbnails [03.15]

Well that was a really long week apologies for the silence around here, this part of the process is always tedious an not very exciting. I've got thumbnails for the first 14ish pages of Pine & Ivy now. Possibly more but I'm not 100% sold on them yet.

I've noticed there's a weird part of this process where every time...

February Report

Thank you for the support over the month of February! IT was really satisfying to be able to wrap up Poppy & Oak and get it  up on gumroad. A tedious but necessary process for me.

Also I really enjoyed getting to do some pinups that you all helped vote on! I think I'd like to keep on drawing more of those whene...

February Dropbox Rewards Link

Thank you all so much for the support over the past month. This month's update has TWO process videos in it thanks to fresco, and a bunch of iterations of images. Some of these files end up kinda hefty because of the texture overlays I add to them.

Also! It's got the pdf version of Poppy and Oak, since I don't yet hav...

February Pinups (Aloy) Update 02/28 (Red - Transistor)

Happy Sunday everyone!!! I wasn't able to get to the Asami and Korra pinup I wanted to yet, I did a bunch of sketches and was satisfied with none of them so I abandoned that for now to do a quick Aloy drawing, I hope you enjoy!

Thank you all so much for the support over the past month, it's meant a lot to wrap up Poppy ...

Korra & Asami

This isn't the drawing I intended to make, since I really do want to draw a Satomobile, but I wanted to do something in one sitting today and this is what came out! My first version involved a roadster but I think it kinda just complicated the image too much! What you think? 

Also, I keep messing with different lev...

February Pinups!

You all had such good suggestions, I think I put nearly all of them up here. <3
I don't know how many I'll get around to drawing, maybe I'll approach drawing them in a less polished fashions so I can have more fun, but I like the idea of having a big assortment of characters to play with. 

Thank you all for ...

Hiker Comic #2 [Ivy & Pine WIN!!] Character Poll / Pinup Suggestion Box Update- End 02/13

Update: Looks like Ivy and Pine are our lucky two. Although Holly is just two votes short...I will think on this and see if I can't creatively accommodate them both. :) Thank you all for voting!

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The poll is so close!!! I'm going to give it until midnight Saturday to call it so I can keep working on othe...

WFH

I just needed to do a fun sketch today with my new soft brushes

Cheap Inkjet Prints!

I've started making prototypes of the zines! Some definitely print better than others with my printer. I think I mostly just need to acquire some heavier weight paper that would ripple so much when there's a lot of coverage of black ink like with Mile Hylian Club and Jessica, or even Poppy & Oak to some degree.

Hope...

February Sketch/WIP 02/28/21 Update: Ivy and Pine

02/28 -- I spent some time outside, drinking beer in the sun while trying to figure out a storyline for Ivy & Pine that would be satisfying and in line with Poppy & Oak, without  making something that's too similar.

I listed Ivy as being a sort of bird watcher, but now I'm internally debating that idea beca...

January Rewards

Happy Monday/Tuesday! Thank you all so much for the support! Here's a link to this month's collection of goodies, including the high res files for Poppy & Oak.

The link will expire when I add next month's rewards so grab it now!

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Poppy & Oak [Complete]

Update further-- I can't leave things alone, I added one extra page onto the beginning to try to set up a bit more story beforehand. I'm done now, I promise ;)

Update-- with finalized cover art plus some alt versions!! :D

Okay so the cover art is a little placeholder, but I'm working on it!!! Enjoy! Thank you for ...

January Report!

Good Evening Patrons! I hope you all had as good of a January as could be had. Thank you for braving the winter months with me. I hope that Poppy & Oak has been an entertaining diversion for y'all. 

So this month we pretty much saw Poppy and Oak get totally wrapped up. I did more drawing on my ...

January Sketchlog

01/28 -- Happy Thursday everyone, I've been tinkering with this Velma painting. I'm not ashamed to admit I've been looking at a lot of @hotglossed lately, whose work I've been in love with for a long time and I'm just trying to figure out how I too can get gushy gushy painterly marks like they do. :) I kinda got lost in paint...

December Report

Thanks everyone for your support over the past month. I cleared some new freelance hurdles that stand in the way of me making progress on these projects and also was able to give my wrist a rest over the past week so I can kinda recover and rebuild its strength so it can actually take the drawing.
I'm going to do my best ...

Ms. Mint

Shout out to the Candyland fans out there! No joke, I think this board game's art had a big influence on me as an artist.

I don't often do these self indulgent painterly pinups but I wanted to do something special. Thank you all for the support and I hope you have a fantastic, safe, healthy holiday. 

Seriou...

Poppy X Oak [Color Pg. 1-10/17] 01/29

01/29-- Happy Friday all! Here's an update with pages 1-10 in color!

01/21-- Happy Thursday here are 17 pages!! Still with temporary color fills, of course, but there you have it! I still feel tempted to like add a page in places and fuss with the pacing but I'm not gonna let myself do it just yet. :) Hope you enjoy and...

December Sketches and Animations 01/01/21

01/01/21 - I meant to upload some of these earlier but they were scattered across devices-- SO some doodly animations, a false start of a Ms Mint pinup and a bit of process images from the full illustration. I also included a brush profile I have been using for some of my recent stuff. Feel free to try using it for your own b...

November Report

Thank you all immensely for your support over the past month. Working on this hiker comic has been a continuous light at the end of the tunnel situation as I get through with other freelance tedium and I think you're going to like the result!

In other news, I got an iPad pro as an early Christmas present. I know it'll m...

Poppy X Oak Comic Process

01/31: I'm going to do a post talking more about the process for the coloring on this because it's been interesting and challenging in unexpected ways for me, but for now I just wanted to do one last post in January of my WIP cover sketch. Y'all know I can't resist a phallic plant opportunity ohohoho

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Poppy Pinup

I gave myself an early Christmas present in the form of an ipad pro and made this with it as I get used to Adobe Fresco, so if you're a Gold patron I'll be putting the quick process video in this month's dropbox posting! Hope you enjoy!

I just completed thumbnails for a 14 page Poppy x Oak story and will be posting them...

Hiker x Dryad Character Poll - update 11/25/20

Edit 11/25/20:
Looks like the first comic is going to be Poppy and Oak!!
I've got a loose outline I'm going to start turning into pages so you can expect those next! I may ahead and do a pinup page just to further nail down the look and palette.

I hope you all have a wonderful, safe and healthy Thanksgiving and...

Dryad test page.

I'm forever torn about simplicity/complexity in my comics. For the hiker comic I know I could do just a simple 1 color comic, and maybe that's what I'll start with and add colors as I get further along, but I'd like to try something new with texture on this one.

 I've been making these textures in Photoshop that mi...

November Sketches [Update 11/29]

Edit 11/29/20 I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving if you're in the U.S.! I got to enjoy some NEEDED downtime and even got into sketching a bit more in preparation Poppy X Oak!

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EDIT 11/20/20: I've added another couple of sketches plus a little bit of a process evolution on the Dryad designs. I had been st...

October Report

Thanks everyone for your support over the last month and for your patience in waiting for me to put up the dropbox DMs--they'll be going out as soon as I finish typing this!

Don't know about y'all but October was by far the most difficult month of this year for me.  I feel like I was barely squeaking by for most of...

Hiker x Dryad Comic Roster

Ahhhh after endless delays--here's the six candidates for the first part of this hiker comic! 

 Thank you all for your patience on this project! After October I feel like I'm rounding a bend finally--I've been really stuck and overburdened with day to day work stuff so It's going to be a huge relief to be doin...

Dryads

I think you fine folks might just be seeing the ugly part of my process for the next week or so where I'm trying to just draw in circles until I stumble upon the unifying idea that makes all this stuff make sense to me and fall into place.

It happens on every project and the solution usually comes from trying to simplif...

Hiker Roster Update 10/27

Still working on adding new characters! I'm not 100% on these designs yet I'm just trying to get a good variety and I thought overalls would be fun :) I'm finally clearing out some of the freelance work that has been burdening my output here and I'm excited to  have time to draw this stuff again! <3 Thank you all so m...

October Concepting and sketching.

This is a bit of a mixed bag of sketches. Some of these sketches just don't make it very far but I'm still trying to come up with a fun assortment of characters.

I pulled a bunch of pre-raphaelite painter art to serve as little bit of an art historical reference for what I'm doing with this comic, I've always been a huu...

Fly Fishing

Alternative title: Advanced Rod Handling Techniques

I'm putting this in a different post because I put a bit more  effort into it than some of the other pieces.

Surely I'm not the only one that looks at old forest fire awareness posters and sees nothing but lewd potential, right?

I've been collecting di...