mcnostril

What's all this then

Added 2019-02-22 18:09:37 +0000 UTC

Hello! It is me, the thing wot makes pictures that you sometimes click on! I figured there might be some questions as to what this Patreon thing is about so here I'll--

Q - WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS, YOU MONSTER

…yes, I was getting to that.
So I’ve been doing this sort of content in my spare time forever, but unfortunately freelance animation work tends to be kind of an energy vampire with a significant amount of time spent putting out fires (Fire everywhere, all the time). I do not have the sexy fireman physique for that, which makes it very difficult for me to do other work on the side.

Lately I’ve had a bit of a hole in my schedule and enough leeway to just not work for a while, so I went back to old projects. Then this magical thing happened where I was having fun? And somehow things were Getting Done? So hey, I’m going to ride this wave of energy and finish this one silly book I’ve lugged around for a zillion years (yes, I am a zillion years old. It makes it very difficult to fill in the “age” box on websites) and hopefully continue making moar comics after that.

Q - WHAT IS IT YOU’RE ACTUALLY DOING THEN, YOU JOBLESS BUM

Currently I am in production of D and the Eternal Race.
It looks like this at the moment:

It is a tale of accepting the inevitable by questioning it at every turn, going off on tangents and not actually accepting anything. Expect swearing, skulls, nautical knowledge and patented IdiotLogic®.

I am going full-time on this until it is complete (or I starve to death, but I have stockpiled so many lentils I can probably live forever, becoming a fusion of man and lentil: The fearsome Mantil) so expect regular updates, first of layout pages with no text then the final (digitally) inked pages. You could think of it as a short run webcomic, but ideally it would eventually make its way to print.

Q - WELL I DON’T CARE ABOUT THAT THING, YOU HORRIBLE GOBLIN. I LIKE THINGS WITH SPEEDLINES AND DOTS AND POSSIBLY STABBINGS

I got you covered, rude little critter. Some might have noticed on my social media accounts character sheets for this stabby elf person:

This is the other story I’m working on. It contains possible speedlines, an indeterminate amount of dots and definitely some stabbings. The big hurdle at the moment is finishing up the writing, which is fairly advanced (There are arcs! There’s chapter outlines! And scenes all mapped out with dialogue and other things that scripts have!) but still needs work.
However, there’s already a lot of design and worldbuilding art sketched out that I’ll be cleaning up while I sort out all them word bits, which you can expect to see here. Depending on your Tier, you may even see said word bits with assorted thoughts and all the inevitable problems I run into.

Then there’s other comics which are less advanced in general but for which I am constantly developing stuff, like these weirdos which I’ll also post about here.

Q - YOU’RE NOT A WRITER THOUGH, YOU SHAMELESS HACK. WHAT IF IT TAKES FOREVER AND SUCKS

All the writing for D and the Eternal Race is done save the title and like, one line (it’s really silly, but I think I can make it silly², possibly silly³)
I also have a bunch of short comics laid out which don’t require extensive writing beyond my trademark IdiotLogic™ that I’ll be working on from time to time when other bits prove difficult, sort of like this:And finally there’s all the random art (drawings! paintings! animation!) I do for whatever reason which will show up here with process bits. That stuff will still show up on social media as it always has, but you can see it here first! Maybe see my convoluted process! Possibly art streams where you can witness the eldritch nightmare that is my picture-making!

Q - WHAT IF I JUST WANT A THING FOR MYSELF, YOU USELESS SLUG

I get a fair amount of people asking about this stuff, so I’ll be sorting out a commissions schedule and guidelines. I’ll be adding tiers for commissions at some point, mostly because I already made the badges for them and once you have made a badge, you must abadge.