Announcement/Graphic Novel Update 6/20/24

It's been a hot minute since I've been able to work on the novel. I'm so sorry! I took about a 3 month break to focus specifically on the Oasi Bit story arcs. But I'm back at the main story, and I'm drawing all the things! RAAAAHHHHHH!!! As a preview, I present to you the completed first page of Chapter 3 followed by the line art of page 2.

I hope you guys are as excited as I am. Tomorrow, Specialists get an extra behind the scenes process of page 2, which is currently completed as well.

I also have an announcement:

I will be making a Tier 3 Patreon membership once I complete Chapter 3!

Tier 3 will be called "Sergeant". This tier will have all the benefits of Tiers 1 & 2, but will additionally have the actual graphic novel pages dropping once a week, starting with chapter 1 and ending with chapter 3. This will give my patrons who I can't ship to overseas yet access to the first part of novel. Along with novel pages, I will occasionally drop exclusive lore blogs/sketches. This tier will be around the price of the books since I believe that is only fair. I want to protect my art from being stolen and uploaded for free elsewhere digitally, so that is why I will only be dropping chapters 1 - 3 on the tier.

Lastly, I've updated my bio to show my money goal and what I'd like to do with it. My goal is to reach 1k a month consistently - this would allow me to make a part time income off of my comics and afford the luxury of hiring a flatter. A flatter would essentially work alongside me by flatting my comic pages (which currently takes up many hours of my drawing time). If I had this step done for me, I'd dish out the graphic novel chapters MUCH faster. I would also be able to do more off-shoot comics specifically for patrons like the Halloween one I did last year (maybe open up an additional spicy tier if enough people are interested).

 For those who don't know what flatting is, it's just using Photoshop to trace around the existing lineart with the lasso tool and then using the paint bucket tool to dump in color. It's the tracing around the lineart that takes forever.

I believe I will achieve my goal of reaching 1k a month. Partly because it isn't even about the money. I just love drawing all this shit. I also have A LOT of amazing people in my corner already supporting me (I'm looking at you, patrons). You have no idea how much it means to me the financial and moral support you give. Whether it takes a year or 5, I'll be dishing out these comics until the goal is reached!

Thanks again for all of your love and support. I truly adore the community here, and it makes me so happy knowing you guys enjoy the comics so much! Y'all the real MVP's!

Cheers!