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Last day to vote for August's Illustration

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Get your vote in for what characters you'd like to see for the inaugural monthly illustration! The poll closes at midnight EST. And remember, even if you miss the voting period you'll still get access to the full resolution image when it's finished. Stay strong, adventurers!

Artist's Commentary

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Commentary for pages 31 and 32 is now up! Remember that all artist commentary posts will be on the blog and not directly on Patreon going forward.

Artist Commentary has a new site!

Hello patrons! Artist commentary is now available in its entirety on the above blogspot page. Since (hopefully) everybody who's following Spellcross as it updates already gets their new page alerts from other sources, I won't be making a patreon post for every single new page. I apologize if you were getting spammed with these previously.

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August Illustration Poll

VOTE HERE : https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JT5YXQC Hello patrons! In case you missed my previous post, your $5-$10 support now lets you vote in a monthly illustration poll. Voting is open for a week, and the finished product will be posted by the end of the month. Even those who didn't vote will be able to download a high resolution image of the illustration once it's done. So you'll have from now until August 12th ...

Patreon Updates

Hello Patrons! I've updated reward tiers a bit, here's what's changed. I've moved the lore Tumblr page to the $1 tier seeing as I (predictably) was having trouble making stuff for it. It'll still be receiving updates, just hopefully at a slightly faster rate. Either way, all patrons now have access to http://spellcrosslore.tumblr.com/ The $5 tier has been totally re-invented as a monthly illustration poll. At the beginni...

July 2015 Patreon supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

Hello supporters, I'm suspending the artist commentary temporarily while I move it to a different site. This'll make it easier for new patrons to go back and read commentary on older posts, while still getting the commentary for new pages as they comes out. Regardless, I hope you enjoy the updates as they come and thank you once again for your support.

Chapter 14 Page 27

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Here's the first big earth spell since Grey's Stone Gauntlet! Grey didn't have a very good grasp of earth magic in the dungeon exam, so the best he could do was stick together a bunch of rocks on his arm and make th...

Comics - Ch14 26

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It goes without saying, but elementals have the ability to return themselves to their basic element to move around or evade damage. Higher ranked el...

June 2015 Patreon supported

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Comics - Ch14 25

Chapter 14 Page 25 - http://bit.ly/1NovE1G Another "inbetween page" unfortunately, but necessary. It's been surprisingly fun to draw the wind effects coming off the air elemental, I designed the elementals but haven't really drawn them in action yet. I'm excited for higher ranked elementals to appear further down the line.

Picarto.tv - galaxyspark's Channel

The monthly commission stream is live right now! Jump in during the next few hours and you can get your monthly sketch drawn live. Hope to see you in there! https://www.picarto.tv/live/channel.php?watch=galaxyspark

Show me your fighting spirit!

Greetings $10 supporters! The Commission stream for the month of June is happening TOMORROW 6/25 starting at 2pm EST. They usually go for 5-6 hours, so you'll have plenty of time to claim your monthly sketch. Don't miss it! Look for the link here or get more updates via tumblr http://galaxyspark.tumblr.com/

Comics - Ch14 24

Chapter 14 Page 24 - http://bit.ly/1JMX94C Another "inbetween" page, but I felt it was important to inform the readers about some properties of Abnormal monsters such as the imp. And so I could draw Caldwell freaking out again, he's been happy and confident for too long now (kidding, kidding. But seriously). I had a friend mention how it felt kind of silly for the elemental to be sitting there while people are talking, but it's impo...

Comics - Ch14 23

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Chapter 14 Page 23 - http://bit.ly/1BUMaja

So, Elementals... I've encountered them in fantasy most often appearing as humanoids that are made out of whatever element they represent. I find that to be kind of boring, personally. I'd much rather see elementals as l...

May 2015 Patreon supported

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Comics - Ch14 22

Chapter 14 Page 22 - http://bit.ly/1RilAcH Abnormal types (which, again, includes Demonkin like the Gardener here) are so named because they have different properties from other dungeon monsters. The main thing is that they can come and go as they please, so you might imagine the gardener walking around the dungeon watering the plants, all the while being ignored by the monsters scattered throughout. It's a fun mental picture, for me...

Comics - Ch14 21

Chapter 14 Page 21 - http://bit.ly/1KplIX2 You might be wondering why there's a well kept garden in a monster infested dungeon. Well... the answer isn't easy for me to explain, and would be some pretty serious story spoilers. Suffice to say that not all dungeons are caves and castles, there'll be some pretty interesting and varied locales. This is also yet another time that I've become really attached to a monster or side character, ...

Comics - Ch14 20

Chapter 14 Page 20 - http://bit.ly/1HnpsqZ Hey, it's a new monster type! I'll be posting a bestiary page on Abnormals in time ($5 patrons will get to see it on the lore tumblr), but 'til then here's a quick rundown. Abnormals are monsters with high intelligence that are known to use magic and gain greater strength from the Dungeon Core than other types. There's two major classifications of Abnormals, demonkin and dragonkin. Demonkin ...

Comics - Ch14 18

Chapter 14 Page 18 - http://bit.ly/1Ke73Kz Time for a fun mini-discussion about spellcasting. There hasn't been any actual discussion on the act of casting spells in-comic, so I hope you all will enjoy it. While considering the magic system for Spellcross, I put a heck of a lot of thought into how I wanted to approach it. There's D&D styled magic which is based on memorization and strict somatic/vocal components with reagents, th...

April 2015 Patreon supported

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Comics - Ch14 17

Chapter 14 Page 17 - http://bit.ly/1IAe9vy Not much to say about page 16 other than it was fun drawing all that wind. Page 17 features more of Briar's tsundere charms, which frankly never gets old. Some might feel this character type is too predictable, which I can admit. It's okay to have some predictable characters around, those ones you can rely on to react a certain way to situations. Briar's just like that. Also worth noting tha...

Grimoire of the High Magus

Greetings patrons! Thank you for supporting at the $5 and $10 level, you guys are fantastic. Here's the link to the Spellcross lore Tumblr. While following and liking are fine, please refrain from reblogging images since these are intended for patrons only. $10 patrons also receive a monthly sketch commission! You can either wait for the commission stream at the end of the month, or send me an ask on Tumblr with your request. Thanks! 2015-04-02 14:33:36 +0000 UTC View Post

March 2015 Patreon supported

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Grimoire of the High Magus

I've decided to remove the password from the lore sub-tumblr available to $5 patrons, and also added two new images. Check 'em out! >http://spellcrosslore.tumblr.com/ Also, since there's no longer a password you're able to reblog, and while I can't control anyone's actions I want to ask patrons to keep the Grimoire pages private and refrain from reblogging. Keep your reward tier safe!

Comics - Ch14 15

Chapter 14 Page 15 - http://bit.ly/1Bpq4DP Only four panels on this page, but I felt like the mini fire explosions going off inside the "fire bane" cloud was more important to illustrate than the resulting big explosion. I always think of pages like this as happening in animation rather than static images. Maybe some day there'll be an adaption, wouldn't that be something? Also worth mentioning that I've lifted a lot from the Salve-...

Comics - Ch14 13

Chapter 14 Page 13 - http://bit.ly/1CoaeQE Ahh big special attacks... I could expound for hours on my love of super moves and special attacks. The concept of named special moves that have a bigger, better version with something like "ultra" or in this case "symphony" on the end, whew! It gives me chills. Anyway, when it comes right down to it all these C rankers are just using multiples of the same spell before when they use a "big" ...

Comics - Ch14 12

Chapter 14 Page 12 - http://bit.ly/17RBrxa Pages like these are where I really wish I could release Spellcross in a weekly or monthly format. Ideally this series of actions would've been about two pages, where Bram and Nell both visibly hold back from attacking while Briar is dangled over the Vine's gaping maw. I've learned when and where I can condense things like action and dialogue, though. Earlier chapters involving the first dun...

February 2015 Patreon supported

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Comics - Ch14 11

Chapter 14 Page 11 - http://bit.ly/17hV7dr Ahh it's nice to be drawing action again. These kinds of pages are always my favorite to draw. Commentary may be sparse in these sorts of action pages, but I can at least default to talking about composition and such. One thing to consider in a page like this is when to apply speedlines, and when it's necessary to draw a background. In panel 3 there's a full background to set the scene of th...